Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-07-03
THE McKIN tkKI

lated announcing grand Mckinley cele-
bration to be held in G arnett, July ed. Every
effort was made 0 get crowd in town. Sen
ator Baker, Dick. Blne and Jack Harris were
announced speakers.
Well, the day cal lie. Two places-Alec
Johnson's office and the sheriff's office-were
decorated with flags--o My two.
Iudee Brown was >mmittee of one to meet
the speakers at the trai n He gave them the
freedom of the sidewal k and csc orted them to
the hotel.
When night came, The band played one
niece, the small boys made considerable noise
with ire-crackers, and two young men footed
with tin horns.
There were less than dozen farmers on hand
TO hear the speeches, and the Gro wd was made
ND of town people, a majority of whom
women and children or the men present,
many were Populsts and Democrats.
The first speaker introduced was Dick Blue
the bank wrecker. Dick talked tarif-tarih-
tariff. He said tariff THE issue of this
campaign. He probably would not have said
anything OH the money question if Capt. John
r. Foster, of the First National Bank had not
nut few questions to the speaker, who tried to
orswer some of them but when he found he
could not answer them all, he resorted to rdi-
cule of the Captain and all other silver men.
He denounced Teller and his fellow bolters as
traitors to the government than Bene-
, dict Arnold. Blue told his hearers nothing
new, but threshed over the straw that the Re-
i publicans have threshed over for many years.
{ Il was certainly very thin speech, and excited
little applause, except from the speakers
stand where Alec Johnson sat and gave the
Y SIGNAL for cheers and hand-capping,
: The second speaker was Jack Harris cano''
G date for congress- His speech was short, Dut
# FIJI, Of calamity howls He told of the millions
J. Of uneu,p]oyed men, and said lie wanted to give
It them all employment, but did not state how Ne
o would 90 about it. He said he was nahke''
v inf thouqbt that ought not to keep RReplpl'f-
g s1,s from voting for him.
If Both speakers acknowledged that farm pro-
J. ducts are low, bat they saq we need never eX,
~ pect them to be higher. They} q eonFstl saw
- 5TcKinlev,s election would bring good times
- but did not tell us how the farmers Woum e., 50
s. perience those good times VIII 1ep'ift''0A''
~ prices. ,,,n f,r
ID We have not time or space to give any ~
H. ther repo,t Of the great(?) ratification.
-, This morning, We ,earn that some eggs were
=, thrown toward Blue while hs va sppeakkln1g
~ ;;.:t they we're thrown from distanree aug lef
re shor, Of i,leir mark. One egg struck lazy
who who was IL Tie qqaitesice. While this shoWet
ee KIT tile egg .throwers we're p9t - sympathy
~ VIII, the shaker, it was very Poor Wayy r. e
&c nr es ii tbeip disqpsqyql Sucl practices aI'
Nc not to be condoneG Chose w'tG Is net ca'1Fe
listen to speaker should stay away;
es The redeelnefs are not at all enthusiastic
IS. over the result of their ratification
a. -
,,s TaE following from the Kansas City Gazette
mt George w. Mastin's paper, don't look nue.
a, like the election of the goidtbag BARKER, ]acl
= Harris in the Second district, to congress "
of fall: 1.-THE nomination of Mason S. Peters 10
CONGRESS- bv the topplist and Democratic con
venntons at OTTAWA was highly q atitylns to tn
oeople of Wyandotte county He is an hores
m and reputable business man, popular in the CIR
ed Gle of his business qeqqalntanees which IN
rty ciudes the stockplen and farmers not 0Hty
lat the Second district, but of the state OF kansas
Ina He is a man of ability and education, and
tireless and indomitable worker. He is ma
of clean character. We think it safe to sa
I'VE Wvandotte county will give him two thousan
as: majority, and since the bal,ot-box stuihng ha
ID. been = sui,,1eyseded Ky the eegant and retine
die tissue ballot, II may go HaHc fafs1f tHe tt.ts
- for the wrecker is making his work tell '''T
IT is claimed by the Capital that Dick Blu
~ is much sought after for his 'mastefY' eEpes
len iton of the financial question. No doubt, M
IL