The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-06
to fair sized audience in the opera house

to fair sized audience in the opera house
in this city last Saturday night. A fair
comparison between the crowd out to
hear the professor and the one on the
Wednesday night preceding to hear Con-
gressman Allen would be to say that there
was not more than one-third rs many peo-
pie at the Gaines meeting as at the Allen
meeting The professor is a pleasant
talker, but, like all his party, sets up the
calamity wall. The yellow ''Stand Up for
| Kansas badges irritate him as much as
they do Simpson.
The Republican meeting held in this
| city the night Congressman Allen spoke
was q surprise in numbers to the Rr pub
licans ana a crusher on the Demo-pops.
The crowds on the streets during the time
the torchlight procession was moving was
far the largest ever assembled at a night
meeting in this city. AT the close of the
procession the doors of the Grand opera
house were thrown open and it was soon
demonstrated that the house was not
large enough to hold much over onc-haif
Of the people present. To look upon the
enthusiastic Republicans present that
night-some residing fifteen miles distant
from the city-was enough TO convince the
most skeptcal that Kingman county Re.
publicans are in the ght this fall to win.
If you want to see the countenance of
Kingman populist take on gloomy look
mention to him the fact that Hi Stout has
returned to the Republican folds. Mr..
Stout is conceded to be one of the closest
figurers on elections in this county and he
SAYS that Simpson will have very little if
any majority over Long in klngman
county, and that most, if not all, the Re-
publican ticket in this county viii be
elected
Shortly following President Harrison's
nomination for reelection Mr.. Stout an
nounced his intention of voting for the
Harrison electors, giving as his reason that
he could not and would not
My. Stout has for the past two
years been running the Alliance mills.
This being the case. some of the leaders In
the calamity party interviewed him, ana
he informed them that it was his intention
to support the Republican national ticket.
Shortly following this interview Mr.. Stout
took trip to the mountains. During his
absence scheme was put on foot through
some of the sub-alliances in this county to
boycott his -four, and when he returned it
was not long ere he learned that those
whom he had classed as friends were
secretly working to bring about his financ-
ial ruin.
Since the Republican convention in this
city the pops have not worn as cheerful
lOOkS dS III Tue udSS preCeuluS tudt eiihc.
Among the delegates TO that convention
they recognized several men VINO during
the last two years were strong workers III
their party. These men went off with
them in 1890, believing that they could
better their condition. They gave two
years to a careful study of the measures
advocated by that party and the plans for
carrying those measures out. In that time,
as one of the men expressed it to the
writer and the others agreed with him,
they discovered the utter impossibility of
this or any other governments keeping on
a solid footing, financially, if directed in
the channel mapped out by the Omaha
platform, and, being convinced on that
point, they were ready to return to the
fold of the party which has really made
the government what it is.