The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-11
A ROUSING SPEECH.
Hon. F. B. Dawes Of Clay Center at
Garfield Hall Last Night.
An Argument Second to None Ever Made
in the Peerless Princess.
More Votes Made Than at ANY Time
Since the Campaign Began in
This County.

The meeting held at the Garfield hall
under the auspices of the Republican
counsy central committee last night was
one OF, ii not entirely. the most successful
meetings held in this city during the cam
paign. 1t was not as large some pre-
VIouS meetings, but it resulted in the
changing Of more voters to the Repu blican
ticket. In the language of a Democrat, i.
was "Dick-nailing" speech that Dawes
made; in the language OF every Republican
sit was clincher," and in the language
of every Populist, it was an unprecedented
and mighty fair speech
The orator. T. B. Dawes, is a young
man, but he is mighty brainy one He
is not more than 40 years of age, of COM
manding appearance, has a very pleasant
manner of speaking, a fund of information
about the issues of the day, and has a
knack of clinching his arguments, from
which there is no escape except through
conviction. He is an attorney of Clay
Center, and when the state committee put
him in the field they practically
brought 10000 votes to the Republican
| ticket.
| Druing yesterday some busy bodies
| from the enemies camp circulated the re-
| port that MIR. Dawes had missed a train
and could not be here and in consequence
the crowd was not more than three
fourths the size of the usual meetings
| just enough to fill the hall and give seat
10 everybody. The opposition recogniz-
| ing the ability Of Mr.. Dawes to make con-
verts adopted this method. OF course it
is neither fair nor honorable, but the
opposition don't mind trifies of that kind,
this year
A. j. Wyatt called the meeting to order
and assigned to John Adams the pleasant
duty of acting aS-chairman or president of
the meeting. la a few appropriate re-
marks Mr. Adams introduced the speaker
who was received with great applause.
Mr.. Dawes commenced 10y saying that
he was commissioned by the state Rep
uhlican committee to bring secret to the
good people of Wichita which would be
pleasant news to them. He said that
in Kansas this secret WAS not generally
believed by the enemy, but that it was
true nevertheless. "And that secret isl
shid Mr.. Dawes, that Benjamin Harrison
will be elected president on the 9Th day of
November, and ten electoral votes will be
registered for him in Kansas"
Two years ago, he said, the Republicans
of Kansas played, and. in punishment for
their action, heard something hit them,
which, he said. he should refrain from
mentioning. This year it is not in the
book that the Republican party shall be
beaten. eve have got to bedrock; we
have planted ourselves sQuarely On the
Republican platform, on Republican prin-
ciples and on the Mckinley bill We have
no divisions; we have no discussions; we
have no knives in our boots, and we are
calling each other no names but 'Republi-
can brothers, We have laid aside all our
petty quarrels, and we are standing up for
Kansas, the United States and good gov
eminent. The election two years ago
gave a black eye to the state that
is worse than the hot winds.
the drouth and the grass
hoppers combined. People have
laughed at us in Nebraska, in Iowa and
even III poor old benighted Missouri. 1t is
no laughing matter in Kansas; it is a
serious matter, and we have suffered the
penalty. Capital dropped out of the state;
capital refused to come this way, and the
farmers, themselves, have suffered griev-
ously, for the mortgage foreclosures
pressed upon them more heavily than
would be the case had not the Populists'
theories and demands created a feeling of
uncertainty at the fountain heads of CAPT
tai. Now" said the speaker, things are
coming our way; God is with Kansas. and
it is about time for my old Republican
friends. who have gone astray, to come in
out of the wet"
Mr.. Dawes said he had not a word of
abuse for the Peoples party, as lie believed
those Republicans who had left the party
were honest, because they believed the cry
of the place-huutin gpoliticians i'll the new
organization, in the cry they raised. These
designing people led them to believe that
the Republican party was dishonest, cor
rupt, enemies to society and, particularly,
enemies to the common people. Their
minds were poisoned till they honestly
cast their ballots in the box for the Peo-
pies party, being carried away. by the
glitterng promises OF the politicians. He
believed that conscience should always
follow a vote into the ballot box aud
hence ne could not nor did not blame the
republicans who went asUray for they be
lieved they We're III the right. He spoke
good words for everybody, but insisted
that when the true gospel OF republican,
ism was preached to an erring brother
they willingly returned, and they are, to-
day, returning by the hundred. He stated
nat he was not afraid. but decidedly
anxious that his Old friends
should know absolutely everything
about the republican parry for il
IA
them back into line. The other side are
taking good care that the history OF the
Republican party shall not be known ex-
cept portions of it which they twist and
distort for their own selfish ends. lie said
that tie organization OF the Peoples
party was the shrewtlest political move
ever made In Kansas; that it was success
fully built up on false pretences. Where
did it come from? IL came from that
point where notification came from; il
came from that point from whence came
the sound of the first shot directed az the
stars and stripes. And how did 1t orgi-
nate? 1t originated among men
of the same vocation and there WAS no /
politics in it" 1--WE ali know" said Mr. !
Davis what a degree OF frendship exists be .
tween men Of the same vocation. If you
are c lawyer aud so to strange city the I
man whom you will naturally trust and /
believe most is brother lawyer. 1t is the /
same way among farmers; they will trust 4
one another before trusting anybody else. /,
II was this seductive principle that Undue I
ct! them into the Alliance. They were told 1
that there was no politics in il, that it WAS
an Equalization of mutual interest TO the +
farmers, and believing their brother 4