People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-10-11
"SEyD Me-
DOodledOO Long Addresses the
People OF Wellington
AND BEGS FOR THEIR VOTES
The Same Old Chester, and the Same
Old Tariff Chestnuts.

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week.
He is charming, uuutterably, inef-
fably sweet and too utterly too too.
+ He looks as fresh as a June morning
caught IN a snOwStOrm.
He wanted a change in 1892 and is
still in the same fix.
Chester poses elegantly and talks
like phOnOgraph with air springs.
His OratOry is the highest example
of single standard elocutiOn with sand
ballast.
His touching tremOlO whine is a
fletcher.
When he refers to the ladies he is
as dainty as a butterfly on a clover
blossom.
And when he refers to the POpulist
party he is as a raging lion with
burnt feet and pepper IN his eyes.
His dropping mustache and the
d,mple in his chin are just too cute
for anything.
Oh, amt he masher?
His smile would wilt an onion.
His etfrontery would batter the
point off an English joke.
He says tariff has been an issue for
a hundred years, and would be just as
much an issue after the Pops are all
dead and gone.
From this we infer that even the
republicans don't propose to settle it
if they get another chance.
While he StrOked his mustache the
audience scratched its head and won
dered at the wisdom of the child.
The state committee had advised
Chester to con6ne his speech to irri-
CATION in this diStrlct-but he didn't
know anything about irrigation, so
they gave him and Dick Blue dupli-
cate essays on tariff.
He said war was always productive
of good business.
The famine in Ireland he also
thought was great stuff.
"YOu (prOnOuncing it as if it were
spelled y-e-a-i-O-u) can use all the
words you want to, but the tariff is
the only question"
He referred to the sugar trust be-
ing aided by the Wilson bill, but for
got that this great trust grew up en-
tirely under the Mckinley law, and
while the great antitrust law of
which the republicans boast was on
the statutes.
He forgot to mention the fact that
no prosecution was ever made under
this antitrust law until corporation
Attorney General Olney used it
against labor organization.
When he referred to "old mother
PETER" in what he supposed to be
withering scorn the audience hissed.
They would not stand it to have a
little upstart like Chester sneering at
his SuperiOrs. People felt like spank
ing him.
He said i've made sugar free under
the Mckinley BILL" but forgot to
mention the fact that republicans in
congress voted solidly against free
sugar after the Wilson bill had been
passed,
He didn't agree with Blue on ONE
thing. 1t will be remembered that
Blue said there was plenty Of money
in the country as long as you have
anything to sell (and we doubt II
! there was farmer in the audience
out who had wheat to sell)-but
Chester says it don't matter what
price things are if you have nothing
to buy with.
He did not tell how we were to get
that something, however.
Chester says government ownership
means cOnfiscatiOn.
) Chester didn't know anything els,
to say.
He wanted to scare sOmebOdy-bu
he could have saved breath by simply
saying "boohn
! He begged the people to send hin
to congreSs-said Sumner county haC
been loyal to him and he though
patriotism demanded that they sticI
to him.
I He said he had been throughout tn,
J district and found only five men VIII,
, endorsed Lewelling tbut if he hal
called on them, hundred men woult
have risen in the audience to endorsr