The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-11-21
WE WANT BIGGER MEN.

| From the PlcasantOu Observer.
Colonel James d. Snoddy having been
asked by representative of this paper
for his opinion of the late election and
of results foreshadowed. replied:
Not having descended from line of
prophets, and not being gifted with po-
litcal presciencs, il would he dangerous
for me to express looking forward
opinion. There are immutable laws
which control the movemen is of society
and couslrain the policies Of govern
ment.
Did we fully comprehend these laws
and were we. with such comprehension,
endowed with sufficient wisdom to apply
them, or even appreciate their applica-
ton, we might deduce conclusions reach
ing far into the infnity of time. But
we are not SO gifted. All one can
do is to formulate a lame opinion
and wait for an unfolding future
to revise and correct 1t, CT to en-
trelv overthrow it. No one was mean
enough in the summer and early autumn
OF 1892 to predict the wonderful success
of the baser elements of political society.
Yet that debased revul5ion came. From
whence or how no one yet knows surely
and certainly. Those who gave willing
and earnest impetus to that upheaval 30
not now understand WHY they did so.
To them has come a revelation. They
have journeyed toward Damascus, and,
like one of old, have seen a strange and
Illuminating light, and, like him, their
awakened intelligence has wrought
itself into deeds of goodness. They
found themselves misled by fulsome
fattery ana mendacious calumny, and
their confidence betrayed by self-exalted
egotism; and finding these there has re-
turned to them their innate sense of
right, and they feel again the splendid
impulse OF patriotism.
We have just passed through an age
OF very small men with very large pre-
tensions. If | mistake not, the last
specimens of that race are now dang
ling on the gibbets erected by their own
duplcity. The shameless spectacle
which was for years, IN the recent past,
with shallow show and hollow pcetense
upon the ignorance and credulity of the
masses has passed into the realm of
nothngness from which it sprung.
With the passing of that period, the
political forgers and statesmen clowns
have gone to wander with the spirit of
the sooty warrior whose Occupation is
gone.
The recent events seem to show that
the masses demand broader minds and
taller men. Men of less selfishness
and more patriotism. Men of more
brains than beef Fewer politicians
from the forge and more statesmen
from the patriots Less machinery
and more decency Less arrogance
and more humility. Less hypocrisy and
more sincerity. Less lobbery and more
becoming manIiness. The recent election
shows, too, with what celebrity political
vice is rebuked, and how little the kings
of this republic care for the crowns OF
power.
Chicago slaps the governor of Illinois
in the face with an earneStness wtich
teaches him and his kind that anarchy
is neither use nor an ornament iii this
nation. New York turns from the idola-
try of its JOSS. and gilds its future with
a glorious hope. Now Jersey emerges
from the semi-civilization of bygone
age, and takes its place in the ranks of
manhood. ONO stands steadfastly by the
great industries and interests OF the peo-
pie; and Kansas returns again to her
and integrity.
The underlying cause of the result of
the last election is the decent self-respect
of an honest. intelligent and patriotic
people. 1t has made itself manifest,
and that with an emphasis which is
warning 10 demagogues and professional
politicians.