The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-03
INGALLS, is ABSENT
his IRIDEsCEEOE DOES NOT ADoRN
THE MILLION CLUB.
Snowbound Somewhere Up I'm Wisconsin
the Grafton of the Evening IL Not
Heard where the Representatives of
Kansas Send Forth Her Praises-Bnrton
Presents to the Chicagoans the Unriv-
lled Career OF the Sunf1ower State and
Her BoundIess Resources

Chicago, Dec kansas greeted Chi
cago tonight. The speakers OF the
evening displayed Kansas in all hel
glory and showed Chicagoans that
treasurers were lying not far away in
the west waiting TO be garnered.
The one disappointment Of the even
ing was the non-appearance OF John J.
ingalls,. He was to have been the or
ator of the occasion. But John J. In
gals did not come. He telegraphed
that he was snowbound somewhere in
Wisconsin and that he could not pos
sibly reach Chicago in time for the
Kansas meeting.
The Kansas meeting was arranged by
the Kansas Million club. which was or
gained with the sole idea Of bringing
a million persons to the Sunfower state
Governor E N Morrill, was on the
platform and he II was who led the
praises Of his state. With the governor
on the platform were J. r. Burton.
and other SuHfower orators, whose tell
ing remarks were greeted with ire
mendous applause; f, Stanley, the state
school superintendent, and ]. W. Beck
man, ". G. Edwards. the secretary of
the state of Kansas; W. T. Trice. J. 6.
Emory, the irrigation lecturer, and r.
Wilder the treasurer of the Santa Fe
road
Franklin Fl. Head introduced Govern
or Morrill, briefly and the chief execu-
tive Of Kansas began to sound the
praises Of the Sunfiower state. He said
that fertile lands were awaiting those
who wished to seek new homes where
ha
they would not be worried by the land
lord who always had an Unsuitable ap-
petite for rent.
MISTAKES ABOUT KANSAS.
MANY mistakes have been made
about the financial standing of Kansas
continued the governor, (which the
Million club wishes to overcome and
set right, The club wishes TO put be-
fore the people a. true. honest state
ment Of facts and of resources Of this
state and we are all united for the
same object
kansas has suffered tremendously
on account Of the panic Of 1893 TTp to
that time immigra ton was brisk and
many secured homes in the state and
many were looking forward to a. happv
and prosperous career. The trouble
came through the ease in borrowing
money we got money too easily from
eastern investors and that was the rea-
son why there We're so many homeless
Kansas people when the panic came.
The financial pressure was felt more
severely in Kansas because the people
depend on the land and the land de-
ponds on the rainfall The western
part will not he available for cnltiva-
ton unless under new methods of irri-
cation. Then It will become the home
of thousands of happy and prosperous
people"
The governor told them of the growth
hnd history Of the state. He said that
In 1861, Kansas had no state institu-
fions. Now It had a splendid state
house, a state university. hospitals and
home for old oldiers and old soldiers
orphans The entire state indebted
ness, he declared. was but $3.50. 900. OF
which S43S.000 was held as the school
fund. Kansas was not full Of suffering
and starvation, but full of wideawake
people. who wanted others to join them
In building up a great state.