The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-24

IHlo hOUiu nave Dctn lLc VI
affairs, made possible by the activity
Of lot of well-meaning but inexper-
fenced people, but for the fight made
by the Eagle and seconded by Republi-
can officials and Republican leaders
These Democratic and Pop claquers,
who are now so assiduously seeking
to persuade Republicans to desert the
Eagle and to go back on the Republi-
can ticket as protest or snub to Nor.
rill and Dawes, would have taken to
their holes and never been heard CT
but for the Eagle. Everyone of them
would have been down on their knees
TO Burrows, Lieurance, Hi Lewis and
Rudolph Hatfield, but for the Eagle,
which not only defied the whole crowd
but held the situation in spite of the
power of Morrill, and of Dawes.
When in response to the action of the
State Temperance Union, in resolving
that the Prohibitory law would be-
come a dead letter in Kansas in the
absence of an example" and when
the state administration was pressed
by that organization into consenting to
making Wichita that example"
where would Wichita have been but
for the unprecedented fight Of the
Eagle? Not only Wichita but every
city in the state would have success
sively and rapidly fallen beneath the
rule Of class Of drones and leeches.
would have been commercially tied
hand and foot in the interest Of Mis-
souri, city.
These Pops and Democrats, with
their dicker ticket, who would have
been nowhere or never heard of in
such a fight, are now asking Republi-
cans to ignore the Eagle which took its
life in its hands TO save the property
owners and business men of this city,
and to repudiate the Republican ticket,
the defeat of which would be re-
pudiation of the Eagle not only, but
which would leave it ,powerless TO
farther brave the administration and
the fanatical state organization which
has controlled the administration in its
fight TO make Wichita an example"
1t is the Eagle that Dawes and Nor |
ill fears, and not the Pops and Demo
,rats of Sedgwick county. 1t is the |
Eagle that the Topeka crowd breads. |
md not the defeat of the Republican !
ticket in Sedgwick county. The To
leka crowd, including the state adj
the State Temperance |
Union and all their hackers here in
Wichita, do not care the snap of a
niger whether the Republican ticket
# Sedgwick county goes up or down.
whether Hatton. Gordon, Schad and
he rest of the ticket is elected or de- |
Gated, farther than such election or
lefeat effects the Eagle. It's the
eagle and its influence with the Re
publican party of Kansas, its influence
With the leaders of the party in the
'ther cities and in the state at large.
hat is Worrying the state administra-
ion.
Handicap the Eagle. cripple the
eagle. and down the Eagle. and the
state Temperance Union and the
Topeka crowd is not only on
op. but Wichita viii be relegated
o the future chances OF the aver
&c counV-sear town. its hopes and
mbirions fed. its property values de-
troyed. It's business circumscribed and
IL the Advantages Of prestige and of
uperior location. with its past enter
rise, all gone for naught. Wichita
Without It's Eagle would never be the
Wichita that the Eagle has ever hoped
or. worked for, fought for. So far as
II the imimical political and corporate
interests OF the state against this city
re concerned. Wichita without her
Eagle would be left dislnsntled fort.
Is principle gun spiked and IFS people
I the mercy Of envieus and powerful
interests.
There seems but one thing for the |