The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-18
LACKING POLITICAL PRINCIPLE

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who stands up for cause when the
world apparently is against him? Do
you owe anything to the champion
who with meagre following bares his
breast and struggles against a we'll
armed, well-organiZed legion? Do you
admire that man when driven back,
day after day, repulsed and broken
and shattered, ne RECEIVERS himself and
rides TO the attack again, never falter-
ing, never despairing? Is your heart
with the soldier who only enlists
with the side with the bigger army
or is your heart with the soldier who
takes his gun and joins the side that
fights for his sentiments?
Look at that Populist- Democratic
outfit in Sedgwick county. Political
battles, if fought for anything by the
people. are fought for principle. The
| politicians themselves may be scramb-
| ling for spoils. But the voter who
| does not know Bill Jones the candi-
date, but knows he is a Republican,
a Democrat or a Populist, and goes
to the polls and votes for Bill Jones,
not because he wants to see Bill Jones
get an official salary, but because Jones
| is either Republican, a Democrat or
a Popuhst-that voter must agree with
/ him in political principle. That is why
the voter goes to the polls and votes for
a man of like political faith. He votes
for him because he agrees with him
politically, because that man upholds
the same principles as he does.
Look at that POpulist-D Democratic
outfit in Sedgwick county. Have they
any principles? What were the Popu-
lists doing last year? Sucking the big
toe of Hi Lewis and the Law and Order
league. What are they doing this
year? Asking the voters to vote for
them in order to rebuke Hi Lewis and
the Law and Order league. Who gave
the Prohibitionists pledges last year?
The Populists. Who are seeking the
votes of the Observation-Disclosures this
year? The Populists. Who We're
against Prohibition last year? The
Republicans. Who were against il
the year before that? The RepubH-
cans. Who are against it this year?
The Republicans.
Is your heart with the soldier who
only enlists with the side with the
bigger army, or is it with the soldier
who takes his gun and joins the side
that fights for his sentiments? Has
Dave Dale any sentiment, any politi-
cal principle? Isn't he merely snOop-
ing around for votes regardless of
sentiment or political principle? If
you are a PopuliSt, a POpulist who
hates Grover Cleveland for his bond
steals, go TO Dave Dale and ask him
his opinion of Grover Cleveland. and
tell him what you think Of Cleveland.
He will agree with you and tell you
Cleveland is a great fraud. Get a
Democrat who admires Cleveland and
uphOlds him in everything he has done,
to go to Dale and ask him what he
thinks of Cleveland, and Dale will tell
him that Cleveland is the greatest man
living today.
Dale has no political principle. None
of the candidates on that fusion ticket
has any political principle They are
simply out for votes. simply out to get
anything and everything they can from
everybody. The POpulist papers all
over the country are bitter in their
denunciationS of Democrats The
Democratic papers are bitter in their
denunciationS Of the PopuliSts. And
yet here they are in Sedgwick county.
huddled together on one ticket, begging
the people to put them in office. What
are they? What are they up before
the people for? Does Ipey Campbell
want the votes of the Democrats be
cause he hates the very name OF Dem
ocracy? And does Rufe Gone want
the votes of both Democrats and Popu-
lists because he has never been Popu-
list or Democrat? Where does Dave
Dale stand? Does he favor the last
Democratic national platform or is he
a champion of the Omaha principles?
Suppose you know none of the Popu-
list nominees personally. Suppose you
are 4 Democrat. Suppose you want
to vote for Democratic principles. Can
you find candidate in Sedgwick coun- !
" representing those principles. Sup
pose YOU are Democrat and hate all
the follies and filmy dreams of the |
PopuliSts.
Suppose you are unalterably opposed
n female suffrage, which if YOU are a !
Democrat YOU undoubtedly are. Can
You consistently vote that PopuliSt /
ticket: Can you cast your vote for |
men who voted last year for female |
suffrage. and will vote again for It |
next year:
Isn't Ii likely that the men on that /
ticket will be just as Misunderstanding. as /
lack principled, on the question Of Pro |
hibitiou as on other questions. III
Dave Dale aud Rufe Cone are 80 want 1
ing in political principle that they can
not say whether they are Democrats 1
or PopulisJs. is il wise to ACCEPT their
pledges On any other political ques- !
tOn:
The Republican nominees are ali an /
Ji-ProhibiUioniSts. They have - de-
clared themselves and will await th.. 4
result. But Dale and Cone and the /
Populist ticket are promising the anti 4
PrOhihitlonists this thing enc minute 4
and ple'lsing the PrchieitioalstS that
thing tho nsxr