The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-20
AN ADDRESS.
te Of Kansas:

To the Republicans OF the state OF kansas;
| The committee having in charge the man
agement of the candidacy of Hon. NJ. NJ. Muir
dock for the nomination for governor on the
Republican ticket, beg leave to submit their
reasons why he should be nominated by the
Republican convention its candidate for
governor. And this action is taken without
Rejecting on, or impugning the motives or
methods of the many other excellent gentle
men who arc DESTROYS of that honor; it is done
with the full confidence that il will meet with
| your cordial approval
! Two thousand of his fellow Republicans
! ignoring his previous decision not to be q
candidate, met on the night of the 18th of
| April, 1892, in mass convention, in the opera
house, in Wichita, and passed resolutions de-
manding of him the right to use his name in
the state convention. 1t was a meeting which
| in its inception and management was without
his knowledge or consent, and no outside
forces or influences dictated its action. 1t
was an expression of a sentiment which we
will demonstrate, if the opportunity presents
itself, exist in the minds of seventy-five hun
dred of the ninety-ive hundred voters Of
S4dgwick county. 1t was unique spectacle
in the history of Kansas politics. He ac-
guessed in the action of that meeting with
the understanding that he Was not to be placed
in the attitude of making a personal canvass
for the honor, and that such action. as his
fellow Republicans might take in securing for
him the nomination, should not pledge him to
a distribution of the public trusts pertaining
to the chief executiveship for the purpose of
him
any policy other than that expressed in the
Republican national and state platforms
Colonel Murdoch has been q resident of Kan
sas for thirty-five years, as a boy and man,
having taken part in the trying times wherein
Kansas made history for this country, and for
the world. He was contemporary Of Brown,
Lane, Plumb, the Thatchers, Robinson, ingalls,
and Martin, and that great galaxy of men who
not only made their imprint upon this state,
but upon the nation. We confidently believe
that his nomination means the uniting of all
Republican forces and forty-fve thousand
majority over any combination that may be
made against him.
The vote which will elect the ticket this fall,
if the conditions remain the same as two years
ago, must come largely from the centers of
population, from the towns and cities of Kan
sas. While Colonel Murdoch is strong with
the farmers, having always advocated their
cause and that of economy in the administra-
ton of public affairs, and the cutting off of all
useless offices and expenses, he is particularly
strong in the towns and cities, for whose COM
mercial and manufacturing interests he has
SO long battled through the columns of his
paper.
We assert, after deliberate investigation and
from numerous letters and kilograms re-
ceived, that NJ. NJ. Murdoch can carry the
Seventh congressional district by many
thousand majority. That he can carry every
large city and town in this state, is admit
ted fact. This is year in which Kansas Re-
publicans must win. His nomination will add
strength to the electoral ticket. 1t has more
than a local significance. 1t is of national i'm
portapce in our judgment. His nomination
under the circumstances means his election,
His election means that Kansas will have as
its chief executive, one whose only ambition in
life has been to serve her; whose work, I'M
selfishly, for thirty years through the press,
has been for her advancement. His tenure
of Office would be of the people, and for the
people; and would mean that combinations,
political and corporate, will occupy such rela-
tions towards the state only as the interests of
the people and the constitution and laws
require.
ISigned.1 L. D. SKINNER,
II. w. LEWIS,
GEORGE w. CLEMENT,
w. J. WILSON,
A. w. OLIVER,
w. z. STANLEY,
MILTON STEWART,
JOHN KELLY,
NJ. w. LEVY.