Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-08-27
ONLY THAT THEY MAY WIN.

Just at a time when they were hoping
that there was a chance for them TO
get on top and 10 run things, it turns
out that they either have no fit men to
ill the offices or that they lack conf
dence in each other. The only position
offered this section Of the state by the
Democratic state convention was
given deserving Republican, and
now when the Democratic senatorial
convention is held for this district the
same thing occurs. only they go still
further and nominate a man who is
hardly out of the Republican fold yet,
or at least one who has been holding
position for years at the hands of the
Republican party, and who in fact is
still holding an office. 1t must be a
savory cud for the Democrats TO grind
their hungry teeth upon. II may be
pleasant for The Democrats but it is
not for some other people that we
know of. The EAGLE hiss had many
good words for Ed. Dorsey, both as a
man and as a Republican. He was a
boy whom The Republicans of Sedge-
wick county made, and they were
proud of him. Many of us had thought
that he was so genuine in his makeup
that no bait could tempt him to desert
the men who had stood so long by
him, or the principles of the party
which had so often honored him.
When first told of it We couldn't
believe il. We can't under
stand il now The men who were al
ways his friends were still his friends,
and il can't he possible that the Dem
ocrats have convinced him that they
love him more. Some pretend that
il is the whisky question:; that Ed.
don't want TO be denied the privilege
of drinking whisky and getting drunk.
We don't believe il. We never saw
Ed Dorsey drunk in our lives. The
idea that he would, for the sake of the
interest of the saloon keeper, desert
his old friends and go back on his
principles, is too thin. lie wasn't
raised that kind of a boy. IL won't
wash Neither his appetite, convic-
lions er education neither his assoc
Citations, in the past, nor his honor or
inclinations would warrant such Il con-
clnsion. We simply give it up. OF
course everybody knows that the
Democratic party would take any
body or do anything for a chance of
seeming success. The Democratic
party would embrace the ghost OF
John Brown, as much as they hate his
memory, or concert with his imperial
highness, OF The sulphurous regions,
if thereby they could gain Il single
political morscl for their hungry
maws but, how they ever managed
10 capture our Ed. who has been the
pet and pride OF the Republican parry
ever Slilcc ne WIS iahcn 'iohi t"S ~
retaryship Of his own little grange,
away up the Big River, passes our
How hearts VIII ache
the news reaches his Old adj
49, 1917 III this county, need not be
dwelt upon. We don't believe stall
wart old Republicans, who have fought
Democrats all The way from Atlanta
10 the Sea, will rise up in their indlg-
nation and curse the men who stole
Eds heart, or even dcnounce Ed HIM
self. They will feel too bad. They
will Just sit down with bowed heads
aud think over the past and sorrow
fully resolve.
Ed hasn't forgotten, neither has his
friends. how only few years ago The
Democratic party of this county
nominated a particular man TO down
him, only because of his popularity
with the Republican party, and how
they turned the saloons loose against
him, filing everybody up with free
whisky and lining the streets with
hired hacks and bummers. But they |
didn't down Ed. Why! Simply be- !
cause true men who had honorcd him |
and found him also true, were in the |
The majority, as they are in the ma
iority to-day. Now think of that
crowd who fought him SO viciously
then because they hated everything
that was straight and anybody that
was true, tawning about Ed. Dorsey
with tender of their assumed pow
ers or honors! Had the Republicans
of Sedgwick ever done Ed. an injus-
tice, had the party ever failed 10 hon
or him when he deserved il, or re-
fused TO give him the most profitable
position whenever he asked il, then
we might be able TO figure out that
act Of yesterday. The Republican
party of Sedgwick county have snub-
bed certain men in the past when
they got to big for their breeches, and
will. no doubt, do il again, but they
never had anything but the kindest
words and the softest places for Ed.
Dorsey. So far as the EAGLE is con
cerned, which. rs all know, has, in its
humble way, tried 10 be true expo
nent of the Republican party of Sedg-
wick county these many long years,
always with unqucstioning faith stand
ing by the men its party had named
for Office, never i'm its history boiling
20 much as township constable,
when il comes TO the action of Edgar
A. Dorsey of yesterday, can only say
we are sorry-sorrv for him. If there
Is any indignation in our breast 1T is
$ against those Democrats who, care
ng nothing for principle, nothing for
men, and nothing for nothing, should
nave by their devish Vaccinations
md promises, won the consent of a
nan for whom they care nothing,
Tor whose character they care nothing.
for whose record they care nothing,
or whose past associations they care
so they can win. And we