The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-09
THE ONLY WAY LEFT.

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The only possible show left Lewelllng
for saving himself, his administration
and his party from infamy, now that 1t
is certain that the Republican majority
will not yield their constitutional rights
for the sake Of any present or future
marty advantage, is for him and his
house TO recede from their claims and to
abandon their false position. The Re
publican majority being unwilling to
relinouish undeniable rights for the sake
of any advantages which might accrue
in the next campaign, and being fully
resolved and determined to stand by
their warrant of law, which they know
tbe courts will be compelled to rec
ognize and confirm, the longer the
Lewelling crowd holds TO their at
iempted revolution the more diff
cult will il he found TO back down.
Whether a back down now would involve
the senatorship and principles or not,
still. with the majority standing firm,
there IS no other course left for him, and
in such action will be found the only
hone of a decent recognition OF his adj
ministration by the people Of Kansas or
by anv other state. The wish of many
Republicans that the people Of the state
might have full taste Of the results of
the unrestraned doings Of the imprac-
teal and wild-eyed representatives OF
sentiment gone mad, will not be real
lied, partly from fear Of the majority
House that the credit and chrac-
ter of the state might, in
the mean time, suffer beyond
immediate repair, and partly from party
pride, possibly; but, if from these, or
only from a conviction of manliness, the
result to Governor Lewelling, to his adj
ministration and to his minority house
viii be disaster and humiliation, all the
same, with the less of both the quicker
the recantation and submission. There
is nothing for Governor Lewelling, for
the Populists or for the fusion combine
but disgrace, with additional hardship
for the state and trouble for its great
business interests in the present attitude
of the Demo-pop administration, now
that the Republicans are so certain to
stand by what everybody comedies to be
their rights, and many to be their duty.
In an unconditional backdown, even at
this late day, some of the at
tempted usurpations and high-handed
outrages might be smoothed over and to
some extent forgotten in the after efforts
of Governor Lewelling and his party to
give thestate respectable, conservative
business administration, but in no other
way can they even expect that much.
Politically, the American people, and
especially Kansans, are great on the
"forgive and forget" still every value,
every interest of this state is being so
sensibly and adversely affected by the
threatening attitude and unreasonable
course of the Lewelling organization
that many have begun to cry
out that 'forbearance has ceased
10 be a virtue" So far as
Governor Lewelling and his party
are concerned it will be too late to wait
until the end of the present session and
then submit, under the call for an extra
session. The extra session with its extra
mileage and extra per diem and extra
hundred other expenses is just what the
taxpayers of the state will not submit to
without protest, especially when there
would have been no necessity for it if
the high handed proceedings now at To-
peka, and which are only possible be-
cause Of executive recognition, should
cease.