The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-01
THE LITTLE MACHINE,
The Wool Pullers and Sucker Manipula to RS
Will Now Go Pumping for Pap.

The Demo-Fuse strikers of this city are
in stew. They were never known to do
anything manly in local political way.
They never made a straightout nomina-
tion nor straightout fight on principles
in all the history of the town. Their cam
paigns begin with mud-finging. and end
in intrigue or some kind of slick fusion
The bosses are set of heelers and dirt
eaters. They know it, and everybody else
knows it. Ali they want is chance to
run the little machine, and to get the
easy drippings from the public
platter, with an occasional in
significant stealing. They use weak
kneed Republicans one year, the labor
unions another and the Populists another.
Anything to keep themselves and pets in.
And this spring will be no exception.
Weeks before they had any idea of whom
the Republicans might nominate their
organ commenced to sling whole tubs of
mud. They cried rings" ''old crowd"
and doodle gang" ignoring the fact that
if any party was responsible for boodling
and stealing it must have been their own,
for the simple reason that the Republican
party has not been in power, as
such, for years in this city. But
that makes no difference with this knotty
lot who dream that they are politicians of
parts, only because when honest men are
attending to their own business this pesti-
frous gang, living off political scraps and
ends, put in their time manipulating their
little wires. Nothing different can be ex-
pected of them this spring. The Republi-
cans in an honorable, open and above
board manner publically called the prima-
ries and convention through their regular
" constituted committee. The meetings
were hell and the convention was
not only full and harmonious
but ticket was unanimously nominated,
and not only of unobjectionable men, but
for the most part, the very choice of first
class citizens. If anybody thinks that
because of this encouraging fact that this
Democratic clique of pap-suckers will |
make no low down effort to beat it. they
are simply mistaken. There is no danger
of them trying to do it in a clean, honor
able way by the calling of con-
vention of their own, for the purpose |
of nominating another ticket. Not much. |
Such a course would be manly and void |
of tricks and trades and wire pulling. Oh |
no: they will get down into the SUM, ten
to one they WILL with the petition racket
or something of the kind, and with either
a fusionist Or an Independent, or with
some Republican. But whoever it is, that |
crowd will own him and own all the tools
running with him. This county and city
Tor years have both been Republican. But
has the Republican party run both as it
WAS entitled to No. One has been run
almost exclusively and the other largely
n the name of the Democratic
party; not by the Democratic party, but
~ and in the interest of traders and fee
suckers who put up jobs against the Re-
publican party, but in the name of the
Democratic party. So long as this kind of
work only reached city and county it did
lot seem to matter so much. But the
tate government has at last fallen into
uch control and the result everybody
,nows. People are not only tired of such
ule but are alarmed over it.
There is no reason why the Republican
,arty should not elect its city ticket entire
his spring, and we most heartily wish to
ZEE it done in spite of all the sneaking,
tool-fusion jobs that may and
will be sprung by the gang of clacquers
fore mentioned and whom everybody
-nows