Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-09-13
THE CAMPAIGN IN SEDGWICK
COUNTY.

COUNTY.
There are strange rumorS af1oat of tho
want of good faith upon the part of sew
eral leading Sedgwick county Repubh.
cans. 1t has been whispered almost
aloud that certain business interests
would aid in an effort to defeat portion
of the Republican county ticket, and
that the personal relations and friend
ships existing between certain leading
Republicans and ex-office holders are OF
such a character that these men would
trade off Republican nominees to elect a
Democratic pet. 1t has even gone so far
that the statement has been made that
the present county campaign IS to be
one of Doodle and of trade in the inter
est of rings, in which any effort put
forth by the central committee would be
rendered abortive, because of the disaf-
lection of some of its own members.
The EAGLE but voices the opinion OF
nine out of ten of all the Republicans of
Sedgwick county and of this city, when
it declares that the campaign, in the
midst of which the country now finds
itself, is campaign involving funda-
mental and strongly contrasting princi-
Piles, and that the man who dallies or
trades is political bastard and
a coward. The honest Republican is and
will be intensely earnest in a campaign
in which is involved the welfare Of the
American laborer and the protection Of
| American interests, and the man, or the
politician, who by his acts, even lays
himself open to the suspicion Of double
dealing and trading with the enemy,
will not only be shut off from all his
chances for future preferment but will
be despised by every honest party man.
The Republican ticket of this county
and city seems to have been nominated
honorably and fairly, and the nominees
are entitled, in all good faith, to the
support Of the party leaders, and that
support is demanded by every earnest
Republican voter in the county, and
they have now and here the pledge of
the EAGLES help 10 unearth and bury
every traitor in the county, agreeing,
when his guilt shall have been fixed, to
publish his name however exalted his
political station or strong his business
This is a campaign in which ringsters,
relations. manipulators and schemers
will not be permitted to trade
the Republican party into defeat
to forward some purely personal end of
the traders Those who are not for the Re-
publican party in this year of financial
stress and depression, brought on us by a
Democratic administration, are against
us, and the party in Sedgwick county is
greater-ten times greater than all of its
supposed leaders, and any show of
crooked tickets, or Republican tickets
with some one or two Democratic names
on, will be traced uR and the author of
the trade will hear his political death
warrant There have been abuses in the
past and by men who had been enriched
and honored by the Republican party,
which will never be permitted to go I'M
punished again, if repeated.
The man who will hold, peddle or ad-
vocate Republican ticket with any
Democratic name on it will be a traitor
who can't hide from the act or dodge the
punishment hereafter
But one must not believe everything
they hear. 1t is an open and a notorious
fact that the Democrats are not only on
the trade this year in this county but on
thefuSe, also. Having nothing to lose and
everything to gain they have not only
swallowed the Union Labor party but
would strike hands with the Prohibi-
ton party or with anybody for
a chance for victory. If they could go
into a trade with any clique of RepubIi- |
cans whereby they could gain a dozen |
votes there would be no persistency in |
the matter. That these trading, fusing |
Democrats who cling to whisky bottle
with one hand while they pat prohibi-
zionist with the other, who praise the |
colored brother out of one corner of |
their mouths while they damn the |
ngger' with the other. that the turn
coats, apostates and traders of that party
are really at the bottom of the talk to
which we allude there is little doubt.
Their whole idea of a campaign is one of
trickerv and trade, Of buying and sell
ing, with the offices and the money in
them only in view.
The Democrats may fuse and trade
with the Union Labor party and with
the Prohib party, the principles of both
of which they heartily despise, but the
men of the Republican party whom they
may seduce, they are welcome to take
and keep, for they will never again be
in the Republican party.