The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-29
MADE A GREAT HIT
WARNER MILLER OF NEW YORK
LED SINNERS TO CONVICTION.


Two Thousand Voters Listen to the Most
Satisfactory Political Speech OF the
Campaign Was Truly a Feast OF
Reason-Facts and Figures Set Forth in
ne Simplest and Most Pleasing Style
rbe Crime OF '93 shown Up Ten Times
Worse Than the Crime of '73-Many
Votes Were Made.
rx-Senator Warner Miller of New
york addressed an audience of at least
two thousand interested persons for two
.aI1 hours at the Auditorium last night.
It was by far the best speech made
here this year on either side of the great
issues 1t was remarkable speech for
the simplicity Of it's argument, the force
Of it's logis and the plainess of every
truth presented. How any man could
sit and listen 70 fl for two hours and
not be converted 70 Repubhcanism, pro-
lection and sound money is beyond COM
prehension unless he was determined
DOT to be convinced.
Senator Miller talks to an audience
like lecturer. He makes no speech.
He simply converses with the people
end gives them his views in a most in
tenesting and agreeable manner. He
stands as a striking contrast to such
smaE-bore wouBd-be financiars as Webb
McNall and Ed Little. He offends no
one He appeals only 10 reason and
not to prejudAa He deals on. nothing
that cannot be referred to in statistice
and history. He makes no assertions
that you cannot apply facts to. He
tells ons why he is poor as plainly as
John Jones can tell Bill Smith why his
crops are short at the end of a season
Of drouth.
There was no public announcement
made through the press of the arrival
Of MIR. Miller and yet the Auditorium
was crowded and nine-tenths of those
present were voters. There were only a
Jew ladies present. 1t was one of the
most d3gnifed audiences that ever as
semblod IN the Auditorium. The ap-
psauSe was not of the roof-lifting varie-
~ brh every time there was applause it
was manifested intelligently.
Tt was O'Clock when Chairman Ben
Downing of the Republican county CEN
trail committee called the meeting to
order and announced vocal music by
the Mckinley Glee club. They gave it
with a right good will and were en-
chored
Mr.. Downing then introduced Colonel
Hiram Lewis as the chairman of the
meeting.
In advancing to the footlights Colonel
Lewis said that, like the star of empire,
the great forces of patriotism seem to be
sweeping westward from the Atlantic
10 the Pacific Its voices have come
rom Maine swelling, swelling and sweep
ing through the west like an anvil cho-
rus of loyalty, patriotism and honest
money. He said that he had Just return
ed from California and brought with
him the glad tidings that the state is
safe for Mckinley and that nothing can
prevent 1T save its inundation by the
Pacific ocean He then read a letter
from Railroad Commissioner Chaplin OF
New York, saying that the Empire state
would give a majority of from 400, 900 to
10000 to Mckinley. He then introduc-
ed Mr.. Miller.
Mr.. Miller expressed great pleasure at
having such a magnificent audience and
atthbuted it 10 the fact that the people
sought information more than as COM
pliment to him or to his state He said
that the people Of Kansas have the same
interest in the material welfare and
prosperity of the country as the people
of the east have and hence should have
the same enthusiasm. He said that
New York had contributed a great
many Of its best citizens to Kansas and
that he had met many of them since he
entered the state. He said that for this
and other reasons New York had an in
terest in Kansas and vice versa He
did not consider himself DIN the enemys
country because he was in the west and
asserted that to patriots there is no
snemys country within the limits of the
United States. He said that New York
would go 30O, 900 for Mckinley and that
he is willing to stake This reputation as a
prophet on that result. He then referred /
briefly to the condition of the Demo- |
cratic party In New oYrk, reciting the |
facts connected with Its Buffalo con- |
vention. He said that ali the strong /
men IN the Democratic party in his |
state have repudiated the Chicago plat
form and will ignore the Chicago nomi- /
nee on election day.
He said that in every sense this is a |
business campaign; that its issues touch |
every being in the United States, not I,
IN the heart, but in the pocketbook
Both parties, he said. argue that /
times are hard but they differ as 10 the .
causes that made them hard He then
went on to detail what, in his opinion.
makes them hard. He attributed the .
great business disaster to the Wilson
bin and to the great dfstrust generally
that has arisen from Democratic inca
pacity to administer the affairs of the
nation in the interest OF the people He
safd that this country reached the high
water mark OF prosperity under the ad-
ministration of Mr.. Harrison and the
operation of the Mckinley bill in 1892.
Everybody VINO wanted employment
could find it st fair wages. There was
an abundance % prpducts to keep the
engines and cans summing over 1S0. 600
miles of railway. That" said the
senator was only four short years ago.
and vet observe the change" 1t took
the Roman empire centuries 10 decline
and Vet in This country with all its in
telligence and resources the decline was
positive in n few weeks that marked
the change Of administrations This
change, he said. must have cause and
that that cause was radical. He at
rributed 1t, OF course. 10 the antcipa-
ted abandonment OF the protective idea.
MI, Miller then went on 10 prove the
results or thirty years Of protection He
salo rnae IN those thirty years from 81
10 Y rne development Of the resources
or the United States were UNPARALLELED
IN history. Why wasn't that develop
ment made during the thirty years pre-
ceding 1850? Toe same resources were
IL the country. The soil was lust "a
fertile, there was just as much iron and
Awarded