Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-09-21
TIE BARBECUE!
yREATEST POLITICAL RALLY EVER HELD
, INANDERsON COUNTY.
,,ousads Assemble to Listen to the Gospel or
10y, Reform and Salvation for the People
Of the State and the Nation.
ENTHUSIASM WAS IN THE AIR!
The "Pops" Not Quite All Dead Yet.

The Populist meeting which was held at the
fair grounds here on Tuesday and Wednesday of
this week was by far the greatest political gath
ering ever held in Anderson county. 1t far ex-
ceeded the most sanguine expectations of the
most sanguine Populist. Chairman Stevens
says he figured OH big crowd, but did not
dream of anything so great. "Our friends the
enemy nosed it about that the affair would be
dismal failure, and it seemed that the whole
county turned out to see whether they were
lying or not
It was thought that seven beeves would fur
nsh all the meat the crowd would consume
some thought four would be enough but the
five beeves which were furnished for dinner the
first day were gone before the noon, and another
was prepared, and that was not sufficient. Be
sides the six beeves, four sheep and lot of
'coons and possums were served up. Five
more beeves were ordered for the second day,
and nothing was left of them. Jake Blum, the
butcher, says the crowd would easily have con-
sumed twenty-five beeves. We speak of these
matters to give our friends at distance an idea
of what kind of "Pop corpse we have in this
neck O. the woods-a corpse that could easily
devour twenty beeves at two or three meals.
Another thing we wish to notice is that this
was a very orderly crowd. We have heard of
no drunkenness upon the grounds, and we heard
little, if any, profanity. 1t was a SOBER hon.
est, earnest assemblage of enthusiastic people.
1t would be impossible to find so orderly lot of
people i'll country where whisky flows freely.
We are not ashamed of Kansas.
splendid program was prepared for the oc-
;, cason 1t would be source of great satisfac-
tion to lis to publish the various speeches made,
vobut that is impossible, because we have no stem
-vographer, and the speeches could not be secured
in manuscript, as most of them were extempo-
!, raneous so we will not even undertake to give
s "a synopsis of the speeches-will only give the
>aprograrnme carried out.
The first thing on the programme was song
by the Ouenemo Glee Club, No. q which club
furnished the music entirely for the occasion (;
and right here we wish to say that if each con-
gressional district had such glee club, there IS
little doubt that the Popuist majority in Kansas
this year would discount the famous 50 900 Re-
publican plurality of 'SS. 1t is simply i'm
mense-this club.
Following the Slee cluD was an auuiess vi
welcome by Prof. w. ]. Brinckley, Populist
nominee for superintendent of public instruc-
ton. He was followed by the glee club.
Then came dinner, after which WV. Kirby,
of Linn county, delivered speech in which
he gave some very interesting facts relative to
some thieving schemes of Dick Blue and his
gang of land pirates, whereby large number
of farmers and aborers, widows and orphans
, were robbed of their years of savings He gave
9 facts, supported by court records.
o After another song, Governor Lewelling was
introduced to the waiting thousands of listen
a! ers Governor Lewelling, as public speaker,
has grown wond fully in two years, and has