The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-21
THE ANT1-MoRR1LL CROWD.

4 Topeka special TO the Kansas City
| Times announces that the anti-Morrlll
crowd has sprung a new candidate for
governor in the person Of Thomas III.
| Potter, president of the state board or
| agriculture, whose home is at Peabody,
and whose business is farming and
stock-raising. The dispatch referred
10 goes on 10 say, further, that Ed
Hoeh, editor Of the Marion Record, is
the real sponsor and principal hacker
of Mr.. Potter. Mr.. HOch in the last
issue of his paper in denying this, sub
stantiaIly. but not very vehemently,
makes it the occasion Of giving Potter
splendid editorial send off. Hoch
saws he doesn't know whether this
Marion county farmer wants TO be gov
ernor Of Kansas or not, but that he is
splendid man, gentleman and
scholar, and that his age, location,
learning and occupation are all in his
favor He is wealthy but he made ii
by farming, by digging and producing,
not by sharp practice, by politics or
stealing; that, in fact, he would make
a magnificent candidate. These are
not exactly the words Of Hoch but they
are as near as one editor can quote
another.
In agreeing with Hoch that Tom Pot
ter is a good and an available man, in
every way, for governor, we object to
the idea or the declaration that the
anti-Morrill crowd has decided on any
body. 1t is true that a contingent of
that crowd. in the old pocket, especially
around Topeka. becoming convinced
that the Republican party of Kansas
would meet another Waterloo in the
event of his denomination, so far as the
governorship is concerned, have been
looking the field over for the right man.
But the anti-Morrill crowd is a big
one. 1t spreads out into every corner
and section of the state. There are
thousands Of Republican majority
ley and Sumner and Sedgwick alone
Morrill, carried the city of Wichita by
a majority of seven hundred over
home man. The majority against him
would be from five 10 seven times that
number in this county alone, and at
low estimate. He not only double
dealt with the business element of the
state at large but he savagely jumped
on to a city which had given him a
handsome majority, over home man,
with both feet, humiliating its people
by the appointment of highly offensive
officials to scourge and harass them,
and insulted them, in addition, by send
ing his intrigant attorney general to
them loaded to the muZzle with prom |
ises which were all lies. Instead of
giving the state the business admins !
tratiOn' which he promised, he mas
been the willing tool of mendicant |
tOuters, cheap ranters and pOt-hunters, |
with the result that, where the Repub- |
lican party should have confidently en- |
tered the field in Il presidential year, |
assured Of majority of forty to sixty |
thousand, he has by his sychOphantic |
and hypOcritical course forced the or
ganization of quasi secret political /
order which Will play havoc with the |
Republican. ticket should Morrill, be
made its head again. BY his double /
dealing he placed a Democratic judge /
on the district bench and elected a
Pop sheriff in this county, where if he |
had stood by his pledged word the Re
nUblic9n ticEat CoIIId hava haa,, arar
whelmingly elected. Farther. in max
ing fish of one city, and fowl of an
other, he has Disguised ali of them.
The hunting out Of a new candidate,
therefore, by Ed Hoch, or by the So
called anti-Morrill crowd, has its sig
niticance, for unless the balance of the
ticket can be elected by at least thirty
thousand majority Morrill, would be
defeated.