The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-09

joying as much prosperity as any COM
munity l have ever seen in Ohio. You
have remarkably fertile soil, thrifty
cities and towns and the finest blue skies
have ever set my eyes upon. Kansas is
keeping abreast Of the times and keeping
pace with her sister states not only in her
material progress; but socially and intel
lectually as well, and in that permit me to
offer you my most sincere con CALCULATIONS.
l also congratulate you most sincerely
on the fact that you are
aroused to the Importance of standing up
for Kansas. You have grand. beautiful
and glorious state and I am glad to find
that my Republican friends appreciate
that fact. My dear friends you haven't
got any idea how you are traduced in the
east by those who claim to represent you;
you haven't got any idea how much you
have been injured, and this, too, by your
Simpson and your PETER. They tell
alarming stories about you to too credu-
lous world. 1t is great injustice to you,
but 1 am glad to know that you are not
beyond redemption. 1 am glad to be
assured by the evidences I have seen
since I have come to your fair
state that you are pushing forward
to certain and decisive triumph in
November. To be sure the Democrats and
the Peoples patty have combined against
you but Republicans are the sworn
enemies of combines" and they will de-
feat it in November as surely as this bright
sun hangs on the heavens above us. l
read i'll this mornings Wichita EAGLE
that there are still some good Democrats
in -ho 10 Il ,,c or ho
not ready to array themselves against you
in this unholly alliance. If you do your
duty in November you will bury these two
parties-these political siamese twins
together in November" Governor
Forakr then told a very amusing
story about an Irish man who
was strolling in a cemetery. He
(the Irishman) came to a tombstone upon
which was inscribed the legend. "Here lies
the remains of a lawyer and an honest
man." Pat looked around, and seeing but
one mound he said. "By jabers, they have
buried two men in one hole" "You,"
said the governor, must bury two parties
together in one hole in November. and
you must bury them face downward, so
that if they scratch they will scratch in
the right direction to tho reward that
awaits them" He then addressed him
self to the exRepublican Populists and
proved to them that the contest is between
Cleveland and Harrison. That they ought
to have reason to know it since the
recent election in Georgia. Some popu-
lists may be foolish enough to entertain
a hope of breaking the solid south
but these hopes ara based on Demo-
oh
good since the news from Alabama and
Georgia The Peoples party. he thought.
should learn lesson from that experience.
He then recited the details of the rotten
egg incident and told very clever story
about army foraging, which he applied
with equal cleverness to Weaver and Mrs.
Lease. The Peoples party" said he,
will not carry a single state in the south.
nor a single state in the north. either"
He said the Democratic ma jority in Georgia
was 20, 555 and that il it was necessary in
their business they could, under their fine
handed electioneering tactics, make it
110, 90 as easily. He spoke about the ex-
ercise OF the franchise being q duty
rather than privilege and that nobody
has a right TO throw his vote away. He
then explained that a vote cast for Weaver
would result In half a vote for Cleveland
with the other half thrown in the waste
basket. and asked the Populist of former
Republican proclivities whether he could
give Cleveland half vote. Addressing
these men with earnestness. he said:
Gentlemen, your duty is to turn back
and affiliate with the grand old Republic
can party"
He then took mp the issues between the
two old parties one by one, not deeming it
necessary to discuss the third party's non
sense. He commenced as 1861 and in
most intelligent, clear and forcible man
ner showed the distressed condition of the
country at that time Politics was made
up of bad blood and the great question
was that OF human slavery. Peace was
declared aud has continued to exist ever
since, aud the issues now involved are
purely business questions The nrst OF
these is the currency question. The Re-
pubiicans found the country bankrupt,
half slave and half free, with thirteea
cents in the treasury and the most aboIn-
Unable money system that has ever existed
in the universe He tackled the state
ban king system with a master hand. and
PAINTED its abominable features until they
were true to life He said there were about
> 600 state banks at that time aud. conse-
ouentlv. 1900 different kinds of money
AT that time a merchant WAS compelled
to have money detector as big as Web
ster's Unabridged dictionary in his pos
session. When a customer bought his
goods aud offered hfn a state bank note
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