Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-22

WEB WILDER ON the OUTLOOK.

Hiawatha World 1t may be truth
fully said that no Republican campaign
since the party was first organized
ever began so hopefully as the present
Blaine and Logan campaign. Both
candidates are very popular, and the
platform on which they stand enun-
ciates the political principles of the
great body OF the people. Were the
election held to-day it is believed that
Blaine would carry every northern.
state, and very probably West Vir-
GINA, Tennessee and Florida. No
Democrat offers to bet on the success
of his own party. The Republicans
are full of enthusiasm and hard
at work. Victory is in the
air. The most remarkable
feature of the campaign thus far is the
immense host of Irishmen who have
come out for Blaine and Logan. 1t is
aperfect stampede from the rotting
Democratic hulk. And the altogether
new and startling part of the Demo-
cratic side show is the moral charac-
ter of its candidate for presidedt. Mr..
Cleveland is very weak in that regard.
The facts already published are not
denied, even by Democrats, but con-
firmed. There is much talk among
them of Withdrawing Cleveland. New
er before did any party present such a
person as its candidate for the highest
Office. The modern expression for
such situation is 'between the devil
and the deep sea-" Milton, in "Para-
disc Lost" had it:
Which way fly is hell my self am hell.
That is the way it presents itself to
Grover Cleveland, Ii matters little
what he does now. His party is al
ready beaten. 1t always blunders at
the right time for Republican success.
The opposition in Kansas is greatly
divided in name; it has a variety of
factions, but they all have one purpose
the defeat of Blaine and the state
ticket. And they will all be buried in
one grave under such majority as
even Kansas never saw before.
Next week. August Goth, the Demo-
Gratis meet in Topeka and renominate
Click. On the same day few Repub-
licans, opposed to prohibition, will also
nominate Click. The rest of the tick
ct will be divided among Democrats
anu AL luCSt
persons claim TO be opposed 10 the Re-
publicans because they are Prohibi.
tionists.
But in September another faction is
to meet in Lawrence and nominate a
ticket. They call themselves Prohibi-
tionists, and they oppose the Republi-
cans because they are not Prohibition
lists. Strange, it isn't? The leader of
this last party is Martin Van Bennett,
the Copperhead and Democrat. He
never voted Republican ticket. An
other leader of the faction is John B.
Finch. of Nebraska, always a Demo-
crat. Both Van Bennett and Finch |
were III the Pittsburg convention, and
voted for ST. John as there candi
date for president. 1t would help
the Democrats. St. John is now in |
the east making speeches and abusing |
the Republicans because they did not !
put prohibition into the Chicago plat. |
form. He is doing all in his power to
draw off votes from the Republican |
party to himself.
This is the situation-a coalition and |
of the ragtag and bob
tail, OF eve ything to beat the Repu5-
lican party in Kansas. The Democrats
are complimenting st. John and pat
ting him on the back St. John and
sinner Cleveland have one and the
same purpose.
The ordinary observer can hardly |
of the depth of the grave
that these shysters have dug for each
other.