The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-31
pooR Mr.. KIEs MuzzLEp.
Rufe Cone, the Demo-Populist Chairman. VIII
Allow Him 10 Debate No Nor.

Chairman Ruins Cone of the Demo
Populist central committee has issued an
edict that will materially change the COM
plexlon of the county canvass. Rufus Is
old enough in the harness and has expert
ence enough in the handling of political
machinery to know that when man is
talking himself and his party to death it
is time to muZzle him at once. This Is
just what the wiley Rufus has done in the
case of Mr.. Kies. The cause of all the
trouble in the Demo-Populist camp is the
drubbing and trouncing Mr.. Kies received
at the hands of Judge Musseller at Center
school house in MiEneha township last
Saturday night. Rufe did not really know
the full measure of the punishment Mr..
kies received from Mr. Musseller till in
formed OF it by his own political friends
that is, the Democracy. He found out that
the talking editor of the Commouer broke
his own back by exposing his record with
labor organizations. 1t happened this way:
Mr.. Kies, it appears, is crank
in his opposition to combines, and
be never tires Of giving them-weli,
hallelujah for instance. Last Saturday
night he tackled the printers union. and
Mr.. Kies in tackling that will find out it
Is like tackling Giro lar saw, and Rufe
Cone knows it. To illustrate the perfdy
of com ines he gave in his experience with
this union. At Newton when he was run
ming his paper there he hired his printers
for 50 week. When he came to Wichita
he went TO work to secure cheap labor like
he had at Newton, but this being union
town no union printer would work for him
for less than SIS OF course he kicked,
but the printers reasoned with him that
the EAGLE was paying from S1S to SD. and
they could not afford to work Tor the Com
moner for 50. Fifteen dollars was the
minimum Of the union scale in Wichita
and Mr.. Kies had to pay it or the Com
moner would be declared a rat" shop.
And he had to pay it, much as it went
against his grain. And with this in
stance he illustrated the tyrany of trusts
and combines. Rufe Cone heard that he
made this statement and he was keen
enough TO see that if he continued in the
joint debate business with Muscular he
would be compelled to acknowledge his
opposition to organized labor in every
school house in the county. 1t was rea-
soned this way: 1--WE the Peoples party
Of Kansas have passed resolutions volun
teering aid to the organized labor at Car
nege's mills and we cannot affoId to let
one of our candidates go before the people
of Sedgwick county acknowledging his op
position to combined labor in Wichita and
using labor unions at home to illustrate
the tyranny and oppression of trusts and
com bines." kufe is backed up in the po-
sition he has taken by the far seeing e!e-
ments OF both the Democrat and Peoples
party and Mr.. Kies will be prohibited from
shooting his mouth off at random in oppo-
sition to a man like Muscular who has the
keenness to press the labor issue and show
Mr.. kies up in his true attitude
towards labor unions He had,
however. made arrangements with
Museller to have two debates in this city
before Rufe got onto his bad breaks and
the engagements were allowed to come off
after considerable hesitation on the part
of the committee. But after these two
debates Mr. kNs will not be allowed to 90
into any joint debates with Mr. Museller.
Rufe's edict is like gall and wormwood to
Mr.. Kies. He has been telling all his
friends that he would like to meet ex Gov
ernor Anthony and ex-senator Ingalls, in
joint debates and now that he has been
sawed off from debating with local
speaker like Judge Museller who never
debated jointly till Saturday he finds him
self in an embarrassing position with the
friends to whom he has been Dragging on
his ability to out debate such famous de-
baters as Ingalls, and Anthony
before whose looks of greatness
alone poor Mr.. Kies would melt away
into nothingness like a nickles worth of
ice before an August sun. Notwithstand-
ing Cones edict kies still has the nerve to
think that he is a better DICTATOR than
Museller and he naturally thinks that
because Cine is Democrat and he is an
Alliance man that Cone is giving him the
worst of it while Cones friends say be is
the best friend kies has in making it i'm
possible for him to expose his weakness ia
any future joint debate. Rufe is pretty
slick and has issued the order on the
grounds that a candidate has no business
10 debate with a man who is not candi-
date, but he only thinks this way since the
walloping Kies got at Saturday nights
meeting.