The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-30

TOPEKA. Kan, June cit looks very
much like Dave OVermeyer and ex-Gov-
ernor Click wers going TO lock forms here
next Tuesday in the Democratic state con
yention. Willy old Click Is inclined TO
fusion and he is going TO light Tor IL. AS
. last resort. he Will even work TO put up
a "straw'' ticket. Click is not Demo
crat for principle He is for spoiis first,
last and all the time.
But in his wild desire to support the
Populists. he may run up against stone
wall that will fatten The old gentleman
ont completely. If the Democrats noml-
nate a candidate for governor 1t VIII be
Dave Overmeyer, and Overmeyer IS not
going to head straw" ticket, not II be Is
aware of the fact that such plan Is hatch-
ing. He is aware OF 1t, too.
It is known that Click IS partial 20 III
sion. His coyness about 1t, when ques-
toned. is sufficient proof.
He was asked today:
''Will straight ticket be nominated"
eyes, a Democratic ticket Will be placed
IN nomination"
apo Won consider any of the candidates
nominated on the Populist ticket as
Democrat. and available for places on the
ticket 10 be nominated next week."
''Oh yes: there are several Democrats on
the Popniist ticket There is Van Prather;
he Is lust as much of Democrat as he
ever was; and then there Is j. w. Amis
and George Clark, they are both good
Democrats and are men that any Demo-
GRAFT could support"
"WiH the TACT that George Clark an
nounced himself as standing on the Popu-
list platform, including the suffrage plank,
affect his chances for place on the Demo
cratic ticketf"
"No; that won't make any more diffeg-
ence than it makes in Major Morrilps GO
ing around among the women saying
that he is suffragist. when as a matter
of fact everybody knows he is just try
ing 20 get votes. By the way | have it
from reliable source that the wife of the
head of the Repu blicau ticket is opposed
to the adoption of the suffrage amend
ment. A lady from HiawSJha who is a
personal friend of Mrs. NorrilIs was in
Atchison a few days ago and she said Mrs.
Morrill, is opposed to suffrage.
1.-The ticket nominated will be straight
ticket both before and after election, but
we are going TO make campaign which
will defeat the Republican party. The
Populists are going 10 win in this cam
paigp. and that is sure, although this is
going TO be one of the vilest campaigns we
have ever seen IN Kansas.
THIS is considered To mean that the
ticket put up by the Democrats will mean
aud stand for nothing. Clicks utterances
sound queer when coptrasted with frank
interview from Overmyer. He said:
The Democratic party of Kansas
should. aud will. demand once more a re-
Submissions of the question of consJitu-
tional prohibition. IG should, and will,
oppose with all its.power the hypocritical,
GemaEOgical, wholly useless aud seuseless
proposition 70 impose upon women the
burdens of suffrage.
And since the madcaps have pushed
the subject to the front, it might not
be amiss 10 ask for the repeal of
the municipal suffrage acts, aud put
candidates for the legislature on record
upon the subject. The convention should
demand the repeal Of all of the more OBJ
noXious features of the Murray law, and
the whole brood of infamous statutes
which have been enacted in support of il.
IL should demand an absolute return TO
local self-goverhment, ana to that end the
repeal Of the jury commissioner law, the
police commissioner law and the statutes
comforting extraordinary and tyranical
powers upon judges. county attorneys and
the attorney general"
The tn o declarations show how the two
leading Kansas Democrats feel. 1t is al
NEST certain that fight Will follow.