The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-01
THE WOLVES ARE AFTER THEM.

Demagogues come Ond go. political
| parties rise and fall, but the convictions
of the people survive the wrecks of
dynasties. and i'm the end sustain the
state Vaccinations, sooner or later.
go down before fundamental princi-
pies. and personal interests and individ-
Ilal idioscyncracies are finally swept
aside by majority sentiment, either
through brute force or constitutional
| law.
| 1t has been but few years since the
Eagle made itself felt from one end
| declaring that if the Republican party
of the state Gid not assert itself super
| ior TO its barnacle losses and cut out the
extreme notions of impractical men,
annually injected as planks in the
| party platform. that the party which
had founded the state and made it all
| that it is, would be swept aside. Be
cause we pointed out the undisputed
fact that our political leaders, in their
subservency to extreme elements had
lost sight of the living principles of the
| national Republican party, in their
selfish and greedful ambition, our pro-
tests came to be called by the papers
and politicians Of the state Muir
docks Rebellion"
The individual rule, however. con-
tinued to hold sway, and the Bills and
Dicks and Bens and Jerrys, as potent
politicians and as political preachers,
held on to their course of state and
church, Of good Lard and good devil"
promising Paradise in their platforms
and giving the people hades in their
laws of hypocritical rule until the
''Murdock Rebellion" became an ac-
complished revolution with the sorriest
lot of boodiers and thieves in power
and the EXTREMIST horde OF wild-eyed
dangerous crankS TO enact laws that
ever cureSd a state. And SO for two
years Kansas has been the jest and
I byword of all the peoples OF her sister
states, losing not only her good name
but her credit TO the extent of finan-
cially running thousands upon thou
sands of her best citizens, many of
them beng driven away beyond the
borders of the state to seek chances
for a new start in life
But despite all the discouraging
things Of the Tom, Dick and Harry re-
gime of barnacles, and of the robbers
rOoSt' rule of the past two years. the
great majority of the men of the COM
monwealth held to their old time be-
lief in the national Republican party.
and on a platform which ignored pro-
hibition, female suffrage, free sal
Walton and the like, overwhelmingly
elected their ticket in November last
Sc, with the Republican party again
in power, Kansas is looking hopefully
upward. But the wolves, hungry
from a constrained abstinence of two
years, are on the track of the admin
istrative officers just sworn in, and the
lesson learned of two years of Pop NAL
feasance and of venality is in danger
of being lost, lost upon the political
leaders and lost to the body of the
Republican party. The same elements
which upon the ole hand wer wont to
force the party into all kinds of ex-
IRENE dictations and illiberal attitudes.
and upon the other listen to, recognize
and patrOnize the circle, which death
only ever diminished, is seeking, with
all the advantage that comes of adept
ness, experience and of plauSability,
to capture the new administration
The old wolves. many of them in
sleeps clothing, are ON the track. are
at the very heels of our newly chosen
captains and the fear is that they may
forget the promises of the campaign,
lose their heads and fall-fall not as
martyrs but as victims.