The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-30
ALL THERE Is TO 1T.

know ufBat the 0e1edt CT tIle hepuDlicaA
ticket means a reign of hypocrisy and
Doodle for this city:
Is there anybody SO biased. by Old
marty associations. as not to under
stand that the only force that can sue
cessfully combat the administration, at
Topeka, must be made up of Republi-
can officials?
Can't everybody see that with a
mixed set of Populist and Democratic
county officers in power, that they
| would not, and who could not have
any influence with a Republican state
administration, and that Morrill, and
Dawes would simply be compelled TO
leave the police government of this city
in the hands of the men who have
nothing at stake, and whose tools
would continue 10 hold up the ST Louis
and Milwaukee brewers for all in sight
all the while bleeding the joints whose
proprietors they would continue to
prosecute for pretense:
Don't every voter, intelligent enough
to estimate the meaning Of his own
ballot, know that the only possible way
to shut off expensive prosecutions is
by the election of Republicans who, by
virtue of their belonging to the party
in power, can force the only fight that
could bring the administration to
terms?
In the defeat Of the nominees of the
Republican party, everyone of whom is
openly and avowedly against the war
which was precipitated upon this peo-
pie, a war not for the cause of tenn
perance or morality, but from Interior
motives of designing men, does not the
taxpayer and property owner realize
that IN it's defeat the inevitable result
would be a continuance of the Hi
Lewis, Bill Campbell, Lieurance rule,
with a continuation of the boodling
and high-handed scandals that ran
rampant under Burrows as city mar
shall, and when the revenues went any
where except into the city treasury?
Can anybody fail 10 comprehend that
in downing the anti-administratiOn, in
downing the anti Prohibition Republi-
can ticket Of Sedgwick county, that the
Eagle viii be dSSarned for any farther
fight against the boodling joints; that
the mayor and city council who have
stood out so Solidly against a queer
combine Of fanatics and scoundrels |
from the first, will be left defeated;
that the district court and its officers, |
and the county officers who have stood |
by the sentiments of the community |
and thus shielded the taxpayer, will all |
be left discouraged and repudiated, and |
that consequently, nobody will be left
to oppose either the insane faction |
which as a corrupt alliance will all the |
more surely harass and bleed and rob |
by turns, this community, while the
leagueguild and its piety coalition,
with closed eyes and piOus pretenSe,
blindly shoulder to shoulder
whooping it up for the fellowship of
hypocrisy, still hand 30 hand and off
and ON with make-believe prosecutions
and baackmaihng joint-raids:
Does anybody doubt that Justice
Brewer of the United States supreme
court, was right when in speaking of
Kansas and her Prohibitory middle,
and Of the chances Of her people for
the future, he declared that after all
the substance of right is grander and
more potent than methods and forms?'
Is it not only too plain and certain that
The defeat OF the Republican ticket in
Sedgwick county this fail will leave the
county without prestige or power in the
next state convention, OF I'm the legisla-
.ure, in its efforts 10 do away with the
Prohibitory law through resubmisSion
,r otherwise? Or, upon the other hand,
hat with the election of an anti-Pro-
Iibition Republican ticket this fall that
Sedgwick county. and the other coun-
les whose people are tired of the farce
Ind expense entailad by the Prohibi-
DRY law, must be listened TO. not only
~ the state administration, but by the
tate convention, and something be
lone.
The voter who fails either of compre-
lending the meaning OF the foregoing
or of answering them
With his ballot wisely, will. in living
o regret it also pay dearly for his mis- .
axe. These questions involve all of
he issues now confronting the tax
'ayer and property owner. They en-
race principles and results that in
olive material interests far more i'm
orcant to the individual than those al ,
NY mere local party or the success of ,
ny candidate ,
Sifued of all extT-aneoatS influences. of '
Il individual advantage, and all by /
lays. Of every special pleading and
very personal prejudice. 1t simply
omss TO tits: Nin the men and in
who have. in their eff
orts 10 preserve WiolliSa rs a city and |,
5 a CENTER of population viii the Eaglei c