The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-11
THE SAME OLD THING.
TWO Imported Pops Harangue Small Audi
ence on Market Street.

TWO Imported Pops Harangue Small audi
ence on Market Street.
About 100 people, several boys and
large dog assembled at A. o. q. w. hall
last evening to hear Senator Lands and
Senator Dennison turn the crank on
calamity. A brass band was used upon
the streets and in the hall to drum up
crowd and divided the honors about
equally between the Pop meeting, the
Salvation Army and the Mexican soap
man on the corner. In the hall were as
sembled many of the sachems of the party.
DIR. Richmond, kies, Bob Nef, John
Fisher, Joe Arnold and Bill Green were
there. Bill shone Respondent in low
cut vest and yellow diamond. The alb
sence of Irish and l. \. Terrill OF Okla
homa vas marked. These reform
ers were otherwise engaged, and
detained by circumstances over which
they had no control. Farmer Doolittle
was there with duck-bill pair OF shoes
which he kept elevated on the back of a
chair while he took copiOus notes of the
proceedings. Reformer Helm, who has
always been mad at the Republicans of
Wichita for not making him county at
torney when he first came here, called the
meeting to order and named Judge o.
Sankey for chairman. Some one wanted
to know where Sankey got the title Of
judge. and another fellow said that he was
once judge of election. Judge ~ Sankey
in deep bass voice asked the band to
play. during which playing the dog left
the hall and a number of Republicans
came in. After the music the chairman
introduced Senator Dennison of Butler
county. Dennison is a stout, fiorid. well
fed man, weighing about 800 pounds, and
standing with his coat buttoned to his
chin, perspired profusely. He said that
he was no orator, and no one was found in
the audience to dispute that. Dennison
was admitted to the bar of Butler county,
by Judge Torrance. He was ambitious to
be prosecuting attorney of bis county, In
this he failed. He also failed as lawyer,
After a trial at law for about three years
he went into stock raising. In this he has
only made q partial success. Last fall he
was elected to the senate from Butler
county, much to his own, and the surprise
of the people. If Butler county is one
tenth as bad place as Dsnnison painted
live in. The most retiring Pop in this
city can beat Dennison as a stump
speaker. His burden was calamity. He
quoted copiously from sermon of Rev,
Thomas Dixon of New York and
he produced figures until even kies'
head swan, and Frank Rawson
yawned, with fatigue. Dennison showed
that the country is now running in debt
at the rate of 81. i3O, 600 per day. He then
went back to 1873, and pronounced John
Sherman the arbitrator of America. He
started that demagogic cry of uniting the
south and west, against the east. lie gave
Dan Voorhees, wheat and corn illustration
stolen bodily from Voorhees, last years
Indiana speech. He claimed that free sill
yer was the panacea for all existing ills,
Winfield asylum. He also failed to refer
to the Pop banners last fall, carrying this
legend: Jerry Simpson and dollar
wheat" Like the average Pop. Den
nison wanted to pay all debt by
legislation. He claimed that he was the
author Of the mortgage redemption bill.
Look at that" said Dsnnison, cracking
his fat fists together, 1.-THE Lombard
Mortgage company is busted, SO is the
Jaryis-Conckling company. Now when
you mortgage your farm you have eigh-
teen months in which to redeem it," He
failed to say that you can't get loan on
your farm at all. Deunison is a dull,
plodding man, with a muddy, fatty brain.
His arguments are heavy and stolid, and
his illustrations are stolen. bodily. If he
is the best Butler county can do they
had better keep their speakers at home.
He made his last years speech. about
labor being at the mercy of capital. The
usual Mrs. Lease and Noah Allen speech.
Dennison closed by an apology for his lack
of ability as q speaker, and his apology
was accepted by the audience for its face
value. After another piece by the band
Senator Lands of Medicine Lodge, was
trotted out by Judge (?) Sankey. While
Dennison was droning on quite number
Of the audience left. After lands had
spoken ten minutes he succeeded in thin
ming the audience out still more. He
would be capital man to disperse mob
Set him up to make q speech TO them and
they would dispense readily.
Lands is principally known as being
from the home OF Jerry Simpson. lands
declains like a school boy in the eighth
grade of the Wichita public schools. He
said, ''They have incarnadined the sea. "
Lands is quicker than Dennison; his
mind works moro rapidly, but he jumps
around and cannot make a consecutive
argument. Lands spoke of a new party.
1t is evidently the intention of the gang
now in the lead of the Peoples party to
form a new party to steer the people on.
The old saw is dull and Laudis said tina,
the Peoples party had served its purpose
and new party would take up and carry
| forward its reforms. When Lands ceased
speaking just sixty-eight people were in
the hall. The speakers poured it into
President Cleveland.
1t was noticed that WillSrd Boone and
Ed. O'Bryan were not present at the meet
| ing.
! THE G. A. h. SOCIAL.