Wichita eagle., 1888-11-24
ONE REASON WHY.
To the Editor Of the EAGLE.

! To the Editor OF the EAGLE.
After the smoke of the political battle
waged in this country has cleared away
and Republicans have recovered from
the ecstacy of political JOY, it is GER
tainly the part of prudence for the Re-
publicanS of the county to bear in mind
the factors which so largely entered into
the campaign just closed and made our
victory SO triumphant and complete.
We should DO this if for no other reason
than TO profit in the future by the con-
tinued use of the successful factors used
in the campaign just closed.
1t must be borne in mind that since
the presidential election of 1884 thou
sands of voters have moved into this
county. Most of them are young men of
culture and wide intelligence who are
thoroughly schooled in the politics of
the east. 1t could not be said of them.
as has often been said of older men, that
they came west because they had failed
in the east. They never fail anywhere.
They came to Wichita and Sedgwick
county full of the buoyancy and hope of
youth, with more than half of the full
measure of their allotted time before
them.
When it was decided by the county
central committee TO make a thorough
canvass of the county, and that the
stump speaking should be done almost
entirely by young men, many of the
older politicians shook their heads and
sighed over the departed dignity of the
political arena. And some of them even
went so far as to become lukewarm in
the support of the ticket because for
sooth neither they nor their friends had
been successful in securing the nominal
ton for some particular Office.
The strength of old mountaineering
was and is yet to some of the older resi-
dents the very acme of political power
and prestige. Heretofore, campaigns
were waged on the sole strength of per-
sonal friendship and the ability of the
candidate to call by name every voter:
and to inquire after the health of the
different members of said voters family,
ii he had any, was the carte blanche
tally sheet of his election.
But the great influx OF immigration
within the past few years has made this
feature of campaigning almost an impos-
sibility, and left acquaintanceship only
one OF the several elements necessary IN
candidates makeup 1t insure success.
Hence, with the exception of the work
done by the candidates for each other
and one or two personal illusions to the
thecansidates by thu EAGLE. which epi-
IDENTIFY took the same view on the CAM
pa2tn and fought tire fight scarce
iy a speech was made of the
eighty made by the young men
in this county contained any allusion
whatever TO the candidates, and while
this kind of campaign makes the work
and responsibility OF conventions greater,
vet 1t is unauesGionably the only sue
cessful kind that can be waged with dig
nifty where the constituency is Is large
as 1t Is IN this county.
Such a campaign is also the more
statesinanlike and satisfactory, fox dis
guise IL as we may. the people do ike TO
hear national questions discussed By
fiery tongued orators, as is fully evil
denced by the crowded houses which
greeted the young men everywhere
The wisdom OF Republican speeches IN a
county so manifestly Republican as this
can hardly be overestimated. II brings