The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-08
DAWES Is THE MAN.

A gentleman who was formerly q
business man in Wichita but who left
it, he says, because Of the uncertain
ty and perplexities growing out of the
eternal wrangle over the question of
the enforcement Of the PrOhibitory
law, writes US letter from New York
City under the date Of August 2nd,
in which he says he has not forgot
ten Wichita and that he still reads the
Eagle with the livliest interest. The
amusing thing in his epistle is his
long-range conception of the affairs
of city and Of a state with which he
at one time was conversant.
He declares that Morrill, knows that
the Eagle represents the majority
sentiment Of the levelheaded people
Of Wichita, Of whatever political party
but that the governor wants a second
term, and fearing that the editor Of
the Eagle might appear on the scene
with a delegation takes the course he
has adopted for the purpose of get
ting up local fight in Wichita, with
the churches arrayed against the Eagle
and in that way, disposing Of the pos
sibilities Of any such candidacy.
He goes on to say: ''What the editor
of the Eagle lacks is malice and craft
mess, so essential in Kansas politics;
he has too much consideration for the
feeling Of men who would stop at moth
ing to kill the Eagle and thereby down
Wichita. When l think of such men
(naming severaD going onto the sacred
platform of my old church which l
helped to build to lead off in denunci-
alton and in maligning a man whose
only offenSe has been in standing by
what he unselfishly conceived to be
to their interests and to the interests
Of Wichita, for one, want to go back
to Kansas long enough to help right
the wrong and to tell what 1 know of
the characters Of these individuals.
The work you have done would have
made you millionaire here or in Chi
cago. Open out on the vulnerable as
saSsins Of your good name and make
life burden to them"
Without pleading guilty to our
friends criticism or indorsing his fat
tering estimates and conclusions, we
think he is mistaken as to Governor
Morrill,. Governor Morrill, is a Elastic
politician. who has been in Office
thirty-four years of the thirty-Six years
he has been i resident of the state, be-
ing all things to all men, so long, that
there remains in him nothing of the
necessary stamina for chief execu-
tive But it is not the editor of the
Eagle, whom Morrill, has cause to fear
as a competitor. The gentleman who
is planning TO succeed him is of his own
official household. 1t is Mr.. Attorney
General Dawes. or all signs fail. He
is the gentleman who elbows hot and
cold" and holds the supire governor
between himself and every adverse
blast Not only that but the apathetic
executive in saying yea one day *
persuaded by his crown officer 10 say
may" the next. and to the said govern
orS infinite harm. Morrill, means
well. but is Ike unto q feather il a
whirlwind. Dawes is the man who
plays saint before the curtains and
raises the devil behind them. Mr.
Dawes is the man who came To Wich-
ita and assured both sides that they
were right and should win. He claims
the victory for the malcontents. while
shouldering the defeat on the paralyz-
ed governor, who in the last scene Of
the vacilating drama. assumed the
chairman of the Sedgwick county Re
publican control committee that he
would stand by the local ticket mere.
but just as the curtain went down. re-
versed the decision for the twentieth
time and fed the state. Keep Your
eye on the suaye gentleman whose de-
light is 10 patronize the prohibited, but
whose business it is to wipe it out. the
while playing both sides.