The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-09-02
BRIDGMAN OR ARNETTa

/ is headed by Newt Bridgman, or the
ticket headed by Mr.. Arnett: You prob
ably know both men. You recognize
them as members Of the community.
You probably hold that Mr.. Arnett Is
just as good citizen as Dir. Bridgman
is, and vice versa. You know nothing
to either mans discredit.
But if you are awake to your interests
you must look at these two men III an
other and more important light.
Newt Bridgman belongs TO the Repub-
lican party. He is running for Office as
representative of that party. He is
pledged to defend the principles OF that
party. Those conditions are equally
binding on Mr.. Arnett as a Populist, as
representative of that party and de-
fender of its principles.
Suppose you are a clerk in grocery
or dry goods store; you have an ambi-
ton some day to get out of the drudgery
of clerkship. and suppose you have the
energy and the determination to help
yourself out; you spend all your spare
time mastering the details of the busi-
ness; you are the first clerk down in the
| morning, and the last clerk to leave at
night; by your courtesy and superior
knowledge of the business, attained by
hard labor, you are enabled TO make
more sales than the other men similarly
employed. Suppose by reason of the
worth and value you have made your
self, by untiring interest and fidelity to
your employer, that he has at last come
to recognize you as indispensable. You
acquire an interest in the store, or you
break away from the old establishment,
and build up a business of your own,
which surpas5es the old store because of
your capacity to make it better.
If this thing has happened to you, or
if you expect and desire it to happen to
you, it is vital for you To know whether
you are going ~ vote for the ticket
which is headed by Mr.. Arnett, the
Populist, or Mr.. Bridgman, the Repub-
lican.
For Mr.. Arnett stands for the party
which will cali you a plutocrat; the
party which says thatif you have money
to any considerable amount, you have
stolen it; the party which believes that
man who has worked night and day,
and saved, and sacrificed, should not
have more than the man who has loafed
and spent his money as fast as it came.
He represents the party which believes
in an equal distribution of wealth, re-
gardleSs of worth or effort; the party
which favors permitting a mob destroy
ing your property and damning the Off
cial WHO would try to prevent it. Or, to
take up the supposition again, suppose,
after years of toll you have acquired
clothing store; suppose the less compe-
tent men in your force of clerks take
offence at something. and 60 out on a
strike and in lighting you, blow the
fruits of your hard labor of years into
the air with bomb in second. Mr..
Arnett belongs to the party which SYM
pathizes with the men for doing it, and
upholds them in it.
If, on the other hand, you are a clerk
on a small salary, and expect always TO
be clerk and nothing else; to have moth
ing but your small salary; to rent your
home; to live your whole life from hand
10 mouth. II that, is your case. and, let
US hope that it is not, you want to be-
ware Arnetr and Populism. Because
Populism believes in and upholds the de-
struction of property and the dissolution
of proprietorship, and when proprietor
ship is abolished, if you are an employee
you will not have employment. With
out it you and your family will starve.
You must recognize these things ifyou
are watching the events of the day. Pop
ulism tends in one direction unmistak-
ably. 1t is in the direction of annul-
ment of the rights of property and pro-
prIetorship.
If you favor that, vote for Mr.. Ar
nett and bis ticket and the sentiment it
represents. If you do not, vote for the
ticket headed by Mr.. Bridgman and the
sentiment it representative sentiments
of the Republican party, tine party
under which worth and effort and eccn-
omy have been rewarded, the party
under which thousands of struggling
clerks have come to be proprietors, the
party under which thousands of toilers
have become rich, under which in
thirty years, more employees have be-
come employers than in any similar
period in the world.
That is why it means so much to you
when you cast little slip of white |
paper at the next election, and why it |
is that the matter of whether you have
marked the Republican column or the |
Popuiist column makes all the differ
ence in the world.