The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-26

! for that They wanted TO hear what
| he had to say.
MIR. Vermilion said it took a good deal
! 10 interest him in meeting like this.
He was now paying all the taxes he
wanted to pay and was opposed to any
movement that would compel him to
pay more He had never supposed
: that anybody was in earnest about TINS
matter until he read report IN the
/ Eagle of a former meeting ana that
had caused him to awake 20 the I'M
! portance of the situation, ana when ne
} read the bill in Sundays Eagle which
! il was proposed to have the Legislature
/ pass it Just knocked him silly.
! Mt Eermilion then proceeded To roast
! the proposed bin to Z nice brown I'M
| ish. He said if that bill ever becaIre
! law that under it the officers or the
Wichita and Southeastern railroad could
/ issue bonds and collect half million
/ dollars off Sedgwick county ana never
/ build a foot of the road
He told of one county over IN MIS-
! souri, that had tried that experiment
and the county commissioners were
kept constantly in jail 70 force them
! to levy a, tax TO pay for something they
/ never got. He did not want any ex-
/ perience that kind in Sedgw1ch
! county.
Mr.. Vermillion offered a number or
resolutions which were very radical
( but the meeting adopted them ana
/ Secretary Dyer took them up 10 his OIL
| fee and deposited them in the stove
E. l., keenan, was the next speaker
and he said the time was when the
/ business men OF this town followed
! certain leaders wherever they pro-
nosed to lead. but it was now time To
I call a halt. He was told to vote Tor tne
Rock Island bonds, that that roao
would solve the rate question. he had
1- hut -
/ ton was not solved by any means. He
/ said this idea Of solving the rate ques-
/ ton by building a railroad from Nich-
| ita down To the Indian territory was
! too foolish for serious consideration
d II. Brown had d, speech which he
J intended TO deliver but ne was TOO
Z much Disguised with this proposition
| 70 deliver il in a becoming manner.
I re therefore entered r vigorous pro-
/ test against the proposition and sat
/ down.
! Colonel Nicholas Bird was called for
and responded with vengeance. Col
! onel Nicholas is a Populist orator and
! he said when he read the report Oh
! the meeting in this same council cham
/ Der last Friday night in Saturday
mornings Eagle, he drought II was
fake. Colonel Nicholas then proceeded
+ 70 smash the reporters for the Eagle
I in a very uncermonious manner he
Z thought the reporters were Trying 10
put life and energy into the Wichita
and Southeastern railroad when II new
+ er had any life in il.
Colonel Nicholas Bird then proceeded
} 70 give his reasons for not wanting any
more railroads and railroad bonds. He
. said times were too hard he then
I gave it as his firm conviction that II a
I PROPOSE ton was made to build a rail =
road TO he'll and 10 put Grover Cieve-
land on the tender, he thought every
man in this county would vote for the
( proposition. The uprOar which fol-
/ lowed put stop 10 any further spea X
ing. The thing had now become ridi-
/ c1ilorls and a resolution WIS adopted 10
2 the effect that our representatives in
4 me legislature oppose any law giving
( the people Of SedSwick county a
I chance to vote on any railroad propo-
! sition.
! Ii was proposed tohave ali in favor
( OF the resolution sign il and have the
/ secretary send IL 10 our representatives,
( in the legislature. The following names
were signed:
! T. q. Parham. W. w Pea-ce, John
/ s. Newsletter. George l. Mum. ". r.
/ Tucker. 7. L Bowdish. r z. Guthrie.
+ Or. George F. Lewis, II n Dewey,
4 Charles LariT1ar J. w Dean. W H
WendeTly o. n Mulvey. H r. fuller.
4 W. 5. Coreett. J. l.. Dyer John McCor-
mick II. ". Lewis, b l. Keenan,. J. c
Milton. e c.. Robertson. J. \. Windsor,
]. 3. Carey. D. a Mitchell. h Il Aid