The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1911-12-22
NEELEY SPOKE HERE
And a Big Crowd Came
to Hear Him

tneFe was as good q speech in Lib
eral as that given by George Nee
ley at the Opera House Monday
afternoon. In fact it has been
since October IL, when Champ
Clark was here, In sDite of the
fact that the meeting was held
during the afternoon of busy
day just a week before Christmas,
and IN spite of the bad weather a
good crowd turned out to hear
George Neeley make his campaign
speech.
che speech was a dandy, and he
was interrupted a number of
time by applause. Neeley got the
audience all right. There were
republicans and democrats sitting
together both applauding his adj
dress on progressive government.
About the only difference these
days between the standpat repub-
licanS and the conservative demo-
Gratis" said Hon. George Medley,
lis the fact that the republican
stands for a protective tariff while
the democrat is for tariff for rev.
erue only. The only difference
between. the progressive democrats
and the progressive republicans, is
chiefly in the fact that the one IS
called republican and the other a
democrat.
In the state they fought side
by side for the progressive meas
ures and four of the five progress
sive measures passed in the last
session of the Kansas legislature
were written by Senator George
Hodges of Olathe. In Congress,
the measures passed by the demo-
cratic house were passed through
the Senate only with the assist
ance of the progressive republic
can senator's like LaFollette, Bris-
tow and Cummins. These meas
ures were passed up to the presi-
dent who within AZ hours vetoed
every one of them. This is in fact
the president whom my opponent
10 a speech in Hutchinson last fall.
referred to as "one of the best
presidents this country ever had,
but very poor politician
The fact that M artin has so
many times referred to the presi-
dent in glowing terms, the fact
that his campaign was managed by
Senator +. Dumont Smith, of old
Kansas Senate Lodge fame, and
the platform on which he ran for
the nomination, all show the re-
publican nominee to be standpat-
ter. He is backed in Hutchinson
by the standpat railroad crowds.
and besides being an attorney for
the Rock Island, has been intro
duced in several of his speeches by
the attorneys of other railroads,
while they have heralded him as a
man who would be the proper one
to send to Congress to get a revis-
ion of freight rates which would
help the bigger towps in the dis
trict which have commercial aspi-
rations. At the same time, Mr..
Medley is carrying a couple of sets
of papers from the Reno county
District Court which throw a
great deal more light on the inter
est the republican nominee has in
the common people, than his po-
lite talks of how prosperous we all
are with our automobiles, import
ed rugs, etc. Now if the people
of the Big Seventh did have all
these things that Mr.. Martin men
toned here, it would probably be
a winner for him to recite it. How
ever, there are a lot of people
down here is Seward county that
don't have automobiles, etc, and
such speech as that delivered
here will do anything but make
votes for him. The Neeley talk
accomplished considerably more
than did the speech of Mr.. Martin
which had a small crowd. Express