The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1882-11-02

Supt. RUB. instr N 3D. ~. hAMMOND1
Commissioner I'd Dist j. NJ. STEELE
AN APPEAL TO TIE 0LD-TIME REPUBLI-
CANS OF SEDGwICK COUNTY.
There are a large number of Republicans
in sedwick county who have been in full ac-
cord with us touching the constitutional
amendment and the train Of seeming innova-
tons which have followed that act, both as
to public policy and party nominations; Re-
publicans who deemed themselves progress
i've yet who held TO the conviction that to the
grand old party of freedom was due all the
prosperity and security which have made the
past twenty years SO bright page in the Ma
TONS history; who never doubted that the
party of Lincoln, Sumner and Garfield would
in all good time produce a civilization grand
er than any the world has known; and who,
despite the mistakes OF leaders and in spite
OF bolters and soreheads, have gone on from
year to year voting its principles and tickets
wholly and unscratched. Such have We been,
and to such are We now addressing ourselves /
with all the earnestness OF which our mind |
is capable.
The first great crisis in the history of the |
Republican party of Kansas is upon us, and |
next Tuesday must record its grandest vic
tory or its saddest defeat. This is true as to
the State. and this is true as to Sedgwick
county. We appeal to you for the answer.
Which shall it be,
1t is unnecessary to review the causes
which have led up to the present deplorable
situation. An earnest element desiring high.
er standards Of progress, and knowing that
nearly all the good we enjoy as people had
come from the hands Of the Republican par
ty, struck out boldly for new achievements.
While none of US doubted the honesty OF
their motives, or their earnest desire to bet
ter the condition Of their felow-man, still
their methods were first criticised and then
rebeIled against. But a majority OF our own
party, AFTER considering the whole matter,
endorsed both the men and their measures.
Are not these the simple facts,
For twenty years, and more; in fact never,
since the days when the Free State boys
drove the Border Rufians back to their BUSH
whacking dens and slave pens in Missouri
until now, has the Democracy ever had
chance to lay its blighting hand and rule up
on our fair aud wonderfully prosperous Kan
sas. AUD, .o.-~i,h-,anaing numbers of their /
rank voted for the constitutional amend /
ment, no sooner did they see evidences of
distraction in the Republican camp than they /
commenced to count, TO plot and to scheme.
In their State convention, when the more de-
cent element desired to set out some pretense
Of principles, the majority reyolted and their
nominee for governor declined. They want
ed no principles. Their only desire was to
catch the disafected Republicans. To win,
they stood ready to strike hands with the
devil. Their ready tool proved to be George
W. Click. You are asked to elect this Click
governor next Tuesday. They can't elect
him, themselves, by Go,OOo votes. viii you
supply the deficiency
But is that all. No, it is no nearer all than
was the first shot on Fort Sumter the sum to-
tai of the rebellion. As the cry Of dissatis-
faction seemed to grow stronger in the Re-
publican ranks and the disaster in Ohio was
flashed over the wires, they grew holder and
prohibition Democrats pulled back into their
own party. Now their speakers and papers
are not only claiming that the old giant Re-
publican party is hopelessly crippled and that
they Will carry twenty or thirty county tick
cts and have from forty to fifty members in
of Bourbon governor, will be combined on
some Independent-whom they can control
to beat the man OF whom SO much is expect
ed in the future, the youngest and stanchest
of all the Republican hosts of Kansas-P. B.
Plumb.
In the face OF these facts, thus briefly but
truthfully summarized, and which we think no
candid reader Of the EAGLE car or viii Ques-
ton, we earnestly beseech every true Repub-
lican to pause; lay aside all mere personal
prejudice, and in the light Of your own ex-
perience and knowledge, and by the measure
Of your own conscience and your hopes Of
the perpetuity of true republican rule In THE
fair State Of your adoption-with an inward 1
determination - TO Whatever others may do
or whatever course others may take, as for
yourself you will take no chances but cast Z
your ballot unscratched and unmixed for the
entire Republican State, congressional and
county ticket. De this, and following such
manly action will be, for you, no regrets and
no sef-accusation now, nor in the future, ,
but en- the contrary an approving conscience, n
whatever disaster may follow as the conse- =
quence of the sbort-sighted course of such
az are swayed by passion or prejudice. Il