The Wichita city eagle., 1878-07-11
4 DANIEL oona 70 JUDGMENT.
JuDaS CAnPsEL TELLS WET HE Don'F Im
. TIE EAGLE AND OFFERS SonE FLlHsY
Excusrs FoR His POLITICAL.
COURSE.
WICHITA, July IL, 1871

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| WICHITA, July IL, 1873.
Ed. EAGLE:-I haze been strangely
if not profoundly impressed, by tn
course of the EAGLE in the race fol
the Republican nomination for Con
gress from this districts You hav,
shown disposition to treat the op
position to Ryan with marked con
tempt, both on account OF their char
actcr and influence. as viewed by tn,
EAGLE, and their number, which, &C
cording to the EAGLE is quite incon
siderable in Sedgwick county. YoI
are not disposed to give us credit fol
the least sincerity or honesty. Yo.
took up the cudgel for Ryan agains
the world, long before the congress
sional committee was called together
| and with vehemence unusual will
the EAGLE, have battered away at hil
imaginary enemies ever since. Yor
seem to go on the principle, that be
cause your Captain Bobadie is mem
Der OF Congress, and has resorted tt
the usual devices of Congressman
| ambitious for second term, it is spe
cies Of sacrilege to even suggest tha,
better man might possibly be found
You have adduced and reiterated your
favorite argument that your patron
was certain of nomination, in the
face of the fact that long before any.
body was in the field against him.
there was united and determined op.
position to him in every county in the
district west of Harvey, on account Of
his evident subserviency to disrepu-
table factions and combinations. You
have refused to publish any thing that
pretends to discuss the merits or de-
merits of the respective candidates, il
against your man.
Now, it occurs to me that if we are
so few and Insignificant as you affect
to believe, you could afford to speak
kindly of us, and l have yet to learn
that it is crime for o Republican to
support his preference in the party
conventions. Notwithstanding he may
differ with the EAGLE.
A few weeks ago you announced
that the opposition to Ryan in this
county consisted of but two persons,
and sneeringly added that these were
office-holders. I am not ashamed to
acknowledge that have been twice
elected to an Office of great tlust and
honor, and by no means do l consider
this sufficient reason for my neigh
bors and friends to stamp me out, how
ever agreeable it might be to the EA-
GLE man. am also gratified to know
that my continuance in Office does not
depend upon the favor of any Con-
gresham. You have the undoubted
right to control your own columns,
and to push your private fortunes if
yon please, but it is always fair to give
both sides hearing, and paper that
claims to be the organ of great par
ty should not do the work merely of a
little clique.
In your last issue you say that Judge
Peters has but three supporters in
and these you are pleased to
cali Jonahs, and you threaten to re-
these for their disobedience.
Now, Jonah was an eloquent orator
and statesman of eye olden time,"
by the Almighty to
turn the wicked city of Nineveh from
he evil of its ways. Jonah was re-
'ractory and took ship for Tarshish,
and the Lord was justly angry there
1t. A fearful tempest arose, and the
Foyagers were nearly dead with ter
-or, all except Jonah, whom to their
infinite disgust they found "down in
ides of the ship" fast asleep. Having
awakened him, they drew lots to see
whose transgression occasioned the |
storm, and the lot fell upon Jonah, of
Whether they put up job |
IN Jonah, as the editor of the EAGLE
lelped to do on Judge Brown two
ears ago, the sacred narrative is 81
ent. At any rate they discovered the
,uilty party and cast him into the sea,
md the tempest abated. Luckily, Jo-
lah was taken aboard by friendly
whale and conveyed to the ncighbor-
Iood of Nineveh, which city he visit
d, converted and saved.
If the EAGLE stands in the same re-
alton TO the Republicans of Sedgwick
ounty, as the Lord Almighty did to
he festive mariners on board the good
hip of the Tarshish line, then l am
Jonah, and there are
ne or two-perhaps three-Jonahs in
Wichita.
There is food for reflection in this
tory of Jonah. 1t the ship-master
ad not found and awakened him, the
IT might have fallen on an innocent
ian, and Jonah and all board, would
ave gone down to the bottom of the
"a aud been eaten by little fishes, and .
ie luckless Ninevites would have con-
nued in sin and been destroyed. So
he EAGLE, by its incessant, unwant-
|, and l might say interested,
lowing and gong-beating, has awak-
led many Jonshs, and if you UNDER ,
Ike to throw them all overheard, you !
ill be too busily engaged to pack the .
Ext county convention in the interest I
"The Old Man"
However, Marsh, if you are deter :
ined to throw us all overheard, send Q
ong your whale and we'll go to Min a
'eh. Gratefully, t