The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-15

! farmers and do not get up with the sun.
| Again the leaders were up later than
the rank and file the previous night,
making states etc., and could not be ex-
/ pected to be out as early In the morning as
their more humble political brethren who
went to bed early with their minds I'M
burdened by any of those schemes which
| naturally interfere with the wooipg of the
goddess morpheus.
EARLY MORNING SCENES.
About gray dawn when the toilers of the
press were going to their various homes,
the visitors in the city began also TO move.
Many could be seen making their exit
from their hotels, standing out on the
streets, critically examining the heavens
and then making and exchanging fore
casts AS to what the day would bring forth
in the line of good or evil weather
None of them showed any of those signs
of dissipation that one usually sees, to
limited extent, of course, at that hour of
the morning. during convention time. On
the contrary they all looked hale and
hearty and cheerful as men generally do
after good sound sleep. They talked
from sunrise till breakfast time on strictly
agricultural topics and very little political
talk was INDUCED in. Whenever they did
talk politics the almost unanimous senti-
ment was to keep in the middle of the
road" BY O'Clock all was hustle and
excitement. the sidewalks were crowded,
bunting was floating i'll the air everywhere
bands, were playing in every direction.
moving professions OF delegates were
marching from the depots at which they
arrived TO the headquarters selected for
them, and everything looked lively and
active.
FORENOON SESSION.
At 1880 o'clock a. m. every seat in the
Crawford Grand, including the stage and
boxes, had its tenant and the scene pre-
scented to one looking from the stage was
really interesting. The audience consisted
of men, women and children, and it might
be added they We're all third partyites. 1t
was Democratic crowd, too, and there
was a home-like, rural simplicity mani
tested in the proceedings that is seen at no
other public gathering except possibly at
a Methodist camp meeting The
delegates acted and talked as
independent as the traditional hog
on ice. OF course this Democratic sim
plicity and independence were confined
exclusively to the common people, or
more properly speaking the rank and Gle
and non-oflice seeking delegates.
It WAS lis when the kingman band
time Judge w. 2. Campbell OF this city
that a single tax meeting
would be held at O'Clock at the Old COM
mon pleas court room, 10 which he in
vired every believer IN free land, free
trade and free people The single tax idea
caught the audience and a cheer Went up
which plainly indicated that the alliance
folks are rapidly drifting into the currents
of Henry Georges thoughts and philo-
sophies.
When Chairman Black Of the congress
sioual committee stepped forward to call
the meeting TO order there were fully /, 800
persons in the opera house and yet
feather could haze been heard fall. 50 pro-
found Was the silence which followed his
appearance before the audience lie
stated the olject OF the meeting and that
the delegates had assembled more for the
purpose of raiifying Jerry's nomination
than for the main Ooject.of the cali Some
about holding ham in reserve
for tomorrow, but the people F.
Of the Seventh district want him today"
Shouts of you ara right" greeted the /
speakers remarks all over the hail. DR.
Walling. editor of the Caldwell Journal. !
was then announced as the gentleman Sc
.ected TO invoke the blessings of Heaven on !
the convention, and he did ic very grace 4
fully. eloqueuJly aud devotedly. he gen /
erously invited the blessings OF Heaven TO /
iecead on the oppressed ersrywhere oQt. .
in Kansas. W.ilhns Is an old 1
hand at the reform mill, having been with 4
ir since Heck was pup. as one OF his /
friends pCJ It yesterday and in consequence I
be Is strong man before 3 Convention OF I
retoruers whether he prays or breaches or /!
speaks.
At the conclusion OF Wailing's invoca-
ton J1dge Snyder of kin-man stepped .
forward and read the call and the conven-
ion was then declared ready for basi-
ness" Ga motion VIM. Campbell Of
Stafford county was nominated for per
nauent chairman and Ae was elected 10y
amid greal applause. Ms
Campbell is = n.an who kncws nothing
" whatever about parliamentary law. but he
5 one OF those honest good ma; II rad fellows /