The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1874-12-03
Opposed to Party Lines.

Opposed to Party Lines.
The Kansas Farmer, whose editor
lately deserted the republican party,
and who. still la,er, was badly defeat
cd in the race for congress. j. opposed
To drawing The party lines 10y the leg
islature. Such line of demarcaiion
would leave J. X Hudson on the
wrong side of the fence and out in the
cold. Evidently .Ioc's heads rests a
little uneasy in The nest fashioned by
his last falls ambition. There are no
Office feathers or political Cruz. bs OF
= comfort about that reform nest only
democratic dirt. The drawing of po-
li,ical lines would leave our friend
and his enterprise swinging high in
the reform brcezes. tied 10 his
own resources with no little "stray
list" or LAW and :iliabi'' props TO sus-
tain him in grasShopper aud drouthy
times.
How would il have been if Hudson.
Cusey, eial. had been elected instead of
defeated: With what nonchalance
they would have drawn their virtuous
official robes around them aud with
pity in their face, aud vengeance in
their boot, kicked from of the Stage
the old tried and true party of Kansas
aud the nation. Joe, we feel sorry for
YOU. II your political demi-nymph
had been young and gushing, floating
ia the softly perlumcd laccs OF virtue
il would have been less sad, but to fall
into the arms Of her who had served
the purposes " such men as Jim Bu-
chanan, Andy $ohnson and JEFF Davis,
and whose tawdry smells across a con-
;nent-wcll there should be no whin-
ing If the door of tie republican tenn
pie is closed against you.
But for his apostacy the editor of
the Kansas Farmer would heve been
The next State Printer. Everything
was tending in that direction. Even
last winter, Notwithstanding the splen-
did work done by the Commonwealth
for the republican party, notwith-
standing il spent thousands of dollars
the year previous in the interests OF
the republican party and its princi-
pics, the legislature gave fully half OF
its patronage in the way of publica-
tions TO the Farmer. Its stray list is
'monopoly' guaranteed by laws
made by republicans, and even the
little money in lac the .ylabl of the SUI
preme court was taken from the old
state paper and given to it. SO strong
was the feeling in the legislature last
winter in favor of the Farmer that we
have not the least doubt next January
would have found the man who re.
ccived quite vote for Us Senator
last winter, the State Printer. But
that is all past and whether party
lines are drawn or not, j. X. Hudson
however good man he Is personally
will not be patronized in any man
ncr by the party he SO earnestly tried
to defeat The Republican party cares
nothing now for either his advice OF
friendship.
We are for drawing, strictly, the
party lines in Kansas.
Check" has been the one great and
prc-cmiuently successful basis of Office
seeking in Kansas. Too much chcel
is what has been the matter. Before
it party, cligibily and fitness have
gone down. nine times out of ten. Re
lying upon its original principles ant
its power, the republican party ha
suffered this thing for years until indi
vidual CHECK has nearly ruined it
But no more check is wanted. especial
" from men outside of the party
Check has won in all contests from tn
L. 5. Scnatorship down TO constable
ship in this state. Unheard of boy
have suddenly emerged from OBSCURE
" and without experience or capacit,
have sailed into the higheat places, re
living solely upon "chcek" and tn
dominancy and good nature of the re
publican party.
Let us have better men and les
CHECK and no interference from tn
hcnchmcn of the party that gave II