The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-04
MORE DOUBLE DEALING.
THE INSINOERITY OF THE DEMO
CRATIC CENTRAL COMMITTEE
A Letter From the Chairman Of the Re-
publican Central Committee
Exposing Bentley's
Perhdy.

You are again confronted with a mani
festo from Fred Bentley, the chairman of
the Democratic central committee of
Sedgwick county, making an extraor-
binary appeal for your votes at the coming
election, realizing that the Democrats are
insufficient in numbers for any hope of
success. He again seeks to hoodwink you
IN securing your votes by the same tactics
resorted to only one year ago, by which
certain Democrats were elected to office.
1t was then claimed by this vocillating
chairman that the election would not be
claimed as a Democratic victory, but
simply a Resubmission triumph. The
campaign was then conducted upon a Re-
submission hypothesis, but the result of
that election was celebrated as Demo-
cratic victory.
In the recent county convention this
same chairman congratulated the Demo
cratic party upon their splendid victory of
last fall. The same tactics are now en-
ployed and he has the effronty TO again
plead for your votes for the county ticket,
and again reiterates that he will claim it
asa Resubmission victory in case ofsuccess.
What does this mean? Were there ever
sans than those now in office? These same
officials and this same chairmen are today
insisting upon the election of the Demo-
cratic county ticket because it is the only
resubmission ticket, and this in face of the
fact that every Republican on the county
ticket stands upon a Resubmission plat
form in which the following is prominent:
We favor the resubmission of the pro-
hlbltory amendment to vote of the peo-
pie. And we instruct our delegates to the
next state convention at Topeka to labor
to secure resubmission plank in the Re-
publican state platform; and we also in
struct our senators and representatives
from this county TO vote for and support a
resolution to submit the prohibitory
amendment to a vote of the people"
Our candidates have said publicly that |
they are in favor of resubmission and will |
stand or fall upon the platform. Yet Mr.. !
Bentley seeks to prejudice the minds of
Republicans by false and hypocritical |
statements that the race is between Prohi- |
bition Republicans and Resubmission |
Democrats
The Republican candidates for the legis- |
lature if elected upon the foregoing plank, |
can and will do more for resubmission, as
every thinking man must concede, in one
day than all the Democratic candidates in
a Republican legislature can accomplish |
in lifetime. Does this chairman deal
fairly with you?
In another portion of his adj
dress he states that the Re-
submission Republicans had refused
TO endorse our candidates. This he knows
10 be false and a malicious lie. Those Re
peblicans have openly Endorsed our ticket
and will, as well as all other Republicans,
support our candidates.
What have these county officers. elected
by your votes, done in the interest of Re-
These same men, and partic-
llarly your sheriff, have joined hands with
he Alliance and have even sold out the
Democratic party, body and soul, for their
Dwn selfish purposes To defeat Chales II.
4uling, our nominee for district clerk,
hey have bartered the body OF the liberal
Democratic voter, and have placed upon
heir ticket w. w. Ayers, the Alliance !
who had heretofore received he
Endorsement of the third party Prohibi-
SITS and Is upon their tickets. Can you
low say they are sincere?
Bentley says further, that the citizens of ,
his county have ever given literally of
heir time, property and cash, for the pro-
notion of the country's interest,"" and yet
eeks, through his Democratic party, 10
efeat our fellow townsman, James r. ,
iallowell, who must have the T
interest of his home at heart :
or our representative for congress. !
10 Republican voter of Sedgwick county :
an believe Mr.. Bentley is sincere in this.
Zach Republican voter of Sedgwck coun- :
Y must see the Democratic subterfuge in !
his, and willingness to elect any man if
y so doing the Republican party may I
uffer defeat :
Fellow Republicans, let us make no i
Mistake in casting our ballots, to favor re- q
as declared in our county con- +
ention, has suffered defeat at the hands Z
f Sedgwick county Republicans. for our
republican nominees. +. T. ALLEN, /
Chairman. I