The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-09
firesiae shall find in ns defenders of her

flreSlQe Shall ma IN US aeieNueES va MA
virtue, her aonor aud her throne. There
shall she reign supreme as she now does.
and accursed he him who for spoiis or ONCE
attemp OF to drag her down from her eXait.
ed position 10 tie level Of political degree
dalton.
ighth-Thatth the gratitude OF the De-
mocracy of the state is due 10 Hon. Ed
ward O'Bryan and his Democratic col
leagues in the last legislature for their
opposition to the assaults OF Anarchists
and reyolutionists, upon the laws and the
constitution
Il. T. COATES.
J. A. DAVIDSON,
T. l.. ELLIOTT.
H. q. ToLER,
c. H. SoULE.
Nominations being declared ID order the
following ticket WAS nOminted
For sheriff, w H. Sherwood, proml-
nent farmer and soldier OF Salem town
ship.
For register of deeds, John
a. Davidson of Valley Center who,
it is said, could have the Valley Center
ostofilce if he went after it hard enough.
For clerk, J. a. Moore Of Nit. Hope,
who was unanimously nominated On d
strong endorsement OF Howard Soule.
For treasurer, H. G Toler of Tolerville,
whom every body knows, and who is con-
sidered very strong candidate by his
! friends.
For coroner, C. C. Figg of Delauo town
ship, who is also a we'll known farmer.
For county surveyor, w. c. Langdon OF
| Wichita, who is in the tent aud awning
business. Mr.. Langdon was a fusionist
last year but like a good many others, he
/ - dad
ogo to return to Democracy-his first love
For commissioner, Lee Elliott of Payne
township, who is "a well known farmer,
and q dyed in the wool Democrat.
while the ticket is acknowledged
on all sides to be a strong one.
nobody expects that it will be
elected, as the Populist party has alb
sorbed a large proportion of the old Dem-
ocratic organization. The recognized
Democracy expect to get good part OF
this element back, rs many OF them show
a tendency to return if they could DO sc
gracefully.
One of the leading members in yesrer
days convention limited to the EAGLE
man that it is not improbable that Soo-
many Democrats wko have observed ane
,
"straight-outs, will desert the fuslor
"id;ocy," as lie called it, and come back
home" eve have had a proposition
from them this afternoon" said he, "tha
indicates this. Some of them have APP
preached us with proposition, by which
all differences might be adjusted, but WI
could not accept it without compromising
ourselves. They proposed that II WI
, would refuse to nominate tlcke
they would take any one maj
of our party that we would suggest ant
nominate him on the fusion ticket provid
ed we would turn in and help them our
This we could not do, as We are thorough
ly determined to form no alliance VIII
any party, as our object is to reorganiz
: the Democratic party in this county so
to have it in harmony with the natlona
organization. They then asked us If, Il
, the event that they should come over {
us in boay, we would divide the office
with them and we told them that as tn
candidates were already nominated "
could not say at present, but would lie
them know later on when the executiv
| committee was appointed and mad time
! consult with the candidates. l am pei
sonally in favor of this proposition as
, would tend towards accomplishing
our sole object of reuniting tn
f county Democracy with the III
Outstanding, however, that if W
: should get some of our candidates off tn
ticket they would put in Democrats who's
standing as citizens would be equally
{ good and who would be thoroughly clean:
+ Of the fusion leprosy. They also wante
5 US to promise that in the event OF thei
coming TO US we should treat their cand
= dates for postoffices aud other federal pos
+. tons fairly and in every other respect tres
r them AS If they had never wandered ava
: from the middle OF the road. am eve
i in favor of doing this in the interest {
Democracy, provided they are sincere, bu
:. as I said before | don't know what W
Q will do till the executive committee is al
y pointed"