The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-23
KILLING KANSAS.

The political adventures, the -anar-
! chists, the infdels and all of such as
sheer at every suggestion of the Father
hood of God, and who deride religion
and sacred things, belong to the calami-
ty party.
Take any community in the state of
Kansas today and such of its Office seek
ers whose political antecedents are un-
/ known or otherwise are crooked and
uncertain, and they will be found in the
ranks of the so-called Peoples party,
praising their own virtues and denounc-
ing men whose lives have been
as open books and stainless. Leave
out the disappointed malcontents and
those whose misfortUnes have come
through either bad judgment OF indo-
lence, or both, and you have no calamity
left: and, take away the liars, adventur
ers, jackleg lawyers and the like, and
the Peoples party, so called, would alb
solutely be left without leader or a
single prominent candidate for Office.
Now and then, and here and there,
through the manipulations and trades
of political ringsters, respectable and
honorable Democrat has been made a
fusion candidate, but the straight out
Calamity candidate is party renegade
ninety-nine times in hundred mot only,
but as unknown and irresponsible adj
venturers whose stock in trade consists
in slandering better men while praising
his own honesty and all those virtues in
which his own character is SO con-
spiously lacking. Take the national
calamity ticket, or any state OR district
or county calamity ticket, and the as
sertion holds true. Weaver and Mrs.
Lease: who are they? Weaver is poll
teal renegade; Mrs. Lease nondescript.
Who and what is Leweling that, he
stranger, should be honored with the
chief magistry of state of whose history
he probably knows little and with whose
affairs he has had nothing to do Who
was Jerry Simpson, and who is he now
but a SANDER of Kansas. Come
closer to home and who and what is this
man whose name would more appro-
priately begin with l. than with X,
whom the Peoples party nominated for
the best paying office in the county, that
of clerk Of the district court. Take this
man Kies' brief history in this county,
and what has he ever done more than to
forward his own selfishness by schemes
and chances, by plotting, by belittling
the city, by .defaming the county and
state, and manufacturing lies against
men whose life's ambitions has
been to unselfshly serve his
fellow men. 1t is safe to say that
he is anything but what he represent
himself, and that he is not fit to unlatch
the shoes of the men whose work he
questions and disparages and whose
honor he defames. Through traducement
and calumny of others he seeks to divert
attention from his own crooked n envi.
able record, all the while Boosting to his
chum-ringsters what he Will do when he
gets the Office of the clerk of the district
court in his hands, and the board of
county commissioners under the
control of himself and friends.
That the taxpayers of the county would
sweat for it there is no doubt; that the
leading enterprises and interests of this
city would be bled, if not humbled, not
a few are convinced; that in the election
of himself and Jerry and the rest all the
world would then believe that Kansas
was just as bankrupt as claimed by
them, no one can deny.
With such men openly seeking the
control of public affairs is It any wonder
that Kansas and Kansas towns have
been and are suffering more from in
jured credit than any other section or
locality in the United States? And is it
not the duty of every solid and con-
sentative citizen, without regard to
party, to set their seal of disapproval
upon the whole gang who stand con-
to all that we are claiming as
a people, and who menace our every
financial, political, social and religious
interest.