The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-18
A WORD WITH INTELLIGENT AND
HONEST DEMOCRATS.

There is not an intelligent DemOcra
in Sedgwick county who does not under
stand, perfectly well that the leaders O
the so-called Peoples party are, at heart
revolutlonists, who would not only over
turn the government of Washington ant
Jefferson, but that a majority Of sait
leaders would like to see all our present
social conditions broken up, even to the
destruction Of our public school system
and the humiliation of the Christian
church, and of every other society or in
stitution which depends on the money OF
charity, or of tithes or of taxes for life
and support. There is not an intelligent
Democrat who in the least, or for one
moment, doubts that such political ad-
venturers as B. E. Kies. or that such
free-thinkers and infidels as Jerry
Simpson, are sympathizers with
and believers in the treason
able teachings of Herr Most
and all that class of mal-contents who
are the product of foreign civilizations,
and are opposed to American institutions.
There is not an intelligent Democrat in
the state of Kansas hut that must know
that certain Democratic leaders are seek
ing to dump their whole party, and for
| just what they, the leaders, can get out
of it personally. There is not Demo
cratic newspaper nor Democratic leader
in Kansas advocating this fusion with
the Observation-Disclosures party
| that has not some definite inside under
standing whereby they are to get re-
ward. These Democratic leaders and
papers hope to be able, no doubt, to con-
troll, in some degree, the Herr Most,
the Bergman and the Haymarket
elements of the Peoples party, but
whether or not they are still willing to
take the chances for which they hope to
gain for themselves personally.
Simpson in his reasonable declara-
tons and in his calamity speeches in
congress, and PETER in his imbecie
mouthings, together with the rantings
of such followes as Kies, have hindered
the prosperity of Kansas and damaged
her credit and good name. more, a
hundred fold, THAI all the Colorado
grasshoppers and all the other caiamities
of war and of drowth and of cyclone to
which her people have ever been
subjected.
1t would seem that for the sake of
success these revolutionists, infdels
and Anarchists would withhold their
true sentiments until after they had Sc
cured the votes of honest Democrats.
But not so. So full of treason, so wrong
headed every way are these men, that in
spite of themselves they are continually
splitting out defamations of Kansas and
giving utterance to doctrines only fit to
be advocated by savages OF by the COM
mune of Paris. One would think that
Jerry Simpson after his experience in
questioning the virtue of Kansas women,
after lying about Kansas people
and swearing that there was
no good in the state, would
be smart enough to hold
his tongue at least until the Democrats
had again put him back in congress
But the mans treacherou inclinations.
are stronger than his brain or the admo-
nitions of experience. No longer thar
last week, on train in eastern Kansas,
in the hearing of several gentlemen who
were discussing the Coffeyville tragedy,
this man, who represents one of the
largest, most intelligent and most pros
porous congressional districts in the
United States, expressed himself as fol-
lows:
''The Dalton bows were no worse than
the national bankers and thousands of
Others in Kansas who are engaged in
pretended lawful pursuits, while they
are really robbing the people. They are
to be no more condemned, or their acts,
than the bankers whom they robbed"
These are the sentiments of a man
who represents you and every man and
woman in Southwest Kansas in the con-
gress of the nation. This is the man
who if the fusionists should get control
of the next legislature of Kansas is to
take seat along side of PETER in the
United States senate, and for whom Ed
O'Bryan would have to vote if he kept
his pledge made to the Peoples party
here il Wichita the day that
they Endorsed him.
In all sincerity, and outside of all
party allegiance, we ask honest Demo
Gratis who propose to vote for such men
as Simpson and Kies, where do they ex-
pect 10 land, or what do they expect
will be the outcome, if they consent to |
to place into the hands of such |
men their rights and fortunes as
such hands the powers of
government?
Our suggestions and questions are left |
with the average man TO solve and /
answer to his own satisfaction.
Thouob of local coprer, tha .o,,.4