The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-11-03
WILL IT BE BUSINESS OR NOT?

nolitical fortunes of individual candi-
dates. more than the local dominancy
Of any party organization. out OF the
| ballot boxes must come the names of
tho men who by virtue of their party
affiliations Will have the power to stay
| the hand of the state administration
| in its blind hostility 10 the material In
terests of this city, out Of the ballot
box must come the power to crush the
belligerant faction who in their ia
natical fury are gripping every line
| of trade. Out of the ballot boxes or
! Tuesday will come the names OF set
of officials who win stand as a solid
| wall against the contentious and blood
less mobilization Of hypocrites, who
have been set on to dismantle the trade
! marts and paralzye the spirit of en-
terprise of Wichita, or otherwise out
of those same ballot boxes will come
the names of officials, elect, who will
stand powerless to either confront our
enemies at home or abroad.
Attack must be met, not only by de-
Tense, but but commensurate, or Wich-
tia, her trade and her property values,
will be forced into groove so narrow
as will make it impossible ever TO lift
them again. 1t matters not that the
vindictive thrust at this city's pre-emi-
hence, as a trade center, was made in
the name of temperance and morality.
The administration knows, and the
league clique and their debased tools
here know, from years and years Of
test, trial and experience, that SO far
as the consumption of liquors is con-
cerned. or the covert violation of the
law is involved, that these distracting
raids are all folly and productive Of
no good whatever, that it is all a pre-
tense and sham. With iunerant
men whose only ideas of trade is the
contribution box, and whose only time
of business is the Sabbath day, form
ing the support and the reserve, of one
end of the line, and men like Bill
Campbell, Seth Tucker and Burrows
at the other end, the coup de main in
the name of God and morality, and for
virtue and truth, becomes a perver-
sion of temperance and a parody on
righteousness that diSgusts pure mind
ed men and pollutes the moral con-
science of the public.
And so there is more business than
politics, more business than morals or
temperance or religion involved in the
election day after tomorrow. There is
plenty of time in which the opportunity
will be had to retaliate on Morrill, and
Dawes and the men who have urged
them on in all these months of trouble |
for Wichita. The question now is, the |
question for Tuesday at the ballot box, |
will be, is which ticket, which set of |
men, can the most effectually. can the |
most certainly, fOrtify the present sit |
uatiOn, and in defying that blatant
police commission crowd win the vie |
tory for the present and future bust |
ness affairs Of Wichita. This is a |
question which ought to answer itself. |
The men on the Fusion ticket would |
prove utterly helpless even if elected. |
in either reachig or influencing Re
publican administration. or in antar-
onizing and defeating the Hi Lewis |
police commission, its judge and mar
shall, and its pugnaciOus prosecuting
attorney, whose futile and expensive
are only the more insane
and outrageous because backed by the
creature Dawes, who as an attorney
general is disgrace TO the state
With the Republican ticket defeated
the situation is hopelesSly lost, the eff
forts Of the community for the past
months TO stay the wave of
smiling bigoty, viii all so for naught.
and mctiouS cant and piouS fraud will
be in the saddle TO rule only to fatten.
with Doodle and blackmail. the pockets
OF their henchmen, while every con-
industry, every enterprise and
every line of trade of the city of Wien
ita will be left depressed and PROSTATE.
There is no escape from the logic of
this declaration.