The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-10-19
FINE FLAG FOR FLYNN
People of Woods County les
tify to Their Gratitude.
DENNIS is 0VERWHEL MED
BY This Popular Tribute-A
Great Day at Augusta.

People coming up from Oklahoma las
evening report probably what was th'
most remarkable meeting ever held il
prairie country-Dennis Fqynn's re
eeption at Augusta, Oklahoma.
For, once. from all reports, the audience
knocked the little giant of MS pivot
completely overwhelmed him. and made
him choke up with emotion
Augusta is city in Woods county
one of the Populist counties in the south
west. It lies just south of Flynn's old
home in Kansas.
Wednesday Dennis Flynn was to speak
at Augusta. A vast concourse had come
out to hear him. Some time ago T. J.
Womack Of Alva, had conceived the idea
Of every homesteader regardless of pol
tics. joining in and making Dennis Flynn
2 present SO everybody helped and a big
silk flag was ordered with a deep gold
fringe about the edges Across this the
nimble fingers of Oklahoma women put
in needIework the words, Dennis Saved
Our Homes" And among the stripes was
a great big white star, for the coming
state, Oklahoma"
Everybody come out to see the presenta
ton. Populists. Republicans, and Demo-
Gratis mingled together. all sounding the
praise Of Dennis. The committee had
brought down from Kfowa, W E. Camp
bell, the man who founded Kiowa,
started in Dennis as editor there and
gave him $50 subscribers to start with,
one of the best friends Flynn ever had.
When the crowd had quieted down, Mr..
CampbelI said:
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
The people of Oklahoma have wisely Sc
lected as their representative and stand
ard-bearer. a man of intelligence, a man
OF integrity, a statesman, an indefatieable
worker and one to whom honesty in poi
itics is not an irridescent dream; a man
who knows the rights and needs Of his
people. and who has not only the cour-
age and ability to battle for them, but
ALSO the skill and tact to win their bat
ties in the halls Of congress; man who.
in the flush Of victory, never tires lags
OF lays down his arms, but presses stead
ily on from one victory to another in the
interests of his people; a man who knows
that all our wealth comes from Mother
Earth, through waving fields of golden
grain, through fecks and herds and the
cailoused hands Of her unttring sons of
toll; a man who has accomplished more /
for his constituents (time considered)
than sny other man who has ever enter
ed the halls Of congress; a man whose
career as a statesman has been exceeding
ly brilliant and successful, and yet whose
political record is as clean and spotless
as the driven SHOWS OF winter.
such. my friends. is the character
and such is the record OF our worthy
brave and true delegate in congress, Hon
Dennis T. Flynn
Gle is a man whose breast swells with
loyalty pure and deep and whose heart
ever goes out in love and sympathy for
each and every defender of our flag and
national honor whether at home or
abroad.
He loves our government because 1t |
extends protection and security to each !
and all of our citizens in every land and |
every cline beneath the sun, and because |
our nag commands the respect of every |
nation on the face of the globe.
WHO would not be proud Of such |