Wichita eagle., 1888-09-18
ANOTHER TALK TO THE REaUBLI
CANS OF SEDGWICK COUNTY.

candidates of either party as they cal
put up personal jobs with to the end
that if successful, spoils, stealings am
patronage is to be controlled AM
divided. To this end they lose all sigh
of principle in primaries, convention
and elections, looking out and working
for only the man or men who is of thei
ring or clique.
There is but one plain duty for homes
men. of whatever party, when thus con
fronted, and that is to nip all sucf
schemes in the bud; to smash
such rings and cliques SO thoroughly
that their bosses will never be heard Of
politically again. Such combinations
such selfish intrigues. once successful
and once in power, not only renders al
honest party effort, all work and inffu
ence of honest men, of no avail, thereby
Qiscouraging good men from ever offer
ing their services to the public as the
candidate of either party, but the di
rectory of such rings become leach on
the tax payers which it is almost impos,
sible to tear off.
The EAGLE, for one, desires to stand
or fall only by its party and by Republi-
can principles and by Republican re-
sponsibility. There is no intermediate
course and when any honest man, OF any
party, is approached by candidate OF
his own party, or by a candidate OF an
opposing party, with proposition to
trade on this candidate or that, or
to pull this particular candidate through
at the expense of some other honor
ably and fairly chosen candidate, set that
man down as one who is seeking to make
bind tool of you and as one utterly
unworthy of your support or confidence.
The Democrat, for instance, be he him
self a candidate or only an Individual,
who comes to a Republican with the
declaration that he is going to scratch
some candidate on his own ticket and
vote for Republican, is dangerous
man to fill any Office of trust, a danger
Gus man for any party; he is a man who
is FOR some scheme engineered by a ring
only in personalinterests and he is utterly
unworthy of political trust or confidence
only fit 10 be bought and sold.
II sometimes happens that man can
not conscientiously vote for some nomi-
nee OF his party, but there is no law or
rule of right or of honest action which
viii compel him to vote for the nominee
of another party for the same place-to
support candidate who represents prin-
cipies foreign to those in which he
! believes.
This trading has been the great curse
of the Republican party Of Sedgwick
county for the past two or three cam
paigns. It is wholly and solely the work
of bosses and manipulators in the in
terest OF rings and ciiques. One by one
the Republican party has been traded
cut of this and out Of that Office until
this great Republican county is being
run more in the interest of and by the
Democratic than in the Republican
party, but not SO much in the interest of
the Democratic party as in the interest,"
of individuals, in which deals Republi-
cans have been made the dupes by other
pretended Republicans. Sedgwick county
is either Republican or it is Democratic.
In 10 event does it belong to any clique
or ring, part of which claims TO be Re
! publican and part Democratic, but
which. in fact, and away down at heart,
is neither, except for their personal
purposes. If the Democratic wing
of this management can fool
the third party prohibinonists
and the Uunion Labor and the Green
back parties into the support of their
! trades, and thus succeed in making their
/ scheme, successful, that is no reason
why self. respecting Republican who
! believed with Lincoln and Grant and
! Garfield and all the hosts of oar illustri-
GUS dead and who believes with the noble
and great who are living Republicans
and patriots, and permit themselves to
/ be cajoled and coaXed and wheedled into
/ splitting and scratching his ticket, only
/ that on election day to have the schem-
/ ers pat him on the back with the assur-
ance that ''we got there, didn't WEI"
while all the while he sees that his own
party has been cheated and defeated in
/ the loss of men who were honestly NOM
mated for the race and who were Just as
much entitled to election as were those
of the ticket who happened to pull
through, because they We're not in the
way of the fellows who started and
urged the trading scheme.
Then, in the name of all that is fair and
! honorable in politics and in party organ
ization-and what should be more open.
manly and honorable:-let us set
down on at once. and forever, on all of
these dirty, undetermined and sneaking
jobs and conspiracies by manfully and
with ballots in open hand standing BY
our convictions, by our principles, and
by our party, by its platform and
by the nominees. everyone, and
all alike. from Harrison down to the
last man on the county ticket If, under
such a course we are defeated, we won't
be Inundated; but, upon the other hand,
if victorious, it will be grand old victo-
~. a shouting victory, without solitary,
single drawback or disagreeable retiec-
ton.
On this line, on this policy. and for
this honorable course, the EAGLE strikes
hands with every true-blue, square-out
and uncompromising Republican in
Sedgwick county, and we dare all ene-
mics 10 do their worst,