The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-06-21
KANSAS FOR M'K|NLEY
Senator Baker Predicts Major
ity of $4,000.
VETERAN WARNS UP
WARNS UP
VETERAN
While He Beetles Senator'S
Record Baker Here Today.

Senator Lucien Baker and District At
torney !. E. Lambert OF Emporia arrived
in Wichita last night from Arkansas
City. where the senator stopper over yes
terday at the request OF his friends TO
look over the political situation OF Cow
ley county. At Arkansas City Senator
Baker was busy the entire day shaking
hands with the hundreds OF friends and
admirers who called on him at the hotel
The old soldiers delegation was especial
ly large and more than one Of the old
veterans in their enthusiasm swung the
senator half AROUND in shaking hands
with him in an ourburst showing their
appreciation of Mr.. Bakers efforts for
them at the pension department at
Washington One old comrade threw his
arm around the senator's shoulder and
said to the crowd: Here's the best
friend I've got on earth. Now, I'll tell
you something If you'll take the trou-
BILE TO look UP the list you will find that
Senator Baker has secured more pensions
for the Kansas boys than any other man
who has gone to congress from the state
You can take my word for it if you want
10, or you can look IL up for yourself;
but I've looked II up, and that's fact"
And then the old man raised his arm
and slapped it around the senator's
shoulders again as he said: "He's our
friend. That's right, and I'm not talking
to just old soldiers. You go and look up
the things Senator Baker has done and If
you don't find that he has added several
~.
made any talk. either, then you can say
I'm crazy, and we didn't have any Vicks-
burg or any Appomattox of any fighting
in 81 and for four years after"
Senator Baker blushed. He is a modest
man in everything he does, except when
he goes after congress or some of the
departments or the president for some
thing for Kansas or for the old soldiers
Of Kansas. Up in Washington they We
learned that Senator Baker never asks
for anything which hasn't been fully
earned and is due, and they've learned.
too, that he won't quit. So when Senator
Baker gets in with a request there's
hearing at once and something is done
The old soldier at Arkansas City was
right, and Kansas is coming TO know that
while Senator Baker hasn't a reputation
that entities him to be tossed about for
inspection as a spellbinder his work IS all
cashed in for the state and the states
soldier boys.
81 believe Kansas will be for Mckinley
by a majority of 1900 any way and
probably more" said the senator. NOW,
there isn't much use to discuss reasons
for this. They are numerous and appar-
ent, and you can hear the farmers and
business men and mechanics talking #
every day all over Kansas and all over
the Union. You can see the reasons in
the movements of commerce from the
small sale in the country store to the
cargo Of the ocean liner. and you'd have
to admit it any way if you admit that
the American people know their business
and they've shown that they do
Senator Baker does not discuss his own
candidacy for reelection. but It is evi-
dent that he IS confident Of success.
While his opponents are boasting that
they have the earth the senator is quiet
" proceeding with his campaign. picking
IN representatives at a rate to confirm
his confidence. Last year Senator Baker
devoted several weeks in visiting among