The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-11

politics" IN 1t they must put up new
party of their own and that all the candi-
| dates must be farmers. And step by step
they were led astray so cautiously that
the first thing they knew they were FAR
into the trap prepared for them For
howl in their opinion could there be
politics in it when they had their own
| ticket put up" Here Mr. Dawes called
| each of their 1890 candidates by name and
showed them that, with one or two excep-
| tions, they were all farmers. No lawyer,
| doctor, banker or money broker was al
lowed in and above all no middle man
| should polute the interior of their organ
| ization, particularly such middle men as
| the .'Lewelling variety" III it was
| right" said Mr. Dawes, ito put up no one
but farmers then, why isn't it right nows
| Who have they got? L. d. Lewelling a
middle man, for governor. Old Johu Willis
practical farmer who was candidate.
did not get vote in the convention. while
Elder only got six. l.. d. Vincent of Clay
Center was the probable nominee; your
! papers said the day the convention met
| that be had two-thirds the strength of the
convention, and by the way, he, like my
self, works farm with his mouth. Well,
| if you look back ut your papers OF that
date you will see that John Martin,
| George W. Click and others came down
| and went into session, and the next day
you heard that Lewelling was nominated
| through the n1anipulations OF these old
| wheelhorse Democrats. oh, yes, SAID
! Mr.. Dawes, 'there is no politics in it and
no middle-men need apply. What did they
! do in the First district? They nominated
| Fred J. Close | was up at mis- home the
other day and was passing along the
street when ] saw sign that bore the
following legen1: Fred J. Close, Attor
ney-at-Law. No lawyers allowed In
| the Second district they nominated S. 5.
King. and over his door there is sign,
S. S. King, Attorney at-Law.' No
| LAWYERS need apply In the
Third district they nominated
| Thomas jefferson Hudson, and over his
door there is sign "Attorney-at-Law,"
and in the F5urth district they nominated
Wharton and over his door theoe is an NJ.
ID sign. "No doctors need apply" This
was OTIS district, and surely he was a
model farmer congressman for be intro
duced bill whose object was to authorize
the government to issue six billion dollars
to the people at once. The speaker then
referred to John Davis. Jerry Simpson
aud Dad Baker. dad Baker," said he,
'snever opened his mouth in congress: you
can't show me his name mentioned In
the congressional record. He was as dunno
as an oyster during the entire session, and
hence was the best representative OF the
lot; it would be mighty good thing for
Sedgwick county if Jerry Simpson hadn't
opened his mouth. Il will leave it to any
honest man." said the speaker, "if the
Peple's party ha not turned its back on
the farmer The Republican party is the
party for the farmer; it is the party for all
classes. -..t. Gs-7 So.
Mr.. Dawes then referred to the tariff,
and ably discussed it. He said he did not
blame England TO try to get the trade of
England but he certainly must condem
the Democrats for helping her get it. If l
believed in England taking the bread
from the mouths of our labOring men, l
would vote for Cleveland and be consls-
tant, but if did not believe in that kind
of business there is nobody runuiag that l
could vote for except Benjamin Harrison.
| would rather vote for Cleveland
than for Weaver, ana If L had
no chance to vote for him
l would go fishing. If l believed
that this country is on the verge of moral,
political and material ruin; if believed
the stars and stripes is the emblem of
serfdom; if believed III the sublreasury
scheme; the single tax theory; the ma
tionalization OF the railways and socialism
l would vote for Jerry Simpson. On the
other hand if thought that Kansas was
one of the greatest states in the world;
that the United States flag Is the greatest
flag IN the world, and that the people of
Kansas are the most enlightened and most
yirtuous in the world-which / dol
would vote against Jerry and for that
bright young statesman Chester l. Long"
While Mr.. Dawes was referring to these
things IN detail he rose into beautiful
flights of oratory which kept his audience
spellbound His mention Of the name
Benjamin Harrison was cheered for fully
three minutes. He next devoted his at
tention TO the money question and gave
complete history of the greenback that
turned all Alliance arguments topsy turvy-
He said the Peoples party was quoting in
party papers Thad Stevens in support of
their arguments. He dared the Populists
to quote Thad right and made the state
ment that if the congressional record, con-
tanning his action, didn't give their state
ments the lie he would guarantee to vote
for Jim Weaver. 1t was all about the ex-
ception clause Mr. Dawes said that
Stevens favored the exception clause and
not opposed it, and that lie favored 1t for
the purpose of getting gold back into the
country as did John Sherman in his credit
strengthening act. Mr.. Dawes said that
during the thirteen years during the war
over 800, 100000 OF gold went
to England on account of the balance of
trade being against Us, and called atten-
ton TO the fact that this was exactly the
period of Democratic tariff for revenue
only. 1t Was to bring this money back
that the legislation mentioned was
passed and 1t was successful
The chief necessity for the
credit rengtheniug act originated in the
Democratic Platform upon which Horatio
Seymour WAS nominated. The green backs
were steadily going up and the party in
serted plank IN the platform with refer /
euce To issuing more OF them. Then the
people became alarmed and they began TO
decline rapidly To stop panic John
Sherman had passed law saying that the !
pablc debt must be paid N coin, !
the financial system again
= me settled. Aud, by the way, that
act referred only to that portion OF the /
debt the contract for which provided that
ii should be paid in coin. Mr.. Dawes ex-
piaened this very clearly and tooA every
prop from under every argument OF The /
Peoples party bearing on the subject.
Mrs Lease will tell you said the speaker .