The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-09
TIE coLoRED CANDIDATE.
Ar, Bruce OF Lravenworth Makes Splendid
Speech for RepubIicanism.

| all the colored churches OF the city and
was well attended by happy crowd. The
| colored band of the city furnished some
excellent music. Mr. Cabbel of Pratt, an
elector on the Alliance ticket was present
and was afforded an opportunity to adj
| dress his colored friends. In his speech he
denied with emphasis that Lincoln set the
colored people free. That was in keeping
with the statement of an Alliance white
man the previous night to the effect that
the death of Christ was failure.
In the evening the colored people adj
| journed from the park to the Garfield hall
where the continued their festivities.
There was large and enthusiastic gath
ering of colored Republicans at Garfield
hall last evening TO hear Hon. B. X. Bruce
speak. The crowd was very attentive, and
| the speech well received
MIR. Bruce made good impression. The
following Is synopsis of his speech:
l am proud of the fact that belong to
the only party that can look back upon its
record with pride; the only party whose
platforms are enacted into the laws of the
land; the only party that looks to the
future with hopes of good cheer. / am
often asked the question why / am a
Republican. l am Republican
because it is the party of railspltter
Grant. / am Republican because it is
the party OF log cabin Garfield. 1 am
Republican because it is the party of the
immortal Lincoln. because in this party
you are as drop of water, today in the
ocean, tomorrow you leap with the spray
and lash upon the shore. | am Repub-
lican because the Republican party by its
agent, Abraham Lincoln, took the shackles
from 1000. 600 chattels and made men of
them before the law. / am. in short,
Republican because that party has favored
every measure that has been introduced
and enacted into law for the interest of
my people"
Some say that we should not be under
obligations to Lincoln for our freedom
because God freed US. Is it not strange
that God did not select some one of the
Democratic presidents to do this great act
for humanity"
Mr.. Bruce then mentioned the issues of
the campaign combining himself to the
tariff, money, reciprocity and the force
bill.
He traced the history of tariff legisla-
tion in this country, showing that the
country had grown under the American
system, and that the tariff was not the
cause of farm mortgages, nor city mort
cages, bus that they were the outgrowth
of the development of new counties, and
boom prices.
He showed that the mortgages in Kan
sas were the results of opening up our
fertile fields. He then spoke of the Nc
hov vol haf
prices were lower under the bill and wages
higher; that the purchasing power Of
money was greater. The great blessings
of reciprocity were given. The new
markets opened up to our produce were
mentioned. He touched upon the great
difference between reciprocity and free
trade. 1T is claimed by our free trade
friends" said he, that we have a right to
buy every article as cheap as we can get
it." No man has right to buy shirt
so cheap that the girl who makes
it has to live in n garrett
and do without the necessaries of life
No man has right to buy any article SO
cheap that the laborer who made it has to
live at starvation wages and is not able to |
clothe, feed and educate his |
children"
The money fallacies of the opposition !
were picked TO pieces. The government |
can not create value. 1t can not make |
money out Of nothing. The cost of produc- |
ton gives values to gold and silver. There |
must be something at the back of our |
paper currency to redeem it. The law of |
supply and demand regulates the price of |
gold and silver. He demonstrated that |
the free coinage of silver would not be
he panacea they claimed it would
He said all the colored people wanted was
the right to live, TO act, TO exist the same
as other people, that they did not want
any negro domination. He encouraged
The colored people to become the best of
and convince the white people of
he north that the color of a mans skin
md the kink of his hair did not make the
gentleman. The reason we get along here
IS well as we do is that we are trying to
become American citizens We adopt
very mode of the American life. We
lave some of the good qualities of our
white neighbors-we have all of their vices
80 that ultimately if we do not become
e best OF citizens it will bs because
'ur white neighbors do not keep
Tut of the way.
Touching upon state politics he first
mentioned the fact that the two years ago
he Peoples party, when they did not
now their own strength, when they
bought there was no show Of an election,
laced a colured man on the state ticket,
nut this year when they think they can
vim they leave the colored brother out in
he cold, and raise the hue and cry that the
are colonizing the state. He
Urged the colored people to stand by the
arty that had always benefited them. |
The good name of Kansas her credit and
onor are at stake in this campaign"
he Republican party whose record is the
istory of the state is now defending the
air name of Kansas in this campaign. |
he impression has gone out that We are !
tate of regulators This has been caused :
y some of the bills introduced in the
ouse during the last session of the legis- I
iture. This impression Will be corrected s
V the election of the Republican ticket '
qis fall.
Speaking of himself, he said that he was (
laking his race on the ground OF compe- {
eucy, and he urged his people to vote for {
i'm because he was Republican and |
Ompetent for the place. He impressed I
pom them the necessity of voting the en-
re Republican ticket, from bottom to
1p. Don't scratch your ticket at all
old it up; vote it straight, and victory is ,
urs"
At the conclusion of his speech the audi ,
nee gave three rousing cheers for Mr.. !
ruce. Many rushed forward to grasp his /
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