The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-10-21
HIS WINDY TALK
RALPH BEAUMONT THE @BARNYARD
MTURK, TALKS ON POLITICS.
Tells of His Prospects fer Represent
ing Oklahoma as Congressional
Delecate-He Admits That HIS
Family Lived in New fark state
Last July-His Amusing Figures.

Ralph Beaumont, legal resident OF Ad-
Olson, " ", and The great labor agitator
who has not been known to do an honest
days work. with his hands, in ten years,
was in the city yesterday using the identi-
cal weapon that was employed by Sampson
of old-;be jaw bone OF an ass. Ralph has
posed in every state as tie ''Barnyard Nc
Turk" representative of labor. He IS will
ing to fight the cause of the laboring man.
provideiug there is no labor attached TO
the lob aside from that which can be per-
formed BY his jaw. He was on his way 10
Guthrie from the western part OF the strip.
and was busily painting Anarchists sue
cess at the coming election when met oy
an EAGLE representative. To say that he
was willing 10 talk expresses the situation
extremely mild. lu his rawlings ne, III
subs lance. SAID:
Yes, am going to be elected as dele
gate 10 Congress The Republicans At
Guthrie concede that l will carry
the strip by 100 majority. They
should have said by 5000 majority. The
! PopuIist party has gained at least "
per cent since the campaign opened two
years ago At that time we had "a per
| cent of the entire vote. \ id q and 20 per
cent together and you have Al per cent.
| That is will have A per cent of the en-
| tire vote. Flynn Will have 80 per cent,
/ while Wisby will DO well il he gets Is per
cent of the entirevote. i tell you that tbs
| Democrats have no love for Grover CleSe-
! land in that country. Not bit more
than they have in Texas. Why the Popu-
| lists will carry Texas this year as sure As
there is a God in heaven. Yes, you can
| say that laboring man can enter the
! United States from the British providence
and cross the entire country on Popuiist
soil. The party will carry both the Dako-
tas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma aud
Texas without doubt. This is a Popu-
list year, and the laboring man will not be
met with sign Keep off the Grass
Here the man who Is temporarily locat-
| ed in Oklahoma for the purpose OF trying
to deceive honest settlers TO give him what
he could never have received from the
States, started of with pic
ture OF the glories that would be
brought to the country by Popullst
victory He had president OF the nat
faith in the white house, Coxey as vice
president and Debs WAS speaker OF the
house. Every printing press In the coun-
try was engaged printing money, lnclnd-
ing government warehouse, etc. The re-
porter finally brought him down TO earth
Iy things again by asking him II he Was
not a resident of Addison, y Y, aud III
fact only temporary soJourner IN OKLA
homa, 10 which he answered as follows:
There you 20 on that old chestnut. III
is true my family resided at Addison. y.
Y, until last August, but l have been a
resident of Oklahoma since July !. 1888.
The United States supreme court has de-
! cjded that the man Is the head oil the lam
| ily and MS residence Is at the place ne de-
clares il TO be his residence. L know 2,Oot
men in Oklahoma who are holding down
| claims whose families have never been In
Oklahoma ut all. The Uuited States land
office have decided that IL is not necessary
to establish residence In the territory by
moving the family, besides this my family
is now there and that will be our home
whether | am elected or not, except during
the session OF congress wn@i
my paper in Oklahoma City last January
aud nv son has been with me. The Law
saws six months residence shall establish
residence in Oklahoma. 80 you see 1 an
a thorough resident of Oklahoma by a.
, least three times the legal requirement
''What is your reason Tor placing the
vote of WHISKY so low?"
well, there are no new converts to thu
| Democracy after such an administration
as Cleveland has given the people. !
large portion OF the party were held IN lln'
two years ago by the announcement mad
: by Senator Reagan that the Democratic
party was the friend of silver The pres
ent administration has puncturet thi
> bubble, ana they have nothing TO draw
votes this year and the rank aud file of tn
e party have all come over TO the only tru
: friend of silver IN the L nited States toda.
-she Populst party. The west and soutI
{ | are silver sections and The vote this yea
= will surprise both the old parties"
The train was pulling out and the Barn
/ yard McTurk of labor organization bi
the reporter good-day, with the assuTanc
that Flynn and WHISKY were not in tt
: race with tnis self-important agitator.