Wichita eagle., 1888-09-28
MEASURES. NOT MEN.
A Game That is Played Gut in Sedgwick
County.

a Game That is Played Gut in Sedgwick
County.
| The Republican party of Sedgwick
county, with an unusual unanimity
nominated ticket this fall. The men
composing the ticket are more than
ordinarily bright and earnest. There is
not the least doubt touching the fitness
or ability of single man on the ticket.
There is not the least discord among
them. They are all for the whole ticket
and not single man of them desires a
vote at the expense of any other man on
the ticket. They all desire to stand or
fall together. They are all for Harrison
and Morton, for Humphrey and the
state ticket, and all for the principles of
the Republican party as enunciated III
the national, state and county platforms.
They all desire to see, and all are work
ing for the election of the solid I'M
scratched ticket. They are perfectly will
ing that the Democrats shall poll every
Democratic. vote in the county for
the Democratic nominees. If the Demo
Gratis desire to ignore their principles
and. for the sake of spoils, trade, dicker
and fuse with the Botkin party or with
the party organized by the Missouri
Democrat who came up here disguised
as Union Labor man, that is the busi-
ness of tie men who engineer the deal
and job But the nominees do protest
against any and all,underhanded schemes
of Democrats,o or of anybody else, whereby
men who believe in Republican doctrines
and Republican rule should be wheedled.
or. by personal influence. coaxed into
voting for men who if elected would
throw all the power of their positions
into an effort to carry the greatest county
in the state over to the Democrats. There
gre Democrats in Office in this county
today who are there only by and through
Republican votes They received these
votes by personal efforts and by personal
promises; but they were all mighty stiff
Democrats as soon as they got into their
offices, and are all working only
for etheir party's success today, aye,
spending money to beat the men who
were coaXed into voting for them. So
it would be with the men who now are
begging Republican votes and offering
to trade Democratic votes. They are
mighty nice, jolly, good fellows, who
don't care a snap for local politics. But
let them once get the offices that they
are after and then see how quickly their
tune changes.
This is campaign of principles and
not of men. The EAGLE has not taken
up the individuals composing the ticket
and set out each mans particular fitness,
for the reason that they are all recognized
as being eminently fit, from L. q. Hum
phrey down to the bottom of the ticket.
The Democrats and Fusionists dare not
question the personal fitness of single
on the Sedgwick county Re-
publican ticket To do this would be to
deprive them of any chance or show to
make their dickering scheme successful.
To attack the personnel of the Repub-
lican ticket would be TO concentrate a
fight upon them and to close up the
ranks of our party. No, their policy is
to praise in a general way our whole
ticket, while they are stealing Repub-
lican vote for some one of their own
and thus weaken and destroy |
Us in detail. In pursuance of this game,
by which they have won in the two past
their workers and schemers
have approached some of the Oldest and |
Republicans in the county, |
them with the promise that
if elected everything would be all right |
and no partisan advantage would be
taken by them. Cpon this specious
electioneering dodge hangs their only
hope of beating any portion of the Re-
publican ticket of Sedgwick county.
Let every Republican, who is man as
we'll as Republican, not only set down
On this disintegrating process of the en-
envy, set down on these fair promises
and beguiling smiles OF a hypocritical
enemy, but let US all resolve to vote the
clean straight ticket from bottom to top,
SO that on the morning of November 9th,
rs the Democratic party sits around
waiting. every name on the Republican
ticket shall show the same number of
votes given Ben Harrison, our great
e5Cer