The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-29

| hit brought down the house and went clear
| to the hearts of the unfortunate prisoners
underneath, who would like to be with
Coxey or any other deliverer. Pat then slow
| ly resurrected from his pocket an Anheuser.
Busch knife with a corkscrew attachment,
converted it into gavel and restored the
| order that was disordered by his own witty
remark. 1t may, in truth, be said thai
| the meeting was opened by corkscrew.
A secretary was now the cry.
| ing need and at this point the crowd
put up a job on the EAGLE by insisting
| on its reporter taking that Office. A speech
| is never expected from secretary, but on
| this occasion the crowd wanted one and
wanted it bad. He said he did not sympa-
| thize with the Coxey movement and thus
dropped into Oblivion during tho remain
der of the meeting
Isaac P. Campbell, the prophet OF the
meeting had not yet arrived, and the
crowd desiring a speech called voclfer-
ously for Colonel Nicholas Bro. Colonel
| Birds blue eye reflected the light OF an
| indignant soul as his smooth head raised
of the judicial bench. The tyranny
and injustice of legislation that
ground him down until his in
come is only about $50 day
had aroused his passion to an intense heat
and the words he uttered would, under
certain atmospheric conditions, shake
even the capitol at Washington. He IN
dorsed the Coxey movement from Seattle
to Maryland, and thought the idea itself
was an inspiration. He said he was an ex-
Democrat, but WAS against Cleveland, the
stuffed prophet of Wall street, and SAID
further of that gentleman, that ne had
the character of Ananias, the treachery of
Judas 1scariot, and WAS as great II Grim
inal as Barabas. This was just the stuff
the crowd wanted, aud they cheered for
several minutes. Colonel Nicholas then
recited some stories about Admiral Mel
sons fighting qualities and the
virtues contained IN an Irish
shelalah. He wanted to see the
army surge into Washington and lay their
claims before the gold-bug chief.
After talking nearly an hour Colonel
Bird guessed that he had talked enough,
and surrendered to j. 2. Campbell.
Mr.. Campbell was in revolutionary
mood when ne mounted the stand and the
first thing of any note that lie did was to
call the man who wrote something in the
Kansas City Times about him a liar. a
villain and everything else but horse
thief. He then made IA rousing Populist
speech, after which he presented the reso-
lutious. When he came TO the section
ditch between Dakota and Great Bend
he WAS loudly applauded by every
body In the room but Bllderback.
Bilderback Indignantly opposed the &C
tion and said irrigation bitches were the
ruination of Kansas. He said he was here
% years and that the country was ruined
since the irrigation bitches were built out
west. 81 saw the time" said he, "that
you could drive steamboat up the Ar
kansas river: now sir,you cant drive a duck
up through it. l am opposed, eternally
and eyerlastingly opposed to irrigation
bitches" Pat Healy tried to make him
believe that the irrigation ditch, Mr..
Campbell proposed would if practicable,
put more water in the Arkansas river by
draining the Missouri"
"Whar IN the HI would the Missouri
people do" said voice in the audience.
When the hub-bub which this remark
precipitated had subsidized, Bilderback was
ON his feet again and be was hot. 81 don't
want the water of the Missouri" said
he, 81 want our own water"
l don't want any foreign water that the
people are not acclimated to. Here new
difficulty arose. Pat Healy said that
Great Bend was higher than Dakota and
that in some places the ditch would have
to be dug 1000 feet deep. You mean
. 600 feet high" said some one in the au-
dience. NO" said Pat, II mean 1000
feet deep aud I'll stick to it. Why, man"
said he, there are SEINE places in Kansas
1900 feet above the level of the sea-"
BY this time CoXey and his army had
been forgotten and an irrigation conven-
ton was in fall blast.
District Clerk kies wanted to retire ths
meeting to lis originality and moved to
have the irrigation ditch paragraph
stricken out. Bilderback seconded the
motion with emphasis. Colonel Jocelyn
Nx.I al 80. H. Il
advocated not only the resolution but
more of it. He thought that the dig
ging of an irrigation ditch from Dakota 10
Great Bend would not cost the govern
menG cent, He stated that the govern
ment is spending millions of dollars on the
levees on the south Mississippi to prevent
the annual overflow. He said that an irri-
CATION ditch would not only relieve the
south Mississippi by diverting the water
of the Missouri IN another direction, but
that it would also divert the money ex-
pended to the west. Has any fool got
anything to say to this" said the colonel.
The Crowd understood that this remark
was addressed TO Mr.. kies, and loud
shouts of ''hit him again" were heard from
all portions Of the room.
Oil was thrown upon the troubled waters
of the irrigation ditch by Colonel Bird
who called for the gu stion. Mr.. kies'
motion received black eye and the sec
ton of the resolution relating to the irri-
CATION ditch was passed unanimously to
the great disgust of Mr.. Bilderbsch who,
evidently, has an unconquerable dislike To
Missouri river water.
A little superanuated old man named
Boughton wanted the meeting to resolve
that the Wilson tariff bill was a fraud.
Pat Healy inquired whether he included
that part of il which related 10 the in
come tax and then the old man drfted
into the question of issuing of bonds
Finally the old man was invited to make
an hours speech on the tariff
and he promptly responded. The
old gentleman proceeded to make red
hot anti-Coxey Republican speech aud the
Pops began TO snore and say come off the
perch until the old man was called off.
Fred Glenn then wanted the meeting to
put in resolution about the Union Pacific
railroad steal and frauds. aud with the as
sistance of |. p. Cam pbell he succeeded in
having it done.
At 10 o'clock Judge Stratton was called
10 the forum aud he was making his
speech when the EAGLE reporter left.
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