The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-06
A TALK WITH OUR DEMOCRATIC
READERS,

The EAGLE has from four to fiv,
thousand Democratic readers in south
west Kansas who for the most part ar
in the fullest harmony with us in every
thing, save in the matter of party poll
tics. The support of these Democrats il
a liberal and ungrudging one. They be
lieve. with the EAGLE. in heaven anC
Immortality; in virtue and Christian in
situations; i'll morality and decency, and
in government of the people, for the
! people and by the people, and especially
are they with us in the belief that south
| west Kansas is, taken altogether, the
most desirable country that the sun
shines on, and that time viii make it one
of the greatest, richest and happiest in
the world. In short these Democrats
never quarrel with the EAGLE about any
thing save our politics. and not very Sc
riously over even party issues, for they
know that the EAGLE is, at all times, a
sincere and honest worker for the well
fare of the people of southwest Kansas
without regard TO party.
Kansas is to be freed from the dis
grace that has been put on her, or other
wise her credit and reputation are to 10
still further degraded. The issue is
plain. 1t is "stand up tor Kansas or
otherwise turn over and into the hands
Of the men who defame her good name,
all of our vital interests and concerns,
personal, political and material.
So far as the credit of our state abroad
is concerned, it would probably matter
little whether our congressman, our
legislature and our state officers be-
longed to one or the other of the old
national parties, because both advocate
the payment of honest debts and both
are opposed to every species of repudia-
ton.
But, what will be the effect on our
credit and business, on our securities
and property values if on next Wednes-
day morning the papers throughout the
United States should announce that
Kansas had fallen into the hands of the
calamity crowd? We leave the question
to every honest Democrat to answer for
himself.
q. The leaders of this revolutionary
party, and its nominees, from
Weaver down to this man Kies,
are, for the most part, renegade
Republicans, and their followers are
either unfortunates, cranks or ignorant,
in many cases all three. Jerry Simpson
boasts of having belonged to the Repub-
lican party, then why should any Demo-
crat support him row that he is Calam
ityite in addition? Why should any
Democrat vote for this freak, who made
his reputation and got his office by de-
crying Kansas and by bowling destitu-
ton, in preference 10 voting for Chester
Long, who believes in Kansas, and who,
as our congressman, would champion
her cause and her people at all times
and everywhere. Lewelling was Re-
publican politician and officeholder both
until his removal to this state. and of
the EXTREMIST character. Why should
any property holder in Kansas, Demo
crat or Republican, cast his vote for this
adventurer, who knows nothing of Kan
sas, little of the great possibilities of the
state, and less of the convictions and
aspirations of her people? And why
should any Democrat, who is
a Democrat from principle, support
any candidate for either branch of the
legislature who is pledged to vote for an
other calamity United States senator for
Kansas, or who under any circumstances |
would vote to have that freak, Jerry |
Simpson, take the seat of the lamented |
Plumb?
We are here together, all here; our
homes and our every interest, and logi- |
ally we must swim together or sink to-
yether. The success of calamity does |
lot depreciate the value of the property |
If the Republican alone, but strikes the |
,redit Of the whole state, affecting the |
chances, interests and future OF every |
nan of every community in the state, !
whatever his politics. There is but one
et, and ii small one, who
would be benefited by the |
triumph of the Peoples party and that |
let is composed of the Simpson, the
dwellings and the kieses, who hold |
he offices. Everybody else would in
,vitably suffer until the close of the
eign Of these adventures and until the /
nd of the craze that had made it /
possible for such obscure mushrooms |
md presumptious sensation alists to
'ecome the legal representatives and |
,fficiat heads of an intelligent, enter
,rising and once prosperous people.
O'BRYAN'SN DOUBLE ACT.