The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-31
WHERE ARE THEY AT?
THE FUSIONISTS KNOCK OUT THE
DEMOCRATS IN THE DECISION.
But the Democrats Came Back With q
Mandamus After Them
And q Kilkenny Cat Fight is on the Tapis,
Precipitated it is True, by the Fusion
lists The Republicans Are at
Peace With Everybody.

The Republicans OF Sedgwick county
| are attending to their own business and
are at peace with everybody. They are the
| only party of any strength that demon
strate their capacity to manage their cam.
Daign as we'll as run the affairs OF the
county, without contention and trouble
They are before the people on their merits
| without cloud upon their ancestry or
mask upon their face or without sug-
gestion of any irregularity in their doings
under the law. They are before the peo-
pie with their true name-a name that in
dictates their principles past and present.
They have no aliases and are now as they
have always been found in Sedgwick
county running under their own name,
making no entangling alliances, but
| fighting squarely and above board, in the
broad light OF day, for thei. principles
They met as Republicans, they acted in
convention as Republicans. they nominated
ticket as Republicans and every man
| thereon is a Republican whose title is
clear and whose political principles are
not doubted or Questioned. All this is a
| prelude to the Kilkenny cat fight that
is going on among the other parties--the
family row that is raging SO bitterly.
| To give the good people the history of
this wrangle it might be well to again re-
! late briefly the facts that have led up to it
| for it is essentially necessary to an intel
| ligenJ vote that the people be informed on
| the subject without Partially, prejudice
| or bias.
On the Sth day of Jnly the Democrats,
who believed more in principle than in the
spoils of office and who are now, it ap-
pears. recognized by the national Demo
! cracy. met in this city. regularly in evsry
| respect, and nominated full ticket COM
posed exclusively of Democrats. They
adopted a platform exclusively Demo
cratic, and denounced fusion as inexpe-
! dent and inconsistent with party whose
/ principles were antagonistic and bitterly
| opposed to Democratic principles. This
ticket was certified to the county clerk
regularly under the law bearing the ap-
pellation Democratic ticket.
Two weeks later branch of the Dem
ocratic party supporting the Populist
state administration and antagonistic to
the financial policy of the national Dem
ocratic administration. held conven-
ton in this city also. They
| proceeded to nominate men for office, but
| out of the seven candidates they selected
two whose Democracy is only little
| cloudy, one candidate whose Democracy
| is very cloudy, and four candidates who
| confessed that they were no Democrats at
all and professed principles at variance
| with every school of Democracy from JET
f1r, !
this ticket and certified it to the county
clerk under the appelation of Democratic
ticket.
la the meantime there were similarly
nominated two other tickets, one designat-
| ed Populst ticket and the other designated
straight Populist ticket. The proceedings
in these two instances were the same as
the other two instances except that the
straight Populst ticket was nominated by
caucus instead Of regular con-
| vention. and after the Populist
! ticket had been nominated. 1t
is we'll to say, however, that
the Populist ticket contains the identical
| names that were nominated on the alleged
Democratic ticket nominated on the end
of July.
list committee objected to the printing OF
the straight Populist ticket on the ballots
| and the chairman of the fusion Democratic
central committee objected to the printing
of the regular or straight Democratic
ticket on the ballot.
The hearing of these cases was set for
| last Wednesday and they were heard by
| the board provided by law for such emer-
| gencies-the said board consisting of two
fusionists and one Republican.
All sides of the controversy were heard
The fusion Democrats claimed that they
were the leniel defendants Of the old line
Democratic organization. while the anti
fusion Democrats claimed they were the
defendants of the old organization bv
reason of clingiug TO the principle
of the old state organization, and being
recognized by the present national organ
ization. They also claimed to be the only
true representative Democrats for the
reason that their candidates were all Dem
ocrats, while the Democrats on the OF her
| alleged ticket were in the minority, the
ma jority of their candidates being alien in
principle to the doctrines of Democracy.
The various elements in this controversy
and at this hearing fought like Kilkenny
cats and showed unusual bitterness of
feeling. The board" announced that it
would make decision at ! O'Clock on
Saturday last, but when that hour came
no two OF the members could agree. In
the meantime the regular or straight
Democrats filed objections to the fusion
Democratic ticket and also filed objections
to printing the fusion ticket twice on
one ballot. This matter was cen
sidered without hearing evidences
and at 5 o'clock Saturday evening it was
still found that no two members of the
board could agree and the matter was
postponed till o'clock yesterday morn
ing. AT that hour two reports were sub
mitted
MAJORITY REPORT.
The following is the majority opinion as
given by District Clerk kies and County
Attorney Boone:
WICHITA, Kan, Oct. SO, 1898.
The certificates of nomination of certain
candidates for the Office Of sheriff. register
of deeds, county clerk. county treasurer,
coroner and surveyor. having been filed
with the county clerk by l. \. Phillips as
chairman and W. o. Lenhsrt as secretary
of the convention nominating said cand =
dates, and objections having been filed 10
printing the names of said candidates
upon the official ballot under the designa-
ton Democratic" And also certi ficates
of nomination for certain candidates for
| said Offices having been flied with the
county clerk by W. Z. Hutchinson as
chairman and J. l. Cooper as secretary o;
| the caucus by which said Candidates were
nomi antesl the said candidates being
designated as members Of the Straight
| DEM ga Partr V and affections To the