The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-21
NOT A RING-Boss PAPER.
The Topeka Capital. in double-lea

farther, in its joy, assigns, if not direct
~ by implication, the credit of the
Sedgwick county platform and the con-
troll of the convention, to George l..
Douglass. The Capital then goes On
to criticize the Eagle for having init
mated that the Sedgwick county con-
vention straddled the silver question,
and in the same connection TO praise
a majority Of the Republican papers Of
the state for having declined to join
Murdock'S rebellion"
We desire TO indulge in a remark or
two in this connection, for the better
information Of the Capital and for any
others whom the shoe may fit.
The Eagle on the money question rep
resents great majority of the people
and a majority of the Republicans of
Sedgwick county, and of the city of
county convention may have declared
or George L.FDouglass have affirmed
to the contrary, and anybody or nomi-
nee interested in the result of the No
vember election who shall attempt to
gainsay that fact will find that he has
monkeyed with the buzz-saw.
The Eagle has "stampeded" nor "hur-
rahed' anyone, nor did it directly or in
directly, either personally through its
editor or otherwise, seek in any way,
to influence the Republican county con-
yention in its platform or in the choice
of its nominees. So the Capitals
''tom-tom" and "horn toot'' insinuationS
are entirely and conSpicuously gratuit-
Gus, in the same sense that its 1O0-cent
dollar and its claim that silver is a
limited coin, are pure rot
The Capitals assumption that the
Eagle criticized and complained of the
action Of the county convention,
whether that assumption was inspired
by Douglass or the patent sheet alluded
TO, diSturbS US not in the least. The
truth is the Eagle indorsed that plat
form as coming from a Republican con-
vention of a state dominated by old
gold-bulliOn John Sherman, we being
gratified over it's declaration in favor
Of ''hOneSt" money, and its further
demand for 'the use Of both gold and
silver as standard money" But in
the face Of the well known sentiment
Of the Republicans Of Sedgwick county,
the strongest silver county in the state.
agreement was straddle and the
Eagle said so. The Capital does not
preach or favor ''the use of both gold
and silver as standard money" yet
those are the very words Of the Ohio
platform and Of the Sedgwick county
platform, also. The Capital says in
this very article criticizing the Eagle
that ''silver is a limited coin" The
Capital is a goldbug, and is not with the
people of Kansas or the body of the
party of its state. However, the gold
bug-ring may even dictate the financial
plank in the next state platform, as an
individual did in the Sedgwick county
platform. The Capital is for the use
of both metals as money, but on a
gold basis, or standard, and its indorse-
ment OF the Sedgwick county plat
form is either hypocrical and for the
chance of Shaping the Eagle or other
wise it has been converted for both the
Ohio and Sedgwick county platforms
call for and demand silver as a money
OF final redemption or standard of
measure equal with gold. If therefore
the Capital fairly represents the senti-
ments of Mr.. Douglass and the Sedg-
wick county convention, and the nom-
ineeS of that convention desire to stand
by the Capitals Interpretation, we only
hope that they will have the honesty
to say So have the manhood to say it
to the people of the county open and
above board. There are some ten
thousand voters in this county who
would like to know, you know.
Finally a word or two as to the
Eagles Republicanism and its chances
for eating crow:
The Eagle is a better Republican
paper than the Capital today or ever
was, and it always has been so far as
rejecting the will and wishes of the
great body Of the party of the state.
The Capital has been the representa-
tive of the Prohibition wing, since the
days of St John, has embraced the
party bosses and leaders. drinkers and
ofice-hOlderS. 1t has been q tOady to
the organization bosses and party steer
org Tho EacIa ppo., tho otl,nr borJ
has been simply straightforward. in
dependent Republican paper, seeking
the good of the masses and defying the
its editor never having bolted
or scratched ticket As
for its being compelled to eat crow.
the same thing was predicted of il
three years ago touching the Murdoch
Rebellion" We did not eat crow then.
and we will not eat il in the future
on the silver question. a man can be
for honest money and against pluto
cratic rule. ring domination and syndi-
cate robbery and still be sound Re
publican. That is what the Eagle is.
The international Agreement" which
owns the present administration. and
which is. through a gold-corner, seek
ingto make the people Of America Il
nation of industrial slaves, by robbinc
them Of one-half of their money. de-
by one-half all their property
values. and by stealing the other half
secretly enforced gold bond is
sues, may force the National Republi-
TO adopt the Capitals
platform Of silver and gold, on q single
standard, As 4 goidbug measure, but
the Eagle will be found still holding