The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-14

| come very soon. for come it must, when
you can't stand this much longer, when
mere viii be day OF reckoning with .nese
| ments enough to give us an income tax.
! and it will be graduated income tax
such as will not only tax the income above
l a certain amount a reasonable percentage
I OF 1t, but, as Ii goes up, the tax itself VIII
go up, and whenever man gets above a
certain amount he Will take all of IL. Cap
| plause)
Socialism, they will cry. Hear that
socialist from South Carolina. Hear that
Anarchist, that Agrarian.
! 1T is simply the damming up OF the
| water Of Indignation and when 1t breaks
loose II will wash things beyond all rea-
| sonable bounds.
There is going to be a new Mason and
start in the mouth of the Chesapeake bay
and run to Chicago by way OF Cincinnati:
| Every Republican and so-called Democrat
a goldbug and every Republican. Demo
\ crat and Populist south and west OF II Is
| going to vote for somebody who is an
| honest friend of the people, let him De
| from whatever party he may. (Applause).
ADAMS AND BUTLER SPEAK
1 Governor Alva Adams of Colorado
| favored union of the west and south
| for silver and the waging OF vigorous
| campaign outside of all party lines.
| He asserted that eleven western states
| stood ready to join. the south In such
| a movement
Marion Butler, the Populist senator
from North Carolina. said the conven-
ton was the most important and re-
markable ever held in this country
from the fact that the question 10 be
considered was of vital interest to ev-
erybody and from the fact that repre-
sentatives of all parties met on equal
| grounds. to leave behind party preju-
dices and vote as one man for one great
cause-free silver.
The speaker announced that he was
a thoroughgoing Populist and believed
the government should own the rail-
roads and steamships but did not want
them to own them while the Rothschilds
and other money kings owned the gov
eminent Mr.. Butler said the biggest
plank in the Populist platform was the
silver plank, that the party increased
200 per cent last year and would increas
400 per cent next year.
The North Carolina senator spoke at
an unfavorable time. The crowd had
been deluged with a flood OF oratory
all day and it was somewhat tired,
but it accorded him respectful hear
ing ard then took a recess until even
ing.
NIGHT SESSION.
Congressman Bankhead of Alabama
presided at the evening session. He in
troduced General A. j. Warner of Ohio
who declared that any man who says
silver was demonetiZed with the full
knowledge of the people of the United
States. simply lies.
You can disentomb all the traitors
whose lives are written in history and
all can give better reason for their
trarorous deeds than can the senator
from Ohio for his action on the financial
question"
He insisted that the silver question
was the most important before the
people and that free coinage must be
carried. whether within party lines or
not. but he asked no one to leave hos
party. He said he had no doubt Sher-
man and Cleveland would vote the
same ticket next year.
William j. Bryan of Nebraska. the
next speaker, in the course of his re-
marks said: "Populists will not envy
you Republicans who follow the fam
Gus motto of your martyred president.
government of the people. for the peo-
pie and by the people, and win victo-