The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-09-28
MYATT AND TIE VOTER.

and have conducted many a shrewd one.
They have been careful always IL select
men who were eminenlly fitted for the
race.
They did something this year that they
have never done before. They have
placed on their ticket young man who
has not been in the county but seven
years.
This young man is A. j. Wyatt. He
has been in Sedgwick county but seven
years. In those seven years he has adj
| vanced in prominence over all the
younger men in politics. There are
reasons for this rapid progress. He is,
above all, Woodworking and talented,
and united with these cardinal essentials,
he has Napoleonic mind for details and
an analytical, searching. far-seeing ia
sight into anything he attempts that is
the wonder of older heads, and the mar
vel of those of his own age. These at
tributes are tempered too by the most
domestic of qualities, for Mr.. Wyatt is a
model husband and father and he is
never too busy or toe tired to extend ID
helping hand to the poor widow or the
| orphan.
These are the qualities which have
brought such success to MIR. Wyatt in SO
short time. The Republicans of Sedg-
wick county were not slow in discover
ing that Wyatt was great acquisition to
their forces.
His knowledge of law and subtle
mastery of all its minute ramiications.
his conscientious regard for honest meth
DDS, and his Christian character make
him at once character to be admired. a
friend to be trusted eiernalIy. and an
enemy of the most formidable mettle.
Among all the lawyers of Wichita you
will not hear ore word derogatory to his
life and the practice of his profession.
Among the men who take lively IN
terest in politics you will not hear one
say or dare to say and expect to sustain
the charge, that Myatt's word is no. as
good as gold, or that he ever forsook
friend or dropped an old powerieSs one
for new potent one. Among all the
people of the town there is not one who
knows him who does not honor him for
his eminent responsibility, his uniform
politeness rnd his charitable deeds
1t is because of his sterling worth that
he has been honored by the Republi-
cans of Sedgwick county in such a
short time. The men who were inter-
ested in putting up clean ticket had
few acts to judge this young man by.
They looked to his short career to guage
him. They found that he had done
number of important things. They
found that in all those things he had ]
evinced an enthusiasm and a zeal, tenn
pered with the greatest caution and
ramparted with certainty and thor
Oughness that made promise perform |
ance, and action success.
In all thai he had to do they found |
this indication of great generalship. |
They fonnd that in the freight rate cases |
at Topeka where as city attorney he had |
represented Wichita, that his matter was |
so plainly and simply exploit |
ed, and with such forcible tact |
and in such a straightforward, honest |
manner that he woh the cases. They |
found also that he he'd written the brief |
in the case recently decided by Judge |
Williams. They found in it the same |
careful pains-taking circumspection of |
the situation, the same rigorous avoid |
ance of duplicity technical trickery, the |
same massing of the strength of his and |
the city's position, as they had dis /
covered before
They were satisfied with A. J. Myatt. |
They found that he had, as a public |
officer. always held The interests of the |
public as his own; that he had always |
worked with view to perfection and |
and after taking up a /
thing never quit it until he had gone to |
the bottom of it.
They recognized in those qualifications
the true and essential elements of a |
public officer. They made no mistake.
A. j. Wyatt will not disappoint them.
lie is clean. He is talented. He is
able. He is thorough. Above all, he
does not betray a trust. When he is |
elected he will be the peoples servant
pulled out by little brief authority, or
a PARTISAN blinded by prejudices.
No man, no orator, no calumniator OF
the opposition can deny this. They will |
not deny this. An honest record is the |
best armor, not only because it wards
off blows, but it discourages the as
saulter from delivering the blow. These
facts are what make the election of A.
j. hyatt to the position of probate Judge
a necessity to the tax payer and the
honest citizen. The voter must protect /
his own interests. His neighbor will
not do it for him. He must elect men
who have both the honesty to do the
right thing, and the capability TO avoid
mistakes.
They can Judge men from only their
works The work of Mr. Myatt is be-
fore them. Ii is here in Sedgwick coup-
~. He was born in Greenviile. Bond
county, ILL.,, in the year 1862, and was
brought up on the farm until he was Is.
de went through the High school at
Ill, ard afterward graduated
at the Normal school OF ID awhile, Ind.
He read law for two years, one year in
the office of L. Z. kimbaIl the United /
States district attorney for the western
district of Missouri. He came 10 Wichi-
Ia in the fall ofIlSS7, just after the close
of the boom, and entered upon the prac-
tice of his profession.
In April, 1893, Mayor Cox appointed
him city attorney, and his careful