The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-19

| county may be forced TO nominate
hereafter only such men as will carry
out the mandates of the political bosses
at Topeka. If they should attempt q
protest or a denial of this it is easily
enough proven that the conclusion was
reached at the time Wichita was
singled out to be made an example Of
and that the Republican party of Sedg
wick county must have such an object
lesson as would force it to nominate
only such men as should pledge them
selves in advance to the enforcement
of the prohibitory law, and as a farther
earnest of their good faith put Pro
hibition plank in every platform.
So if the ticket or any portion Of it,
is defeated, the eXulting Cry will come
from Topeka: "What did we tell you
You will know better next timer The
| whole administration, from Morrill, and
Dawes down, is pledged that in max
| ing IAN example of Wichita" to at the
same time give the Republican party
of Sedgwick county an object lesson
such as it will not soon forget. even
if it becomes necessary for the local
leaguers and the Third Party Prohi-
bitiOnists to formally indOrse the Re-
publican nominees, which everybody
H. Il.
even if they should vote as they re-
solve, which they never do.
The fight, therefore, which the Re-
publicans of Sedgwick county are
forced to make is one full of perplexi-
ties, one of complicated menaces, in
which individual rights, political con-
victions and party fealty are antagon-
lied. threatened and jeopardiZed. The
question is, shall we lay down to the
state bosses and i'm doing so become the
helpless prey Of the opposition, or shall
we stand by our party and our own
convictions and defy the bosses at
Topeka, and also their non-taXpayinS
tools in our midst, which they are en-
plOying to do their work. The fight,
and in it, will come the question to
every individual voter, shall we stand
by the hOme-men who have made this
fight against outside dictation and in
side conspiracy to down Wichita, the
only possible city for Kansas in the
future or out of spite defeat our own
party and its paper, the very things
which these outside interests hope for?
Before the election day in November
this problem. with all its issues of the
present and future, must be probed to
the bottom by every Republican in
Sedgwick county and settled to his own
satisfaction.
AS for the Republican county ticket
every man on it is sound. Every man
on it is clear grit, and if elected will
in being a good Republican stand
sQuarely by the interests of the tax
payers of Sedgwick county, whatever
Dawes may threaten or a corporation
governor demand. Every man on the
ticket at the head of our columns is
not only friend to the Eagle, but
every man was chosen solely on the
ground of his merit and fitness. Judge
Hatton was even chosen before the
orders came to the local tools to kick
him out 1t is a ticket of intelligent
gentlemen, honest and straightfor-
ward. There is not a boss or ringster
among them. Each is not only fitted
for the special work of the place for
which he was chosen. but 70 strings
are tied TO any of them. The ticket
is one which the people of the county
would. under ordinary circumstances.
not only be proud of but enthusiastic
over.
They constitute a platform of them
selves. a platform of competency and
of good faith. Everyone of them was
with the so-called silver
plank of the platform, but the man
who wrote that plauSab bic but mislead-
ing plank, is not only the partner OF
the man whom Morrill, set up with
power and place to down the Repub-
lican party of Sedgwick county, but
the MANY in the face of the citizens
Went 10 the Auditorium. where
in a speech he urged on the onslaught
which has been made by the admin
iStra ton through Topeka influence. an
which will cost the taxpay-
erS of this county many. many thou
sands OF dollars, and for which Wich- /
tia was selected from among all the
towns and cities of The state. not one
of which but what was violating "the
law" more openly than this city ever
did.
The Republicans of Se6cwick county
can Kill off this buShwhackinc policy /
and paralyZe its instruments more sure /
ly and great deal more effectually by !
standing by themselves and their pa
per. and by refusing to be driven from 4
the party. than 10y going over 10 the /
opposition and thereby splicing them
selves ia the end. In truth If the Re 4
publican party OF Sedswick county
should give UP. retreat and turn over
the county into the hands of the oppo- /.