The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-29
LETTER FROM COL STEWART
He Writes to Com missioner Harmon From
the Republican National Il eadquarters.

Colonel Milton Stewart, we'll known TO
many people of Sedgwick county as a
man of sterling principles and unwaver-
| ing in his convictions. who is now con-
Eeoted with the national Republican
headquarters at Chicago, writes the fol-
lowing letter to County Commissioner
Harmon, which in explaining itself is
worthy of print:
My Dear Mr.. Harmon: I am pleased
to learn that the Autographs l sent
you have been placed to a good advan-
tage- The posters we are now diStrib-
uting seem TO strike the public fancy as
an object lesson on the issues of the day.
This is a campaign of education. In no
other political contest has there been
the same eagerness manifested to get
down to bottom facts, as the one now
being waged. Instead of campaign
literature being thrust upon the people
they ask for it with the same eagerneSs
that hungry man demands bread The
reason for this is obvious. So insidious
has been the PopuIistic scheme devised
to promote the selfish interests of silver
barons, SO enticing in tine benefits it was
to confer on the struggling masses
through the medium of half value dol
lars, that even some of the very elect
were deceived Its smootheSt and most
dulcet-toned exponent was Coins Finan
cial School. Eighteen months ago
travelling man just in from a western
trip said to me, There are people out
in Kansas by the thousands who actual
ly swallow every statement in that
book Think of it,
Therecan be an education of error, ii
appears, as well as of fact and of truth.
The one of error must sooner or later
go down under the search light Of in
vestigation and to this end, and with
the desired effect becoming each day
more and more apparent, tons and tons
of sound money and tariff literature are
going from these headquarters out
among the people who read, and ponder.
and vote. But a lie travels fastr than
truth can ovTTtake 1T In a period OF
eighteen months or more, Lyman J.
Gage, r. d. Armour, Marshall Field and
other men Of wealth and standing, with
whose names Coin Harvey mas been
playing football have not been able TO
wholly stamp the life out of the hes and
Misrepresentation so deity interviewer
with their names in this romance OF
Standards" written as was Bellamy S
Looking Backward" with the twofoId
their readers and raking in the harvest
of golden sheckehs. But to incorporate
1t in the pages Of the Congressional
Record and then under the frank of an
Nj. c. send this Haunting lie broadcast
over the land as a campaign documen Mt
Is IN fit keeping with the desire and in
tent to make half value do the duty OF
fun value dollars
I sat for three hours last night in the
great Auditorium and listened 10 Gen
erals Howard, Sickles, Alger and others
1t was an inspiring sight to behold six
thousand flags waving in unison with
the deafeuing cheers that mOnen tarily
greeted the veteran orators
OF course General Sickles was the lion
of the occasion He delivered his ad-
dressfrom the extreme outer edge OF the
stage, seated. His remarks were wholly
impromptu and scentellated with germs
borne Of the inspira ton Of the moment,
for instance where ne chsrac terized Mr.
Bryan as a man OF too many vices. As
~ TO apologize for being found in the
company of Republicans on the hust-
inCs and The a Democrat He called
upon all old soldiers present 20 rise to
their feet About 5000 responded; when |