Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-04-09
A GORGEOUS IDIOT.
Our Opinion of One Whose
Ears are His Burthen.
Wichita Has Never Had Rival or the
Pretense of One as the City of
Southwest Kansas.

Some 'way-down," miserable bellyacher
makes the EAGLES April fool joke the sub
iect of 9 column letter to the Winfield
Courier in which the ridiculously grand
union depot scheme is quoted in full. In
this severely attenuated production the edi-
tor of the EAGLE is denominated q crank,
and the superior prospects of Winfield over
Wichita as the city of the future dwelt upon
and extolled skyward. together with such
like pure rot and other hog wash. The
writer signs himself, "a Citizen of Wichita"
He charges around grotesquely, saying
m ong other things, that the construction
of the Chicago and Rock Island road to
Wichita is little else than the vaporings of
this paper. All this is very weakening. 1t
harrows up our feelings and makes us tired.
We might publish his straininings but for the
fear that they would affect in the same way
FIVE or six thousand readers who have
patiently borne with our humble efforts,
innocently supposing all the while that the
EAGLES racket was about the approved
gait. But before we disappear, and forever,
from sight beneath the ultimatum of the
untoward squelchment alluded TO, our read
ers will permit US to remark that for q
blooming specimen Of mule paternity, in
deed "a Citizen of Wichita" 81 stands
without parallel and unapproachable, and
to suggest further, that if he really does live
- W;nb;,o h. mould do wall 70 ba,,l in hi,
ears before their owner is recognized.
Whatever else may be said of Wichita peo-
ple-and fair estimate may be had of their
average from the fact that they take and pay
for, and seemingly relish, about two thous-
and copies of they DAILY EAGLE-they can't
bide fool, much less thing in the guise
of a citizen, who under an assumed name
goes out of his way in search of congenial
quarters to stab the good name of their
town. If "a Citizen of Wichita" is any
thing other than the able-bodied liar he poses
for, let him put bis property, if he has any,
into the hands Of any real estate man, at
once, at fair advance upon
its original cost, and We will
not only warran; speedy sale, but
guarantee him free pass to Winfield or any
other destination in the shortest order, with
an escort of at least thousand lusty-lunged
citizens with brass band to the nearest de-
pot, and we nor the escort aforesaid will asl;
him to wait till daylight, either. Wichita
| wasn't built by such as he, but by such as
have held to the same faith with the editor
| of the EAGLE.
And another thing Murdock's head hasn't
been turned by any governor" talk, and il
he is insane and crank, so are fifteen OF
twenty thousand other residents of Wichita
and not only they, but severel hundred
thousand other people of this and adjoining
states. Wichita has always been the leading
town of Southwest Kansas, and never had 6
rival or even a showing of one. 1t hs:
been conceded by everybody, everywhere
| throughout the state, that If ever a city was
built up in Southwest Kansas. that city
would be Wichita. The EAGLE, in all III
talk, in all these years, has not gone outside
of that conviction and expression. As fol
the "Tiernan road and the "Billing'
matter" the EAGLE simply stated
the truth. The Courier and its sneak
of correspondent knows nothing
about the inside of that enterprise. We SC
said, and the correctness Of the statement
can't be gainsaid. As for the Chicago and
Rock Island, the EAGLE said that positive
proposition had been made by the repre-
| sentative of thst road 10 4 committee of citi
| zens. That was and is simple truth. BuI
for the better information OF "a Citizen Of
Wichita" O. we will sag thst two new roads
from the Missouri river to Wichita are q:
good as under contract, and both will reach
here within fourteen months from June !
1886, barring unforeseen calsmities or some
thing worse. And more. In addition tC
these two roads there is another from thu
north, that one of the strongest trunk line
has proposed TO build in 1857, in the even
of its not being built sooner.
In conclusion, we don't know that a.
Citizen Of Wichita" is worth Noticing; prob
ably is not, bat if the editor of the EAGLl
is crank on the subjec: Of Wichita's futur
greatness then everybody in this city ar
cranks, save and except "a Citizen of Wich
ita," who therefore had better move out AM
move early.