The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1881-11-03

but a combination entered into with four or
Eve other men who claimed to represent the
Grecnback voters of the county. whereby S.
f. JocsIyn's name was not only forced upon
che ticket, but the very name and body Of
the ticket changed from Democratic Tick
et'' to the peoples Ticket" So transpar-
ent was the sell out, SO ill-disguised the mo-
sives Of White and Jocelyn, 50 ridiculousiy
preposterous the entire transaction that the
people of this city and vicinity grinned as at
a harmless burlesque. As TO the great ma
jority of the men who are, and have been,
lifelong Democrats from principle, of course
they were indignant, many Of the leaders In
this city declaring openly that before they
would countcnance such a mongrel ticket be-
gotten of such shameless iniquity they would
rather vote the straight Republican ticket or
remain away from the polls.
Thus stood matters until the Jocelyn ana
White clique, pcrceiving that their ticket,
representing no principle and backed by no
party. would ial. of its own weight, deter
mined upsE course which has since been
pcrsistent!y pursued. without party, WITH
out principle, and without any merit IN ana
of themselves, there was but one course LETT,
and that the systematic denunciation anu
yillifcation of the Republican nominees.
This last policy so disguised many Democrats
that two or three of that party were induced
to announce themselves as independent can
didatcs.
Such has been tue situation for three weeks
such it is to-day, and such II will be until u
nally settled by the people at the polls next
Tuesday. without parallel In this or prob
ably any other state, these demagogues ana
self-seekers, these men who know no princi-
pie or party, save aud except as their own
personal ends are subserved, have, through
the columns of their organ, and in every
public place throughout the county, where
they could get & hearing. traduced, culumni-
ated and yii,ined the names, records and lives
of men whose only offense lies in the fact
that their fellow-citizens have designated
them as candidates TO ill honorable offices.
Honorable men, who have filed stations
whose every duty was so discharged as to
call forth the pIaudt of swell done good and
faithful servant" men loved by their neigh
bors, respected by society, men who contrib
uts to the up-bulding of the churches, aud
whose hands haye ever been ready to relieve
the distressed or unfortunate, have been, by
this hungry horde of midnight plotters, this
crowd OF infldels, spiritualists, sore heads,
scoffers and grumbleis, this gang OF sweet
scented mongrels, these, we say, and only
these have gone about denouacing the Re
publican nominees as common drunkards, as
wife heaters, as gamblers, as embezzlers OF
public moneys, as corrupt rings, as perJurers'
as thieves and robbers, and as everything 70
which they could lay theirlying tongues. In
this city, where this clique is best known and
their designs and aims understood, they Will
be overwhelmingly defeated, but the Repub.
lean Central Committee believing that num-
bers throughput the county were being inn
posed upon by their vile lies, and that many
honorable and conscientious men, in the abb
sence Of the facts, might be misled, we have
made the foregoing statement with the hope
that every ono may, for himself, inquire into
and become possessed of all the truth before
he east his vote on Tuesday next.