The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-11-17
KANSAS HERSELF AGAIN.

The beneficial effects of the result of
the recent election in this state upon the
states credit and standing in the COM
mercial and financial centers of the
country are not appreciated fully by our
own people generally. With the excep-
ton of the dozen judges of district
courts the elections were purely local,
to be sure, but the interest felt and the
estimate put upon the result were gen.
eral, because it involved the question
whether the ascendency of the Alliance
third party, obtained last year, was to
be perpetuated. The temporary success
of that party and the policy it advocated
and attempted to carry into effect
through legal enactments by the state
legislature created distrust in the integ
rity of the state in business transactions.
This has been so clearly and repeatedly
demonstrated during the past twelve
months toscores and hundreds of citizens
of this state in business affairs as to need
no further proof than the mere statement
of the fact.
OF course this has been brought about
through feeling of apprehension, based
upon the declarations and threats of the
leaders of the new party as to what it
would do when once in power and con-
troll, and not from anything that has
actually been done. None of the harm
full acts that were proposed and passed
by the last legislature became laws, be-
cause Republican senate prevented it;
but the action Of the lower house, that
was controlled by the new party, showed
what it would do if it had full control of
legislation, and it was these efforts, as
much as the declarations of their
speakers and press, that disturbed conf |
dence at home and abroad. But the
overwhelming defeat of the representa-
tives of the wild and dangerous ideas
and doctrines has had the effect to dis |
arm the suspicious that had grown up
extant that the state would in any way |
compromise its obligations.
Mr.. j. D. Hutchings, capitalist and |
large investor of this city, returned home
Saturday night from a three-weeks' bus
mess trip east, and he informs the writer
that the eyes of money loaners and busi-
ness men generally were turned towards
Kansas pending the elections held in the
state on the Sd inst, and he says that the
expressions of satisfaction and gratltica-
ton over the Alliance defeat were uni
versal and hearty. Kansas is regarded
as one of the very best states in the
Union in its natural conditions, and the
spirit of enterprise and progress here
manifested has been the wonder and ad-
of all, until the cloud of 1890
came over the state that threatened to
nullify all the efforts that had been put
forth with such marvellous results, if not
to actually destroy all that has been done.
Capital, always timid and solicitous for
its safety, naturally shrunk from any
chances at becoming entangled and prob
ably destroyed, and all lines and classes
Of business has suffered in consequence.
Now that the would-be repudiators
have been repudiated in an emphatic way
no further apprehension is felt and Kansas
has been restored to the confidence of
.he commercial world and so long as the
state shall continue to manifest conf
1ence in itself there will be no further
of the commercial and gen.
eral business intercourse that has been /
hitherto been maintained to the mutual
satisfaction of all interested.
/ In a word, the protests and denials
hat have been made and repeated with
,ut ceasing by the defenders of the state
md its good name, against the misrepre- t
entations and ISLANDERS put upon it, have 1
,een verified and emphasized by the re- I
ult of the election, and today Kansas
s recognized as being just what it was
,efore the accident of 1890 occurred. =