The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-07-15
STALWARTS AT MAIZE,
The Anti-Fusisn Rebellion Spreading LII
Wild-fre Through the Country.


the cause must be near the hearts of the
people otherwise it cannot prosper, par
ticularly among the plain citizens of the
land. Not more than ten days ago few
Democrats who were dissatisfied with the
action of the Democratic leaders at Tope-
ka in transferring the party to zone of the
common enemies" got together and con-
cluded to protest. They met in a black
smith shop, aud all of them were work
ingmen who truly do not make their
| money off the sweat of other peoples
| brows. They were not skilled in
parliamentary law, DOT were they
gifted with the silver tongues of the pol
ished political orator, but they appeared TO
have good hard common sense and were
no doubt guided by an honest concience, if
such a thing can be said of Democrats.
From that little meeting in that black
smith shop sprung the more elaborate
meeting of Tuesday night in the Clement
building where oratory resounded and
flaming resolutions were passed. Aud still
the meeting OF Tuesday night was in real
ity an impromptu affair, being not known
more than an hour before it was held. The
resolutions passed at this meeting were
| considered important enough to be sent
out by the local correspondents to the
metropolitan papers, and the next morn
ing they were read in ten or twelve differ
ent states. The result shows the power
and ability of the telegraph aud
| the press to scatter news broadcast.
AS an instance of this Captain Dan Dwyer
received dozen or more letters yesterday
from all over the state congratulating
the independent Democrats of Wichita on
the manly stand they had taken as shown
in the resolutions passed by them. The
veteran Democrat and industrious black
smith was compelled 10 lay down the
hammer and take up the pen, and it was
nearly o'clock last night before he had
all the communications answered. Mr..
Dwyer is very modest man and is tax
ing the fame he has attained good ma
turedly, but he would much prefer, he
says, to be left at his anvil for when he
started this movement he had no idea that
he would be called upon to suspend work
to attend to the correspondence it has pro-
duced An EAGLE reporter was permitted
to see these letters last night, but he
found none of them whose authors he
knew but that of Howard Sowle, the
veteran Democrat of Mount Hope, who
attended the last Democratic convention
in this city, aud who has been in nearly
every Democratic convention held in this
county for over fifteen years. Mr.. Sowle
is the proprietor of the Mount Hope ele-
Vator, and has been a leading citizen in
that community for years. The following
is his letter to Captain Dryer:
MOUNT HOPE, Kan, July Is, 1892.
Captain Dan Dryer:
DEAR SIR read in the EAGLE this
morning of the meeting of the intrusion
Democrats of Wichita last night. / tell
you, thousands of true Democrats will
read that with pleasure / attended the
Democratic convention at Wichita to send
delegates to Topeka l found out was
not the kind of Democrat they wanted in
that convention. | have been identified
with the party in this county for seven
teen years, and we want to keep the old
party up in shape, and not let it be run by
Il lot of internal Office seekers. We have
twenty-three Democrats in this township
who will stand by those resolutions you
passed last night. | will be down next
Monday night, to attend your next meet
ing, on the the 7:30 train. We are loaded
up here for straight ticket. You have
started in the right way, and | say keep
on until these confusion Democrats get
enough of it. Yours truly,
HOWARD SowIE.
1t is amusing to go through some of the
correspondence received by Mr.. Dryer
yesterday. One is from an old Democrat
who Is IS years old in which he says that
he has been voting straight Democratic
ticket since he was H. He used few cuss
words in the letter also and swore by
Jupiter that he is going to vote a straight
Democratic ticket this year if has to re.
turn to Missouri to do it. One young
man writes from Hutchinson that he re-
Gently came from Holden, No, and that
he will not register here. and thus lose his
citizenship IN Missouri, if he is not assured |
that straight Democratic ticket will be |
put in the field. He has never voted for
president and he proposed. he says, to vote |
for Cleveland and not Weaver this year, il |
he has to return to his old home to do it,
Mr.. Dwyer says that he has received a |
message from the Fifth district request |
ing the anti-fusiOn Democracy of Wichita |
TO send two delegates up TO talk over the |
preliminary steps preceding the holding |
of convention.
The fusion Democrats are not as hot /
now over the rebellion as they were |
Wednesday Then they made bitter at
tacks on the Democrats who proposed |
putting up a straight ticket. Since then |
the leaders put their heads together aud |
ascertaned to their establishment the |
numerical strength of the kickers as they !
call them. They at once concluded that
since they could not be cosxed TO vote the
fusion ticket, it would be better to have
them put up a ticket of their own rather
than to see them go over to the Republi- |
cans. The consequences was that yester-
day the fusion Democrats were very polite
TO the anti-fusionists.
One leading fusionist approached an
and invited him to have
drink They both stood squarely on the
platform constructed OF this proposition,
and while waiting for the tapping of
fresh keg. the fusionist tried to convert his
friend Now said he, this majority
has declared for fusion, and you people
ought to abide by il. You re ain the
minority, and you ought 10 keep still"
Let me see," said the other man. "sint
you a resubmissionests Well, you have
always been clamoring for a chance to
rote on the question and kicking because
,he Prohioitionists say You are in the
minority You have been. | Just heard |
rou saying to Peohibitiouiss last Mon
lay that they ought 10 consent 10 Eesub-
nit the question; that they could again
Tote for Prohi bltiou, but that We ought to
De given a chance 10 vote for reSubmission
Vow then, will give you little OF your