The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-10
SHOTS THAT TELL
STRONG AND ELOQUENT PLEA FOR
FLYNN AND FREE HOMES.

Judge A. r.. MuselIer's Perry Speech Deals
With the Only Issue of the Campsign
Which Affects oklahoma - Folly OF
Regarding the Financial OF Other Views
of a Delegate who Cannot Affect Fin
anciaI Legislation When Man is Al
ready at Hand Who Can Bring Free
Homes.
Perry. o. T., Oct. 9.-The following
able. eloquent and convincing speech
in favor OF free homes and chance 10
get them was delivered by Judge Mus
eller Of the probate court TO an enthu-
siastic audience here Saturday night
ana was applauded throughout as each
telling shot hit the mark. Judge Mus
eller said:
Remembering that we are a territory
and will remain so for some time to
come. under even the most favorable
auspices, and remembering, too, that
our delegate in congress has no vote
and not even a right to speak upon the
floor OF the house except 20 discuss
questions affecting his territory and Its
interests. / ask IN all seriousness for
getting partisanship for the moment:
What is the real issue Of this campaign?
What IS of more consequence to the
people Of this territory, and particularly
to the people of the strip, than all other
questions twice over combined? Now,
honor bright, beyond the preadventure
Of a doubt ii is the question of free
homes. Like BanCUo'S ghost, II VIII
not down. All the sophistry Of fusion
cannot eradicate it. All the resolutions
and combinations of deceiving and I'M
principaled politicians cannot efface 1t
from the tablet Of the memory of the
honest settler. In spite of all the or
PLANTATIONS effected, and the unholy al
uaaces made without number by those
who have no Personal interest in this
matter. the question Of free homes tow
ers above all others in sublime and ma
terfal significance. as fike Mount Chin
borazo towers above the surrounding
peaks of the mighty Andes mountains.
REMEMBER HOKE SMITH.
And here and now, when the noOntide
Of this bitter campaign is on, ! wish to
appeal to hOmeSteaders as ! never have
before, and beg the men and the women
Of the Cherokee strip to remember the
man vino has remem bered them: wanl
you to remember how strong Is the love
Of home in the Anglo-Saxon heart: l
want you TO remember all the sacTii-
ces you made to get that home; / want
you TO remember the tender ties of
years of association that you willingly
broke IN order that you might enter
this land; / want you 10 remeber the
wife and children you left behind in
hot,
might be endangered in the mighty race
you saw was coming: / want You to
remember your lying in wait in the dirt
and dust and terrible heat, day after
day, in line before the Democratic
booths awaiting your turn 10 get a GER
tif1cate Of good horal character and a
Democra tic ticket-of-leave to enter the
promised land; I want you To rememb Der
the thousand inconveniences of that
awful time; l want you to remember
the final day, the lining up, the wei
come sound of the signal gun, and
over and above all, the mad, wild race
that followed. / want you to remem-
Der how you staked that claim on the
hot September afternoon and protected
It against all new Corners.
WHEN YOUR FOLKS CAME ON.
'"I want You to remember when you
sent for the family of your heart for
which all of these efforts had been
made; I want you to remember not only
the care and protection that was lost
10 them while you was absent from
home, but the privations and hardships
which, conformity with you, they under
went after they came to you upon the
prairie home. All, yes, too. want you
to remember the little grave dug by
kind but strange hands in the sod Of
the prairie in the school lanl hard by,
where nothing but the wild flowers
grew and in which lies at rest the rose
bud of a little life that was as dear to
you as the petted child Of fortune in
the gilded palace of the rich. I want
you to remember in this campaign that
Il might have lived but for the condi-
tons Of that time. / want you to re-
member how the little one left You and
me WIFE. claimed as a. bride way back
! the sunny days when the tToth was
.irst pledged you, can each say with
loving pride. This is our home
THE STRUGGLE TO KEEP.
Il want you to remember all of these
things, and, remembering them. forget.
f you can, the labor of Dennis IT. Flynn
for you and for that home want YOU !
to remember a still darker picture that
GOO often flashed athwart the vision of
your neighborhood. while naighbor
fought with neighbor. bitterly and IN
relentingly. until death ended the etrug-
gle and the hight of another life went
out in a struggle for home. And then. |
want you 70 remember the work YOU |
have done upon the farm. the fences You
have built with your own hands per
chance in your totteing old age, the |
trees you have planted and all the other
things with your own individuality /
marking and loving them all and for
get then. If you can. the man who above /
all others has made It possible for these |
things and the form Itself TO he free
unto you and yours. I want you 10 re- !
member that II was the Dennis r.
Flynn free homes bill that passed the !
house of represen tat ves. the man OF |
GOO. J. Y. Callahan. 10 the contrary
notwithstanding. 1 want you to re-
member that was the inspiring genius |
of your delegate IN congress in making /
~ special bill that secured its passage 1
without opposition. when as a special !,
bill IT might have been defeated.
WHAT THAT BILL MEANS.
Remember there are men in congress
gray in the service of their country. /