The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-11
A Vote for John Doran.

a Vote for John DOran.
Thoughts make the man. There is g
vast sea of variety in this world; men ot
various minds and various degrees oi
mentality. A man can be of a strong
mind but weak advocate of his opin.
ions or a weak mind and a strong advo
cate of his ideas. But the acme of per.
sonal finish and patriotic perfection is
the man who having strong mind ad.
vocates his ideas strongly. This is John
Doran's excelling virtue and the key to
the worth of the man. He is man
who first finds that he is right and once
sure of that he goes ahead and nothing,
not heaven and earth can stop him. If he
has the true spirit of an idea or principle
John Doran is the man who will
fight for it with honesty, but none the
less with irrisistable determination. This
has characterized John Doran's life. He
is Pennsylvania by birth. He served
four and one-half years for his country
and received three wounds. When it is
said that John DOran served his country,
the words are selected fttingly. He did
not serve any general; he did not serve
any state; he did not serve any cause;
he served his country. Every shot that
he fired was for his country; for its veal
and preservation. He was and is patri-
otic in the true sense of the word. He
is not Kansan or Pennsylvania or a
resident of any one state. He is a cit
izen of the United States. That is the
way John Doran is built. That is the
broad plan of the mans texture. He
can't help it. John Doran is patriotic,
because he is broad.
In political way he attempts nothing
that is not every way subservient to the
welfare of the people. In John Doran's
eye his country is deification, just as it
was to the Greek or the Roman. He is
patriotic to the core and intelligently so
always.
Five years of Mr.. Doran's life was
passed on a farm in Illinois. Sixteen
years ago he came to Wichita and went
into the clothing business, in which he
was engaged for eight years. In his
business relations, all about him and all
who had business with him stand ready
at moments notice to attest to the
sterling worth and the solidity of the
man. Mr.. Doran is so years old. He is
a man of experience and acute observa-
ton.
He is a Republican. He was at the
birth of the Republican party and from
that day to this he has never supported
any other; nor in all the elections at
which he has lent his voice in all these
years, has there ever been one name or
one man whom John Doran raised his
pencil to scratch. His ballot is always
open and always unmutilated. That is
John Doran.
If you vote for John Doran you are
voting for a man with a lively sense of
personal honor; a man who demands
frankly that every man shall search
him and his life through and through
before he cast his ballot for him; man
who defes the world to offer one word
of calumny upon his name.
If you vote for John Doran you are
voting for a man who believes in per-
sonal and political, private and public
honesty, man who holds every dollar
of the public as carefully and as zeal
ously as he regards his own. A man
who believes in being pure in politics
and private life.
If you vote for John Doran you are
voting for a man who above all is
patriotic; man who holds every in
terest of the American people at heart;
a man who is broad of mind: a man
whose religion IS the Bible and the star
spangled banner.
A vote for John Doran is vote for in
telligent Republicanism and individual