The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-30
A REsUBMIsSIoN TALK.

The Resubmission Republicans Of
Sedgwick county, f all the parties in
the present campaign, can the least af
ford to be dishonest with the public or
untrue TO themselves. That for which
they have denounced others the most
vehemently was hypocrisy. The Resub
mission Republican element of Sedg
wick county controlled the last Repub-
lican convention, drew up its platform
and named its candidates. The candi-
dates from choice and conviction ac-
cepted the nominations and went to
work for Resubmission Republican vic
tory. There has been various pressures
brought to bear to force these candidates
to say that they would go back on re-
submission but not a single one of their
number weakened. The Democratic party
which is not honestly for resubmis-
sion or honestly for anything else save
its purpose to get into place and power,
is now claiming Resubmission Republi-
lican votes for their county ticket.
Their organ openly and above board an
nounces that the Resubmission executive
committee will refuse to place the Re-
submission nominees of the Republican
party on their ticket. The Democratic
party of Sedgwick county by stealing
Resubmission thunder beat the Republi-
can party last fall. If the Resubmission
Republicans permit the Democrats to
successfully play that game again then
good bye Resubmission, for decent Re
publicans who have been honestly in
favor of Resubmission will wash their
hands of the whole matter, and the
Democratic party alone cannot bring
about Resubmission in thousand
years in Kansas, even if they
wanted TO, which is doubtful.
They like it as a hobby to howl about,
while it is Just as certain that the Demo-
cratic party would oppose re,ubmission
today, or any other Republican move,
but for the hopes they have of electing
their state ticket The most intolerant
prohibition laws ever enacted in the
United States, and now enforced, were
enacted by the Democratic party in
Democratic states. As for the legislature
of Kansas, one Resubmission Republican
can do more in that body to bring about
resubmisSlon than any dozen DEM
ocrats, for the simple reason that
the present senate is as overwhelmingly
Republican as the state itself. If
the Democrats were as honestly for Re
submission as are the Resumission Re
publicans they would as readily and
heartily support the Republican nomi-
nees for the legislature in Sedgwick
county as the Resubmission Republicans
are supporting Robinson, the Democrat,
for governor.
As the EAGLE said at the opening of
the campaign, if the Resubmission Re-
publicans, who are in the great ma ority,
fail 10 act squarely by their own ticket,
then Resubmission in the state of Kansas
will get a much blacker eye than it
would in the failure to elect Robinson.
Resubmission had its birth with Wichita
Republicans; not with Wichita
Democrats, nor with the Dem
ocrats of any orther locality in
the state. therefore the defeat of the Re-
publican Resubmission party in Sedg-
wick county at once discourages every
Republican Resu0mission organization
in the state. and the whole movement
falls 10 pieces, or back into the hands of
the Democrats. which would be the same
thing as the Democrats can't run Kan
sas without Republican help any more
than Bellzebub could run Paradise. 4
vote, therefore, for the Democratic NOM
inees in Sedgwick county is a vote
against the final triumph of Resubmis-
sion, and none but fools or insincere
demagogues will attempt TO deny the