The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-04

| Hoffman Talks.
With a great big live eagle perched
high above their heads- the Oklahoma
con tingent passed. north last night en-
route to Chicago.
Colonel Leslie Niblack, editor Of the
Guthrie Leader was in charge of the
bird of freedom.
Last week bushy bearded squatter
| from the Sac and Fox country drove
into Guthrie with q live eagle tied 70
his wagon box and the first place he
stopped at was the Leader Office.
Don't you want to buy an eagle?"
| he said TO Editor Niblack-
Il CUES not" said Colonel Leslie. I'VE
get it inexchange every morning and
it is the best paper in the west"
II don't mean the Wichita Eagle,
said the farmer. Il mean real live
eagle"
WELL" said Leslie ''if you don't think
the Wichita Eagle is as live bird as
you can find in this hemisphere you
don't know much.
But you misunderstood me-, con-
tinued the farmer. Il men that have
a genuine eagle with feathers on II and
beak and a scream and claws and
wings. l caught il out in the Fox
country
Leslie looked into the wagon box and
sure enough saw there a live eagle bird.
How much?'' he said.
Seven cents a pound" said the Tar
mer.
Great Scott" said Leslie. Seven
cents a pound for American eagles?
What is the country coming 10. l want
TO tell you, sir, that am patriot and
don't want 10 buy my eagles by the
pound. Take ten dollars for ii and shut
your mouth"
The farmer was fairly paraayzed- He
said that was enough and turned the
property over to the editor.
Colonel Niblack called q convention
of his friends, including the supreme
court, the governor and his staff, the
United States attorney and marshal,
Roy Hoffman, Otto Beckmeyer, Attor-
ney General GaIbraith, Ed Jones and
ala the big fellows and propounded the
solemn proposition to them what TO do
with the eagle.
Take him to Chicago" said Roy
Hoffman, land when Silver Dick is
nominated turn him loose in the con-
vention and let him soar alOft in the
hall and to the ceiling as an emblem OF
an honest American silver dollar"
That is just what Leslie will do.
When a reporter for the Eagle met
him last night at the train he appeared
ON the platform Of the Pullman with a
thirty dollar night shirt on and said.
This is my mascot. This is the bird
that is now screaming IN New York. In
an hour from now he will be screaming
all over America. the land Of the free
and the home of the brave. In an hour
from now we will have the Fourth Of
July and I propose to turn him loose in
the car. If any man is cranky enough
to object we have enough patriots from
Oklahoma to throw him out the win
dow and give a job to some genuine
American coroner. 1 am proud of my
bird. / am an American and for the dol
lar of our daddies. l want this bird not
only TO typify liberty. but L want it TO
typify an honest dollar and not a
chance 20 steal IL back to earn it. When
my friend Dick Bland is nominated at
Chicago. l Will throw this bird into the
atmosphere of the convention and let
the good people of America see that Ok
Iahoma is patriotic. But, sir, / don't
want to monopolize your time. Here is
my friend Roy Hoffman, whom a great
many of the people of Oklahoma, in
GLIDING Judge McAtee, wants for con-
gress. Listen TO his elegant tongue for
a minute or two.
AZ have nothing TO say" said Roy,
but that am not candidate for con-
gress. want my friend Temple Hous-
ton for congress. He is the man We
all want"
How about free silver in oklaho-
MAJ"
If the Democrats at Chicago declare !
for free silver IS to 1 we will set the |
prairies of Oklahoma on fire. They !
can say anything they please provid- |
ing they say free silver at a ratio of |
Is to / They can pass a resolution |
iustifying the cruciflxion of our Saw |
or and it vii not hurt US provided they |
say they are straight out for free silver
"Who will the Oklahoma people be |
for?"
They will be for Silver Dick Bland !
They are instructed for him and we |
propose 70 have him nominated"
'Is 10 WHISKY for Bland ?"
81 guess so. 10 is a Nissourian. |
When Oklahoma declared for Bland 10 /
wrote a letter 20 Senator Vest saying /
hat through his efforts the indorse- |
nent of Bland was secured. OF /
course Senator Vest Acknowledged his /
ettsr thanking him as any man would
lave done. 10 is showing that letter
among his friends and they all say 10
Wisely is in it. / want 10 say 10 you
hat 10 is not in il. He let the band
wagon get away from him about thirty
minutes before he could make up his /
mind whether he would board IL or not /
Poor 10 is a back number. He is in the
CUP. His name Is Dennis IN bold 1
lack face capital letters. Oklahoma
VIII be represented at Chicago with
III him"
so you won't be a candidate for con
,ress?"
mo, as you are aware. I was the first
nan to mention Temple Houston for I
hat place. He IS my friend and I an
lis friend. 1 am for him first, last
nd all the time"
The boys were very enthusiastic over
he prospects and they didn't realize
hat the band wagon that they talked
Q much about viii run after them this
ear and fiatten them out like PAN
axes. Dennis Flynn. che little giant.
7ill be IN that hand wagon. He viii
walk over Temple Houston when the