The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1879-08-07

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WHAT rs THE CONDITION OFTHE
PARTY?
Waco, July %, 1879.
10 tie Editor of the Eagle:
see by your paper that the Republi-
can central committee has made its usu-
Il call for the primaries to meet and
elect delegates, etc., and suppose the
usual amount of small jobs and smart
tricks win be played on the innocent
voters, rs before.
Now, would like to inquire, What
condition is the Republican party in to-
day, and can they elect their ticket this
1aN?
I, for one. do not think the prospect
is very hattering. The party has been
managed for the last few years in
manner that tends to destroy any party
that is so managed, and without a
change we shall be in a minority in this
country. There have been too many
jobs put up on the party by selfish men
that are looking for Office, and when
elected for one term it is impossible to
choke them off short of two terms and
sometimes three. Now, the voters are
greatly to be blamed for allowing such
q state of affairs to exist, and it would
be impossible if the voters would at
tend the caucus.
The caucus is an American institution
invented by John Quincy Adams, and
he said that by the caucus, if attended
by q majority of the voters, politics and
parties would become honest, but if
used by a few politicians and Office
seekers it would be perverted to bad
and dangerous use. do not think if
he had lived until the present day he
could have told us any nearer the truth.
We all know that in this county there
are but few voters who attend the
caucuses-about one man in ten is the
number that is on hand, and nine-tenths
of them have been got there to assist
some ofIice-hunter that has been coax
ing and pleading for their help to send
some delegates to the county convcn-
ton that will vote for them. The Office
seekers working on the plan that if the
devil gets the nomination the party will
vote tor him. Men that are honorable
gentlemen at other times, are perfectly
cisgugusting, sometimes, when they are
candidates for Office. They will gener-
ally shake hands with q man twenty
times q day, if they meet him, and in
quirc very afiectionately after the wife
and children, corn and hogs, and bcvery
much interested in his welfare, while at
the same time he cares nothing for the
man, wife, children or hogs-it's his
agreement to 20 to the caucus and vote
for him that he wants. Men are waltz.
ing around this county to-day with a
little set speech for every one that they
intend calling to see, and it's but very
few that they wish to see, as they don't
want any one there except their own
delegates. well knowing that if the vo.
tiers would all turn out their chances for
nomination would be very small.
There are great many wrongs that
are allowed to exist that could be pre-.
vented by the voters attending the eau
Gus. Now, il is very easy to play any
kind of game once, but after the peo-
pie have been humbuggcd a few times
some one will begin to investigate, and
although the farmers are slow to act yet
they will sometimes get excited and
take hold in earnest. The farmers are
the ones that must be blamed for these
things; there are but very few that
attend the primaries TO elect or instruct
the delegates, but after the nominations
are made they will turn out to man to
hear the mOurnful bowling of these can.
didates as they go marching through the
county calling on the farmers to vote
for them as by SO doing they will be
supporting the Republican party.
Now, this is all wrong, and to use a
common expression, is getting little
too thin, and a great many Republicans
are looking through it, and the facts a.
presented to them does not present g
very pleasant subject for contemplation
The Democrats are making considerable
capital out of the political dishonesty OF
those who have run the party for the
last few years, and they-the Democrats
will do their best this fall. They have
read the proceedings in the last Con
grcss, and read of the rebel flag dis
played in Virginia on decoration day
and read some of the speeches that were
delivered on that day. and ii gives then
courage and invigorates them to such an
extent that they hope with the help OF
their faithful allies of last fall (tht
Greenbackers) to carry the election this
fall. and unless there is a change in the
Republican method Of doing business,
they will do it.
Now, am one that believes in thor
ough organization and that success is
impossible without il. Some will say
you keep quiet, the central committee
viii attend to that. But who will at
tend to the central committee! do
NOT know all Of them, but there are
some of them who have out-grown their
usefulness, and they are looking to their
own interest instead of that of the par
ty, and when Mr.. Massey left he was not
the only advocate of the Grcenback
PARTY. There are some who, if they
have the success of the Republican
party ut heart, should comply with
Shakspcare's words when he said. stand
mot ON the manner of your going. but
60.
Now, like to work for the success of
the Republican party, but when il comes
70 these Jobs that have been put upon
us and forced upon us by certain men
who claim to run. and in fact have run
the Republican party for the last few
wears, il is time for every Republican
that has not the fear of the party before
them, to expose and defeat all wrongs
we can.
Some will saw, don't cry before you
are hurt, but there was a great many
hurt last fall. as the returns showed. and