Wichita eagle., 1888-05-20
WICHITA. MORNING.
the sIuswump's Address.

When this I'll powerful DISCRIMINATION.
with prescsence almost divine. selected
q political leader for the salvation of the
country. and by the incidental assistance
of an unappreciative and stupid Deuoc-
racy elected hin-elected him by the glo-
nous majority Of l.000th of per cent
this nation was saved. No triumph Of
great principle could equal it. The
struggles Of the revolution. the wealth Of
blood and drain of treasure that rebought
Us one Tag for one country. pale their
Intellectual fires" compared with this VIC
tory of moral ideas-our copyrighted. ex-
elusive. proprietary. patented moral ideas
Standing on this intellectual Pisgah.
handing down the law. we can proudly
point to promised land. where grapes can
be had for the gathering and every flibus
ter who strikes Republican hip and thigh
may expect the deed of a political farm
We have been accused of faith in
fetch It has been asserted that our
skill Is simply heathenish art; that we
have carved block Of wood. and with
gouging of tool and touch of paint have
made it god, that q thumbed lump Of
clay. after baking. is our Deity; that we
dream as did Nebuchadnezzar. and on the
broad Shinar of our imagination create
craven image. then fall down and wor-
ship the work Of our own brains. and that
our insanity, like that of the Assyrian
king, can only be cured by sending US TO
grass. What Hbell We are the politi
cal cardinals, whose votes are an inspira-
ton. We are the hierarchy, whose hands
drip with amounting oil. and our benedic-
ton blesses with infallibility. When We
bind the brow with the phylactery of imi
tative civil service gold. when we wrap
the mantle OF sweet praise around the
pan-electric bust. and swathe the shoddy
clothing of the fishery fasco. braided
with the humbug of ''pernicious parti-
sanship" and grit with the canting ambi-
ton of the second term. the environing
will change dolt to an oracle
Did you note that impertinent criticism
of President Cleveland by Senator Ingalls,,
What a sacrilegel Is there no defense
against audacityl Is free speech to DO
permitted forever7 Is such man as In
gals. with nothing In his veins but such
blood as extorted the Magma Chsrta from
King John: that in Puritan parliament
condemned Charles | for treason: that
stood on Bunker Hill and fought against
English tyranny and an idiot monarch.
such blood as breasted and won the battle
against the southern oligarehy-are such
critic and such criticism to be borne
without endf
We and our friends had right to call
Lincoln bufToon. Grant butcher, Hayes
fraud Garfield bandit, and Arthur
gourmand Times have changed The
dignity of the Office now gives the tempo
rary occupant of the executive chair
position beyond reproach- Against that
sacred target no criticism or truth must
be hurled The jester must shield his
sting and before the awful presence of
the ex-sheriff of Buffalo the nation must
be dumb. will conclude by Offering for
your unanimous adoption an old resolution
passed by a Calvinistic congregation. one
that is politically applicable to us:
Resolved. That only the elect can enses,
heaven.
Resolved, That we are the elect.-Ex.
Senator Arkell in Judge