The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-17
UPHOLD THE LAW.

! From the Kansas City Times.
! In Topeka a political battle has been
| raging this week. Governor LewelIing
and the Populist senate lost what judg-
ment they took to the state capital and
| were whirled into a wholly unwarranted
recognition of an unorganized house of
representatives.
1t may be, as Colonel W. A. Harris,
! the Popuist congressman-elect said
yesterday, that if the senatorial aspir-
ants and their friends would keep out
the trouble would be easily adjusted.
Senator Taylor of WyandOtte county
made yesterday a manly protest against
the hasty action of his PopuIIst collea-
CUES, and Senator O'Bryan of Wichita.
who is a Fusion Democrat, protested
Just as earnestly. The action of these
two men ought to have warned the
Populists that they were upon danger
Gus ground.
Jerry Simpsons infammatory bosh
does not represent the sentiment Of the
letter element of the Populists, and it is
pity that he and others of his ilk are
on the ground at all. They play into the
hands Of the men who are willing to
misrepresent Kansas if they can i'm
prove their political prospects.
The situation is nothing but wrangle
for political advantage. The governor
and senatorial majority have Leen car
ried to an untenable extreme by the feel
ing OF the moment. They will find, I'M
less they recede quickly, that they have
destroyed the Peoples party OF Kansas.
No political organization can go with
chance of success before that people
after persisting in an attempt to over
throw the laws from which flows the ex-
istence of the law making body.
Democrats can not cOuntenanCe the
proceedings of the governor and senate.
They have never been bound by any OBJ
legation to support Peoples parity man
or measure and the expediency of join.
ing the Peoples party to defeat the Re-
publicans disappears when the Peoples
party is clearly wrong before the laws Of
the state.
Not for a day should the course of
Governor Leweiling and the senate be
permitted to stand as a precedent If
Democrats can prevent. 1t would, IL
successful, be the progenitor OF fright
ful evils in the years to come. 1t would
be authority for the overthrow of any
regular proceeding when power equalled
the will.
No matter about the equities of seat.
ing members of the house. The law Is
on the books and has been unequiVocally
interpreted by the supreme court. Dem
ocrate should be at the front Of law
abiding citizenship. The equities can be
settled before the people.
The senatorship is important, but
more important is the orderliness of
Kansas government. Democrats may
be able to use their good offices in per
suading the populists to leave the peril
Gus position they now occupy. Senatorial
interests should be left Until the law Is
restored to its supremacy. He is poor
Democrat who is not citizen first and
only afterward partisan.
The Times Is not an alarmist. There
is more good humor IN Topeka than in
places where the noise Of war is heard
from q distance. Nobody Is to be hurt
and nobody is contemplating Il wrong.
Ii Is a fight in which ineXperience and
excitability have run a galloping with
few raw statesmen. But wrong things
are done under such circumstances, and
not a Democrat should get mixed with
the runaway pOpullsts. Stand by the
law 10 the end.