Wichita eagle., 1889-12-06
SOME MORE TALK TO THE SAME
END.

St2te THAI nave Ueen CrlClclZIng the
EAGLES position In the assertion thai
another vote was demanded by the PEG
pie of the state on the prohibition ques.
ton, and that such opportunity could
only be denied at the expense of the Re-
publican party which must, either
through new constitution or by re.
submission vote direct; we say a very
large number of these journals are now
conceding that the question ought to be
met through constitutional convention.
Of course they make pretense of not hav,
ing weakened on their original criticism
Of the EAGLE, but they all know, as does
everybody else, that the call for con-
stitutional convention now means
another vote on prohibition and that is
the principal thing that it does mean. 1t
is only a longer way and more uncer-
tain way around, but the which longer
way promises to afford an opportunity for
the party bosses to get down on the
right side of the fence.
the Democratic press may claim or what
the Republican BOSSES may demand, or
how much the Prohibitionists may
threaten, the EAGLE stands just where it
has all along stood on that question, at
least since that day last spring when it
announced that there was Rebellion in
the state, and that the election of go
would see an accomplished revolution in
Kansas or the Republican majority re-
duced to nothing.
The papers which are now endeavor-
ing to make it appear that there was and
is no real connection between the Re
bellion that the EAGLE predicted then
and the Insurrection Of today, and that
the EAGLE had reference only to the
young Man in Politics" bubble, either
did not read the EAGLE or they
are otherwise trying to nislead;
for the EAGLE showed no sympathy for
the j. Rats Burton boy by-play. Its eye
was on a disturbance which was not
only to touch the United States senator
ship but the congressman, the state Off
GERS, the legislature and the Republican
party itself.
There lies piled up on our table, at our
elbow, one hundred and thirteen edito-
rails and editorial extracts clipped from
the Republican papers of Kansas within
ten days, all of which are devoted to a
denunciation of every and all PROPOSE.
tons looking to any step for Resubmis-
sion of the prohibition question to the
people, to people whose vote in the first
place made it an article of the funda-
mental law. Many of these articles are
very abusive of the EAGLE, a number of
them personally so of its editor, who is
to the readers of these
journals as being a man in
sympathy with the rum
as an appologist for joints, as
trying to destroy the Republican party
that he may reach some high Office him.
self, etc. Nine out of ten of these papers
viii get their eyes open within the next
three months, and all of them will be
for a constitutional conven-
ton or resubmission before the hot DAYS
Of next summer.
But there is another phase of this en-
ire matter. The resubmission senti- |
ment, among the Republicans. is grow
ing and spreading everywhere, and
more rapidly than is the process of con-
version among the party journals and |
party leaders, and before they are aware |
IF the fact the new constitutional con-
gention business will have become a |
back number with the people. chest
lutty with age and smelling suspicIously |
oud of bosses and of political double
lealing, while the Resubmission Repub-
leans, having organized clubs in every
county in the state, will be feeling their
,wn independent strength sufficiently
o call their own state convention. In
his last event, if it does
,ome-and there is just where the whole
natter is tending-there will be lust two
tickets in the field, one the regular Re-
publican ticket in favor of a constitutional
and the other the resubmis-
ion Republican ticket, in favor Of re-
direct. There will be no
Democratic state ticket. There are one
hundred thousand Democratic votes in
Kansas and one hundred and eighty
thousand Republican votes, in round
numbers. The war cry of the campaign
would, in that case, be prohibition and
own with the saloons" upon the part of
he party led by the old wing: upon the
Their "a new deal and good times"
or the probable result, see Iowa.
1t is with the Republican party of
Kansas. with its managers and officials,
D say whether this denouement shall be
welded.
HALL WE GATHER AT THE RIVER.
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