The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-08
Oh ESTER LONG AT HARMED,

HARMED, Kan. Oct. 6, 1892.
To the Editor OF the Eagle.
want TO say to your readers that Hon
Chester l. Longs speech here Tuesday
| night was perfectly splendid. Our PEG.
pie gave HIM full house and he aceuit-
ted himself grandly. Not one word OF
abuse or slang; solid straightforward
facts and arguments. He save attention
to the Omaha platform and called for
exhibits of calamity. The audience did
not fill the description. He gave a
scrutinizing look at the record of Jerry
in congress, and the bills he had intro
duced relating to agriculture" he also
referred to Simpsons ovation speech at
Great Bend in which he (Smpson) told
fls hearers that the Mckinley tariff had
broken up the manufacture of pearl
buttons in the old country and they were
now made in the United States. Then
MIR. Simpson, in ghoulish glee said but
where? In Illinois in the Chester peni-
Tertiary, in Sing Sing, n. Y, and an
other workhouse." Then said he "you
mothers who want your sons to learn
the button trade must help them to get
into the penitentiary." Mr.. Long is
authority for the statement that pearl
buttons are manufactured in New jersey
and Connecticut and other places out
side of the penitentiaries. But the best
thing of all was his answer to question
when he had spoken of the reputation
given Kansas by PETER and Simpson in
the east in which they say Kansas il
sold would not bring the amount of
its mortgaged indebtedness, and farms
would be dear as gilt, etc. Some one
''who could not tell lie," asked twas it
not right to tell the truth, and how
about Ingalls, and Senator Plumb" This
brought Long to this most splendid re-
ply: ''Ingalls can answer for himself;
Senator Plumb cannot, and | now say
that any man or set Of men who will
take the statements or speeches Of Sem
ator Plumb made under the CIeveiand
administration, when the money of the
country was being Withdrawn from
circulation and locked UP in repositories
any man who will attempt the use Of
his words then and try to apply them
under the Harrison administration is a
calumniator OK the. name and fame Of the
dead senator. Kansas never had
grander man TO Stand up for her in
terests and institutions than Senator
Plumb. and it is an easy matter 10 decide
where his voice and vim would be felt
now if he was alive and in thA cam
paign, and no man should malign his
memory by such suggestive associa-
TONS
There never was greater applause
than followed this in our opera house.
Another event that 10 our citizens was
funny. Mr.. Long quoted from Jerry's
speech about the soil being wet with
fears of women at the loss of their
homes by sheriff sales, etc. Said he, have
any of you people here lost your farms?
An old fellow with a Simpson badge
stood up and said triumphantiy,
Yes, have" Mr.. Long said: You
have; when:' Last September"
did you-live on it, The old man said:
"Well, no." and took his seat. Then men
in the audience explained be has had
three claims and they are all lost. Some
one else said: And his grandmothers
too" Other voices were heard: And
$50 month pension" This old fellow
is a Jawsmiih by trade, an cid lecturer
of Union Labor stripe, and would more
likely be found in almost any other than
making an honest farm living. He
TRADES and lashes the old parties: ticks
up his pension OF $50 month and
wants more: mortgaged his lands,
fought foreclosure as long as he could
and let it go, and the land is drv as for
his tears.
Mr.. Long said what is fact: very few
men who live on their lands aud work
to make an honest living have had their
lands sold under foreclosure.
Mr.. Long spoke for over two hours
and would have had quiet hearing for
much longer. The great wonder is how
any candid man after hearing the two
men, candidates for congress for this
district, speak can fail TO decide in favor
of and vote for Chester l. Long.
MAX.