The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-09-25

most unanimous sentiment OF the Repub-
can party of this city and county, in
which platform is a "Resubmission
plank, which Resubmission plank re-
fleets the wish of at least seven out of
ten of the entire voting population of the
county, without regard TO party, race,
religious belief or nationality.
The only way for a county party or
ganization 10 effect its wishes with a
state organization is to resolve first and
then instruct its delegates, and that is
the only way that state can make it
self felt in a National organization, but
either accompanied by threat to bolt
would be fatal.
Any Republican club or other Repub-
lican organization have a perfect right
to question the nominees of their own
party and might even have the right and
power to withdraw from the party in
case the answer either failed or proved
unsatisfactory, but neither power nor
right to read any other organization out
of the party, much less the members of
the regular primaries and conventions
and the nominees thereof.
So far as we know there is not the
slightest difference between the Sedg-
wick county Republican platform and
the national Republican platform as
to principles, and none between the
county platform and the state platform
except as to one single PROPOSE
ton Of party policy. The Repub-
lican party Of Sedgwick county
favor the policy of having another
vote on the question of prohibition" for
the purpose of ascertaining the present
will and convictions of the people of the
state. The party managers and office
holders of the state party oppose that
policy. As prohibition is not a party
question. except in a local sense, where
it is as often a Democratic policy as it is
Republican policy, no set of men, high
or low, have any authority to say that
any man is not Republican because he
does or does not endorse prohibition.
The writer, had he been a nominee and
thus questioned, would have answered
that being a nominee Of the party he was
of course, for the partys ticket, from
top TO bottom. from coroner up, and
from president down, and for all the
platforms, national, state, congress
siOnal and county, but that
touching the matter of diff
ference as to party policy between the
state and county organizations my first
duty was to the people who had honored. !
trusted and empowered me to officially /
say ives" or no" for them, and my
peoples answer would be my answer.
Thus, The EAGLE two years ago, dis
corning a growing desire among the peo-
pie for a rehearing on the subject of pro-
hibition openly and squarely declared .
that the people had right to such a .
rehearing, and that as soon as a respect /
able number should formulate such de I
sire that it would be the best policy. as it |
would be the undoubted duty. of the Re
publican party to listen to such prayer
and grant such vote So far the party
has refused to do it, but The EAGLE is
none the less Republican on that account.
nor will it fail on that account TO sup
port the principles of the Republican
platform and the nominees of the Re
publican tickets-all of them. So this
so called Republican club, if it is honest
and earnest, if it is a real and not an
Republican organization.
must support all honest nominees who
have been honestly nominated by the
Republican party, otherwise they are
not partizans, but simply league of
men who. while holding to principles
and beliefs Of the Republican party are
yet more dangerous than open enemies
and who would not, or at least could
not, fairly ask any present or future
party consideration. for in either refus-
ing to vote at all or in voting the Demo
cratic ticket, or in putting up a ticket Of
their own, they ut once sever their
allegiance and cancel any possible party
due them.
If this Republican club are satisfied
that the county nominees. Of the Repub-
lcan party, are honest and capable. and
that they received their nominations
honorabiy at the hands Of a regular con-
vention, whose members were represen-
tatlve in their characters and who re-
Elected the wish and convictions Of
majority of the Republicans Of Sedg-
wick county touching this matter Of
another vote on the pro hibition question. |
then they can rot consistently carry out
their covert threat to bolt and only be
cause of a failure to receive answers to
questions that the county platform. by
rs words. and the nominees. by their ac-
'eptance, most fully answered. Besides Z
he resolutions are untuthful in that
hey say the candidates have been "abso-
utelv silent. when in fact an omen. 4