The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-13
BUSINESS MEMS MASS MEETING.

The business men of the county are
actively at work trying to induce Colonel
! Murdoch to take his position on the Guber-
| material race track again despite his with
drawal some two weeks ago. Yesterday
over 300 of them representing every shade
| Of political belief signed a call for big
mass meeting to assemble at the opera
house tonight and caused its publication
in the Beacon. The call is as follows:
Recognizing in Marshall " Murdoch a
steadfast friend of the state of Kansas,
who from his early manhood down
through all its history has made her in
terests the great object and aim OF his
life. Recognizing in him an advocate OF
the most sterling character of the princi-
pies Of the Republican party, and an
earnest champion of the rights OF the peo-
pie; believing HIM to be man free from
all political combines and schemes, and
who il nominated will be elected, and
when elected will be Of the people aud for
the people We demand that he be can
didate for the Republican nomination aud
we know that we but give voice to the
sentiments of 5000 of the 5000 voters of
Sedgwick county when we declare that it
Is the duty of the Republican voters of
Sedgwick county to absolutely refuse to
accept his withdrawal from the race for
the gubernatorial nomination on the Re-
publican ticket, and that it is his duty 10
accept the assistance Of his friends in
securing that nomination.
Therefore as q means of again placing
him before the people candidate FOR
the nomination, and TO convince the people
of the state of Kansas of the earnestness of
the people of Sedgwick for him, and TO de-
moustrdee that the entire republican vote
and practically all other votes of this coun
ty favor his candidacy, we hereby annouce
that there will be held at the opera house
in this city on the evening of the 18th of
April, mass meeting of the Republicans
and all others favorlng his candidacy, that
they may there give expression TO their
views upon this subjecl.
This meeting will be in charge of the
business men of this county and will be
addressed by them.
GEO w. CLEMENTS, YoUSG Bros,
l. d. SKINNER, S h. NELSON.
NJ. W. LEVY, GEO. g. MATTHEWS
A. W. OLIVER, g. II. BLACKwELDER,
0. c. DAISY. l.. f. NAFTZGERl
w. j. WILSON, FINLAY Ross,
WM. INNES, ". II. STEEL,
]. O. DAVIDSON,
and 200 hundred others.
The matter of getting up tbs call and
the signing of it was carried out during
Colonel Murdoch S absence from the city
but in the usual business way;
and notwithstanding the characteristic
conservatism of the business men they
did lot wait to read it but enthusiastically
dipped their pens in the ink stand and
dashed their names across the paper. The
Democrat as was willing to sign it as his
Republican brother and not single man
either refused to put his name to the call
or showed the least manifestation of re-
luctance in signing it.
When the reporter for the EAGLE re-
coived copy of the call . it was too late
to ascertain what Col. Murdoch. had to
say concerning it, he having returned ito
the city during the day and gone home in
the early evening The move is certainly
wholly independent of any expressed wish |
from him or any intimation upon his part |
whatever.
In conversation with some of the lead |
ing spirits in the movement it was ascer- |
tanned that it Is not the intention lof the |
mass meeting tie elect delegates, and that |
nothing of that kind has been contempla- |
ted, or even limited at by the business men |
who have the matter in their hands sxaIu-
sively.