The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-09-11
OUR CONGRESSMAN.
Hallowen and simpson, by a Man Who
Knows Them Both.
From the Hutchinson News.

| qucotlOIlS now dglldIluS the puDuC n1Iue
First, the race problem; second, tn
! liquor question, and third, the labc
2 problem.
None of the above questions of publ
policy can ever be satisfactorily settle
> until the government authority Is so pei
fectly recognized in every state tina
every American citizen can vote as h
pleases and have his vote honestly an
correctly counted. Our constitution
guarantees this right to every native an
naturalized citizen of the age of II year
and upward. without distinction of rae
or color. If the rights of any such citi
zen are abridged or tramPled upon Of
the high seas or in any country unde
the sun, every soldier, every gun, ever.
ship of war and every dollar at the com
mand of the United States government
4 are at his service. The question of pro
lection of the voter is the first il
importance. In a popular govern
ment like this the majority mus
rule and control, or no public
question can be permanently settled. Be
fore the great rebellion three-fifths of thu
colored population were counted IN the
apportionment for representation, We
the colored man was not allowed TO vOt,
in order to carry out this principle. AT
ter the sanguinary trouble was ended
five-fifths of the colored people Were
counted. And in order that justice Sc
long delayed might be given him tbs
Fourteenth and Fifteenth constitutional
amendments were enacted by the Amer
lean people. But, notwithstanding all
this, the southern states persistently re
fuse to recognize our constitutional au-
thority and continue every year at every
election to trample the rights of six mil
lion people to the dust, and not soldier
or gun or ship or dollar can he command
! in his defense. and that, too, right there
/ in his native state at the scenes of his
ch ildhOod.
What is the matter? Is it fact that
the law cannot be enforced, or is it fact
that our constitution is a dead letter!
If the laws cannot be enforced, then those
states are vet in rebellion. The Repub-
! lican party has promised that when in
! full control of our government, that the
right to vote and hold office and proper
, ty shall be protected, without regard to
race or previous condition of servitude.
President Harrison, in his message calls
especial attention to this long standing
pledge, and it seems that the senate is
too cowardly to do its duty in the pass
age of the election bill, which must be
passed and enforced in every state, be-
fore permanent peace can ensue, and be-
fore the great questions above mentioned
can be settled. Consequently it is all
! important that our wisest and ableSt
men be elected to congress, for it
will take the wisest legislation, and re-
quire an exercise of the greatest political
sagacity, to prevent another bloody rev.
olutiOn and that, too, in the near future,
if the past is a criterion.
When the Lodge election bill is passed
and enforced, or some similar law, then
and not till then can we hope to satisfac-
torily settle the liqu r question and solve
the great labor problem. First principles
must be understood and the cause re-
moved before those two effects will
cease.
The Peoples party has undertaken to
cure the effect without removing the
cause. In fact it has made gigantic
attempt to acquiesce in the course pur-
sued in the south. Its platforms denOunce
everything said or done by the Repub-
lican party against these OUtrages by
which the colored vote is suppressed, as a
continued attempt to keep up i'll feeling
between the two sections, and there
is no doubt that the Peoples
party was organized by its leaders
in the south with this one object in view.
Everywhere in every platform of the
Peoples party we have such expressions
as ''we denounce the Republican party
for its continual efforts to keep up sec
tional feeling between the north and the
10, lr-
men that no sectional feeling in the
north has anything TO do with the con
tinued demand of the Republican party
that the south obey the constitution and
laws of the United States by giving the
colored people all the rights that are
theirs under the constitution, and any
party which Will bow at the shrine of
such injustice is not fit to guide the des-
tiny of a free country.
Col. Hallowell stands pledged to
platform that demands equal rights to
American citizans, and that every state
shall comply with the United States con-
stitutiOn without any i'll feeling toward
any people. He has the ability, educa-
ton and courage TO carry out every prin
ciple of the Republican national and
Kansas state platforms.
jerry Simpson has none of these neces-
sary qualifications for a congressman.
He is pledged to a platform that opposes
indirectly any law enacted or any plat
form that demands such laws to be en-
acted as will compel the south 10 allow
the ColOred man TO vote as an attempt to
foment ill-feeling between the two sec
tions. He also is pledged to a platform
that demands higher prices for farm pro-
ducts and lower prices for goods which
none dispute but the h. of L., which or
ganizatiOn demands higher prices and
fewer hours and less prices for farm pro-
ducts on which TO live-yet he Is trying
to harmonic these two conflicting labor
clements whose interests are diametric-
ally opposed to each other. and never
can harmonic in a political party or
anywhere else.
There is no comparison between Hal
lowell and Simpson. The colonel has
been a success in every business of life,
in politics and financial matters, and in
the law profession. Mr.. Simpson has
been failure in farming, in finances, in
politics (he has tried all parties) and a
success in nothing. except TO be appoint
ell city marshal of Medicine Lodge and
in getting the nomination on the Peoples
ticket for an office he is totally unquali-
fed for Otherwise he may be a good
citizen. 4 MECHANIC.
a Partisan Estimate.
Prom the Kansas Democrat
Charles Robinson is a philoSOpher