Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-09-11
POOLING THEMSELVES.
Sedgwick County Republicans not
Spring Chickens.

There are lot of would-be politici-
ans who are going to be wofully left
on Sedgwick county this fall. The
gentlemen 10 whom we refer are
banking their little whirlwinds on the
cyclone which swept over this state
two years ago. That political iwister
fully expended itself then and the lit
tie swirls that it left in its wake are
perfectly harmless. The substantial
Republicans who, on account of prohi-
bition and third term and st. John,
and ST. Johns railroad backing and
Tie woman suffrage plank, went back
on The head of the ticket, are not GO
ing to do so this year. To assume or
TO presume that Dorsey or Steenrod
or any other disaflected Republican
can con rol or persuade thinking men
to lend their influence and to give
their votes this fall in aid of the Dem
VINO were solid factors in the cyclone
of two years ago; and the politicians
who bank on that kind of an assump-
ton will be undeceived in November.
There are dozens of business and Pro-
fessional hi n, in this city for instance,
who voted against st. John for one or
the other reasons we mention, two
years ago, who will vote for Blaine,
Martin, and the entire Republican
ticket this fall; and there is TO power
that can deter them, much less can
they be influenced by men who are
seeking 10 take advantage of a past
trouble 10 foist themselves into office
We don't like TO mention names in
connection with such an article as this
hut take such men Ms Katz, Alley, the
divers, Bruhn, Fabriqne, Levy, Hess.
Neiderlandcr, skinner Little, Thomas,
Ask, Woodcock, Horace Carpenter and
a host OF other representative men
whom we could name in this single To-
cality who not only voted against St
John but used their influence against
him, and what can any SO called politi-
clan do towards persuading these
men to cast their votes against Blaine
and Martin? IL can't be done. And
Whist is true of this city is true of ev-
cry township in Sedgwick county.
These men, and all such men, think
and act and vote for themselves, nor
Dorsey nor Stecnrod nor Judge Camp
bell nor any other old time .Rcpubli-
can, simply because they have been
been Republicans, can influence them
to vote against The Republican party
this fall for any boiler be he high or
low. When trimmcrs and strikers
tell us, in the interest of boilers and of
the Democratic party. what wonder
full things are going to happen and
how n dozen or two sorehcads are go
ing to upset a thousand or more of
such representative Republicans in
this county as we have named, the
proposition is 80 sickeningly weak |
that we are set 10 wondering if they |
really think the people are fools.
Who are these men that they should |
first manipulate Democratic caucuses
and conventions in their own interests |
and then turn out to lead by the nose
the men of principle who compose the
great party which has made it posi-.
bic for man in this country 10 ac- /
knowledge even that he is Demo
crat. Kansas is not Missouri, where /
no one except an eX-rebcl can be cleo
ted TO Office. nor yet Mississippi.
where sbot-guns are the only political
persuaders. DO these men think that |
the Republicans of Sedgwick county
are lost TO all honor all principle and
all deccncy, and that they are incapa-
BILE of thinking for themselves that
they can be thus nosed around by his
or that selfconstiiuted leaders nod or
beck?
Sedgwick county is Republican to-
day. There is not the least doubt of
il, and the election in November will
re-demonstrate the fact. 1t was Re-
publican two years ago, but ii wasn't
St. John nor woman suffrage, nor Tor
o crank and demagogue any way il
could be shaped up and their disatlec-
ton can be traced to nothing else. 4
few ignorant men who may have voted
the Republican ticket al various times
in the past simply because the drift
and tide were in that direction or be-
cause politicians of the dominant {
party went in that direction. may be
influenced TO follow wherever they ,
are led or directed. even into support {
ing out and out democrats and boilers. ,
from the top of the ticket down. but /,
this blowing around that independent {
sclf-rcspectiny Republicans S
who arc Republicans from principle (
will do any such :hing is an insul, 10 c
my man who hss a spark of man. !
hood. 10