Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-05-08
BOOND FOR A TORRID CLINE
EX-GOVERNOR WAITE ON CLEvE-
LANDS NEXT ABIDING PLACE.
The Colorado Populist Makes Nc
Bones About Expressing Where
He Thinks 1t May Be-A
Characteristic Interview.

Ex-Governor Davis II. Waite, of Colora-
do, arrived in the city yesterday from st.
Louis. where he delivered a lecture on
Reform as Necessary Adjunct to Pros
perity." That was not the title of his lect-
ure, but it contains the substance boiled
down.
There is nothing of the savage in the ap-
pearance of the famed ex-governor of the
Centennial state; nothing suggestive of
bloody brides or fields of carnage. He
does not carry stick of dynamite in his
hip pocket. On the contrary, Ex-Governor
Waite is Il mild hammered, modest looking.
patriarchial appearing gentleman. of some
10 odd years, with beard and hair as white
as the snoW-capped peaks of his Western
state. There is a rugged picturesqueness
about his rather loosely knit figure that Is
suggestive of mountain crags ana sunless
SorSes, where nature is wild and free He
dresses in the blackest of black and talks
in q low, well moduiated voice. 1t would
be no trouble for him to palm himself on
as an itinerant Western Methodist divine
as long as he did not discuss the political
situation. In talking of politics or politi-
clans the ex-governor does not use a pum-
ice stone on his sentences. He hits right
out from the shoulder. Last night he was
asked what he thought would become of
ex-President Cleveland, now that he Is a
private citizen.
II don't know replied the ex-governor
softly Eventually ysn,t he may g go to- to hell ,,n,ss
ahead.
Il don't see how Mckinley can give us
good times he said. The party That
produced hard times-which is a scarcity
of money-is in power to-day. The tinan-
cial policy of Mckinley will be the same same
as that of Cleveland. John Sherman, was
the chief financial adviser of Cleveland /:
he will be McKinley's adviser. Men can't
be prosperous when they sell what they
produce at less than IL cost to produce 1t. y
Won't the Dingley bill have beneticis! {,
81 don't think it will do any good. Manu-
facturers have their warehouses filled with
goods now and they can't sell them till the
people get money to buy. One great error
of the money power is to take away from
the people the ability to buy. and then
they wonder that times are hard"
You seem to take rather hopeless view
of the future?"
No; the future is full of hope. There
Is no telling what may happen. con-
fess, however, l feel little discouraged.
If l were younger man might feel diff
ferently."
The. ex-governor paused a moment and
then he said:
When | was boy no member of con-
gress would have dared to suggest-even
after Old Hickory was dead-that We sub
nit our internal affairs to an international
conference. Why, damn him. if any man
had done such a thing in those times they
bug. Why should We submit our financial
policy to an inspection of the European
monarchies?'
Who is making money now, governor
Nobody particularly. We read every
day of corporations going into the hands
tions are gradually concentrating all the
wealth. 1t is ruinous in the end. There is
the difference between the Populist silver
men and the Teller silver men. The Pop