The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-05
A CALAMITY LIE.

| If Wichita is distinguished for any one
thing more than another it is for hel
solid and enterprising business men
noted not only for their loyalty to the
interests of their proud city, but for ap
preciating that at the bottom of all com
nlercial success and financial prosperity
is public confidence, without which
faith, credit and stability are impossible,
In the face of this well known Wichita
characteristic it is being industriously
circulated throughout the state that this
city will endorse or support the Calamity
ticket at the polls in November. Where the
Misrepresentation first originated might
be difficult to fix, but hardly dehorned
sheet or an Alliance organ reaches us
that does not contain such ridiculous
claims.
Politically speaking. Wichita is a Re-
publican city, unquestionably. Finan-
cially her business men are level-headed
and sound, being, besides, solid and self
reliant enough to hold their own against
adverse influences and unrighteous dis
examinations such as have never been
confronted by nor forced upon any other
city in the state. When it has come to
interests affecting the city and its bust
ness locally, at times, perhaps, little
heed has been given to party prefer
ences, but to say that Wichita has ever
lost sight of the main chance and its OPP
portunities or failed of properly estimat-
ing inimical influences, is not true.
Now, as to this calamity claim
heralded about the state, this people can
stand any stigma or imputation better
than that of being considered fools.
There is not a business man, profess
sional man, manufacturer or artisan in
this city, be he Democrat or Republican
who does not fully appreciate and under
stand that so far as the state of Kansas
is concerned, her present and immedi-
ate future, her credit and her securities,
and consequently all of her values, pos
sessions, and business, would be adj
versely if not disastrously affected by
placing the executive, the legislative,
the judicial and all the administrative
powers of the people into the revolving
hands of this party of calamity canker,
ranked gizzard, -blighted and
hind-teat doom-sucking aggregation.
With the election of such ticket and
the transfer of all the great concerns
of this ever hopeful commonwealth into
the conti oil of this combination of grunt
ers, GROWERS and evil-eyed pessimists,
every business man of Wichita as every
property holder without regard to party
in the city or county knows that the
eastern men contemplating investments
in Kansas properties or securities, the
manufacturer and merchant desiring a
removal 10 this land of plenty, every
man planning for home for his family
in this beautiful sunfiower realm, but
dreading Anarchistic and Socialistic ten
denotes, would throw up their hands
and exclaim "good bye Kansas
In brief the good sense of the majority
of the voters of Wichita is thus beng
discredited and the record of the city
for loyalty maligned by the tools of
party whose every public gathering and
demonstration is signalized by the
collection of a corruption fund
and a hire of their howlers.
Wichita has gone Democratic, and
even for resubmission, because Of bust
ness interests, and might, on occasion,
do so again; but never for Calamity.
Harmony, Faith and Success" are mot
toes inscribed on her board of trade BAN
ner; bat "adversity, disaster and fail
ure" are conspicuous only in their
absence. Wichita is not only against
but will stand by her record
and t'Stand up for Kansas"
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