The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-13
NO REPUBLICANS WERE PRESENT
In Sight of Wichita Mountains,

Greer Co, o. T., Sept &.
We are camped here after an unusual
DAYS experience. Delegate Flynn to-
day made his entrance into Greer coun-
nv. He was to speak at the town OF
Delhi. He had never seen Delhi We
had seen no one who had ever seen II.
But we drove on, south Of the North
Fork of the Red river, over the worst
road | ever saw. 1t was the first ten
miles in Greer county. The sand was
very deep. As far as the eye could
reach the ground was covered win
sbin-oak. AT last we reached house.
There was a woman'S face at every
window. 1t developed that quilting
was in progress at Mrs. Prices. There
was also another strange entertain
ment, one which brought to mind the
opening scene in "King Lear
One Of the cattlemen had grown old
and decided to divide his chattels
among his sons. Another cattleman,
Mr.. Hex, was chosen as arbiter. He
was to be witness TO the division Oh
property. We asked the way to DEM,
and was told it was over the hill, about
three miles. We travelled on and found
a school house. This was not salts
factory. Spying another cabin at
distance, we drove across country. No
one was at home. We then struck out
at random, and found a cabin. We
discovered that the school house was
all there was to Delhi; the place where
no one was home being the postotnce-
At the last house we asked a rosy
checked lass if we could get dinner.
The house was a log cabin with dirt
roof and banked up with sod on the
outside. The floors were of dirt, the
dirt on the roof being placed on
thatch of corn-stalks. In one room L
saw a great spinning-wheel. l asked
the girl if she could spin. She said she
could. She spun cotton and wool. L
saw the first homespun clothing L ever
saw. The name of this family was
Price. Mrs. Price was born in Mis-
sissipppi. We had dinner of pork,
coffee and hot biscuits. see no White
bread here except hot biscuits. This
is the southern of it. After the dinner
we all felt pretty blue. The Flynn
boom for the first time looked little
be-draggled. There was that school
house, three miles from the nearest
house and only three houses visible
anywhere. The united opinion was
that a club should be used on the cen
tral committee which had billed a Re
publican speech at that place. The
Prices told us there was not a Repub-
lican in the vicinity. We thought it
would be chronicled to the world that
not q soul turned out to hear Hymns
first speech in Greer county. 1t was
very diScouraging. We tried to cushion
our despair by declaring that the meet
ing hadn't been properly advertised.
Someone suggested that someone
mount horse and beg a few people
to come over to the school house. This
was voted down. Finally it was de-
clared by the candidate that he was
billed for speech at the school house
at o'clock; and at . O'Clock he would
be there and if no one showed up, he
would wait two hours and then drive
on. We drove over TO the school house
and sat down in the shade 1t was
pretty sorry spectacle. Two o'clock
came and passed Yet no one appear
ed. 1t was then concluded that in a
district made up entirely of Democrats
and Populists, it was folly in the first
place for a Republican TO think OF max
ing q speech.