The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-16

political speeches, while the people OF
Kansas are paying him $500 per year as
railway commissioner, to transact their
business for them. He pointed out the in
justice of a public officer going out in the
field in campaign, while under the pay
OF the people, with such force and en-
phasis that he actually had some of the
poor fellows in front of him, indign ant at
the thought of such thing 1t IS amaz-
ing how some people can be worked up to
a pitch of excitement by slick and tricky
orator. While these people were indig-
nent at the idea of Mr.. Anthony, their
public servant. being out making speeches
they never for moment allowed them
selves to think that their own Alliance
Attorney General Mr.. Ives is doing the
very same thing and out OF the state. too.
by the way. He has been stumping Colo
RADIO for weeks and weeks. Neither did
they for moment think that Jerry Simp-
son is public servant, drawing the
pay of the people, and out through
the country making partisan speeches.
This class of argument is
too absurd to dwell on it any longer. He
said he did not favor the subtreasury
show what a mighty good thing it was.
He said he could not possibly favor it be-
| cause it was not Democratic. He said that
the Republican law, with reference to the
bonded warehouse for whisky. was SUBJ
treasury scheme in the full sense of the
expression. He said the Democratic
party could never indorse subtreasury
ideas for they were paternal in spirit
and repulsive to Democratic policy. By the
way, did anybody ever hear of the Demo-
cratic congresses, the Democratic pres.
dent or Democratic convention ever op-
posing or showing any inclination to wipe
out the bonded warehouse laws and yet
John Martin says that bonded warehouse
| is a sub-treasury and consequently par
| takes of the nature of paternalism in gov
ernment according to his idea. In speak
Ing about party platforms he said that he
| always reserved for himself the right to
support platform or not according to
! his own free will and judgment.
| How be could reconcile this statement
with former statement is hard to under
stand. The making of platform is as
much the action of Democratic conven-
ton as the nominating of candidates and
support the nominee of Democratic con-
vention' is a traitor and ought to be missed
out of the party" If that is true what
ought to be done with the man who re-
serves the right to support platform or
not support it according to his own free
will aud judgment" and not according to
his party's judgment. The fact is Mr..
Martins ideas about the duties
of a Democrat were mass
of contradiction from beginning to end
He read from the Peoples party state
platform, the plank which denounced the
employment of Pinkerton detectives. He
was very extravagant in his praise of this
plank, and severely condemned the Re
publicans for not denouncing it in their
platform Also Now then Judge Martin
was member of the Democratic state
convention and also member of the COM
mittee on platform and resolutions, and it
is strange that in that very platform there
is not a word about the Pinkertons. al
though the convention was held short
time after the massacre at Homestead,
when the subject was fresh in the memory
of everybody. They could not have for
gotten the subject for a short resolution
which they were afraid TO put in the plat
form, referring to the use of Pinkertons
at the Homestead mills but nowhere else.
Judge Martin in again referring to
Mitchell ridiculed him for his bad grammar
and photography. He did not reflect
on the fact, great Democrat and Populist
that he is with such professed high re-
gard for labor, that Mitchell has been a
laborer, all his life, that he raised to his
present position by hard knocks and had
to work to earn his bread while other men,
Judge Martin perhaps, had a bank account
behind him to enable him to get educated.
1t is no crime even in this country for
man to spell held, 'helled." He said there
was no man living with Democratic blood
in his veins who was not in favor of AL
lance principles; if there is. his forehead
is as narrow as a knife blade. This state
ment was made twenty minutes after he
had said that he, himself, could not favor
the government ownership of railroads, or
the sub-treasury scheme, and everybody
knows that they are Alliance principles
that are dear to the heart of every Popu-
list. He tried to make great deal of cap
ital out of the plank in the Republican
platform, referring to the control by the
postoffice department of the telegraphs
and telephones of the country. He said
that nobody used tho telegraphs and tele-
phones but spectators and gamblers;
hence. the Republicans were in favor of
the postoffice owning them in favor of these
people. This was hard hit at the 400
business men of Wichita who use tele-
phones and telegraphs. He did not
seem to understand that the
object of the postoffice department in con-
TO ling these two mediums of communica-
tIon is to reduce the tolls sufficiently to
enable the poorer people to use them for
their advantage. The newspapers also
use the telegraph and telephone to a
cused of being spectators and gamblers
He said the Democrats believed with the
Alliance people in the free and unlimited
coinage of silver, forgetting that Grover
Cleveland, that standard bearer of Demo
crazy, is one Of the greatest enemies of the
proposition and forgetting also that the re-
cent Democratic convention sat down so
heavily on the idea that the Democratic
organ Of Colorado, the Rocky Mountain
News, took offense and bolted both the
Democratic convention and the Demo-
cratic ticket. He is radically in favor of
tariff for revenue only and called tariff n
robbery and all that sort of thing and yet
the entire Kansas delegation to the Chi
cago convention voted against tariff for
revenue only. II would take an entire
page TO detail all the contradictions made
by Judge Martin against himself.