The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-10-23
CAMPBELL N HARPER
Exposes to True Populists
Democracy's Designs.
SCOTS AT IMPERIALISM
As an Issue, and Scorns
0emocracy's Champions.

Harper, Kan, Oct. 22.-In his old home
county Of Harper. I. P. Campbell on Sat
urday addressed two audiences, telling
them of Democratic duplicity and con-
spiracy, and advising good Populists who
hope to stay out of the Democratic
party to vote the Republican ticket this
year.
Mr.. Campbelrs speech was at Harper
in the afternoon. 1t was wretched day.
The dust came down the country roads
and the streets of the city in clouds
which made it almost impossible to see
a block ahead. The wind was strong,
and the day so decidedly unpleasant
that coming any distance to political
meeting or for any other purpose SEEM
ed almost folly. Added to that, the
Democrats and the Democratic Populists.
with their usual tactics when they hear
that Campbell is billed for a speech, at
tempted to keep their fellows away from
the meeting.
But in spite Of dust and Democrats,
when Mr.. Campbell stepped to the front
of the stage in the opera house here,
he faced a cody array of people, nearly
all men, and a large percentage of whom
were Populists, largely from the coun-
try. Mr.. Campbell talked straight out
to them. He told them of the serious
condition in which the Populist party
found itself in the year OF 1900; of Dem
ocratic treachery and conspiracy; ne told
how the Democratic party never had
done anything progressive and for the
people and never would; he went back
many campaigns and traced the para
mount issues Of that party, proving in
the end that the only thing the Demo-
cratic party sought paramount issue
for was because it thought that on it 1t
might be able to get into office. He had
a character sketch Of Mr.. Stevenson,
the Democratic nominee for vice-presi-
dent for whom the Populists of Kansas
are supposed to vote this year, and for
whom Towne, who was acceptable to the
Populists, was stricken down. He re-
lated Stevenson's history during the civil
war, and his political career since the
war, when he has always affiliated with
Democracy and Cleveland, gold-standard
Democracy at that, and then told the
Populists that Stevenson was taken be-
cause he wa stoo harmless to injure the
west so it was thought, and too &C
ceptahle to eastern Democracy to be
passed up in this year 1900 when Democ-
racy was trying to get together with
itself and get into office.
Mr.. Campbell exposed the hyprocity Of
Democracy telling when he read Boner
Cockran's and David B. Hits apologies |
for supporting Bryan this year and then
read some OF their diatribes against the |
Nebraska warrior four years ago. Then |
Mr.. Campbell said, they had thought |
Bryan too dangerous to be tolerated, an |
a Populist, a vicious man
but now, since Bryan had eliminated sill |
yer and the Kansas City platform had |
taken up VITA Imperialism MT. Camp |
bell said Bryan was good enough for |
these eastern Democrats.
Mr.. Campbell wants to know how the |
Populists are expected to subordinate all
all their creeds and take up with imperial |
ism. He wants to know when his party
ever made imperialism the paramount
issue. He wants to know what there is
about imperialism, anyway, that Popu-
lists should be. expected to forget all |
about everything else in the way of prin-
ciples that they hold dear.
Mr. Campbell was the recipient of con-
finished. His forcefulness was noticeable
His energy was commended.
Driving to Attica, near where his ranch
IS, Mr.. Campbell spoke at that place
night.