The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08
REBELLION AND REVOLUTION.

Kansas on the day that Humphrey was
declared elected governor by mere in
significant plurality as there were on the
day when President Harrison triumph
antly carried the state by ei9hty-two
thousand majority. There are as many
Republicans in Kansas in whose nostrils
that dumping pond of conservatism and
cowardice, known as the Democratic
party. is as great a stencil today as it
ever was; as many Republicans whose
common sense is shocked at the govern
ment warehouse and other Alliance
vagaries as there ever were; as many
men in Kansas who believe that the
underlying principles and progressive
policies of the Republican party are all
comprehensive and sufficient, more
practical and safe, embodying more Of
the essential elements of present stability
and present good, of future security and
future greatness, than can be found in
the doctrines and platforms of all other
parties combined, as there ever were.
These men, these Republicans, not only
would, but their desire is to sustain the
old party of progress and Of freedom
with which their lives have been politi-
cally identified, to stand by its
principles and to vote its tickets.
And only because of the last mentioned
element have they ever wavered or failed.
The principles of the Republican party
are as pure, as substantial, as exalted
and as hopeful of still better things, as
they ever were. The trouble has been
in the matter of tickets-of men, not
of principles. That which has sown
discord and engendered distrust, and
carried honest men by the thousands
temporarily away from the Republican
party and into strange and uncongenial
camps has been not only the men NOM
mated for Republican tickets, but the
combinations of ring machinery and
the jobbing intrigues resorted to by
such alliances in forcing favorites and
tools into positions as left the honest Re-
publican voter only the alternative of
supporting unfit candidates or of de-
sorting his party.
The EAGLES Rebellion of a year or
two since was jibed and Scorned, but
history came near recording it as
Revolution. That which led to the par
tial defeat and humiliation of the Re
publican party last fall in Kansas has
not even been smoothed over or apollo
gized for. In fact the indications now
are that party defiance is to follow insult
and injury. 1t is already more than
limited that the old political
coterie have decided who shall
have the nomination for governor
on the Republican ticket a year
hence; a man not only without
claims of any character and politically
unworthy, but an incompetent barnacle
and leech. If the program is forced
through it will be revolution complete in
'92. To say more is unnecessary at this
time; to say less would be to ignore
knowledge and to smother conviction.
AS we said in the outstart, there are
as many true Republi-
cans in Kansas as there ever were de-
string to not only to vote the Republican
ticket but to earnestly and enthusiastic-
ally support it; and, if the party Of the
state desires principles before men, and
certain victory rather than possible de- |
feat, the work of reformation and pro-
cess of wedding out must commence |
now and in every county in the state. |
1t will not do to say hereafter that the
local jobbers captured the strikers and
controlled the primaries and nominated |
the weak and Objectionable county tick
cts. No excuse whatever will stand in |
any county of this state for ticket made |
up of old time political buns and party
dead beats. Honest, competent, repre-
sentative, live men must be chosen and |
nominated for all county offices this fall, !
and for all county, district and state
offices next fall. The great body of the
party are demanding this.
This demand conceded and this policy
carried out for this and the next year,
and not a half dozen counties will be
lost to the Republican party in either
year. Upon the other hand, a poor plu-
rality viii not even be left through
which to creep in, much less victory
won TO crow over.