The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-06
STANLEY SPEAKS.
The Wei Known Wiehiiaian Makts a Strong
Address to a Large Audience.

! That was powerful speech made last
night by Hon. w. E. Stanley of this city.
| Mr.. Stanley in tie sense of the term is not
politician, but nevertheless he demon
strated last night that he is exceedingly
| well posted in political matters, and has a
peculiar method Of treating of them which
is both interesting, practical and convinc-
! ing.
When he arrived in Garfield ball last
| night that building was full and the cheer
that went up as he walked up the aisle
arm in arm with Senator Bentley was a
splendid testimony of the esteem in which
both the gentlemen are held by their
nei.hbors and friends.
John. E. Hume, Esq, presided and he
| introduced Mr.. Stanley in few brief SEN
fences. Mr.. Stanley commenced by saying
since the days when the slave power want
ed to fasten their system upon The people
OF Kansas there has not been u time so full
OF interest to the people or SO fraught
with II desire to Inquire and to investigate
as there Is at present" He then spoke
about the issues between the two old
parties. which is the tariff and the cur
rency, and regretted that circumstances
should have occurred that their discussion
should be wholly disregarded in this cam
paIgn on account of the fact that there are
no Democrats who are in position to dis
cuss these issues as they used TO do. He
seemed to think that the issue of the fusion
party was to defame the state and the Re-
publican party had charged itself with the
duty to defend it. He was at
loss to know what existed in common be-
tween the Democratic party and Peoples
party that the former should bury all its
old principles and traditions and join in
with the latter. Their platforms and ideas
are utterly at variance, and he seemed to
think that the Democratic bosses have no
object in the fusion but the spoils of office.
He thought that the honest old Democrats
who had no AK to grind, or no political bee
buzzing in his bonnet, will refuse to be
led in this way next Tuesday. He read
the preambles of the three political parties
and showed the similarity in the spirit of
those of the Republican party and Demo
Gratis, and their noticeable contrast to
the moral and political ruin" in the
Calamity platform. He read the financial
plank Of the Peoples party platform
and wondered how any honest Democrat,
believing in the financial policy of his own
party could support or indorse it. He re-
ferred to trusts and stated that the, Demo-
cratic and Republican parties were about
the same on that important question; that
both believed in suppressing combines of
every kind, but that the Populists had
nothing to say in their platform against
them. He also called the attention of the
similarity between the two old party
r,lu 4 h. LII
trasted them with the meaningless labor
plank in the Populist platform. He dis
cussed the ownership of railways in a very
clear and able manner and insisted that
the claims OF the Populists that they can
wrest these highways from their owner
ship indicates that they would also, if
necessary, wrest the house from
over mans head, and that both
meant no more nor less than Social
ism. He called the attention of
the Democrats present to the record of the
Democratic party in its antagonism to this
species of paternalism and made an elo-
quent allusion to the fathers of Democracy, |
Jefferson and Jackson and the host of !
Democratic statesmen that lived contem- |
with them. He quoted from |
the Kansas City Times very clever arti |
Gle denouncing Kansas fusion rs a fraud |
it might he added. contained whole lot |
Of good sense. He referrec to his original |
intention of addressing the young men, |
being reminded of it by cheap remark in |
The cheap speech of cheap little Ed O'Bryan
the previous night. He said that he would |
advise the yonng men to be patriots and |
not politicians, and made some touching
on this subject that were loudly |
cheered. He quoted from the speeches of |
various Democrats an array of evidence
10 show their denunciation of |
The unholy combine and the evil |
results that must inevitably follow
f it succeeds. He quoted Mrs. Leases in
.erview to illustrate the love the Peoples
party have for the Democrats. He touched
lightly on William Flavius Green and did
Il so cieverly that Dug Caldwell came very
lear falling off his chair he was so ,ickled
He said that in all former campaigns in
his county the Democrats picked out
man on the Republican ticket they wanted
o defeat. They would try every scheme
md then finally resort to their old trick OF
circulating the report that Bill Green was
% be his deputy and from that moment
hat candidate was politically dead Now
he report is that William Flavius is to be
Nies' deputy and following out the we'll
worn path Of experience. he would not give
en- cents for kies' election since the report
tarted | guess it is true in this case.
however.
To disprove the truth Of the moral and
material ruin plank of the Populist party
lie quoted the record of Kansas during the
,ast ten years to show its advancement and
progress as follows:
KANSAS-lSS0.