Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-07-22
WHISKY AND ReNEGADES.
This Is the Year of Jubilee That Will
Stiff out the Chaff.

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Stiff out the Chaff.
This is year thai, will test the poll
teal principles of men as they have
not been tested since the first election
of Abraham Lincoln. This fall Will
determine every mans status, whether
he has voted the Republican ticket in
in the years past as "a believer in its
doctrines or voted IT simply because
it represented the power of the domi-
mant party, and because the voter as
pired TO off ce This year viii sift the
chafr from the wheat. Men who have
held on TO the Republican party for
wears, men who owe 10 that party all
that they are in name and purse, men
whose bread and butter for season
after season, have come from the hand
OF the Republican party, will this year
show up in their true c0lors. such
will rise as rotten scum 10 the surface
To float away or be skinned off.
The excuses for their action will
vary with each state and locality. In
Kansas prohibition will be their cx-
cuse. But the one prime reason, stu
Il reason which will never be given,
vet which will nevertheless be the
true one, is, they never were Republi-
cans at heart and now that there is a
show for that party's defeat they EN-
brace the first opportunity to reach
out for new chance.
There will be men among them who
will unblushingly declare that they
have never been anything but Demo
Gratis. There Will be men whs have
for years stood upon the street corn
ers and howicd themselves hoarsc in
advocating Republican principles and
lauding the Republican party, and de-
nouncing Democratic platforms, while
all the time they prayed for an Office,
who will this fan just As loudly eulo-
oize the father OF bastafds and glori-
fy the party whose lines embrace
every living rebel, every implacable
enemy that the free institutions and
free government of America ever had.
These political hybrids will not only
be found in Kansas, but they will be
found in Sedgwick county. Still
wherever located they will be known
to have been men who either owe ali
they are to the Republican party, or
men whom that party had refused TO
honor or would no longer trust with
an office. they will be found 10 be
men W no train only with the winning
side, or the side they think is going to
win.
We said that. with n majority of
these in Kansas, who will thus desert
principles which they never really be-
lieved in, loved or admired, the prohi-
bitiou question would he put for
ward as the excuse for their act ion.
Whiskyis what they want, or pretend
to want,-iree whisky. For the wis
dom contained in, or truth OF that
proposition. each can watch and see
for himself. .iff
Whisky! Think of il The aborigi
nees were want TO call this distillation
.'tire-water." We would move to
amend aud make il hell-tire- water.
or the drippings of damnatisn, or the
essence of poverty, ruin and death
The political negatives. who drink |
but little themselves, some of them
none at all. but who are brought face |
TO face with the work et this Internal |
bligh; daily, and who can point out
among their associates and fellow citi- |
zens the brightest examples of manly |
worth that have already been ruined |
spiritually, already been ruined meu-
tally, and who now. physically, are |
into cheap pine cotiins, will
look YOU in the face and tel YOU that |
they are going 10 fight the Republican
party. going to vote the Democratic
ticket, because the party of freedom
and progress shows disposition to
put forth a helping hand tc,savei nen,
because it asks the privilege of pro-
tecting friends, and brothers and sons
against themselves, because il bcss
and solicits of the majority of the peo-
pie the constitutional right and the
power TO shut OF from those enslaved
heir greatest enemy and The greatest
Enemy of humanity.
Against the German aud his beer.
md as to light wines for Americans.
we have nothing TO urge II was upon
hat rock that our faith in prohibit
DRY law went 10 pieces when the
was first submitted. and .
ve.have never been able 10 make il /,
whole since; but as for MAT liquid fire /
allied whisky, brandy, and the thous- ;
md Understanding decoctions combin-
d of these, we are opposed 20 them as i
much as can be any prohibitionisis !
The German has been raised for gen,
ratiuns- been taught by-precept and /,
Namllr-Ihat bee ". 40 IA re- harm I,
III as a DAHL, hc,crs - han Tea ana :
Office. u is "qaliy well known u al 1