Wichita eagle., 1888-09-27
LET Us HAVE A SQUARE DEAL
The Republican Party Of Sedgwick Coun.
ty Will Stand No Trading.

man who subordinates his party princi
pies to his personal likes to favoritism
or personal gain fails to estimate, in any
true measure, the meaning of the elect
i've franchise, and is, therefore, not &
proper or trustworthy exponent of &
government like ours. Party means
principle Or it means nothing, and the
citizen who for personal gain, or through
personal likes, or dislikes, traffics away
or exchanges his vote is not only traitor
to his party, but is one who has no prin-
ciples and is utterly unworthy a public
trust. The very genius Of our govern
ment is embraced in that declaration.
The constitution of the United States
provides for the election of a
President only through the par
ty honesty and party loyalty
of the individuals who may compose the
electoral college. There is no written
law compelling, or penalty to punish the
Republican presidential elector who
should refuse to cast the electoral vote
of Kansas for Harrison. 1t is wholly a
matter of honor, of party fealty and of
good faith and was SO recognized and
relied upon by the authors of the con-
stitution itself.
Our county, city and township gov
ernments are but the government OF the
United States, in miniature. The gov
eminent of a county or of a township is
in essence and in fact not only the dupli-
cate of the general government, but
upon subsidiary organizations does the
government of the United States rest
and depend Without these the greater
and popular government would be I'M
possible. And if the government of the
United States ever falls into anarchy and
ruin it will be through the corruption
and failure of the political honesty of
the individual, then of the township
then of the county and finally of the
state itself. The voter or office seeker,
therefore, who prostitutes his citizenship
by trading and trafficing in his own
vote is an unworthy and a dangerousciti-
zen.
There is, or of late has been, upon the
part of individuals and for the purpose
of forwarding private interests, an at
tempt to beat certain portions of the Re-
publican ticket of Sedgwick county and
to elect certain individuals on the Demo-
cratic ticket. The move is wholly a sell
fish and contemplate one, not only in
that it is an effort to use the party or
CARNATIONS of the county for personal
ends and gains, but for the reasons set
forth in the first paragraph OF this ar
ticle The Individual interests to this
scheme have gone so far as to assert that
the editor of this paper not only assented
to, but was party to the disreputabie
and dishonorable job, citing the pretend
ed fact that the EAGLE had been party
to an equally base and successful roguery
OF the near past.
This is to say, and to all fair and hon
orable Republicans of the county, that
the EAGLE has never in the past and
never will, under its present editorial
management, become party to any
dirty, underhand, personal political jobs,
an no promise of money. patronage, or
other emoluments, can affect that declar-
alton, OF eyer has in the past. Fair
notice is now given that If the scheme
to defeat the will of the Republican
party in Sedgwick county, as expressed
in the nominated ticket, is persisted in,
we shall not only publish ali the facts
but will give the names Of every one
who proves to be a party to the con-
spiracy, however prominent the men. |
There are enough of honest Republicans |
in this county, of men who believe in
the principles of Lincoln, Grant, Garfield /
and Ben Harrison, to elect only such men |
to Office as believe with them, to elect |
only such men to Office as are above the |
pap, plumber and schemes of personal |
favoritism, honest Republicans enough /
to thus elect such men in spite of all the |
combinations and ring conspir-
acies that can be put up, with the Demo-
cratic party thrown in, to boot.
What the EAGLE desires to see, what
The great body of the Republican party
Of Sedgwick county demands, is open,
honorable, square work, and that they
will have, knowing as they do, that
Sedgwick county is good for at least
1 900 or 1900 majority for Harrison and
Morton, and, therefore, with honest
dealing, good for as big a ma
jority for the entire ticket, the
nominee being as much en-
titled to such majority as the proudest
name at its head, and for every con-
3eivable political or moral reason.
From the body Of the county. not
only, but from prominent Republicans
IN this city, come the complaints and
which while inspiring these
words are much more emphatic and
pointed than is the language used by
is. They come from men who do not
Tread honorable defeat, but who if de-
'eated dishonorably will not forget or
,all to punish the authors of the party's
lefeat, at such time as this, even after
ears have gone by.
BROOKS AND BOTKINS PARTY.
IL NJ