Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-08-24
the DEMOCRATIC CALCULATION

1t is very evident from all that trans
pired ut Topeka that the Democratic
managers, early ia the fix-up, ADAM
tioned all ideas of elccting a full ticket.
The nomination of the biggest resi-
dent railroad owner in the state as
railroad assessor, and the nomination
of u fresh descrtcr from the Republic
can ranks for the chief justiceship is
the broadest kind of admission that
there was no hopes for anything out
side of tho governorship. The rest of
the ticket is utterly insignificant and
its individual nominees unknown.
The Democratic leaders claimed that
Hon. c. X. Holiday was nominated in
Difference to the wishes of the result
missionists. But such claim was the
merest pretensc. Col. Holiday in
early times was a free state Democrat
lint not partizan. That he has ever
claimed to be anything else we do not
believe. lie is in one sense the father
Of the Santa Fc railroad, and is still
one of its owners and directors. Dem
ocrats even have too much sense 10
expect that they could elect a railroad
man to an Office even though as good a
man as Holiday, the principal respon-
sibility attaching to which office is the
assessing of railroads in Kansas. But
the Democrats wanted the railroad in
fluencc so nominated Col. Cyrus X.
Holiday. AS to the chief justice-hip,
we don't suppose that any one would
seriously contend that the Democrats
expected there would be any show to
elect as Democrat man 10 the
highest and most responible judicia!
place in the state, who, as a convert,
was hardly twcnty-four hours
old. man who can't carry
the county ia which he re-
sides: man whom the leading DEM
ocrats of his own county dread where
they fail to hate: man who has al
ways been hunting and scheming for
office even while in office; who, as n
Republican, talked everything else and
who. though just now a very loud
whisky Democrat, has worn blue rib
bons in this town, and both talked
and wrote for prohibition when he de-
sired 10 be nominated county attorney
by the Republicans. Steadily bal
anced heads and consistent records are
among the requisites of good reliable
timber for supreme judges, and no.
body, if we excep! himself, will claim
that w. z. Campbell is or has ever been
any such man. The boys may say,
''Oh, well, he is smart, he is kind
hearted, and he is with the boys"
Admitted, but every prominent DEM
ocrat in the county knows, after all,
what he is and has been politically. If
the Democrats had really wanted or
expected TO make any effort for the
ticket, as whole, they would have
nominated Judge Humphrey, of juno
ton City, the chairman of the railroad
commission, or some other prominent
Democrat. If that party had been
seeking for the advantages of fusion
they would not have taken man who
IN loudly proclaims his conversion.
Under the whip of the Dales and of
the Democratic organization the Dem
ocrats of Sedgwick may vote for
Campbell. but IL will be distasteful
job. As 10 the Republicans they would
rather throw away their ballots than
vote for him whom their party has
trusted in the past.
Click, Holiday and Campbell are then
the men constituting the Democratic
ticket of the state. There is not an
other name on the ticket that was ever
heard of outside of the immediate
ncighborhood in which they live.