The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-11
a GRAND FIzzLE.
The Peoples Party Ratification Last Night
Very Diseouraeing TO the Populists.

The grand ratification of the Demo
calamity county ticket came off last night
and certainly no one will doubt but what
it was the greatest failure ever seen in the
political history of this county for the past
ten years. The ticket was to be ratified
from top to bottom and in blaze of ora
torical glory so to speak Ed OBryan the
Demo-calamity fusion candidate for state
senator was riding in his S275 buggy,
hitched to 500 horse, around the streets,
but never showed up at the meeting at all.
Willard Boone the beardless young gentle
man VINO won the nomination at theDemo-
cratic convention for county attorney, and
was Endorsed by the Alliance convention,
could he seen driving his 229 trotter up
Main street and down Douglas avenue,
but nobody saw his handsome face at the
Board of Trade rooms where the grand
ratification" was held. Mat Bush, the al
legged Democratic candidate for county
commissioner, and who was also Endorsed
| by the Alliance, was not present. nor had
he been heard from Mr. Blakemore, the
gentleman who was nominated by the
| Democrats, and Endorsed by the Alliance.
for representative, was not present either.
| It was, to use a common expression,
! like a wake without corpse.
Edwin White Moore was partial
ly present. He didn't go into the room
but took chair out in the hallway and
heard the speakers through an open door.
He was the only leading Democrat who
honored the meeting by even coming as
near as the hallway. Judge Campbell
was up town but never went nearer the
meeting than the corner of First and Main
unless he attended after 10 o'clock. Sam
Amidon or Judge Shields could be seen
nowhere, but that Is not strange for
how could defeated candidates be expected
to attend Publications when successful
ones did not attend. Tom Fitch, Frank
Smith, Harry Stewart. Jesse Hay
maker, Fred Bentley, Captain
Osborn, F. K. Blake and the other
apostles of fusion on the Democratic
side were in town, but nary one of them
went within a stones throw of the con-
vention. The lack of Democratic interest
Is surely unaccountable.
The meeting was SHINY attended. There
We're 173 people there by the actual count
made by the EAGLE reporter. When the
EAGLE contained the account Of the Lew
Cling reception in the same hall some
time ago it stated the num-
Der of people that attended it.
Next day Mr.. kies of the Commoner and
other Populists said the EAGLE misrepre-
sented things. Last night however the
count was referred to both Mr.. Lewelling,
Mr.. Pies, Mr.. Peters and MIR. Bird and
now they are headed off from claiming
that there were any more than I73 people
in the hall including men, women and
children except those children held in
their mothers arms. Now then it took a
brass band to assemble this crowd after
the ratification meeting, having first been
announced from the platform in the con-
vention and advertised in the papers. In
addition to this all the candidates on the
state ticket were there and two candidates
for congress were present. If. then, it re-
quires brass band, advertisements in two
papers, an announcement from platform
in public meeting, five candidates in the
state ticket, two candidates for congress,
and Jones of Kingman, the Alliance night
ingale, to draw lib people, how much will
it require to carry the county? 1t was a
rank fZzle.
Now then who were at the meeting of
this party that started into existence with
a knife in its boot for the lawyer and the
banker. There were five gentlemen had
seats on the platform and only five and
here they are.
Fred Close, a practicing lawyer at
Troy.
John 7. Little, practicing lawyer at
Olathe
S. H, Allen, practicing lawyer at
Pleasanton.
A. E Helm, a practicing lawyer of
Wichita.
S. S. King. practicing lawyer of Kan
sas City, Kan.
If there was single representative of
the farming, industrial, commercial or
of any other classes but the law, on that
platform, somebody can make nice stake
by proving it.
1t is well that the Democrats did not
attend it, for the song of the Alliance
Jones of Kingman, would
make them feel bad. 1t hit both old |
pan ties alike and was by no means appro- |
pirate TO the occasion, for, although Jones |
probably did not know it, the ticket that |
was being ratified WAS made up of a fusion !
Of Democrats and Populists. The song by |
which the meeting was opened could not |
be ascertained in full, but here is the |
chorus:
Howl on. howl on! the g. O. p's. howl on |
Howl on! howl on! the z. o. p's. howl on, |
We all of US will bless the day when both |
Of you are gone, for you both have sold us
TO mammon.
After this song s. II. Allen, candidate
for associate Justice of the supreme court,
was introduced and was still talking about
Carnage when the reporter left, despair
ing of hearing any other man speak at
nearly 10 o'clock. Mr.. Aliens speech was
very dry and dull and not at all appropri-
ate 10 the occasion. He talked about the
audience selling their wheat and buying
steel rails and cotton ties ard all that
sort of stuff when, in reality, there was
not three wheat raisers in the hall nor a
man who ever purchased steel rail or a
cotton tie. His speech as tar as the re-
porter heard 1t which was at least one
hour and quarter was only cheered once
and that was when he began to condemn
The state Of Pennsylvania for sending
troops to protect the Carnegie mills. Up
ill $50 nothing mad been said about the
county ticket nor was there any prospect
Of Mr.. Allen dropping the steel rail and
cotton tie subject for at least another
hour. Ii was the greatest fizzle for rati-
ication meeting one could conceive OF.
DO YOU WANT TO KNOW MUSIC?
To the students OF the public and private schools