Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-29

his old friends and go back on his
principles, ia too thin. He wasn't
raised that kind of boy. 1t won't
wash. Neither his appetite, convic-
lions or education neither his asso-
in the past, nor his honor or
inclinations would warrant such con-
We simply give it up. Of
course everybody knows that the
Democratic party would take any
body or do anything for chance of
seeming success. The Democratic
party would embrace the ghost of
John Brown, as much as they hate his
memory, or consort with his imperial
highncss, of the sulphurous regions,
if thereby they could gain a single
political morsel for their hungry
maws; but, how they ever managed
to capture our Ed. who has been the
pet and pride of the Republican party
ever since he was taken from the sec
retaryship of his own little grange,
away up the Big River, passes our
comprehension. How hearts will ache
when the news reaches his old ad-
mirers in this county, need not be
dwelt upon. We don't believe stall
wart old Republicans, who have fought
Democrats all the way from Atlanta
to the Sea, will rise up in their indig-
nation and curse the men who stole
Eds heart, or even deuounce Ed HIM
self. They will feel too bad. They
will just sit down with bowed heads
and think over the past aud sorrow
fully resolve.
Ed hasn't forgotten, neither has his
friends, how only few years ago the
Democratic party of this county
nominated particular man to down
him, only because of his popularity
with the Republican party, and how
they turned the saloons loose against
him, filling everybody up with free
whisky and lining the streets with
hired hacks aud bummers. But they
didn't down Ed. Why? Simply be-
cause true men who had hOnOred him
and found him also true, were in the
the majority, as they are in the ma
jority to-day. Now think of that
crowd who fought him SO viciously
then because they mated everything
that was straight and anybody that
was true, fawning 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 to hon
or him when he deserved it, or re-
fused to give him the most profitable
position whenever he asked it, 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 it 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, as all know, has, in its
humble way, tried to be true expo
nent of the Republican party of Sedg-
wick county these many long years,
always with unquestioping faith stand
ing by the men its party had named
for Office, never in its history boiling
so much as a township constable,
when it comes to the action of Edgar
A. Dorsey of yesterday, can only say
we are sorry-sorry for him. If there
is any Indignation in our breast it is
is against those Democrats who, care
ing nothing for principle, nothing for
men, and nothing for nothing, should
nave by their devish Vaccinations
md promises, won the consent of
nan for whom they care nothing,
or whose char acter they care nothing,
or whose record they care nothing,
or whose past associations they care
so they can win. And we
ell Ed. Dorsey that there are hum
lreds of strong men. aye, and good
mothers, too, in this county, who will
eel like crying when they read of his
lction il: this weeks EAGLE; not that
hey would feel so deeply over an or
linary case of political recreancy, but
because, having met him so many |
lines and oft at his old desk i'll the
ounty building, and having learned
o look upon him as one Of and with
hem, will feel like crying from vex-
.tion that so unlocked for thing
hould have happened where il touches
hem so nearly, happened to the life of
ne whom of their own volition they
ever could have doubted.