The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-12
THE KELLY WICHITA RALLY.

As a state pension agent B. Kelly, Esq,
seems a little promiscuous. lie was so
as a preacher. The curb-stone discus
sion or the midnight caucus were as full
apt to hold him as his pulpit or study.
His assumptions Of a state apprenticeship
have hardly been warranted by any spec
ial breadth of beam as a statesman or by
any personal sacrifice, VIGOROUSLY or 9th
erwise. made in behalf of the people.
His disposition to lay awake nights in
the throes of political parturition that
oftener results in miScarriages than in
anything ike startling revolutions, has
been well understood by everybody eX-
cept by the leaders of the prohibition
party and by the politicians who profited
by an adherance to that party and to
Kelly himself And as a presiding elder
he was allowed a political paternity that
reached from Fort Scott to Dodge City
and to the borders of the heathens on
the south. But having dropped his cler-
ical robes for the tOga of party and given
over Peters Pence for princely poliu-
cal perQuisite. or IN other words, having
traded his allegiance to the Prince of
Peace for party pottage, we don't know
that his personality is any more sacred
than that of any ordinary paid patriot
spouter who comes along to fire the
friends Of freedom in the interest of his
bosses. We have heard men say that
they would hesitate to receive the sacra-
ment at the hands of Botkin while he was
engaged in vilifying his fellow men from
the stump; why not from Kelly's hands,
who has succeeded TO the fruits of his
worldly work?
For one, we don't know why, and as
long as he occupies his present position
we shall treat him as we would any other
cheap clap trap who should take it upon
himself, either through presumption or
ignorance to misrepresent Wichita or to
misrepresent anything else deSignedly
and for purpose.
1t is reported that Mr.. Kelly, the other
night at Garfield hall, declared that when
he first came to Wichita that the place
was full Of saloons and empty houses,
that there were more empty houses in
the city at that time in proportion than
at any time since, and that he challenged
any denial Of such declaration. The
EAGLE denies it, denies the assertion in
detail and in toto. 1t is just as big a
falsehood falling from the lips of Bern
ard Kelly as if uttered by any other man.
Mr.. B. B. stands for boss-Kelly is
further posing generally and often, as
the friend of Wichita. As much as it
may surprise some people on the outside,
Mr.. Kelly did not make Wichita, nor
does he own it now. On the contrary,
during his pastorate here he caused more
dissentions among a people, famed for
their unity, than any man that ever lived
here.
B. Kelly is cute, even smart and domi-
neering and selfish. but his profundity
and depth exist only in the imagination
of the crowd he runs and, perhaps, in
his own estimation. Whatever may have
been his success as a preacher, politically.
and his power of direction while rObed
with authority, as a state party strate
gist and arbiter and as a state house
heImsman he viii prove dismal failure,
and our advice to him would be to attend
strictly to making out pension checks
and drawing his salary. leaving Wichita
to wiggle along on her wicked ways.