Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-11-03
REPUBLICANS. AND REsUBM1ss1oN
The Record Of the Republican Party of
Sedgwick County on that Subject.

| SedgWlck County on that Subject.
There has been much said of late abou
resubmission, and much more abou
what the minority party promises to d.
in face of the fact that minority party
can never do anything. 1t has beer
preached from the street corners for two
months or more that the moral effect Of
electing half dozen Democrats to coun
ty offices would revolutionize the state
What the EAGLE desires now to i'm
press upon the minds of every Resub
missionist in the county is that when il
comes to the records of the two parties
in Sedgwick county, 1t is the Republican
party which has stood for resubmisslor
and not the Democratic party. The
leading or representative Republicans OF
this city, together with this paper, have
ever held that whenever any respectable
number of the people asked that the
question of prohibition be resubmitted
or asked for constitutional convention,
which is the same thing, that it became
the duty of the legislature to grant it,
unquestionably. This is simply Republi-
can doctrine. Senator Sluss SO voted in the
senate. Last fall during the campaign a
respectable minority of the party in this
county made such a demand at the
hands of Senator Bentley and Of Repre-
sentatives Douglas, Phillips and Boyle.
and all supported the resolution calling a
convention for the framing of new
constitution. Not only that, but Repre-
sentative Douglas introduced the meas
ure in the legislature himself, went be-
fore the committee in its advocacy, and
afterwards, on the floor of the house,
made what was said to have been one of
the most brilliant and logical speeches of
the entire session. The measure also
came up in the senate and was supported
by Mr.. Bentley, not only, but when
vote was reached almost the entire Re-
publican senate-there was only one
Democrat in the senate-practically pas
sing it unanimously. 1t was lost in the
house by the smallest margin, but not
lost on its merits. 1t was lost because of
fear produced in the hearts of q few
prohibltionists that the declaration made
by McAfee that the whisky in
terests of the country would flood Kan
sas with million dollars of Doodle
money, might have some foundation in
truth, and because that the woman suf-
frage question would again have to be
fought over. These things it is said in
fiuenced twenty or thirty votes against
it. yet the measure was lost only by, we
believe, four votes.
So it will be seen that when the Demo-
Gratis of Sedgwick county go around
promising resubmission they don't know
what they are talking about If the Re-
publican representatives and Republican
senator from this county, who were in
full accord with the great majority of
the legislature, failed, what could three
or four Democrats do even if they were
sent up there. But they do not even ex-
pect or claim that there is a possibility
of Democrat being sent from Sedg
wick to the legislature and made a part
of that power which must resubmit or
arrange for a new constitution, but only
that if three or four of their party are
elected to local Office, in Sedgwick coun-
ty the MORAL EFFECT will upset the Re
publican party of the entire state and give
the people new constitution or result
mission. The proposition is too ridicu-
lous TO even argue and a mere statement
of it would seem to be unnecessary.
Sedgwick county Republicans and
Sedgwick county's representatives and
senator, in the legislature, when it
comes down to the record, are as sound
on the new constitution and resubmis-
sion as it is possible to be-.