The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-17
THE WAY 1T LOOKS

After the defeat of the so-called Peo-
| pies party last fall in the local contests
| for county offices and the subsequent
failure of its representatives in congress
to secure anything in the way of legisla-
ton, the party lost heart and for some
time gave out strong indications that it
had seen its best days. The party in
| this state, however, by dint of energetic
efforts on the part of the personally in
terested leaders, has pulled itself to-
gether again and has gone through the
| motion of placing a state ticket in the
| field, and by that act has again thrown
down the gauntlet to the Republican
party.
True and loyal Kansans had hoped
that the experience of two years ago,
| wherein the partial success of the new
party caused the state of Kansas TO ssf-
fer incalculable losses to its material
values and to its credit and good name,
would prove a lesson that would deter
the experimenters from making further
efforts in the same direction. and if the
sober second thought and better judg-
ment Of the masses, who had particl-
pated in the first diversion, after wit
Messing and realizing-as many did-the
damaging effects of the first attempt to
control the state, could have prevailed
the hope would no doubt be realized.
But the infatuation begat of partial and
temporary success impelled the bene
ficaries of the former achievement, and
few othels who hoped to be discovered
by some stray office, to renew the agita
ton and portion, at least of the former
following have been pulled back into the
whirlpool of political excitement.
This is to be deprecated, because it
promises to revive and re-enact the
costly experiences we have referred to.
1t is not worth while, now, to discuss or
even advert to the conditions and com
binations of causes which, if they
did not give rise to- at least afford con-
venient pretext for the popular dema- |
gogue to raise The howl Of calamity and |
draw many honest but unsuspecting |
citizens into the movement originally. |
All that is in the past, and the conditions !
and circumstances are SO changed that |
there is nothing substantial upon which |
to base plea for revival of the howl |
and the manipulators can only appeal to |
the prejudice engendered by their former
devices.
To prove what we have SAID it IS only |
necessary to state a few facts that will |
not-cannot-be gainsaid.
The volume of the circulating medium
was never as large, in the aggregate or
per capita, as it is today.
Never in the history of the country
would the American dollar, whether
gold, silver or the paper representative
of either, purchase more of the neces-
saries and comforts of life than at the
present moment.
There never has been a time, when the
country was at peace, when the results
of the laborer's toll, whether in the field.
the workshop or elsewhere, meant more
to him in their purchasing power than
today.
At no former period in the history
was greater, more intelligent or more
|
charged with the enactment and enforce
ment of laws to correct the evils of dis
elimination that is practiced upon the
people for private and corporate gain.
The Republican party stands pledged
to secure and maintain these things and
all others having for their object the
comfort and prosperity of the people.
What has been done in these lines is the
result of Republican effort to serve the
people faithfully and honestly. And
yet in the face of this record of facts the
Republican party is again confronted
with this ''organized protest" against
what has been accomplished in the be-
half of the people, and what it will do
If permitted to do so.
The Republican party does not claim
disinterestedneSs in these matters: in
serving the people it is doing itself, its
members a service; service not in the
interest of any class, locality, calling or
section, but for all the people whom it
and for whase welfare it
stands.
This, nor any part of it, is not said in
the spirit an appeal to sentiment. but
as PLAIN statement of facts as they are.
And they are made with the hope that
the conservative, fairminded citizens
who have suffered themselves to be
misled by these false representations by
scheming and designing tricksters TO
again stab the state by fosting upon it
set of selfish incompetents and thereby
drag it and its people through expert
ences that cannot but bring irreparable
disaster to many of our people and
losses to the state beyond computation.
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GRAIN GAMBLING AND GAMBLERS