Wichita eagle., 1889-04-04
THE ANTERIOR OF THE EXTERIOR.


taken UP, in these columns. the topic Of
the late appointment of the first assistant
secretary of the Interior. 1t had been
our intention to make no allusion to the
matter whatever, but Judge Sluss' COM
munication seems SO much like an ex-
PLANTATION that we feel that an apology is
due his friends, as well as our own. If
any explanations are in order they are
not due from US. Having supported and
voted the Republican ticket for more
! than thirty years without bolt or
| scratch. and for more than twenty
| five years given our best thought
| to its interests, we are not around
apologising to comparatively late con-
verts. nor yet explaining to later ene-
mics, knowing as we do the stronger
must afford if. indeed, any were needed.
If Judge Sluss don't know that after all
these twenty years of his honorable man
hood in this community, with all the
pages of his political, professional and
social life lying wide open before this
people, that it is his privilege to aspire
to any position within the gift of his
party in the absence of any explanation,
then some friend ought to enlighten
him. AS we claim to be a friend we
now inform him that such is the case.
As for the rest of it, nobody believed
that Sluss went down to Washington
seeking an Office and nobody believed that
while in Washington he either said
word in his own behalf ora word against
anybody else. In any event, there are
seven representatives and two senators
in congress from Kansas. and letters to
them or any one of them would have
quickly settled whether he did or not.
Undoubtedly the above is sufficient,
but as the matter is up and as our name
was for some unexplained reason forced
into the connection, we will just say to
our friends that Judge SlusS communi-
cation is revelation to us, in that it
seems that he had had quite a talk on
one occasion with one of our senators,
and also in that he wrote to Washington
after his return home. Of these things
we were in utter ignorance. AS there
could be no money in the Office for
him, as the office could be in
no possible way used to the advantage
of Wichita or of Kansas, and as we did
not want him to take his family and go
away to Washington and bury himself
in one of the departments, we were OPP
posed to the proposition, opposed to his
accepting the place if offered, and were
opposed to talking about it. There are a
hundred or more men in Wichita, not
one of whom this city could afford to
lose. There are thousand or more of
other men in this city any one Of whom
might 90 to Washington for four or
forty years without making any diff
ference to Wichita, but SluSs
is not one of the latter. While TO defeat
the appointment of any one of the last
named class we might not feel it duty
to the party to even make an effort, yet
if we had done SO, the victory would |
not be worth Growing. over by our
friends, much less by ourself. In short, |
because some old-time lawyer of Wichita |.
could not be assistant attorney general |
for this city, or because some of the rest |
of us who had stood for years in the !
harness couldn't be permitted to go as a
delegate to the Chicago convention, is no /
reason why Sluss or anybody else should /
not aspire to the interior department.
So much for the friends of Judge |
nd
without the use of the name of any one /
However, like all issues in
volving Misrepresentation of fact there |
is the afterclap, the residue, the eternal |
Somebody has falsifed. has |
lied; but, whether through |
Interior designs or as the plant tool, |
that has been imposed upon by the |
shrewd and wary down in Washington |
we have not yet enquired. Before the !
day of reckoning comes around, how
ever, the truth will come to the surface
when, for one. we shall get even for this
cold blooded plot from the malign effects
Of which no words of protestation, on
our part, could have saved US; and,
the guilty party be United
States senator, a congressman or a mere
over-hungry aspirant for political place,
as sure as thirty years unwavering
devotion has given us the right to be
heard that sure will we endeavor to
make the author of the misrepresenta-
lion, whoever he may be, remember the
occasion and its circumstances.