Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-04
JOE HUDSON AND GEORGE MARTIN
REDIVIVUS.

! The progress of the world has been
marked by distinctive ages, SO they say.
The present is pre-eminently the "racket
age" before which that of the clay,
| bronze, ETC., shrink in muteness Births
and funerals, alike, are occasions marked
by no eud of Jacket" As one extreme
follows another the age of quiet, civil
soon be ushered in. OF all the racket of
church and state, of political and civil,
that maintained by the newspapers seems
the most portentious and the least con-
trolled. 1t is not only an army with
banners and with music, but with guns
of every possible calibre and bore, and
they are trailed on everything, good
bad and Indifferent, as well as on each
other
Pigheadedness is, besides, encountered
mounted on the tripod. The Capital
Com. and the Kansas City Gazette know
that the EAGLES fight is neither against
the prohibition law nor for states rights,
yet they virtually say it is, wherefore
their racket.
We believe that Wichita has friend
in the next governor. We believe that
Topeka is no better, is not more virtuous
and can boast no more refinement or
intelligence than Wichita. We do not
believe that an appointed commission
consisting of one Democrat, one mug
wump and one Third party man, or of
one Democrat and one Republican and
one Third party man. constitutes Re
publican form of government, but that's
just what Topeka will get unless that
Metropolitan police law is amended or
how strong Republican Topeka may be
her Republican mayor will be left with
less power than the average constable
How do you like that racket? The ex-
treme element of the Third party are
they who demand the commission"
and are therefore entitled to a represen-
Iation, while the law says that at least
one must be of the Democratic
party. So when the next cleo
ton follows in Topeka it viii
be a question of laying down or of doing
double work, at quadruple cost in cash,
merely to save the city to the Republican
party, and hold your own. That is an
other phase of the racket If party
methods and party rule, are all wrong,
then the mixed commission rule, as ad-
ministered under that metropolitan police
law, probably Is all right. Nobody de-
MES that the law originated with the
third party and that it gives the Demo-
cratic part one-third voice in ruling
city, whatever its Republican majority
Further. it is not at all likely that the
editor of the EAGLE will be run in by
the police on an average of more than
once month or so, so that it cannot be
said that his protest is in the nature of
personal one. 1t not; no more should
his protest be construed by Joe Hudson
and George Martin into a fight against
the prohibitory law or fight for the
state rights doctrine.
The trouble with George and Joe is
that from the pressure of new surround
lngs and strange environments they both
have become trinmers. common, ordi-
nary political trimmers. The editor, of
the EAGLE does not, therefore, deserve
this special effort of his former friends
who thus go out of their way to place
before the people of the state his con-
spicuous virtues, which virtues would
prove white enough but for the racket
of black words to which they are sub
jected, and which, sad 10 relate, renders
them none the less conspicuous.