The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-31
HO Is TIE MAN?
To the Editor of the Eagle.


The character of our federal govern
ment, the essence and nature of the con
stitution Of the United States makes i,
impossible that there should exist at one
and the same time more than two great
political parties; furthermore human
nature is either liberal or conservative.
and men divide themselves naturally
into either of the two classes, just as we
have the bulls and bears in Wall street.
The Republican party was founded by
the brilliant and dashing Alexander
Hamilton. 1t comes to us strained
through the great wing, Henry Clay.
the plain man, Abraham Lincoln. and
the remarkable craftsmanship OF James
| g. Blaine. Likewise Thomas Jefferson
founded the Democratic party and Jack
son, Buchanan and Cleveland have OBJ
stinately upheld its rigid conservative
principles.
A third party is an illusion. jack-o'-lat-
tern, ignis-fatuus. handwriting on the
wall, quarrel with both the old parties.
index of something rotten in Denmark,
cure the great perfect silent Or
ganization that exists in the Re-
publican and Democratic parties SIM
ply because it is not in harmony
with the theory of our constitutional
government and not in harmony with
the two standards or levels of human
nature-for in this country we tend
towards two aforementioned and con-
in A.sr
ured and prompted by the two great
opponents of those standards-the Re-
publican and Democratic parties.
The Republican party is in harmony
with the reason for our existence as q
government.
Government is a scheme of notion
nothing more and nothing less-a great
scheme OF progress as nation. 1t has
always been the province of the Repub-
lcan party to keep the scheme in mo-
ton, and the province of the Demo
cratic party to check it. The one Gre
ates, the other criticises.
Let 1t be taken for granted that
Grover Cleveland is sincere and he be-
comes at once the greatest Democrat
that ever lived. for the country has
been brought to a stand still. Progress
has become a corpse with the people
attending its wake crying and moan |
ing, why did it die, why did it die"
The man who will receive the Repub-
lican nomination for president Is that |
man who nearest represents the ideas |
OF James u. Blaine. In this regard |
Coxey whether by accident or fate, |
encamped upon the classic battlefield of |
Biadensburg and occupying the best |
chamber In the old inn where George |
Washington regularly put up while on
his way to assist in making this great
government is the handwriting on the
wall, for the first great Coxeyite in this |
country was Henry Clay, who headed |
every movement to increase the navy,
10 make the protective tariff, to begin a
system of general public Improvements
at national expense. or to make the |
federal government prominent as the |
guardian of the infant republics of South
America. The next great Coxeyite was
james q. Blaine. Such men as Hoar
who recently secured the sweaty night
cap applause of lot of insignificant rail-
road attorneys now in the United States
senate are not sin it, at all. They think
they know thing or two but they do
not.
Analyze and dissect the Coxey move
ment as you will, the keen observer and
exact logician of modern events reaches
but one conclusion. Coxey was arrested
because he went to the capitol building
bare-footed and dirty. Had he arrived
as a delegation of tariff fixers in a
Pullman car he would have
obsequious and. sycophantic
attention, furthermore the usual in
vitations to lobby banquets at Wormly's.
Chamberlains, or Welcker's would have
been sent out and as usual accepted by
the majority of the congressman. Coxey
should have been given police protection
net persecution. The constitution gave
him and his people the right to assemble,
and post-roads are strictly constitutional.
Who Numbered, and who is the man
who will receive the Republican nomi-
nation: Is it Mckinley?
49,, JERE JOHNSON,
Kildare, o. T.. May %, 1894.