Wichita eagle., 1889-10-27
STUPID POLITICS.

The most stupid political fake ever
sprung by any party, probably at any
time, anywhere, upon any people, is the
ssresubmission" dodge of the Democrats
in two or three counties of Kansas. The
Republicans know, the Democrats
know, everybody knows, that all that
would be necessary to down "resubmis-
sion" forever in Kansas, would be to
make it a Democratic issue. The radical
Republican legislature of Kansas repre-
senting a constituency overwhelmingly
Republican, would not for a moment
listen to any proposition coming
from the Democratic party. If
a s'resubmission" resolution or re5olu-
ton favoring a new constitution either,
was proposed, all that would be necessary
to smash it beyond recognition, to kill it
beyond resurrection, would be for some
Republican to get up in his place and
explain that the measure under consid-
Grafton originated with the Democratic
party, and that that party had made it a
plank in their county and local plat
forms. The very fact that it was of
Democratic origin would seal its doom
in a minute, by the watch, in any
legislature ever yet elected in
the state of Kansas. Kansas
Republicans are radicals, whose souls
keep step with the soul of John Brown,
as it goes marching on, and when it
comes to the graveyard scene, it is the
Democratic body-politic that is COM
PEELED to do the moldering act, while the
Republicans never fail to be on hand at
the funeral, in full force, to see that it
is buried and-buried deep.
1t Is conceded by nearly everybody
that Kansas stands greatly in need of a
new constitution. A Republican senate
twice, since the adoption of the prohibi-
ton amendment, has passed the necessary
resolution; but, should the Democratic
party force the issue of ga new constitu-
ton" the whole movement would be i'm
mediately and indefinitely postponed by
a majority of a Republican legislature
whose members are so grounded in the
doctrines of their party as to honestly
believe that no good could possibly come
out of Democracy and that any PROPOSE
ton coming from it ought not only to be
suspicioned, but rejected on general
principles.
In the face of these well known facts
the Democrats of Sedgwick county,
pretending all the while that they desir-
ed "resubmission" have attempted to
force "resubmission" as a Democratic
issue, not only, but have attempted to
entrap Republican resubmissionists into
supporting it as a Democratic measure
and into supporting the Democratic
ticket based on it, knowing all the while,
if they knew anything, that should
Sedgwick county go Democratic and
following that act should one of our own
Republican representatives offer ''re-
submission" resolution in the legislature
that he would be confronted with the
declaration that Sedgwick county had
gone Democratic. and that the very
measure which he was urging was
being offered at the behest of the Demo-
cratic party of Sedgwick county, which
would end his speech and set him down.
AS the EAGLE has said, all the time,
''resubmission" in Kansas, or new con-
stitution for the state, can only come
through the Republican party in re-
spouse to demand from the senators
and representatives of the greater cities
and communities of the state
To attempt to deny or refute this
proposition is worse than nonsense.