The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-10-16
AGE OF REASON.
How The People CT Western Kansas
Accept Sound Doctrine.

Special Dispatch tothe Da ~ Eagle
GARDEN CITY, Kau, Oct l3-Yesterday
Captain p II. Coney OF Topeka appeared
before the camp fire Of the veterans OF
Finney county III an address on pensions
and was greeted by multitude of old SOL
diers of the western counties who had Pc
titioned for his coming and who were as
sembled ready 10 receive and hear him.
His address was a most complete eye
opener as to the methods of this admlDis-
tration in their visitation OF Georgia
rule" on the pension roll.
A long and continuous experience of
many vearys with the United States PEN
sion office and familiarity with the enact
ment and construction of pension laws
made Captain Coney's address appear as
the speaking of one having authority. and
many an old soldier whose mind has been
filled with wonder at the ineXpiicable de-
lays of action on his pending claim, had
his vision cleared by the discourse and
there was little doubt left in the minds of
Captain Coney's audience of the real OBJ
ject of this administrat on to purge the
pension roll until pbysic was no longer
efficacious.
At the close of the captains address the
boys discovered ex Senator ingalls,. who
had just arrived in the city, partly hidden
amongst the scenery on the stage and loud
whoops, whistles and shouts for "Ingails"
brought him TO the front. In short de-
scription of visit through the southern
states and the feelings of their people AZ
expressed by many and costly monuments,
erected to commemorate the lost couse,
fastened the impression made by Captain
Coney as to the true purpose of the Georgia
pension met bod.
This afternoon Mr.. Ingalls, delivered a
political address. The city streets crowd
ed with visitors from every way indicated
that those who wished 10 eat at the feast
must be early at the table. Nor was the
indication wrong for everybody well knows
the condition of thingswhen ingalls, speaks.
1t is needless TO say that his oratory was
revelation to those hearing him for the
first time and an event to all. The necessi
ty of catching a train called him away be-
fore he reached the issues of finance, tariff
and immi grAtion.
In the evening the opera house WAS early
filled to the door. The stage, aisles and
galleries were filed with chairs which were
quickly occupied. Stnudlng room was at
premium and the stairway to the Ell
trance was cboked.
When Chester l. Long made his appear
ance there occurred a connection of ap-
plause that made the room tremble and
through more than two hours speech, in
which he exclusively handled every sub
ject of the campaign, there was an earnest
attention, broken only by cheers and ap-
plause, that Was significant of the fact
that the people of this region are beginning
to realize that the real responsibility of
bad government and corrupt and iucap-
able officials rests upon the individual, on
the people who vote, and that the only
way out" is to carry out the doctrines of
the great men who have built aud pre-
served the Republican party, and that it
is futile to look to parties whose leaders
have been guilty of treachery, brutality,
and
publication of American politics. This
seemed to be the general impression made
on the vast tbrong who tonight listened to
Mr.. Longs powerful exposition and mas
terry analysis of the character of the meas
ures and men of the present political
parties. The audience represented fair
share of all political parties.