The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1892-09-01
rHE CRY BABY CANDIDATE.

Mr.. I.ewelliDg has come and cone,
and now that IL Is all over IL may be
truthfully stated that he would have
been several votes ahead had he re.
Trained from coming altogether.
His presence In Salina last Friday
evening, he said, was an accident ;
In that respect II was like unto his
nomination. Sorry indeed would be
the day for Kansas that l.. ID. Level.
ling, or any man like him, was
elected governor. But he never will
be, and the people need not worry
His preliminary talk reminded
one OF the sign Ia the western con.
cert saloon which begged the patrons
not to shoot the orgsnist as he was
doing his best. Then he launched
out on the sea Of statistics, using the
same figures that brought Mr.. PETER
10 dishOnorable grief ut the opera
house last fall, and which have since
caused our senior senator some dis.
comfort In the Senate. dor particu.
lars see last weeks JoURSAL.) After
laundering around for some time he
made the remarkable statement that
the average wages Of the labcTing
men OF Kansas were but % cents q
day. lie also found time to utter a
few groans about the oppression Of
the standard oil trust, Dotwithstand.
ing the fact that the very oil which
furnished the light so that the peo
pie could see him was bought - per
cent cheaper ihsn few months ago.
Another feature Of his address was
that part relating to the maximum
freight bill TO which he pointed with
pride, refrainiDg to mention, Of
course, that Ia some instances that
same bill would have raised rates ~
per cent; aud that IL was sent to the
senate only q few hours before adj
journment In order that II might be
buried nj the expense Of the senate
and not the house.
There was no word Of hope for the
future, although he graciOusly adj
mitted in parenthesis the past and
present greatness Of Kansas, for
which his party can claim no credit.
There was no rejoicing because We
are rs q people favored above all
others. Only calamity, misery, woe
despair and degradation; reminding
one very forcibly Of the bird story
Of Billy Edwards, who after de-
scribing the typical bird Of Republi.
canism, described another bird
which since the creation has been
dressed In mourning, the coroner Of
every county In the state and which,
with Its head pointing to the earth
and Its tail to the sun, reioiced aud
fed only when II found the dead
carcass OF some animal.
So with Mr.. Lewelling. his speech
smelled OF the charnel house and
tasted OF despair, and II he or re.
spectacle fraction Of his partisans
really believed all he told It would
not be three months until every
aims house In the land was overflow
ing.
"Feenance," or "the great money
which has been the main
holt OF the greenbackers from time
out OF mind, he steered shy Of. The
whole burden OF his speech was that
the least IL getting rich 81 the ex-
pense Of the west" Unfortunately,
however, Mr.. LewelliDg failed to
state how his election rs governor
would smeliorate this supposititious
The peroration to his ef-
fort was especially great, he had
given his life aud best efforts to this
because OF his four
whom he hopes, In all
to see marry well. Many
on Saturday expressed
heir disgust at Lewelling and will
not vote for him now, although they
would readily have done 80 sight
Unseen. Therein IL where he lost by
mis- effort i'm Sslina on Friday even
ng last.