Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-17
DEMOCRATIC INSINCERITY.
A Hypocritical Howl which is Liable to
Cost Wichita and Sedgwick County
Dearly,

The Democratic bosses of Sedwick
county are bowling ''resubmission!' not
so much that they desire the prohibition
law annulled, as that they hope by this
howl to catch the votes of Republicans,
who would prefer high license to pro-
hibition. The Democrats knows, just as
everybody knows, that the only show
that the old mossback party has In Kan
gas is in a few close border counties,
where by bowling against prohibition
they have a show of catching that per
cent. of the Republican vote which OBJ
iects to the law. The truth isthe Demo-
cratic bosses of Kansas would secretly
regret to see this one chance OF their
party eliminated from the politics of
Kansas. Over in old mossback Demo-
cratic Missouri they have an
option prohibition law. and
the county of Clay, just across the river
from Kansas City is aprohibition county.
4 town of 1900 inhabitants in that
county casts but two solitary and lonely
Republican votes, and the presumption
IS that they are high license Republi
cans. The mayor, judge and city attor-
ney, and in fact every official are Demo
Gratis. There has not been a saloon in
that city for more than seventeen years.
Lately druggist sold little whisky,
and a man got drunk. For this offence
the druggist was fined, including costs,
more than $1,000. To pay this would
have broken him up, SO his friends inter-
coded and on giving bond that he would
not sell any more liquor, he was let off
with $3.50. The Democrats in Clay
county are more tyrannical in the en-
forcement Of prohibition than the pro-
hibitionists of Kansas ten to one. These
are facts that anybody can substantiate
and are from Democratic paper.
The only show for any foothold in
Kansas for the Democrats, is in, as we
above intimate, four or five of the larger
cities, where, by the methods indicated,
once in awhile, they succeed in stealing
a march on the Republicans through a
by play upon prejudice. The Demo-
cratic bosses, as a rule, will, in their
platforms, resolve for, or resolve against,
ANYTHING, the direction of their resolves
ever being party catch, rather than a
political principle. The party is essen
tally, locally and nationally, one of
gosses where personal interests are para
mount. The party had its birth with
southern bosses who were born them
selves with whips in their hands, and it
has ever been fostered and maintained
since in the one central idea of master
and servant. The Democratic party,
with equal facility. will resolve for pro-
hibition on one side of municipal line
for resubmission and high license on the
other. They will resolve for ''resub-
mission" in Kansas City, Kansas; for
free whisky" in Kansas City, Missouri:
and for prohibition" over on the north
side OF the river, right in sight of the
other two places. They resolved
for ''resubmission' in Topeka and
in Wichita and in Leavenworth, when
they know that it is the rural counties,
in which the Democratic party has no
show. but which counties are power in
Kansas as ten TO one. that sustains pro-
hibition, and when they know, further,
that to elect Democrats in said cities is
to antagonize the SAID rural prohibition
counties and thereby render resubmis-
sion an impossbility. As we said, its
office" not "resubmission, that the
Democratic bosses of Sedgwick county.
and of Shawnee county. and of Leaven-
wcrth county, are itching for. Up at
Topeka, in their wild desire to get the
offices, they resolved even against the
preachers and churches, and. infeIen-
TALLY. therefore, against Christianity,
The logic of which is they would
resolve against Heaven and in favor of
he'll. against God and for the devil. And
this is what that party practically does
whenever it resolves for whisky.
We talk these facts thus plainly TO the
great Republican majority of Sedgwick
county because as we know and as that
great Republican majority knows, by
these hypocntical and insincere meth
DDS these same slick Democratic bosses
have Systematically hampered and con-
fused our majority, year after year get
ting man into this office and another
into that Office until grown confident of
their schemes and counting on the gull
Utility of the Republicans they now boldly
declare that they are going to capture the
rest of the offices this fall and make
Sedgwick county a Democratic county.
What this would mean need not be dwelt
upon. Wichita the greatest city in the
state would find herself of no political
importance in the state, and Of no inn
portance with our senators and repre-
sentatives in congress. The great things
That we as a people are counting on in
the way of Federal recognition and State
recognition would all be given up. only
TO the end that few Wichita Democrats
might hold down the county Offices and