The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-12
WILLARD WONT LIE.
| Fusion Democrats Want Their Couaty Attor-
ney to Utter Dei,berats Falsehood.

Fusion Democrats Want Their County Ador.
ney to Utter a Del,berats Falsehood.
The Fusiouists made mistake last year,
evidently. by electing Willard Boone
county attorney They did not think they
were electing George Washington who,
in critical moment, would not deliber-
ately lie to cover up their perfidy towards
the Populists. They now threaten to read
Mr.. Boone out of the party on the theory.
presumably, that Democrat who wont
lie in campaign is no Democrat ut all.
The fact of the matter is this: When
Kansas City Times correspondent met
Willard Boone aud engaged in little
political gossip with him, Mr.. Boone not
only expressed his opinion with reference
| to fusion, but the opinion of nine out
of every ten Democrats in this
county as well. He simply reflect
ed the sentiments of his party
and every one of them know aud admit 1t.
The only trouble is that the cat got out OF
the bag too soon. They all admit that
Willard was right in the expression OF his
views, but say that this was not the proper
time to express them. One Of them told
the whole story When he saidio an EAGLE
reporter Tuesday afternoon: ''There is
more truth than poetry in what Willard
says but ne ought not to say it during the
county campaign. The id Populists
are a little suspicious anyway and this
will make them more suspicious. know
as well as you that the Pops are not our
kind Of people,"
The interview appeared in the Kansas
City Times on Monday. and the spells
hunting Fusionists got together and. with
closed doors, discussed it. 1t was agreed
that Willard should deny his statements,
but the agreement was made before Will
lard was consulted. They knew that he
was hard to BULLDOGS iuto doing anything
and novel plan was adopted. The plan
was for every leading fusion politician to
90 to Willard Boone and tell him he had
hurt the local campaign and that the
Populists were mad. The sidewalk to the
court house was kept hot for two days and
when it was deemed that enough had
spoken to him a reporter could be sent
there for denial, thinking that Willard
meght be in a mood to deny it. Yesterday
was the time set for this interview, and
| the reporter called on Mr.. Boone, only to
| be thunderstruck by hearing it asserted
that he had been qnoted correctly by the
Times reporter. II Willard had lied in
stead of telling the truth he would have
been Immediately pronounced good and
! pious Democrat, but he didn't, and as n
result every little hair-brained fusionist in
town is abusing him.
| Willard does not seem to be bothered
by their little slurs at him and why should
he? He said exactly i'll his interview
what every leading Democrat in the state
is saying concerning fusion. The fact is
his interview is credit to his political
sagacity and foresight, for two days later
General Charles w. Blair. the Kansas
member OF the national Democratic COM
mittee, said almost identically what Mr..
! Boone said. 1t is not very often that a
young man gets such compliment, for o
] one will deny that Charlie Blair is the
most prominent Democrat in the state
and one who knows the sentiment Of the
national committee and national admins
tration with reference to fusion in Kansas
| The fusion organ is not abusing Willard
which might seem strange to those who
do not know the inner workings of things
in that direction. They could not very
we'll do it, for Chairman Jones Of the
! Democratic state committee gave
! the fusion organ an interview
F! last Monday that was ten times
more bitter in opposition TO fusion
than the one MIR. Boone gave the Times
correspondent and they did not print it.
| 1t would not be consistent for them then
to rake Mr.. Boone over the Goals and keep
! silent as to the chairman the high mogul
who has the confidence of President Cleve-
land and who may be the next United
States marshal OF Kansas. Mr.. Boone
doubtless regards the handsome position
he is in politically, supported on one side
by the Kansas member of the Democratic
national committee and on the other side
! by the chairman of the state Democratic
committee, and at his back Ed O'Bryan,
the Democratic leader in the state senate.
1t evidently affords Willard pleasure to
| look out from this we'll fortified position
at few dozen two by four politicians,
who are not known outside Of their pre-
cincts, hurting paper wads Of abuse at
him, and knowing at the same time that
they believe just exactly As he does and
would be only too glad to publicly an
nounce themselves rs such. if they were
not afraid Of the result of undeceiying the
Populists.