Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-09-24
SIMPSON, AVID SILVER.

ties are concerned there never was as
much enthusiasm and as large crowds
as are now attending our meetings.
DIGHTON-SOme of the good pop
ulists of Ness county drove us to Dlgh-
ton We were met one mile east of
Dighton by long procession of teams
and horSemen carrying suitable BAN
ners and notices. 1t is said that
Dighton never had larger crowd than
upon this occasion. Jerry spoke for
two hours and was now followed by
Judge Milton of Dodge City. Here is
where Charles Lobdell, speaker of the
last legislature, lives. 1t is we'll known
that the speaker Of house is largely
responsible for the work of that house,
Now Charley is pretty good fellow
as men 60, but unfortunately for him
his legislature failed to pass the maxi
mum freight rate bill, as passed by the
senate, thereby losing to the farmers
of Lane county many hundreds of dol
lars by reason of excessive rates. No
one doubts for a moment but what our
nominee, Mr.. Sears, will be elected and
that his vote will be cast for free sill
yer United States Senator and maxi
mum freight rate bill and other meas
ures in the interest Of the western
counties. No corporation will have a
mortgage on his political soul.
SCOTT CITV-here Jerry and Judge
Milton received the most cordial and
gentlemaGly treatment from all the
citizens, irrespective Of party or poll
tics, of any place so far visited in this
district. There were a great many re-
publicans but they neither wore their
badges nor yelled for their nominees
quite in contrast to a lot Of hoodlums
who disgraced themselves and their
party at Ness City and Dighton.
LEOTI-This is the county seat Of
Wichita county. The meeting was
held in a wigwam which had been pre-
pared by both parties. Jerry and the
Judge both spoke-then your CORES
pondent took a hand-and by the way
the g. o. p. boys yelled, it was con-
cluded then that somebody's toes got
badly mashed. When the speaker said
that in his opinion Frank Grimes voted
against the maximum freight rate bill,
known as senate bill 235, Mr. Grimes
arose in the audience and said he voted
for it. Ofco1rse that may be true but
in house journal, page 1919, the bill
was reported by the Committe on rail
roads with the recommendation that it
do not pass. Mr.. Grimes was not
member of that committee-still he
might have voted for it in his sleep.
Tribune-Out on the Colorado line
gave the two men Simpson and Milton
a good audience. Many came in from
Colorado and Wallace county of the
sixth district. Many people are leav-
ing that county. There will not be
over 200 votes there this fall.
LA CRossE-Well, well, I wish 1
had time and space to tell Of this meet
ing. One could only appreciate this
meeting by being there. 1t rained and
rained and the mud was knee deep but
from every direction came delegations
with banners, flowers and flags flying.
There were no speakers present except
Jerry and for nearly three hours the
crowd cheered his mastery speech.
When the speech was over, music was
furnished by the Bohemian brass band,
a Russian string band and a Russian
glee club who sang in their native
tOngue-and for over one hour these
clubs sang and played while the crowd
laughed, shouted, clspped their hands
and hurahed for Bryan and Simpson.
This county will give each of these
candidates 100.
ELLINwooD-Here there was a Dem
ocratic Senatorial Convention of the
35th district. After they had Domina-
ted John Armstrong, the populist nom
inee who will be elected DO 1900 major
ity. Mr.. Simpson was introduced and
delivered a speech which was so plain
that all could understand that the pop
ocrat party was the only party-was
the party of the people. One OF the
most remarkable features Of this
weeks observations was that every
where we went that all the populists
were stopping their support of the
Daily Co-Operator, of Topeka, Kansas
believing that it is now editorially UNI
der the control of Mark Hsnna's
money and our boys don't propose to
support any such scheme.
Respectfully,
D. W. HENDER.