Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-04-03
WICHITA REPUBLICANS. READ
A Few Questions Which Ought to De
Honestly Answered by Ev-
cry Republican.

These Democratic managers ana
sharpers, and we can name every one
of them-mugwumps ard all---are just
now very ready with the argument
that in these little local elections poll
tics ought to be ignored. What they
mean is. that Republicans should is-
more politics but that Democrats
should stick TO their ticket and the
game which it represents. Does any
of The Republicans who are going 20
help out the mugwump frsud ih''
spring know ola Democrat WI" ~
vote the Republican ticket9 D"n'
YOU know that every Democrat, ever
those who were defeated by tn
bosses in convention, will vote thf
Democrat-citizeus' ticket, straight
and unscratched? Don't You kno"
thai these same fellows could hardly
wait uutil Cleveland was inaugurate'
before they took steps 10 Dust ever'
Republican federal office holder
Didn't they, in fact, go about WIZ
petitions asking for the places in tn
land office, postofiice. United States
court officers. etc, even weeks befor'
Cleveland was sworn in, and without
any reference 10 the explra
ton of Republicans commissions
wouldn't these same fellows wh'
now ask you to ignore politics in loca
matters kick every Republican out o
every local Office in two minutes am
A half if they had the power! Won
these same fellows when you put then
in power use that power - do tha
thing? Didn't the Democratic coun
Gil, last Saturday night, in spite Of IN
protest of the two Republican mem
beers. vote to give their Democratic or
gan the city printing year IN al
vance, before the expiration OF IN
old contract, and do it illegally too
Don't YOU know that this saloon how
aud prohibition talk, and license prom
Uses. are all the merest bosh to cato
votes?
The ouestion for every Republican
in Wichita to settle for himself J
whether he will allow himself TO b
misIed by the false colors and shar
praciices of a few Wichita Democrat
who every year. bv ringing !" som
outside issue aud by putting two -
three Republicans on their ti"ke
manage to keep control of the city oil
ganization, and by virtue OF that cor
troll in more important campaigns
to keep the Republican party on th
ragged edge.
There is no Republican in WIGHT
who don't know that the Republican
are ia the' nsiority both IN this cit,
and county, yet it is equally we
known that hardly year passes tina
the Democrats do not get away Will
some very important county ofiic'
Not only is this so but they throns
the shori-si ghtedness of the Repubi
caus render every contest doubtful an
expensive.
Why this is so no observs nj Repul
liean need ask. Ii IS simply hecau-
the Democrats througn snch games
Is being resor:ed TO this spring, Zee
the city organization in their owi
hands, which organization becomes
crest power against the Republica
party every fail. The question eve'
fall with every Republican nomine
for a county Office is, how viii the cit
goe Now If the Republican part
held this city-its organization, its p'
lice force, aud all that these thing
mean in the way of organizaiion.th ei
would be no question as to how tn
county would go-no question as
whether some Democrat was not e
ing to down some good Republican.
just so long as Republicans len
their votes and influence to elect II
Democratic city tickets and carry OF
the programmes kept up every yes
by very small squad of Democrat
In a certain office in this city, just
long will the Republican party be hi
inflated every year or two by the d
feat of come honorable nominee of Il
party. Ii would be great deal be
ter If the men who claim to be Repul
licans, but who every year or two be
TO keep this city under Democrat
control, would go over bodily TO Il