Wichita eagle., 1889-11-20
THE EAGLE IN HUTCHINSON.

In response to a number of communi-
cations from citizens of Hutchinson-the
mail of yesterday bringing three addi-
tlonal ones-we wish to say that if their
promise Of large subscription list comes
| from desire to see what the EAGLE has
to say Of Hutcninson's morning paper
and its editor, then their letters and sug-
gestions may as well cease. When
Hutchinson succeeded in securing a
morning daily the EAGLE made no fur
Their effort to supply that people and
withdrew its agent from that city. 1t
has even refrained from replying to the
ill-natured filings and untruthful
things appearing against Wichita
IN their paper continuously
for two or three years. The blast
given that impudent case of bumptious-
ness the other morning was as much to
annoy an ilk of the same element here at
home as to roast the -most hopeless case of
presumption that was ever permitted to
hamper the enterprise of a people with
his gall and to detract and ruin by his
preposterous lies, the many naturally
superior advantages of what should have
been prosperous city. The EAGLE
does not plume itself on that kind OF
thing, nor has it ever been its policy to
misrepresent neighbors.
If, however, the gentlemen who are
urging us to send man to Hutchinson
only to take subscription and not to cit
for tat a course and policy which
we despise; if they only want to hear
and know the truth touching the de-
mand being made by the people for re-
submission, all they have to do is to send
in their names and our travelling man
will be around to see them every month
or so. But to put a man to work on the
municipal affairs of that city, to nose in
to the status Of all its enterprises, to send
sneak to hunt up and count and then
lie about the number and character of
Its empty houses as was done by the
paper named and in Wichita but few
months ago, would not help the EAGLE
at home in the eyes of right-thinking
people, nor should it. That out
of seven thousand four hundred
registered voters in Wichita there
should be found two or three
hundred who don't like the EAGLE and
who would crush it, is not to be Won
dered at. And when in this small list
of three or four hundred, a number of
whom are good, conscientious men-bet-
ter men than the editor Of the EAGLE
ever claimed to be-we know, also, some
who have robbed the helpless, defrauded
the innocent and stole themselves rich,
under color of law, from widows and
orphans, we shall hardly lose any sleep
because they have encouraged with their
ill-gotten gains a BLACKBOARD to besmirch
the name of Wichita, which name the
best portion of our life has
been given to make it fair
and honorable. These glossy, perfumed
sneaks, some of whom stand up in day
light to pray that they may be seen of
men. and lay awake of nights devising
schemes to beat money out of eastern
men in the good name of Wichita, and
still others of them who saturate their
church pews with hypocritical tears on
and then in the six following |
days of feverish anxiety wear themselves |
bald headed in plotting to destroy the
titles of their neighbors' property, may
deceive their fellow men for while, but
they cannot deceive the Almighty, nor
yet the devil whose sure meat they are. |