The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-06-09

4 The secret or MS reiIldIhdOlc power anu
strength is that he sprung from the
| people Every Republican leader sprang
| from the people. Abraham Lincoln
was so obscure that he didn't know
much about himself. L. S: Grant was
a tanner boy. Henry Wilson was a
| shoemaker. Garfield and Sheridan trod
| the toe path of a canal, and Oliver P
Morton told me with his own lips that
the proudest moment OF his life was
when he entered his own town at the
head OF band when ne was a hatter's
apprentice. The Republican party mas
always been in active sympathy and
co-opera ton with the masses. This is
peoples year. They are fatigued with
cabals, intrigues and Vaccinations.
They are aroused and they exemplify
the fact that this government is based
on public opinion. Great reproaches
and scandals come from the neglect
or the people. l believe in senators be-
ing elected by the people. That right
was taken away from the people by
those who distrusted the capacity Of the
people. It was an outrage. In Ken
lucky the militia was called out because
Of the rivalry of candidates for the Uni
ted States senate. There would be no
necessity for that if the people had the
power to elect them directly I would
vote to abolish the antiquated, clumsy
and superfuous system This is one of
the planks Of the Omaha platform, but
it is right and we shall new
er have cleansed and purified
natoriai elections until it is
accomplished Until then the people
should do the next best thing and vote
for honest men VINO VIII prove honest
when it comes TO electing a United
States senator.
Il believe the majority Of the people OF
all parties are honest. I believe they
are sincerely patriotic or otherwise the
government, which rests on the honesty
and patriotism Of the people, could not
endure.
You will remember that was thrown
into the atmosphere five years ago.
Nothing animate or inanimate has been
tossed so high as I was since the cow
jumped over the moon. I was kicked
so high that am not quite sure whether
1 have returned to earth. I have never
yet uttered a word of personal condem-
nation for that act The majority Of
Populists are honest, but wretchedly
misguided. believe a great many OF
them are patriotic, but their leaders are
though Populism is in the decline the
causes that brougt ii into life still exist.
It is the duty of the Republican party
to deal with and remedy them; if not,
some other party will.
'In my younger days I was unjustly
accused of having made some harsh
observations about the Democratic par
ty. l have said a great many things
about that organization that have for
gotten and great many things that I
have wished other fellows would have
forgotten. I have been made to say a
great many things that l never said
and have failed to say a great many
things that I should have said. l have
said things of learning, meaning and
thunder sound. It is my observation
now that I could not have said things
toe mean about the organization.
couldn't help il, for I have yet found
no dictionary containing the necessary
explosives to do justice to that body and
when l reflect on its record during the
past four years I am astonished at my
own moderation. 1 was proceeding to
remark-(here the lights went out)-in
words that put out the lights-(great
applause and laughter at the pleasant
witicism)-that that incohesive, incorri-
gible incoherent organization known as
the Democratic party is responsible for
all the vice, incapacity, ignorance, stu
pidity and assaninity with which this
country is politically afflicted. Not a
day passes but the world witnesses some
triumph Of Democratic policy. Banks
are burst, railroad goes into the hands
of a receiver, merchants fail, some fur
mace fire is eXtinguished or some dis
abled veteran soldier goes lettering TO
the aims house. When I reflect on all
these things and on the number of men
who tramp along the wayside begging
for bread I cannot see how it is posi-
bic for any good citizen to longer re-
main in that organization. What have
they got for all the party promises
four years of free trade and the repeal
Of the Sherman silver bill. Labor has
learned that they can get no wages for
fabrics made in a foreign country and
sold in American markets. If labor has
no money 1t makes no difference to him
how cheap the necessities of life are.
Laboring people see this and that is the
reason why they want Mckinley. No
prosperity is fixed and constant that is
not based on constant work and labor
1 share nothing in the enmity that exists
between the rich and the poor. l Ike
greatness and renown, but I believe in
the common people and 1 say as one
sprung from the common people that
we can have no permanent prosperity
that does not come from the common
people. I have in my library at home the
anvil which my grandfather worked on
and when think of the plowshares, and
the hoes. the hammers and the shovels,
the spades and the axes that he made
and the purpose for which he made them
l cannot fail TO respect and reverence
the dignity of labor-the labor that the
rustic neighbors Of New England per-
formed with these instruments
Il have grown rigid in my protection
views. I used 10 be little bit elastic
that way until I saw the ruin brought
upon this country by Democratic free
trade or their so-called revenue tariff.
We want 70 sell more corn and less
bonds in this country. As looked over
the country and its grand prophecy Of
fertility as I came over from Newton
marveled TO think that that beautiful
valley which is not intrinsicaIly Of less
value to day than ii was four years ago,
is practically not worth more than the
price Of presumption. They talk of over
production. There j. no overproduction
so long a there is a hungry man 10 feed.
They mi ght as well say because lot OF
people are barefooted there is an over
production Of shoes. Could my views
prevail I would protect the American
loberer as well as Americanism
labor. I believe in America and the
markets Of the world have lost all their
charms for ne"
The ex-senator then told about his
visit 10 Chicago during the great strike.
He wanted 70 see things as they ex-
listed. and asked a guardian OF the
peace II he could so into the strike dis
.T,-tstS with sa S1rv al the same tine