The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-08
THE EAGLES POLITICAL STATUS.

The EAGLE criticised the Emporia Re-
publican the other day for its fight on
ingalls,. The criticism was play upon
words but the joke Unexpectedly struck
a tender spot and the Republican replies
by reading the EAGLE out of the party
on a series of charges of disloyalty.
The Republican is too Late, by a full
year. with its bull of accommodation
The EAGLE year ago was not in line
with the Republican party on the queS-
ton Of trusts" was not in line with
the administration on the free coinage
question, was not in line with the party
on the question of circulation, was not
in line with the party on the tariff
question, and was not in line with
the Kansas end of the party
on the question of resubmitting the pro-
hibition question to the vote Of the peo-
pie To all these charges Of the Repub-
lican the EAGLE assents.
But the readers of the EAGLE know
that whatever may be the attitude of the
national party, that today the people Of
Kansas-the Republican party of Kan
sas-are with the EAGLE in its demands
for federal laws against trusts and COM
bines, with the EAGLE in its
demand for greater volume of circula-
ton, with the EAGLE for free coinage,
and with the EAGLE for such readiust-
ment of the tariff laws, and especially of
the Mckinley bill, as will not rob the
producing west in the interest of the
manufacturing east. The readers
of the EAGLE know that it was the
only Republican paper in the state
Of Kansas that dare confront its
party on these matters up to the time
that Senator Plumb took identically the
same grounds, when all the Republican
dalies Of the state, the Emporia Repubh-
can excepted, Topped over to the
EAGLES side, which papers are now
rending themselves into shreds in trying
to convince their readers that they are
sound on the very questions over which
they tried to read the EAGLE out of the
party.
This statement of the EAGLES position
is true as can be and the Republican
knows it to be true.
AS for the Republicans last charge
that the EAGLE is not in accord with the
Republican party on the question Of
prohibition, we would like to
ask the Republicans what is the
attitude of the National Republican
party on prohibition, If it is not identical
with that of the EAGLE. The Republi-
can party has neither endorsed nor con-
demned prohibition, simply left it OPP
tionary with the several Republican state
organizations. More Republican states,
three to one, have repudiated prohibition
than have adopted it. SO far as the
EAGLE is concerned its readers know
that since the revival of that question in
this state. that it has neither advocated
nor opposed prohibition; neither advo-
Gated nor opposed high license; neither
advocated nor opposed local option. The
EAGLE has simply declared that the peo-
pie had a right to be heard again on that
question, a right to again vote on prOhi-
ton, and that if the Republican party, or
its bosses, refused such a reasonable re-
quest, that they, the party, would hear
from such refusal in November 1890.
The EAGLE has never gone one step farth-
er than this on the prohibition question
and ninety days hence will determine
what sense there was to its predictions
of May and June, 1889, a year und more
ago Can't the Republican wait that
length of time before proceeding to drop
US over the outer wall where there is
nothing but undegenerate Democracy,
broken weather cocks and political ''its?'
Touching the Republican party of Kan
sas and this question of another vote on
prohibition, the EAGLE has from first to
last declared that resubmission must be
settled within the Republican party, and
that it could only be settled outside of
and in spite Of the party to the partys
hurt.
The EAGLE, by its manly and straight
forward course, touching all these vital
questions, is in better position, today,
to help the Republican party of Kansas
out of very deep and very murky waters
than any or than all of those Republican
papers put together which have but
trailed along in the wake of events.
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KANSAS CITY AND THE SANTA FE.