The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-12
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blow about the Kansas wheat crop thi
be careful about leaving their native stat
and emigrating to one that is not near s.
good.-Cresso (O.) Journal.
Yes, the Commoner is an Allianc
paper, published at present, in Wichita
and the Democrats of Sedgwick count.
have promised to give its editor TIN
best paying office in the gift of thi
great and prosperous community, biz
paying Office, which pays only becaus'
the county, in spite of the above SANDER
is great and rich.
And is it not little discourag
ing? Here is the EAGLE which backed
by truthful people has for twenty
years. and more, been trying t.
convince the world of the superiority
of Sedgwick county, southern Kansas
and the Arkansas valley as a healthfu
country, as delightful country, as {
country without rival for wheat anC
unexcelled for corn, one year taken with
another, and we didn't ask the people fol
any big paying county Office, either. We
have written thousands, aye tens OF
thousands of columns, and published
whole tones of statistics. proving that
what the EAGLE claimed for Sedgwick
county and of southern Kansas was true,
and all without any expectation of re-
ward other than that of having chance
to grow up with a people so favorably
surrounded and under such prosperous
conditions.
But, here is an item from the paper of
a man who is asking honors and emolu-
ments at the hands of a people whose in
terests he thus knifes. Such an item
is bound to go the rounds of thousand
eastern papers. It's black-eye from a
home-source, and for country that is
attracting too many people, and it will
find outside publishers and sponsors by
the score.
Where, and at times when, we
couldn't say any good, we have never
said anything bad of this magnificent
county and valley, and why any one
would want to, or even could, in face of
the facts, passes our understanding. No
one but a calamityite would. A calam-
itylte, doubtless, would criticize para
dice, if by any possible chance he ever
gained admittance there.
OF course it's no use for the EAGLE to
denounce the above, or attempt to show
to the contrary. Such mis-
representation, coming from our
own city, will travel a
thousand times faster than any truth or
than any number of facts however
strongly substantiated. Every specula-
tor who has lost money in wild schemes
in Kansas, every Alliance man from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, every bull and
bear, every grain dealer, and every
enemy of Kansas everywhere, will not
only quote, but gloat over, that item.
Sedgwick county's 105, 900 acres, her two
or three million bushels of great, plumb,
extra No. 2 wheat, thousands upon thou
sands of acres of which have already
threshed out upwards of twenty-five
bushels to the acre, and thousands OF
acres upwards of thirty bushels to the
acre, and field after field upwards of
forty bushels to the acre, will all go for
nothing in the face of such disastrous,
calamitous and grievous statements.
We may be, by an unprincipled and
dastardly political combination, forced
to give Mr.. Kies, the owner of the above
paper, and who is but new man in our
midst, the best paying Office IN the coun-
ty, but in all fairness it seems too bad
that there is not some way of putting a
stop to such def1hetion. Granting even
that his paper is IS read, and that the
item which has e cen so extensively
quoted may not be believed. still there is
the disagreeable reflection that man
right in our midst and who claims to
know and to speak for us, holds such
spirit with reference to our advantages,
and that in spite of his low estimate of
the country he yet would have our peo-
pie honor him and give him an Office in
which he will find money with which to
build up and strengthen the very paper
that delights in such depressing and dis
astrous Misrepresentation.
The Democrats of Sedgwick county in
convention Endorsed, and the Demo-
cratic organ of the county puts up the
name of this man in its mongrel ticket
declaring that it will give him a hearty
support.
And not only have the Democrats
agreed that this man, who has such poor
and contemplate opinion of Sedgwick
county. shall have the best paying office
in the county, but they have gone into
combination with his crowd to elect his
kind of a county commissioner from
the West Side, who will be expected TO
turn over the county printing TO his
paper also, or otherwise to divide it with
his paper and the Democratic organ; at
least to take it away from the EAGLE
which always has made it rule to ex-
pend its profits in making the paper bet