People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-09-17
SENATOR BURROWS SPEECH.
A Review Of the Arguments Made and Their
Inconsistencies Punctured.

vertising had been thoroughly done
and the fame of Senator Burrows
should have called out a far larger
audience than it did. 1t must give
poor confidence to the enthusiasm Of
our Republican friends to find the
crowd to hear two Kansas citizens,
twice as large as the one to hear the
first lieutenant Of the Gear" Tom
Reed OF the house. But our Repub-
liCan friends are indeed funny. When
the crowd was gathering we heard one
enthusiastic Republican remark to
another, well, we're not all dead
yet" We wondered if this was the
kind of consolation they were giving
each other when they thought no bar
barian ears could hear, yet one of
them afterward went out and talked
about the bigl?) crowd. You can't
always tell a Republicans feelings by
the way he talks
The crowd filed the wigwam quite
full, The meeting opened with music
by the Winfield and Wellington bands.
The music by the Wellington band
called forth fine compliment from
Senator Burrows. Mayor Savage was
next introduced by Chairman Elliott
and delivered an excellent and happy
address of welcome to the distin-
guiShed senator in behalf of the cOun-
ty of Sumner, and the city of Yelling
ton. He assured the senator that
there was gathered before him as in
telligent, as loyal and as moral a peo-
pie as he would find anywhere in the
world. He pointed out to him that
these prairies were the home of the
buffalo and red man less than three
decades ago. He assured the senator
that we all realized that something
was wrong, and that the burning QueS-
tion was the one prOpounded centM-
les ago to the Savior of men,-"what
must we do to be sayed?" He said the
senator was here TO tell US what to do
from his standpoint, and we would all
listen. He further assured the sena-
tor that EanSaS was loyal and patri-
ctic, and would gracefully abide by
the result, whatever it should be this
year,
Senator Burrows was then very nice
ly introduced to the audience by Hon.
Chas. Elliott.
The senator is man of fine appear
ance and his voice is pleasing to all
who hear it, His address was a mast
erly effort for one in behalf of mod
ern Republicanism. He spoke in a
calm and confident manner, discuss
ing in greater part, the issues, his
method and manner putting to shame
the billingSgate and rantlngs of his
party conpeers Of the Potter stripe
who had preceeded him.
The senator started out by accept
ing the statements Of Mayor Savage
that something was radically wrong.
He depicted as completely as any Pop
ulist, the conditions Of the country.
1t was amusing to see many Republi-
cans applaud these indictments of our
condition, who cheered with equal
emphasis, the condemnation Of these
same true statements made two and
four years ago by Populists. But they
are like their leaders-great on party;
poor on facts, But the senator was
shrewd and placed all these conditions
as happening since 1892. In fact the
basis of his entire speech was summed
up in the statement that we we're
never more prosperous than in 1892.
The memory Of man Is not so short
as to fail to recall the conditions of |
1892. lie failed to recount the con-
dition Of the laborer-that we had two
million tramps, and a constantly in
creasing amount Of business failures. |
We all remember the war at Home
stead, when the Pinkertons and Penn
sylvania militia were called out to |
suppress labor In a strike that was
made for the purpose of resisting a |
cut below living wages. We also re-
member that farm products were low.
er than they had ever been since the
war That mortgages were plastered
all over the agricultural states, and
tnat interest was accumulating at a
fearful rate on the debts of the peo-
pie. But the Senator had to make out
his case and was compelled to yindi-
cate his party, and thus he had to
start with fallacy for fact. The
PopuliSt party was born out of the
necessities of the people, caused by
the conditions they had to come un.
DER during the Republican admins
Ntrations, and under Republican poll
tics, but the Senator was too wise to
ADMIT such fact, and then to contin-
ue 70 argue for his party. His pre-
mise was insincere. Never was an in
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