The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-08-22

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Topeka, Ksn-, Aug. PA Southern
| Kansas paper, in pin tit,g list Of Kan
sas Democrats who were standing by
Bryan and the Chicago platform, inclu-
t,'d tn name of w. c. Perry, United
! States attorney for the district of Kan
sas. This is in error. Mr.. Perry nei-
| Their SlIbScribes to the platform adopt
ed at Chicago, nor is he supporting the
nominees IF that convention. 1t is true
that re Is not making loud noise in
opposing the Democratic ticket, but it
is none the less true that it is u1satis-
| .sfactoTy tc him. To a correspondent
| he said this morning:
I'' do not subscribe to the doctrine Of
free silver in any manner whatsoever
| Neither do 1 accept the platform adopt
| ed at Chicago as a declaration of my
! political principles If there is any
| thing which could make me lay down
| my opposition to the doctrines promul-
| gated at Chicago it would be loyalty to
the name Democratic, and what 1
might conceive to be my duty in a gen.
eral way. which is to sacrifice my per-
| sonal preferences and vote for the NOM
inees of my party. But wherever l
| have turned for strength in the matter
of party fealty 1 have been confront
| ed with declarations from Mr.. Bryan
! which urged me to bolt. What 1 mean
| is this: Mr. Bryan has himself been a
| bolter, and upon more than one occa-
! sion has declared that he would bolt
| his party if its financial declarations
| did not conclude with his own beliefs
| He has erected a standard of party fe-
atty which would seem to release every
Iiemocrat who did not believe in free
silver from any sort of obligation to
support the Democratic ticket"
Mr.. cry then proceeded to comment
upon some of Bryan's public utterances
| upon the question of party fealty. One
| was at Jackson, Miss, June II. 1885,
when Judge Brame asked Bryan if he
would support the Democratic nomi-
| nee for president in the event that the
national convention adopted a gold
standard, to which he replied:
80 help me God, win die before
Will support him.
Again, at Birmingham, Ala, Mr.. Bry-
an said: "All the powers on earth, I'M
der the earth, and in the heavens above
the earth, couldn't make me support
In a speech at Stuart, Ia, Aug. 7,
1886, where Mr.. Mr.. Bryan appeared to
be Justifying Republican boilers for
leaving their party, he said:
Parties are but Instruments, and
when people say that they owe some
thing to party, let them remember
that parties owe higher duties to the
people than people do to parties
Mr.. Perry will not be a delegate to
the sound money Democratic conven-
ton here next Thursday, though he
says a number of delegates will come
up from his home town, Fort Ccott
One reason is that he does not intend
to take an active part in the campaign
against his party nominee, and another
is that he is not in favor of the nomina-
ton of a candidate by the sound mon
ey convention. He said:
''The ajority of the sound money
Democrats will vote for Mckinley any
way, and that will make the vote cast
for the sound money candidate appear
insignificant. 1t will be a repetition
OF the Greeley campaign. The Demo-
Gratis got SO mad at Greeley that in
stead of voting for O'Conner, one of the
best and priest men America ever pro-
duced, they stampeded over to General
Mr.. Eugene Hagan is even more enthu
siastic over the prospects for his con-
ventfon today than ne was yesterday
His mail today contained many letters
from sound money Democrats who prom
ised to attend. He opposes Mr. Perry's
idea that sound money candidate for
president is not the proper thing. He
said: Down in Kentucky. where the
leaders have been preaching that pro-
lection was heresy and that Mckinley
was its chief apostle il viii be impos-
sfble to ask the rank and file to vote
for him. They must have a place to
land, and in the end / cannot conceive
that Mr.. Mckinley will be done any
material injury by having third can
didate in the field"
QUIET ABOUT CLIGGITT.
Topeka, Kan, Aug. 21.-No demand
has yet been made upon the Populist
state central concmittee for an investi-
cation OF Morris CEggitt, who is one
OF the nominees for presidential elector
on the fusion ticket. At the opulist
state convention a resolution was adopt
ed which provided that Mr.. Cliggitt
! should be investfgn ted by the state
committee, and that If he was found
guilty OF the charge made he was to
be removed from the ticket and another
/: anne substituted. The charge was
that during the great mining strike in
Crawford and Cherokee counties in 1898
Cliggitt carried a gun to prevent strik-
ing miners from forcibly entering upon
the property of the Kansas and Texas
Coal Mining company. The miners who
made the charge did not word it pre-
cisely in this language. but this was
the real purport Of their grievance
They said he carried A Winchester 10
intimidate honest laooring men and
prevent them from securing their moral
| rights. II was denied upon the conven
ton floor by some Of Mr. Cliggitt's
friends that ne had ever carried a gun
or in any way interfered with the
rights OF the honest miners to blow 10
/ blow up shaft houses with dynamite
or with their patriotic purpose Of ap-
plying the torch 10 the company's prop
erty. The miners who were 50 viniic-
tive uyon the floor OF the convention
appear 10 have forgotten their griev-
ance. for no complaint has yet been
lodged with the state committee.
1t Is. nevertheless. a fact that Mr..
Cgiggitt took every step in his power
70 prevent the mob f90m destroying
property or from interfering with the
( miners imported by the Kansas and
Texas Coal Company 10 take the places
OF the strikers. He was attorney for
the company, and in this capacity had
( advisory control OF The MANAGEMENT Of
the -fpieofikstr. etaoin shrdlu etaoinia
the strike He had armed men sta
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