The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-10-04
N PANNEE COUNTY
Long Is Going to Reverse the
'96 Majority.
DEMOCRATS VERY WEARY
OF Riding the Rear Seat of the
Fusion Tandem.
DEMOCRATS VERY WEARY


1872. Pawnse county gave Jerry Simpson
a majority o. l32 over Chester L Long for
congress. This year It looks as though
Mr. Long would carry the county. This
is partly due 70 peculiar conditions ex-
asting in the county, and partly to the
general feeling of ReDUbncanism and
uAneric Lnism there is in 0le very shors-
grass air vhis year.
Mr. Long spoke here Saturday after
noon He created the most pleasing I'M
preston and carried his large audience
with him from beginning 10 close Mr..
Long spoke in the opera house. Every
seat was filed People stood at the sides
and in the rear. AS at Nlckerson Friday
night, many left unable TO gain entrance,
Many Populists and Democrats were in
the audience and they paid the closest
attention to all that was said. Farmers
drove in from miles around. The meet
ing was one Of the most successful ever
held in the district.
Tim Mccarthy Of this city, ex-auditor
OF state and at one time department COM
mander Of the G. A. r. Of the state, one
of the leading Grand Army men OF Kan
ne made a touching and personal appeal
20 every old soldier. regardless Of party,
TO stand 10y the man who in congress
always stood by them
Chester 1 Long" he said, has done
more for the old soldier than any other
man who ever has been sent TO congress
from the Seventh district"
He brought Mr.. Long to the front Of
the stage and said:
.'Mr. Long, 1 desire to go on record as
the firstman 10 congratulate you on your
coming election to congress"
Mr. Long, after thanking the chairman
for his warm and cordial introduction, ex-
pressed his gratitude. He also expressed
the sadness which ne felt at the absence
Of that old soldier and warm friend, Cap
tain Henry Booth of this city, who had
on three coca sions introduced him to Lar
ned audiences, and whose death had not
only removed a strong personal friend
but also a faithful earnest worker for
the Republican party.
Mr. Long made stirring speech, be-
ing in much better physical condition
than at Nickerson the night before. He
spoke with unusual force and vigor and
references and his loyalty to the national
administration were received with shouts
of commentator. The speech was one
of the best Gdr. Long has made this cam
paign. After its close, people rushed
front and Mr.. Long held an informal re-
ception for some time. Farmers. old sol
diers, Populists, Democrats, all seemed
anxious to shake his hand.
Immediately preceding Mr.. Longs
speech, w. VI. Wallace Of Kingman, gave
the state administration some telling
blows. He quoted Chief Justice Doster's
statement that the condition Of soldiers
and of camps of the army. as he found
them, was not as some people anu poll
ticians would have the public believe. He
also read a statement OF an officer of the
Twenty-first Kansas, just returned from
Camp Lexington, showing the charges
made against Secretary Alger were I'M
founded and raised ''by officers who ap-
pear to live in glass houses"
Speaking Of Webb McNall Mr.. Wallace
asserted that insurance rates have been
made 10 lower by reason OF the cars
reign. and he regarded that as proof
enough that the insurance commissioner
had done Kansas no good. despite his
cries from the housetops. Mr.. Wallace
also read the plank in the Populist hand
book which argues for a constitutional
convention because of too great repre-
sentation from the western counties" the
short-grass country. and advising the
punching Of these counties together TO
decrease taxation and representation in
the legislature Mr.. Wallace'S strong de-
Tense of the short-grass country and his
insistence that each county have its rep
resentative, met with loud cheers from
the audience.
1t is the Democrats of Pawnee county
whowilI elect the Republican ticket there
this fall. They nave what amounts to
fusion. though it will probably be not
carried out to tlle letter Democrats gen
orally. 1t is asserted by number of them.
Will either vote the straight Republican
or a mixed ticket. The Democrats Of
Pawnee county nave quite an organiza-