The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-10-30
Ths ny Eagle: aadnesdau ornlme October so 1895

bition vote would desert them. Why
| don't they explain why that expose
| did not get into print. The people are
finding out who are deceiving them as
| well as who their friends are, eyey day.
| The old stock argument vote the fu-
| sion ticket and rebuke the administra-
! ton" has had its day.
| The people of Wichita now know who
| their friends are. They know whether
| it will pay them to cast these friends
| overheard and take on new ones. They
| know what the result would be- There
was a home rule movement in ireland
! once; II was a power. One time the
people took a notion into their heads
| that they wanted TO rebuke somebody.
| They listened to the siren voices of an
outfit like the Demo-Pop gang and
threw the leaders that stood by them
| overheard.
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.
England soon walked over them and
the once powerful public sentiment van
ished like dew. They have been sorry
ever since that they repudiated the
FreemanS Journal, Charles Stewart
Parnell, and host of others who stood
by the home rule sentiment in Ireland
until they brought the British ministry
TO its knees, calling the fight with Ire
land or and promising it home rule. Il
would have home rule inside of six
months if the Irish people in moment
blindness and folly, which they have
ever since regretted, had not repudiated
Parnell, the Freemans Journal, the
lord mayor of Dublin and a host of
other friends who prevented the exercise
OF English tyranny over Ireland. If
the leaders Of Wichita those who have
stood by the people are sustained att the
polls next Tuesday the adniniStra ton
at Topeka will be on its knees TO Wich-
ita inside of six weeks suing for peace;
II they are not sustained the story of
Ireland will repeat itself. Instead of a
strong home rule party in Wichita there
VIII be factions. some playing into the
hands Of the administration, some pow
eTless TO DO anything and some indiffer-
ent to the fate Of the people who repu-
dated them.
WHAT THE RESULT WILL BE.
How could they be otherwise The
and public men will naturally submit
tc it. 1t seems that the whole thing is
plain and that in this case it would not
require a Daniel to interpret the hand
writing on the wall.
II there was any doubt about the sin
cerity of the friends Of Wichita and its
people a community might not be so
Ieadily blamed for repudiating them,
for an experiment. 1t does seem, how
ever, that it ought to take something
more weighty than the mouthings of
sidewalk Pop heelers 10 convince the
people of Wichita that the Eagle is not
loyal to them and their interests; that
Mayor Cox is not loyal their inerests
that Judge Reed is not loyal to their
interests; that John Davis is not loyal
TO their interests; that Judge Myatt is
not loyal to their intehests; that the jus
tees, constables and every other Re
publican officers in Wichita is not loyal
TO their inerests; that the entire Repub-
lican party of Sedgwick county is not
loyal 70 their interests. The people
viii not believe that all these people
are traitors who would sell opt their
community for the sake of a few county
offices.
NOT A QUESTION OF OFFICE.
On the contrary, these people are not
lighting merely for a few offices. They
are fighting to keep the strength they
have, TO get into office men who will be
in sympathy with them in their effort to
make Wichita the city that she ought
to be, they are fighting to keep from
being disarmed by the enemies of the (
county, they are fighting for that which |
viii give their cause a prestige in the |
state. Six years ago the Democrats |
of this county said that their election |
would be the death knell of prohibitio !
an Kansas They made the people be- !
Everybody remebers that they talked
then exactly as they talk now. They
were elected and what good did it do?
What good viii ii do now? If resub-
mission Republicans were elected then
as they ought to be now the result
would have been different. The peo-
pie are getting so that hey can see
through the shallow pretenSes of the op-
position and they propose to do the re-
pudiating on that side.
The latest argument the opposition
is making against Hatton is that he
was Tiger BilPs adjutant general This
is made as a deceitful fntimation that
they stand in" The fact is and every
man knows il that Judge Campbell and
Charlie HatTOn have not been on speak
ing terms for over a year il not eigh-
teen months, and everybody knows
that the estTangement was not the
fault of Mr. Hatton. Everybody also
knows that Mr.. Campbell is a bitter
enemy Of Mr.. Hatton's. and this talk
about Mr.. Hatton being Tiger Bills ad-
jutant is rot.