The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-14
A CoNrEMpTIBLE CAMPAIGN.

The Democratic ticket, nor any indi
vidual on it, is entitled to a single Re
publican vote in Sedgwick county. Tn,
city bosses of that party have no ide;
that they can elect their ticket will
Democratic votes. They make no pre-
tense of carrying the county. Then
scheme is to ''trade in" one or two OIL
their nominees who they can use if elect
ed. They count on the Alliance divid
ing the country and on their ability tc
manipulate the city in such way as tc
let couple of their fellows in. They
don't care what becomes of the balance
of their ticket so that certain useful fell
lows are saved. Some IF their lndis-
Greet tools boast these things, not only,
but boast that they are working the
prejudices of the Alliance in great shape,
The campaign policy adopted By the
Democratic ringsters of saying nothing
about their own candidates, of
speaking only complimentary of the al.
lance crowd, but all the while
abusing the nominees of the Republican
party, is not going to fool anybody.
They may be able, in the absence Of the
adoption of a like disreputable course by
the Republicans, to keep the people in
ignorance of the unfitness of some Of
their own nominees, of the fact that
others have no interests in this county
which will hold them in Kansas a day
beyond their defeat, and in ignorance of
the schemes whereby others are to con-
tinue in office in spite Of the fact that the
people had spewed them out, but miser-
able inuendos and lies will convince no.
body that Johnny Allen is not the soul
of honor; that Ike Ault is not one of the
best and most deserving men that was
ever named for an Office; that Judge
Reed is not learned lawyer, a sympa-
thetic man and just judge; that Johnny
Doran is not capable and faithful, that
Carvin has hardly an equal in the state
as a book-keeper, and that Barrett and
McAllister are not genuine patriots
whose crippled limbs testify to their de-
votion to principle and loyalty to their
country.
1t goes without saying, for everybody
knows it, that the men who compose the
Republican ticket, individually and col
lectively, are at least as good, as true,
as capable and as acceptable in every
way as the men who compose either Of
the other tickets, and in addition they
are all lifelong Republicans. That is
enough for any honest Republican.
Conceding-which we do not-that the
men on the Democratic ticket are as well
prepared to take charge of the public
interests as the men named by the Re-
publican convention, that would be no
argument or reason why any man who
believes in the principles of Lincoln,
Grant and Blaine should by his vote
help defeat the party that stands for
those principles.
The campaign whisper of chief and
''scoundreT and prohibitionist," by the
Bourbon bosses and which is peddled
about the county by their candi-
dates and tools, is beneath
character and contemplate. There
is not a man in the county, be he ALI
ance, Democrat, Prohlbitfonists, Result
missioist or what not, who knows IkeAult,
for instance, and his life as man, and as
a citizen, that is not proud of him. But
to carry out the trade of the bosses Ault
has been singled out to be slaughtered in
this city at any cost. Republicans are
personally appealed to every day to lend
their votes to down Ike Ault, the honest
farmer of Park township, only to carry
out trade which will put money into
the pockets of certain city managers.
The same tactics are employed by these
fellows as to Johnny Allen. They are
beneath character and outrageous and
the great body of sound Republicans
who can in no way be affected by such
work ought to make it their duty and
pleasure to take hand in the campaign, !
at least to the extent of speaking out
their convictions and sentiments.