The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-06-07
is READY TO START
MKINLBY CORN TRAIN WILL PULL
IN TOMORROW MORNING.

aear Him-At Four O'Clock the Train
WII start From the Missouri Pacific
Dsr.ct-BartOn and Others Will Speak at
ssf.H. sketch of the Author of the Idea
Tomorrow will be June s, the day or
the Gepart IRE Of Syl Dixon's Mckinney
ira r Cor St. Louis It Will be the po-
N,oal red letter day Of the year.
TIE indications now are that 10000
D. ole. will be in the city TO see list Of
attractions the like of which have never
been seen in Kansas From way down
IN Oklahoma where the people wear
Mckinley buttons in their hearts and
Reed buttons on their coat collars, men
will come to see the great incidental
Republican rally and gather inspira-
ton for the approaching campaign. Po-
liticians have become proficient on the
tariff question and want a few ideas
in q higher grade Of craftsmanship. In
gals is the boy that can sound the key
nOt5e and from him the people will
learn What tack the ship of state is
going TO take in the voyage Of 1886 to
land Republican passengers in the safe
port of political success. For two years
he has been IN retirement Matching out
epigrams and tomorrow afternoon at
O'Clock he VIII dish them out as souven-
frs n the first rally OF the state of Kan
sas u the auspicious campaign of 1895.
The man who viii miss ingalls, tomor-
row will enter the approaching cam
paign Ike the foolish virgin who neg
lected getting oil and trimming the
lamps when the wedding came. He win
- - 81, 20 1,af or
ner herlsies Of Populism and thus will be
of little service 10 his country.
The tall, gaunt figure OF the brainy
ingalls, viii appear IN all its wonted
suavity and elasticity at the Auditori-
um ait 2 o'clock. He will speak till 4, at
which time all will adjourn TO the Mis-
souri, Pacific depot to see the departure
of the great corn train, about which
columns have been written in every
metropolitan paper in the United States.
This viii be a grant sight. The great
train Of forty cars in two sections viii
swing into the yards from Oatvllle,
where they are being loaded, with its
decorations. These decora tons will be
q great show in themselves. The cara
citurist has fairly spread himself and
enlarged on novel ideas There viii
be some landscape scenery peculiar 10
Kanses-spreading prairies, growing
grain, herds Of fat cattle, winding
brook, beautiful farm homes and all
such things. There will be gigantic to-
matoes. marvellous apples. mastadonic
watermellOns, towering corn stalks and
elephantine squashes. There will be
100 Illustrations Of national ruin under
th1 Democratic administration. CleVe
land appears IN all shapes fishing. duck
hunting, clipping bonds and all that
sort Of thing.
In the evening Mr.. Burton will speak
at the Auditorium with other distin- |
guished orators. NJ. B. Sutton Of Rus |
sell viii also speak
Among the other attractions will be |
two big bands Of music. The yelling |
ton band viii give a parade and so will |
the Second regiment band with thirty |
pieces. There viii be sixty orators in
the city, forty to accompany the train
and twenty 20 speak to overflow meet
ings in the city. Fifteen hundred seats
viii be placed IN the Auditorium and !
there will be standing room for fully |
1000. Both oratorical meetings viii be /
held IN the Auditorium.
Silver Dixon. or "Syl." as everybody |
calls him, the author Of the most novel |
scheme OF booming a presidential can
didaIJe, ever thought Of, was born in /
Mcultie county, Illinois, in 1857. Like
all men OF force and character he was
born on a farm and "a he had TO work
hard from boyhood up he could not af-
ford TO spend much time in acquiring
book education. He was born, how
ever with good strang brain and he
was his own school teacher and sue
ceeded so well in seR-education that he
can 90 into the society of all classes to
day and impress himself ON them as a
liberal, progressive and broad minded
citizen Nature not only endowed him
with a good head but IT gave him a
mighty good heart. Nearly every
prominent man in Kansas knows Syl
Dixon, and those who do not know him
are not so prominent in the affairs Of
the state as they ought to be. Those
who know him Ike him, for Syl is a
man who treats everybody square.
There Is 10 'shenangan" about him
He IS what Brutus said was a plain,
blunt man who loves his friends and
does what IS right regardless of poll
tics. At the age Of nineteen Syl left
home and went 10 Nebraska He is one
Of those fellows who cannot he kept |
down and it was but natural that his
a biuOn would prompt him 70 go out
n the world. After working on a
Z ar.r IN Nebraska for a year or two he
-r I'd enough wealth 20 purchase a
+ Fa - oxen and a wagon and came
p ri7cj % Kansas. He arrived in Har-
per = and pre-eTnpted a claim.
rhe a. he arrived in the then bleak ,
1r- ~ 11 Harper county he was bare ,
r.1sE a hs red 10 spend the only two ,
ar- -- nad in all the world for a
t.- shoes. For nine months he went ,
-,l and the soles OF his feet were
sed that he could walk over
n-.s all day without injury. He
-le type OF the pioneer. a class OF
}- who should stand pre-en,nent in
arts and affections OF the people
y 1iis country. He built himself a !
out where he lived for three years
lianfuily fighting starvation He had
/ stout heart and defied al aiversities s
Three long years were spent in this 6
way and Syl then went into business
yiCh the dead. He engaged in selling
ON bstones and many are they whose V
-irtues are recorded IN marble through | !
rs efforts Afterwards he stiu far 5
her engaged II business Of this ua- a
ure. He opened an undertaking es-
.ablinshment at Argonia- When the -
,o0m set IN he went 20 Meade Center 7
No sold real estate for four years. All =
heSe things are recalled 10 show that \