Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-09-07

OuLHu6ldu. OItu0I.
Seeing that protection and the god
standard were not popular as key
notes, he tried the natural resorces of
the state, and described and enumer-
ated them with considerable elo-
quence. "They are a credit to the
Republican party" he, said, with all
the assurance that it was the Repub-
lican party that created the coal and
the gas and the zinc and the oil
that lie under the broad acres of
Kansas.
PLEADS FOR NEGRO VOTES.
He made plea for the negre vote.
He said it was the Republican party
that made the negros equal to the
white men in their great achievement
at Santiago, and they should stand
by the Republican party. He didn't
seem to know that there wasn't a
negro soldier at Santiago who wasn't
under the command of white officer.
and that the only negro officers that
will ever command there are those
appointed and commissioned by his
opponent, Governor Leedy, and not
the Republican party. He said j:
my colored friends, the Republican
party stood by you in the days of your
wretchedness, and you should stand
by it in the days of your glory. ="
Colonel Wboop Tomlinson of Topeka,
who was in the audience, said in re-
SPONGE, eve will do it," evidently
oblivious to the fact that Mr.. Stanley
had addressed himself exclusively
to the negroes.
Mr.. Stanley then took up some of
the acts of the present state admins
tration, and highly com olimented the
school text book law. He said, how
ever that it was defective, insomuch
as it didn't provide for better books,
He took up the fight of Webb Nc
Nall against the insurance companies,
and tried to prove by the report of
the Republican insurance sup erin
tendent, Anthony, that he made
more of fight on the insurance COM
panies than Mr.. McNall. 1t was ap-
parant however, that Superintend-
ent Anthony did all his fighting in
his report, while Mr.. McNall did his
moro actively, and as a result large
portion of the audience greatly to the
modification of Mr.. Stanley, cheered
at the mention of McNall's name.
ATTACKS THE PoPuL1srs.
He attacked the Populists for fail
ing to pass maximum freight rate
bill and when man near the press
tables started to rise to ask Mr..
Stanley if he was elected, whether
he would recommend tho passage of
a maximum freight rate bill, it re-
quired two strong men to hold him
down and persuade him from asking
such an embarrassing question. 1t
would pace Mr.. Stanley in the atti-
tude of saying he would not recon-
mend what he was blaming the popu-
list party for not doing.
He criticised Leedy for fighting a
railroad bill when he was a member
# the house of representatives. The
fact is that Governor Leedy never
was member of that body.
On the whole, Mr.. Stanley's speech
Was rank failure, and it deservedly
fell fat. His woeful ignorance of
comparatively recent events in the ad-
ministrative history of Kansas made
it worse failure than it would other
wise have been.
Mr. Stanley was followed by Frank
Nelson, candidate for superintend
ent OF public instruction, but only a
few persons waited in the park to
hear him.
After parade tonight in which
the Topeka Flambeau club partici.
pate, J. r. Bruton and J. D.
Bowersock made speeches in the opera
house.