The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-01

could be possible Of preparation by
any man Of less experience and prac-
| tice in these lines. We shall not here
refute, deny or explain single one of
| this mans solid column of fabrica-
tons nor even express regret that a
reputable paper, whose editor knew
their questionable character, should
have admitted them to his columns,
| and only because Kansas City would
like to see Wichita downed to the
| death in this struggle. Fo5ooth, the
Eagle is not called upon to either deny
or defend this people from such a
| vindictive spirit and its wholesale men,
| dacity. We quote few of the things
he said, however, leaving it to the thou
sands in this city who know the truth
of themselves to make answer. Here
is a string Of his assertions picked
from his column at random:
THE city by its mouth-pieces. the daily
press, came to have the reputation
throughout the country as the abode of
lawbreakers; when the people
turned out to boom the editor Of the
Eagle for governor they became the
laughing stock of the whole state; Don S.
Colt who called upon the governor to
enforce the law; the Eagle made
brutal assault upon Rev. Colt; the
church people, to the number of seven
thousand, rallied, solidly, to the support
of Colt; thousands came TO the aid Of the
good citizens league. crowding the
churches; about three-fourths of the audi
forum meeting only Endorsed a broken
down Pop and Otto Eckstein; the law
and order peoples meeting packed the
auditorium as densely; Governor Morrill,
appointed new board of substantial
citizens; Judge Campbell is not a man
who does things by halves; there are now
no open joints in Wichita; seven
ty-five gamblers have left the city; 90
per cent Of the 1000 church people, q
majority of the legal and professional
men, a majority of all the retailers, and
80 per cent of the wholesalers will stand
by Morrill, and Dawes to a finish, etc, etc.
Leaving the foregoing excerpts to be
answered by each local reader for him.
self, it only remains for us to say. what
everybody knows, that in the face Of
the fact that at no time in the history
of the city was there such good order
and sobriety as for the six months pre-
ceding the 4th Of July conference, at
Topeka, where Il was decided that
Wichita should be made an example.
and when the instrument was chosen
to do it; when following n series of
bad seasons and hard times, great
crops at last burthened the land with
righteousness, and everyone had come
to be assured of a chance once more
in life, and Wichita, her merchants and
manufacturers, her packers and live
stock men, her grain dealers and lum-
Der dealers, and everybody, anticipat-
ing a revival of business and a return
of degree of the old-time prosperity;
satisfied that even before frost there
would be heard much Of the old-time
rush and rumble Of busy streets; that
our hotels would again be full of the
traders and trafficers of Oklahoma and
south Kansas men, this calamity which
was forced upon us by the envy of
outsiders, but forced upon us through
a cOterie of those who, in living here.
claim to have the best interests of our
people at heart, forced upon US through
the insane activity of narrow men who
have little or no interest in the material
prosperity or future welfare of the
city, forced by those Il majority of
whom do not even own the houses they
live in, and who can go away any day
without loss, and all with the result
that many of the men who have worked
for years TO build here great center of
business are trying TO dispose Of their
home and interests that they may go
away. Not only that, but forced with
the result that one wholesale house
has already packed up and removed
to Kansas City. with another soon to
follow, and q wholesale lumber firm
having done the same thing; and the
largest grain buying firm, with their
families and their buyers and book
keepers and their families, all 10 leave
the coming week. Add TO these real
disasters the uncertainty that has set
tied down upon and broods over all, the
diversion Of a large per cent OF our
grain and live stock trade 10 Kansas
City. and the disbursement that
reaches and influences every line Of
trade, depressing ente. arising business
men so that they refuse TO longer con-
tribute TO churches and charities. and
10 these, the discharge of the street
force, with dependent families: and
an unpaid police force: the accumulate
ing expense Of prosecutions in the
courts and increasing taxes: and the
threatened defeat of the best Republi-
can ticket ever nominated in the coun-
| ". all clinched by the direct testimony
Of the head police that there IS three
times as many drinking places in the
city now as before this war, in which
Wichita is 10 be made an example.
and then ask where are the pledges of
| Governor Morrill, that he would Giro