Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-10-30
REPUBLICANS READ.
A Final Summing Up of the Cam =
paign About to Close.

When this reaches YOU, but few days o
the campaign will be left for work. Tn
state has been canvassed as never before
Not less than two hundred meetings have
been held under the auspices Of or in con
nection with the state central committee.
The principles upon which the Republ
can party bases its claims for a continuance
of power have been freely discussed on tn,
stump, bv the press, and in documents o
more than ordinary value.
As a result il may be truthfully said that
40 issue of national or state policy has beer
neglected, and there is not voter in tbs
state but that can intelligently cast his bal
lot.
Upon the other hand, our opponents have
traversed the state, ana made their cam
paign upon some phase Of the whisky ques-
ton. and that alone. The Army Of Lib
erty" has sent out lis adjutant generals in
all quarters of the state, organizing it, secret,
oatb-bound political organizations, which
have no test of political principles except
opposition to men who favor the enforce
ment of the laws Of the state.
The Republican party presents as its nom
ince for president, james G. Blaine, a man
whose life has been spent in the service OF
his country. He has assembled step by step
from the legislature OF his own state to con-
gress. when for three successive terms he
filled the most important position in that
body in such Il manner as to merit the vol
untary endorsement of his political oppo-
nents. His state next advanced him to the
highest position within their giit-thc senate
of the United States, from which position
the amented Garfield chose him as his chief
advisor position which, in the American
system of government, is second only to the
presidency. In all these positions he has
proved himself the equal of any OF
his predecessors, and to-day stands in histo-
~ the peer of Webster, Clay, Douglas. Sew
ard, and the great statesmen OF American
history. The Republican party presents as
its candidate for vice president the ideal vol
untccr soldier Of the war, John \. Logan.
For nearly quarter of a century identi-
fled with the legislation Of the nation. and
for four years al the head Of our noble
heroes who saved the country in its time
of peril. both our candidates are men who
may be chosen by the young men of the ma
ton a. models of our social, private and
public life. Our opponents present Grover
Cleveland, whose only claims for statesman
ship consist in his having served his country
as sheriff of his county. and whose virtues
will not bear discussion in the family circle
He is known 10 have presented only one
live issue TO his party-Oscar Folsom
Cleveland The Democratic candidate for
vice-president, Thomas \. Hendricks. is Il
man whose public life has been marked by
a blot that should condemn him in the
hearts of every lover of his country. When
the life of the nation hung in "a balance, he
did what only coward and disloyalist
would do-aided and allotted his enemies.
He refused to sustain by his vote our sol
dicrs in the field. and when the thanks of the
country were offered to the living and dead
soldiers. he refused to add his voice: and
when pittance was offered the manned he
70. he cast his vote agains. the measure.
Disloyal in the beginning, his disloyalty has
grown with his growth. and strengthened
with his age
The Republicans of Kansas present as
their chief candidate Col. John A. Martin.
whose history is the history of Kansas.
For more than twenty-five years hi,
time, talents and means have been
devoted 10 the development and
upbuilding of his chosen state. The school
houses, churches, railroads. shops and
farms bear testimony TO his enterprise, and
those like him, who believed in Kansas and
state in patriotism, in love of law and order
in education, in general intellicence--in en-
terprise second To no state in the union.
" hen not more than boy he led the
Eighth Kansas regiment TO the defense OF
his country. and for four long wears on the
battle fields of the south. east and west
made n record for the soldiers of Kansas
that will live as long as the love of country
,,,t L., -
yatc and social life an example worthy of
emulation.
His opponent, George W. Click. like his
prototype. Thomas \. Hendricks, was born
an obstructionist. Opposed TO rebellion. but
opposed 10 the means used to conquer it.
Opposed 10 the defeat Of our armies. but
opposed to thanking our brave men for vic
tory. Opposed to victory for rebels. but
opposed 10 giving our soldiers the means to
prevent il. Opposed 10 the colored man
the militia, and opposed TO his attending
the public schools.
From 1870 TO 1850 monopolist, then sud
denly turning anti-monopolist. To use his
own adopted report, "soiting his shoes in the
barnyard and joining the army of Patrons
ard llusbandry.'
Republican majority. See to it that the
claim is made good.
A vote for James G.. Blaine for the presi-
dency will be vote against retrograde
movement in the public policy of the nation
and vote for the progress in the develop
ment of our nationality and prosperity. II
will be an intelligent vote for man whose
principles are not obscure. for he Is at once
/. a., .a,r aud ,-,,,-.-o.,t..t,s,
Ii will be vote for the continued ascend
ency of the party whose record is written in
the most glorious chapters of the history of
the country.
Rebellion for slavery crushed: slavery
abolished; the freedmen enfranchised: all the
productive industries Of the country cher
ished and protected; specie payments re-
sumed: the laborer rewarded for his toll:
public credit inyiolate; the national
standard advanced: and Ameri-
can commerce enlarged. And it
will be vote TOR man whose private life
has been ransacked, his private papers pub
ished by his enemies. and vet who comes
ont clear As the MONDAY sun. Slandercd as
to his domestic life. he is the honored head
Of as happy family as there is in the land.
with wife and children Acknowledged as
his own. Ii will be a vote for a man who
has had the hearts of the masses of the Re
pnblicars for ten wears, and who had in the
Republican convention two-thirds Of the
of Republican districts and
states, and who was swept into the candidacy
for the presidency by force he did not d.
rect nor control. IL will be vote against
The party that left the control of the Ma
iional government. cglv 10 attempt through
Is leaders the destruction Of the government.
A vote against party that during It's Danish
ment of twenty wears by the people. has
nursed its malignity; party that is notori-
Gus for its dishonesty, has no principles of
national Importance. and. locally, no issue
but personal liberty, alias free whisky 1t
will be vote against committing the diree-
ion of affairs in the hands of those who. but
A few years ago, attempted II destroy the
country and against giving the law-making
power TO the law breakers. Ii viii be vote
against disturbing the business which for
he past twenty years has had no parallel in
he history Of nations; against the submis-
ion of the union to the solid south Re
member that the house of representatives is
how in the hands Of the Democrats,
| majority of whom are from the