The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-11-01
callahan IS RATIFIED
Has No Argument so He Tries
a JoIIying Game.
WON'T WORK IN CANADIAN
Everything Makes Votes For
Dennis This Year.

III Keno ~. l., Oct S1-tSpeCldLi-AH c
Democrats and Pops had a regular lcve
feast Saturday. Rev. Delegate Callahan
was the great attraction. Goff's cadet
band furnished Inspiring music The
there was no reason why the opera house
should not have been filed but the think
ing farmers who attended Dennis Flynn's
meeting were conspicuous by their alb
sence. The opera house was comfortably
ttled but there was lack Of enthusiasm.
The stars and stripes. pictures OF Wash
ington, Lincoln and Grant and the hun
dreds OF yards OF bunting that has deco
rated the walls since The campaign COM
menced were all taken down and hid
from sight
The Reverend Delegate began his ha-
rangue and it was nothing else, by say
ing he was a fighter from away back, but
did not go to the last war as he was afraid
that Tom Reed of Maine. would not be
able to run congress IN his absence. Oh
yes, he says ] am brave, for was not my
father an Irishman and my mother
white woman? He made a good lot of
irish votes by that remark.
Talking Of the late war with Spain he
said there was no occasion for II. that the
Republican party was to blame for all
the blood that was shed and for ali the
lives that were lost through sickness and
other causes. He placed very pathetic
picture before the fathers and mothers
who had sons in the army. And finally
wound up the subject by saying:
This monstrous and cruel war on de-
fenceless women and children In Cuba,
with all its odiun, will go down in his
tory as black mark on the American
people"
He accused President Mckinley of de-
claring war before the country was pre-
pared for it, and scored General Aager
for not having the army of 100000 men
equipped and ready to take the field inside
of three weeks.
1T could have been DONE" said the dis
tinguished speaker, but for Mark Hanna
and the rest of the gang who mad big
contracts TO work off on an unsuspect1ng
people and instead of its being a human
war it was the rankest kind of a Doodle
war;
His war remarks lost the Demo-Pop
ticket 200 votes.
He said free homes would never come
to Oklahoma, and 1t was useless to talk
about 1t. What the people wanted was
statehood and nothing else. He told a
little story Of meeting good old Pop
brother who said, Mr.. Callahan, talk
statehood to the people, and if we ever
do get 1T you will go to Washington as
the first senator from Oklahoma
The Reverend gentleman called the gold
h
leadership of that infamous and fraudu-
lent Grover Cleveland" He was in favor
OF fusing with any old party as long as
free silver was the issue.
THE silver question is not dead" said
Callahan, sit is only taking a rest, but It
will rise again and sweep like whirlwind
throughout the country"
He says the Republicans are mistaken:
the Democrats have not swallowed the
Pops. 1t is just the other way: the Pops
have taken in the Democrats, and at
times ne feels of his throat and thinks
he feels Democrat sliding down. This
little remark disguised the rest OF the
Democrats that had not got their dose
before.
The FL Reno Pops knew what was COM
ing for not one OF them took a seat on the
stage.
\ number OF good Democrats occupied
seats on the stage and at various times
during his, speech looked at one another
as much as TO say. 81. Yancey is not do
ing thing to u.s. George W. Bellamy.
Democratic candidate for council; T. F.
Hensley, editor of the Democrat: Bill Ri
ley chairman of the Democrat county
central committee, and John ]. Carney.
the Democratic chairman of the campaign
committee, were the Quartette that acted
as body guard for J. Yancey Callahan
while he skinned the party they have for
years affiliated with.
Mr. Callahan carried two nicely bound
books which he said was the Congress
sional Record. He opened them several
times during his talk but ne did not read
even one line OF the good things he did
for Oklahoma during the two years he
was in Washington.
His speech from start 10 finish was noth-
ing but conglomerated mass of excre-
nominations matter. and instead of making
votes for Keaton he made several hun
dred for Dennis Flynn.
Dennis T. Flynn needed Just q votes to
make his majority in Canadian county go
NtetS, anu ne SON l4itlu SilNh anu NltdL AT
the town Of Geary today. The voters OF
Canadian county have read the papers and
heard speakers tell the story time and
again, and now they have come to the
conclusion that Dennis is the only man
before the people who knows their wants
and the only man who is competent to
I help them
There was a big crowd OF people at
/ Geary when the Choctaw road first went
I in there, but twas not a circumstance to
/ the crowd that assembled 20 hear the lit
I tie Irishman tell OF what he had done for
/ the people OF Oklahoma, and what he in
/ tended 20 do when he went 20 Washing
/ ton as their delegate to congress Cons
1 cadet band. Of e Reno. furnished excel
/ lent music and the vast crowd was IN
! the very best OF husnor. Dennis looked