The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-11-12
UNDER THE DAISIES.

The Populist party in Kansas Is de-
funct; dead as nunnery, too dead for
cremation or incarceration. Whatever
he the cause of its demise 1t was not old
are. Whatever its miasion i'll the world
its premature death takes 1t out OF the
list of long felt wants. 1t seems TO have
been born of its own voli.ion. Its career
was stormy. Its road 10 glory beset with
MANY thorns The two leading events
of its history are quite suitable for its
epitaph-it was born, it died. There
was time, however, for the exhibition OF
certain traits. and an attempt at certain
achievements. Its leading characteristic
will ever be regarded as paradoxical:
plenteous promises to reform everything
and the fulfillment of nothing. These alb
normal conditions gave rise to compromis-
ing and unnatural situations. And here we
note the salient trait of the whole outilt
Whether it was the insanity of the whole,
or the depravity Of lew, which led TO
its MANY failures, we are not advised.
In charity we concluded that, with the
many. its royal road to greatness was
paved with good intentions, ano lts1g-
nominious fall down lies at the door OF
the demagcgue and the place hunter.
Look at them: An imported egg peddier
rakes in the capital prize, fugitive
from Justice commands the state milltia
the guardians of public peace, the con-
SENATORS of good order. minority IN
The house of representatives. seeking to
drown the voice of legal majority 10y
the din and thunder of a simultan-
eous, assinive bray; and a SEN
ate deliberately choosing United
States senator with no better qualitlca-
ton for the office than the hirsute OF 4
goat Shades of departed heroes, states
men and law-givers, what spectacle!
The Digger Indian is nobleman in his
realm, the Hottentot is prince III his
rude palace, but this array of imbecility,
Illuminating the archives OF sovereign
state Is unspeakable. 1t Is simple
truth of history that within the first
thirty days in office, every blunder, from
blowing out the gas to calling out the
militia TO prevent our Lawmakers from
doing their sworn duty, had been COM
mitted 1t is notorious that their IN
cumbency of these Offices of trust are
suited to them in a manner compared
with which bull in a china shop would !
be the very picture of grace. These de- |
iinquencies may be held as mere tribes. |
Ii all depends upon the standard from |
which we judge, but there remains, at
least, one Indubitable proof that this |
party had filed its earthly mission: the |
Democrats refuse TO fuse with it. Could |
human ingenuity invent better reason
for its humiliation? Has not this an
cient order been the party of coalition
since the disastrous event OF '63? Even
now it is coddling the asp Tammany in
its bosom, Notwithstanding its Oft
peated treachery, resulting in local and
national defeat. When the party of
jeff Davis picks up its crinoline and steps
daintily around the blatant herd, why
should it live? Better far that The rocks
and the hills should fell upon If, or that
it should find sepulcher in the illimitable
ocean, than it should cumber the earth.
There is something symmetrical in the
very completeness of its death. From
every portion of the state comes the
funereal wall, like the "chill November
blast" The falling leaves, typical of
the Australian ballots which dropped in
every precinct of the state, sealing the
death warrant of Its brightest hopes,
will mingle with the earth of its new
made grave. Winiry winds will chant
its sad requiem, while its winding sheet
Of beautiful snow" spreads as spotless
mantle of charity over all its evil deeds.
Kansas, though the child of destiny, has
had her day of misfortune, but the blight
and ruin wrought by this defunct az
of assinity has done more to
retard her growth than all things else
combined.