The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-11-08
MEN AND BROTHERS.

Let us mingle with our jubilation
over victory the solemn belief that Kan
sas is 10 have the best government, the
cleanest government, the most capable
| government she has ever had.
There is stimulation, an intoXication
in success. When tie long, hard battle
is done, and its termination finds on
banners in the camp of the enemy and
our flags floating from every captured
citadel, there Is a supreme delight in
contemplating victory as victory in
itself.
But in Kansas there is more in this
victory than the victory itself. The
deep, moving causes of the result, the
immerse overwhelming ratification of
good. the crushing defeat and denuncia-
ton of bad, and begot therefrom the
certain hope and assurance of better,
cleaner, more capable government
that Is what makes this victory more
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publican success more than a partisan
advantage-that is what makes all!
factional difference, all personal ami
mosities, all creed and all political be-
lief fade away before the strong, white
celestial radiance of a dawn that will
bring happiness, honor, prosperity and
the tender qualities Of justice and love
between man and man, into every home,
into every community, into every breast
in the great Sunfiower state.
We are risen from the dank slough of
dependency and despair. We are
looking from the redolent sunny high
lands 10 the flowery valleys and the
watered meals beyond. The night of
adversely and the lowering clouds of
discomfort and anarchy have lifted as a
veil, revealing our fellow men in bet
ter light, robbing them of the grewsome
shapes they had taken on in the night;
proving them friends not enemies.
We are no longer following the voice
of despair through the foul shrinking
swamp Of suspicion, distrust and hostil-
ity to all good intention and declaration.
We are guided at last by the voice of
Hope, through the green pastures of
love for fellow men, of confidence in
their honesty, Of charity and forgiveness
to their faults.
Kansas no longer believes that the
man who has by toll accumulated a lit
tie home and little business is corrupt
and indefensible; Kansas no longer be-
lieves that because a man differs in DO
litIcal belief that he must of necessity
be liar and thief; Kansas no longer
believes that every man, outside of the
man who suspects and distrusts, has his
price.
No! No! Kansas has risen. Kansas
reveres the good in mankind and is
charitable to the bad in him. Kansas
believes today that the world is looking
up and not down; Kansas believes that
the earthly image of that Supreme,
God is better and bot worse:
Kansas believes that between man and
man, here or there, in monarchial
Europe or in glorious free America, the
tendency of tie son of Adam is to bet |
terment not to retrogression; to mercy |
and charity, not TO savagery and VIM
dictiveness; to hope, not TO despair; to |
love, not to hate.
1t is glorious. 1t is above the victory |
of sordid partisanship. 1t is above the
temporal possession of spoiIs. 1t is a
victory, not for party, but for hu-
mainly.
The chief of the Kansans who is to |
lead us onward and upward in this new
era is Major Z. n. Morrill,. He is 2
strong, good man; strong in personal |
vigor and integrity; good in warmness
of heart and gentleness of soul.
All official duties in an executive office |
are difficult aud taxing. Freedom from |
rror is rarely secured without caution,
and conservation.
But Major Morrill, will rise above all |
He was elected on the plat
form of good government. He is i'm
bued with the conviction of the neces-
'ity of good government. He is quail
fed in mind and heart and business ca
pacity to give us good government.
Cleanliness, honesty, thoroughness and |
success are assured. Rejoice.