People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-08

chOubihS Aoi an luCd'
The banners which bore the state
names of the delegations were seized
and brought upon the platform and
their bearers clambered upon every
thing that could be mounted, and
writhed and wreStled about in an en-
deavOr to get each banner highest,
and Georgia somehow got there.
Three men got Mr.. Branch, the
chairman of the committee on resO-
lutiOnS, on their shoulders and car
ried him around the hall, and then
the banners left the platform and
there was a procession and all the
time the men out of the burrows and
the factories yelled and yelled with
such lungs as labor makes. The band
played all the time, but only the
throbbing Of the big drum made it.
self audible above the clamOr. Just
now and then you could make out
that the horns were playing THE
Girl | Left Behind Me-" which was
very appropriate under the circum-
stances-Or Dixie" or yankee Doc
de-" or Marching Through Georgia, 4"
or Maryland, My Maryland" 1t
was Kansas band and it had "gO"
to it.
The bowling never ceased. Now it
rose as the picture of Washington
was shown to the procession, now the
portrait of President Polk called out
its tribute.
What is Home Without a Mort
gage" was the motto of the Frontier
county banner and on the other side
were the satirical words, In Gold
We Trust"
A lot of old soldiers got together
and went marching around in the
wake of the banners singing, Were
Coming, Father Abraham, Three
Hundred Thousand Strong"
Arkansas got wOman's hat on its
banner, and bore tprOudly. Virginia
also carried a feminine insignia in
the shape of millinery. Maine put on
a wOman's bonnet. Texas bore a tin
dinner pail on her banner.
Mrs. Lease, Mrs. Emory, Mrs. Todd,
Mrs. Diggs and Mrs. Nickery, were
lifted over the railing and made to
march in the procession. \ delega-
tiOn from Massachusetts, and another
from Mississippi carried a cotton
headed darkey IS years old, on their
shoulders. In the hands of the old
negro was the American flag. They
stopped, making a tableau vivant, be.
meath the chairman's seat, and some
old soldiers played Away Down
South in Dixie" on their shrill flies.
The banner of South Dakota was CIV
en- into the hands of Mrs. Muir Of that
state to wave. An old Pennsylvania
delegate held a Bible aloft in his hand
and secuted, "Amen! amen"
Somebody with tremendous bari
tone got to singing "GOOdby, Old
Party, GOOdby," and DR.. Fish, of st.
Paul, the publisher of the Great
West, got an immense black-bOrdered
square of bunting and wept on it.
That set the men off again.
There was terrible excitement. No
doubt about that. Though the faces
of the delegates were the brown faces
of working men, they cleaned out
white now, from the tossing, swaying,
shouting crowd. The white locks of
old DR.. Severance could be seen above
| the Others in the Wisconsin delega-
tiOn. He was elegantly dressed. as
some man Of WashingtOn's time might
have been. Another remarkable figure
was that of Buck Barry of Texas, an
old pioneer, with gray hair streaming
over his shoulders and a picturesque
beard that almost hid the fact that
he had no cOllax Beside him sat a
negro delegate. Over in the North
Carolina delegation Revis, a negro,
sat, surrounded by cOnfederates. In
the speakers gallery, Bright Eyes,
the Indian woman who was one of the
first to fight for the liberty and en-
franchiSement of the race, watched
these scenes with the sad and astute
eyes of one who knows how difficult ii
| is to get justice done even after the
discovery has been made as to what
justice is.
Someone brought a telegram from
somewhere which stated that Mr..
Wanamaker has refused to permit
Mrs. Emory's book, Seven Financial
COnspiracies" to be circulated through
the mails. No one seemed to doubt
the authenticity of the telegram.
The news was received with groans,
Kisses and cries of anger.
Then, somehow, they got to yelling
again. Now they would yell for one
man, now for another. The classic
head of Ignatius Donnelly brought
out shout whenever he appeared as
he moved about the hall. Marion
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