Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-10-18
THE"IRREPRESSIBLE" CONFLICT

One Of the strongest presentations Of the
issues of the campaign that has vet been
made is that found in letter TO the Phila-
delphia Press by Edward Everett Hale,
under the date of October l.. 1t views
from the broadest standpoint the issues and
the tendencies Of the two great parties, and
with keen, incisive blade, Mr.. Hale cuts
| through the flimsy bubbles Of Democratic
pretensions. Some of his terse epigrams
are worthy of Victor Hugo, and the logic OF
his whole letter is irresistible. The intro
| ductorv paragraphs, quoted below, are
written in spirit of a philosophic student
Of history, and they serve To impress the
l,..,.,. oI he whole meaning OF southern
domination:
Governor Morris said TO Josiah Quincy
eighty years ago, The great mistake we
| made was in the beginning, when We united
eight republics to five olegarchies.'
The eight republics were the eight free
states of the old thirteen.
The five oligarchies were the five slave
states of those days.
The republics were governed by their peo
pie.
The oligarchies were governed by hand
fuls of planters
II is now proposed TO the people of the
their own states, that they shall give the
government of the country to the handful of
men who are used to governing the south
ern states. This is what is meant when it is
said TINT the government is to be transferred
10 the hands of the Democratic party.
The people of the north viii be very sorry
if this thing is ever done, even if ii Is done
through their own negligence.
What is called the Democratic party
means the solid south, with such help as 1t
can pick up among few discontinued peo
pie at the north, generally lrishmen who do
not vet know the way in which their race
has always been treated by these people. If
Mr.. Bleine were to be chosen by the north
ern states only, rs Mr. Lincoln WAS chosen
in his second election. he would receive a
vote AS strong as Mr.. Lincoln. 1t is the
southern Democracy-what Gouverneur
Morris calls 1.-THE southern oligarchy"-
which is expected to defeat Mr.. Blaine and
to govern the country.
They must not be permitted To do this.
because they do not know how to govern
the country.
They never did.
They do not know the country nor the
principles of Republican government, and
there is no way in which they can learn.
They live in thinly pecpled states and
they depise the laboring people. They do
not let them vote. They do not want to
have them educated. They keep the gov
ernmcnt of their own states in their own
hands. And now they want to take the
government Of the country into their own
hands.
They had il, in substance, from 1901 to
1860. They would like to have it from 1854
for fifty years more. 1t is seriously pro-
posed, by a few northern "sore-heads' and
few adventures. tha, they shall be tried
again.
You might as well try stage coaches
again after rsilroads-as few dainty Young
gentlemen, who probably call themselves
independents in New York are now
doing.
You might as well try flint locks after
Remington rifles.
Government advances from age to age.
II is idle TO 20 back to an experiment which
has been tried, and failed as completely as
has this method of governing by a small
selected "upper class" That thing cannot
be started again, except to ruin the nation
which tries il.
The question: before us is, in substance,
the same NJ this moment before England.
Shall the country be governed by all its
people, or shall it be governed by a small
and convenient body of men, used 10 gov
eminent, who dstrust the people,