Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-08
ARun nuRRAH At TOPEKA.

The party of Abraham Lincoln, the
party Of the true and loyal people of
this proud, prosperous nation. is being
tried as by fire. tried as a whole and
tried in detail; attacked by enemies at
every conceivable point from without,
and rended AID torn by strange aud
inharmonious elements within. If
this party of past glories and unex-
ampled victories survives at all, it will
come out more pure, more unselfish
and more patriotically exalted than
ever before. If il survives in spite of
the threats and Vaccinations of its
whiskey element upon the one hand,
and its cranks upon the other, Spar
tan victories and magma charters will
pale before its record of deeds and
living principles, and the names of its
leaders will be enshrined and canon
lied.
Another call for another state con-
vention has been issued. Is it not
enough that the party in Kansas
should be stained by the contents of
St. Johns dirty little bubble? that
men who had been honored by the
party and trusted for years, should so
far succeed in rending it as to place a
blatant copperhead in the chair of the
chief executive? that half of the
county attorneys and sheriffs of the
state should have been elected avow-
ing as their only platform the deter
mination TO nullify and trample upon
enacted laws?
AS we said, call for another state
convention has been issued, tn meet in
Topeka ON the 10th day of August, to
meet the same day that the Democrat
ic state convention meets. This call
is TO all Republicans who voted for
Click two years ago, and is called in
the name of temperance. II is to be
known as the Resubmission Republi-
can State convention. 1t means, if
it means anything, the defeat of the
Republican party in Kansas. 1t
means the defeat of an unanimous
nominee of the Republican party. 1t
means the defeat of man for gov
ernor whose record is so honored. so
bright that nothing but praise was
ever ELECTED from il from friend or foe
1t means the defeat of man who has
devoted his whole life to the best in
teresfs of the state of Kansas. Ii
means the crushing out of patriot
who fought for what we now enjoy
and the elevation of another who
staid at home and rejoiced in the de-
feats of his neighbor and incurred
over his victories. 1t means that Kan
sas is to be represented IN the United
States senate by some stay-at-home,
rum-compatriot of Democratic Click.
Ii means all these things and much
more if it means anything.
This move sprung from the hearts
of Click and his coharts and was first
suggested by the Democratic organ of
the state. The Republicans who may
respond to the call know that further
division of the Republican party in
Kansas means simply defeat of that
party. An Independent ticket by
whatever name, can only weaken the
Republican party and a fusion ticket
must tend 10 the same result, and we
are surprised that any man who
claims TO be Republican could lend
his name TO such call, or that any
man who has been either honored or
trusted by, or who believes in single
tenet of, the Republican party's plat
form, should consent to meet on the
same day and in the same place with
the Democratic party.
The Commonwealth suggests that
good may come out of this step. There
is no possible good that can come out
of coalition of Democrats and Re-
publicans, and ii will prove the politi-
cal suicide for every Republican that
touches or recognizes the Janus-faced,
mongrel. rum-hurrah. of August goth
at Topeka.