The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-05-16

have reached print long ago that he had
donated 10 the state of Kansas forty
acres OF land to be used for irrigation
experimental station. The deed was
filed three months ago, but until it es-
capped today from a Wakeeney man no
one about the state capitol was inform
ed of the transaction. II seems that
the people of Wakeeney were very
anxious 10 have one Of the state sta
tons established near their town, and
the most available piece of ground was
upon a farm owned by Governor Nor
riii. The act OF the legislature estalo-
fishing stations requires that at least
forty acres be furnished the state free
of charge, and when the situation was
explained TO the governor he promptly
donated forty acres. The land cost him
SO an acre, and the gift therefore, am
cunts 10 $500.
1t is a fact known 10 the intimate
friends of Governor Morrill, that he has
given every cent Of his salary TO char
ity. He resolved to do this at the
date of his inauguration. AS matter
of fact, however, there has been some
thing weak about mis- system of making
the distribution of this money, for every
months charity account discovers that
cunt of his salary for the same period.
His hand goes to his purse with almost
reckless freedom He is often imposed
upon by solicitors for aims, but in no
wise seems to convert him from the
belief that every pitiful story is gen.
uine one Any good talker with tale
of woe can talk the tears into Govern
or Morrill's eyes without half trying,
and it is doubtful if a beggar has ever
been turned from his Office door empty
handed.
OVERArEYER'S ADDRESS.
Topeka, Kan, May 15.-David Over
myer as member for Kansas of the ma
tional Democratic bimetaGlic committee
today issued the following address to
the Democrats of the state:
''The constitution provides that con-
gress shall have the power 10 coin
money and regulate the value thereof,
and il provides also that no state shall
coin money or make anything but gold
and silver coin a tender in payment of
debts. The language of the constitution
is gold and silver coin meaning, not
gold bars or silver bars, or both: but
gold and silver coin; that is TO say
gold and silver in form of coined mon
ey: This is what is made legal ten
der by the constitution which the states
are forbidden to change.
I'm 1873, a Republican congress, by
a process so stealthy that only few
persons knew what was being done,
struck down silver as standard money
and made the gold dollar the exclusive
standard of value in the United States
So soon as the country realized what
had occurred the Democrats demanded
the restoration of silver, and as party
have ever since contended for its res
tora1ion.
"Three times did Grover Cleveland
run for president upon a platform de-
claring in favor OF both gold and silver
as standard money. and twice was he
elected upon ii.
mot until the year 1893 did the Demo-
Gratis have both congress and president
and even then Democratic power in the
senate depended upon the cooperation
of the Populist senators. Then it was
that Cleveland spurning the platform
upon which he was elected, began 10
make relentless warfare upon silver
as standard money and from that day
to this, he has exerted all Of the power
of his great Office to utterly stamp out
silver and render a return TO 1t as a
standard money impossible. in con-
tempt OF the platform OF 1892, which
declared that both gold and silver are
standard money TO be coined without
discrimination against either. This
man has out-Shermaned Sherman him
self, not only by the general course of
his administration, but by the open
and shameless declaration that the time
had come when gold and silver must
part company, and by the needless and
ostentatious issue of gold bonds for the
sole purpose Of perpetuating and per-
manently establishing the single gold
standard, and 10y dealings and contracts
with the gold gamblers Of New York,
so scandelous as 10 forfeit the nations
confidence, ALLEVIATE it's pride. The
rank and file of the great party which
Cleveland has betrayed and insuited
have repuciated his treacherous deser-
ton of the platform upon which he was