The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-22
"WILL THE FARMERS OF KANSAS
ENDORSEq'


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| The Alliance of Kansas has had no more sym
friend than the W naefn EaGaE IL
and has had many good woris to say for the leaders
ness to manage the state has been completed this is
| how the EAGLE sums 1t up, under the title given
this article.-Abilene Reflector.
Then follows the EAGLES article, q
most bitter and unjust attack upon the
| Alliance members of the house. The Re
! f1ector resorts to an old dodge when it
says that the EAGLE ''haIf way supported
! the third party movement last fall" 1t
did not support it in any degree. A year
ago last fall the EAGLE was disgruntled
with everything and was kicking in every
| direction, but as soon as the campaign
opened the EAGLE was in line for the Re-
publican nominees. 1t supported every
man of them from Governor Humphrey
down TO Jim Hallowell and it did not adj
vocate any reform asked for by the Alli-
ance. 1t is true that, after the battle was
over and more than half won by the Ali
ance, the EAGLE tried to claim all the
credit, but the A lance and the rest of the
state only laughed at its pretensions. The
EAGLE must be set down as consistent
and bitter enemy of the Alliance and we
do not think the farmers of Kansas will
endorse it.-Leavenworth Times.
The conservated opinion of the people
of Kansas, touching the attitude of the
EAGLE in the late political rebellion, in
this state, cannot be disturbed by any
misrepresentation of papers or of poll
ticlanS. While it is true that the AL
lance afterwards embodied in its plat
form the reforms which the EAGLE
urged the Republican party to accept,
and while the Alliance reiterated and
denounced on every stump the abuses
complained of by the EAGLE, and while
the Alliance papers very generally
quoted and approved, and often stole,
the EAGLES editorials outright, it is not
true that the paper ever became an Al
lance organ in any sense. That the
EAGLES course contributed to the fri
umph Of the Alliance might not be
denied, but if there is any blame attach
ing it is with the party leaders who
permitted or made it possible for
the Alliance to avail itself of
which the Republican
party should have encompassed. 1t
is now all too late for any paper or for any
politician to attempt to ignore the fact
that the EAGLE was the biggest factor in
Kansas politics for two years past.
Other papers may have said much more
and worked much harder but the issues
forced by the EAGLE proved the dom
mant ones.
Faithful are the wounds of friend"
The disturbing causes complained of by
the EAGLE have not yet been eliminated
by the Republican party, nor have the
demanded reforms been accomplished. |
The same thing for which the party
bosses denounced the EAGLE they are |
now denouncing ingalls,, viz, for telling |
unpleasant facts. Had he seconded the |
EAGLE two, or even one year ago, with |
such a speech as he made the week be- |
fore his defeat or by the positions taken
n his late interview, the Republican
party of Kansas would have been forced |
INTO lines which would not only have
saved the state to Republicanism
1ut rendered triumph of the widowed
out well meaning Alliance impossible.
Plumb did SO endorse the EAGLE in all
us speeches and letters in everything ex-
'ept in Resubmission, even to our vio-
ent denunciation of the Mckinley bill.
out Plumb was not the candidate.
No papers ever made more earnest
md untiring, and we might add bril-
liant party fight than that made by the
Times and Capital last fall And this is
rue of a large number of other Republi-
an dailies and weeklies, but every day,
they ran dead against senti-
nents promulgated the EAGLE which
,ould not be effaced or overcome. These
papers Will even yet affect the sheer of
ncredulity, but they can't forget the re-
urns of last November, nor will thew
consent to help what must come about,
nv more than would the last state SEN
tie whose corruption was only equalled
" the ignorance of the house.
We quoted above faithful are the
Wounds of friend" But, however
realty the Republican party of Kansas
nay be writhing from the wounds
Inflicted by the EAGLE, that same Kan
as Republican party is in no worse
light than will be the National Repub-
lean party two years hence if it does
lot Immediately respond in its platforms
nd legislation to the dominant senti-
nents of the people OF the west and of
be south, who are practically unit.
ouching the live issues of the times, of
which responding there are no signs at
resent, and little hope,
FESTIVAL, FREAKS