The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-23
A DANGEROUS ENDORSEMENT.
From the Kansas City Times.

! From the Kansas City Times.
! When the Wichita EAGLE decides to
! say anything its readers generally know
what is meant. Colonel Murdoch has
| that virtue at least and yesterday he said
enough to give a full congressional dele
! cation a nightmare.
/ Colonel Murdock's editorial Yesterday
was a column and a half of as plain
/ language as was ever printed in paper
about It's own party. Economic ques-
tons are more important than political
ones today" is the generalization with
which the articles argument opens. 1t
/ expresses the belief that the Republican
party will not pass, and. the president
will not sign if passed, bill for the
free coinage of silver, though such law
would relieve the monetary stress
of the nation. ''The goldites, the trust
ties and the taritfites are laughing the
people to scorn," continues Colonel
Murdoch
The following vigorous remarks are
too good to be half quoted:
Listen here! The Mckinley bill is an
outrageous performance. 1t is but a
cheap monkey show in the face of high
heaven and of the American people. 1t
Is an attempt to make an angel of the
devil without abbreviating his tail or
saving off his horns. 1t takes dollars
from the farmer and returns him dimes.
In submitting its earnest convictions
Colonel Murdoch says he is impelled by
the desire to awaken the Republican
party to the dangers which threaten the
material prosperity of the west.
Yesterday was a good day for Republi-
can holiness in Kansas. Editor George
Martin, of the Kansas City, Kan. Ga
zetta, was briefer than Colonel Murdoch
but quite as emphatic. His remark was
that when the Mckinley bill passes not
even salvation will be free.
We have now ON the list of influential
Republican journalists in Kansas arrayed
against the Mckinley bill Colonel Muir
dock, George Martin, Major Hudson,
Judge PETER and John Hay. Ed Howe
of the Atchison Globe is with them.
Bent Murdoch has been tariff reformer
for years Colonel Learnard and Mr..
Finch of the Lawrence Tribune-Journal
shows signs of inability to swallow the
Mckinley bill.
What Democrats have to fear in the
political debates of this year in the west
is that all the Republicans who are clever
enough to do the debating will be tariff
reformers.
Another apprehension Is that these
western British free traders. viii so
alarm the Reed and Mckinley bosses
that the bill viii die in the senate.
If there IS such a substantial agree |
ment in all parties that the Mckinley |
bill Is a shameful imposition upon the /
labOring masses of the country, much /
of the Democratic advantage in /
the compaign debate viii be lost /
but a great good will be done to the /
people at large Democratic opposition |
has educated and brought out this west
ern sentiment and has the credit Of be |
ing consistent in its tariff views.
Colonel Murdoch and the other Kan !
san Republican advocates of silver should /
keep their eyes on the votes in congress.
If the bulk of the Democratic votes are
not for silver. and the bulk Of the Re
publican votes are not against it, the oc-
Casion viii be the first on record. The /
Democratic votes have always been |
against the gold schemes from the time
the party was against Tedeemlng bonds
in gold which were issued at a paper
valuation.
On economic issues the west Is Demo
cratic. and whether the EAGLE chooses
10 call itself Republican or not. its posi-
ton of yesterday was a high tribute To
Democratic views Of the currency and
and the tTriff.