The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-03-13
THE INNINGS OF A BENEFICIARY.

The fourth page Of Sunday morn
ing's Topeka Capital came to Us illum-
mated with a slugleaded editorial.
| castigating the editor of the Eagle for
having presumed to criticiSe Governor
| Morrill, and his methods The article
! has the relentless swish of a lash in
the hands of a reluctant slave. who
tremblingly strikes, strikes in the men
! acing presence of his master. The
abasement of the the writer doubtless
proved more cruel than the torture of
the victim. COnceding the partisan in
cumbency of the state printerto blindly
defend the Morrill, administration. right
or wrong, insubservently abusing any
one who should dare an honest pro
test, we may be pardoned for ObSery-
ing that no more suitable servitor can
be found in all the state than the Eagle.
Lay ON. Mr.. Capital. and spare not
SO long as you can work the racket
protitably, for the Eagles shoulders
are as broad as is the independence
of its spirit; its foundations deeper
and stronger, by half, than any other
daily paper in the state, measured by
money or by circulation, while its edi
tor has no ambition, of any character,
save the desire TO command the respect
and confidence of his readers. Make
yourself solid therefore. major. and
if you can the more SO by pecking ut
the Eagle, then pluck away for we
have feathers and TO spare. The peO-
pie Of Wichita owe the state of Kansas
not anything save legal allegiance, nor
any Of its many administrations, either
politically, commercially or financially.
But even were this otherwise, the
Eagle would as unhesitatingly criti-
else Il wrong perpetated by the Nor
rill administration as it would the
act Of the policeman on the next cor
ner. 1t laid bare the local biases and
reprehensible attitudes of those Of
John \. Martin and Lyman L. Hum
phrey, whose administrations, respect
lively, We're dominated by the very
men and the exact circumscribed in
terestS which so far have swayed that
Of Morrilrs. Such protests cost no.
body anything, save the editor of the
Eagle, himself, unless in a reflex way,
in which, mayhap, the party vote has
been curtailed. AS for anything else
the Eagle wants no paliating slops-
it SpewS them out.
AS for the articles melting the Capt.
tails ire, we take back nothing. The
Eagle talks daily to rs many people
as does the Capital and it has as great
Il Republican constituency, differing
only in character. That papers long
list of political dead-headS is wanting
or the Eagles subscription books. |
Still, ante-election pledges and subse- |
quent political promises are or should !
be as sacred if made in the interest |
Of southwest Kansas as for the hundred !
miles square, of which Topeka is the |
center. Such promises and pledges |
Of good faith doubtless materialized |
and were counted in the ballot which /
showed that the editor of the Capital |
had been elected state printer.
Coming TO the immediate inspiration /
Of the Capitals reproOf we have only |
to reiterate that the composition of the |
state board of railway commissioners |
was a political, material and COM /
mercial outrage, conSummated in the |
face of the most solemn pledges, two
Of the present incumbentS being given
their places on deal which had no
reference to the present or the future
commerce Of the state, the other being
named for reasons never yet developed,
but wholly in the interest of the Mis-
souri, river, which means the railways
and their combine. The Eagles pro-
test against the makeup of the appel
ate court was not ill-adyiSed or through
ignorance. It's editor knows all that
including the agreement
reached in the consultation held with
Justices Horton and Johnston, and the
one had by Stearne with
he governor in the presence of Mr.
not only. but the names agreed
lpon; and, when we declared that To-
)eka's interest in the state house appro-
lriation fixed the fate and character
If the appellate court we told the exact
ruth.
That the appellate court, to have
)een of any real advantage to the peo-
ple of the state, in relieving the su-
,reme court, that the judges should
nave been men of such standing as
awyers and Of such character as in
lividualS as would have commanded
he confidence and respect of the bar
md people of the entire state, the
capital, even in its new born syco-
,hancy, will hardly deny.
HAD WORTH BEEN A GREEK