The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-10-14
NOT ALONE IN KANSAS.

| ct intervals during the past lew
weeks the EAGLE has published shor
biographies of the Republican nominee:
in this, Sedgwick county.
To those who have read these nara
tives, simple and unembellished as they
were, the conviction must be strong
that they are an exceptionally strong
set of men. Not one there is who ha:
not worked his way up through adver-
sity and succeeded against fearful odds.
But chief among all the points brought
is each mans unimpeacnable honesty.
| Honesty has been made a great issue
in the present campaign. 1t is true that
| honesty is an issue in every campaign.
but not often is it SO allpervading ard
overwhelming as it is at the present
time.
The people are aroused on this ques-
ton of individual integrity. The key
note of the whole camp aign was sounded
| by the president of the United States.
Grover Cleveland himself attacked the
infamous Wilson bill, and charged its
pernlcious passages to party perfdity
and party dishonor He asked, who
shall say insincerely, of the Democratic
party how it was to face the people after
this infamy.
If there were any doubling minds
about public corruption this strong
courageous expression of the highest
official in all the land dispelled the
doubt and convinced the lowliest and
the humblest that if honesty was to
survive in our government and the gov
eminent survive itself, action should be
taken quickly and vigorously.
On this account this cry for honest
men and honest government is ringing
all over the country. Here in Kansas
where the evil is 90 brazen and SO bold
we are apt to think that Kansas is alone
IN this great protest against corruption
in official life. 1t is not so. The pro-
test extends from one end of the land TO
the other-fronI the Atlantic to the
Pacific. In some portions it has
broken the iron letters of partisan
ship and is picking on men regardless of
politics or party.
In Kansas it is bitterly partisan. But
no man can make a mistake by being
Republican in Sedgwick county this
year. Look at that ticket. There is not
a dishonest man on it. Most of them are
goung men starting out in life hoping
to make name for themselves, and
good name. There are some on it who
are not young men. They are probably
past the age of great ambitions. But
they are men who have gratilied ambi-
tons IN the past, who have been thrilled
with the ineffable joy of patriotic ardor,
who have stood shoulder to shoulder
with the nation and barred their breasts
for their country's sake.
The man who stood on a battlefield
with the lead whistling about him and
the cries of his wounded brothers
drowned in the boom of the canon and
rattle of musketry-who did this, not
for money but for his country and his
fellow-citizens, is not going to betray his
and his fellow-citizens in a
county office.
Nothing is being said by the opposi-
ton of the Republican candidates. If |
they are being fought, it il in secret. |
No open charges have been made |!
against them.
They are all true to the core. They |
are all strong mentally. They have all !
been through struggles for success. |
They have ali seen adversely. They |
have been honest sons and faithful sons
all of them. They will make honest |
md faithful officials.
No man should vote indiscretely this |
year. The candidates of all the parties
ire before him. If he can find a more
honest ticket than that of the Republic
cans of Sedgwick county he should vote
that ticket.