The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-18


Think Whether You Won't have a Fight
Every Year if the Pop Scheme Works
Fact Worth Reading.
As the campaign progresses il be-
comes more amusing. It is amusing to
see some fellows doing missionary
work for that ticket headed by Dave
Dale and which is neither Populist or
Democrat or lacking a representative
or every fool party in existence, in its
makeup.
1t would be a blessing If some body
gave that ticket a name when ii was
baptized in Mr. dwellings buttermilk
so that 1t could be conveniently refer
red to. 1t is almost as hard to describe
1t as that calf of Thode Browns that
has two heads and only one brain. But
as everything must have a name let
this monstrosity be called a fusion
ticket for the sake of convenience.
The friends of this ticket who call
themselves Populists in one crowd,
Democrats in another crowd and prol1i-
bitlonists in still another are doing
some queer missionary work among
Republicans whose good sense they GER
talnly underestimate. They know that
the state administration is unpopular
IN Wichita and they take advantage of
Ut by saying that if the county Republi-
can ticket is elected it will be an in
dorsement of the administra ton This
IS all rot and it shows a species of ar
gument typical of a crowd whose polit-
lcal morals are 50 weak that they are
not in one party two consecutive sea-
sons.
WHO ARE YOUR FRIENDS?
The fight is on" they say, between
the administration and Wichita and
wichita will be downed unless you vote
with us who are your friends
Who are your friends?" Mark you.
Think of this for moment Ascertain
from that crowd now and in what man
ner they are your friends. Take for in
stance David Smithe, who was a lead
er in the convention that nominated
the fusion ticket Was he your friend?
He was made the tool, and willingly ac-
cepted it, OF the crowd that these peo-
pie want you to slap in the face by vot-
ing for the ticket advocated, created
and Endorsed by that same David
Smythe. 1T was he who first said, eve
propose TO enforce prohibition if we
bankrupt this county-we propose to
make the taxpayers sick"
Was he your friend? Will you take
his advice in voting before the advice
of scores Of good Republicans who are
ana Oay 10 check the
sickness which that David Smythe and
his crowd introduced among the tax
payers and who will eventually erradi-
cate it and that before long
Jesse Haymaker, too, was a leader of
leaders in the convention that created
the fusion ticket. Is he your friend? If
he is what has he done to help you in
this fight? Jesse has an office directly
opposite Schnitzler's. In that office
ic fina coJx oI,aiY
on which, it is said, men sat day after
day watching Schnitzler's in order to
gather evidence to make the taxpayers
sick
INDORSED BY HI LEWIS.
Take for instance the organ Of this
crowd that tells you they love you and
advises you to vote with them. 1t was
publically Endorsed by Hi Lewis in a
public meeting of the Law and Order
league at the very time the. said
league was boycotting the Eagle for its
fight to prevent the taxpayers from be-
ing made sick.
This organ with its characteristic
logic says that if Charlie Hatton is
elected judge of this county it will be
an Endorsement Of the prohibition adj
ADMINISTRATION of Topeka, but it does not
say that the election Of David Dale
would be an Endorsement of the gold
The truth must be told in full before
anybody ought to give it credit for sim
certify.
WHO ARE THE LEADERS?
Those are some of leaders who made
the fusion ticket and who claim to love,
defend and save you. Who are the
leaders of that party that threw off
their coats and fought against the out
fit that are trying TO make the taXpay-
49,
into that double headed convention and
fought the ticket that loves you SO well.
The same voice that made the court
house ring Swimming Tiger Bill was the
very voice heard in the Democratic con-
vention denouncing fusion. 1t was the
voice of Comfy. Who was ii that went
into that same convention fighting this
fusion monstrosity with Comfy? Ii was
-Amidon. Who stood beside Comfy in
the courts during the past FIVE or six
weeks fighting Tiger Bill? 1t was
Amidon. Not a man who created that
fusion tiket has raised his voice in this
fight for the taxpayers. Every man in
that convention that fought the fusion
ticket has been working night and day
for six weeks fighting the outfit that
wants TO make the taxpayers sick.
Does not this show how the wind
blows? Does il not indicate what
ticket ought TO be elected by the people
of this county in the interest of the tax
payers.
HOW THE FIGHT BEGAN.
Here is another very plain PROPOSE
tion. 1t has been limited for some time
and it is probably a fact that all this
unfortunate racket was precipitated on
Wichita on purpose 10 defeat the Re
publican ticket Who was the man 10
start this terrible calamity? Billy
Smith. Who is Billy Smith? He was
the chief clerk of Rufus Cone when
that gentleman was sheriff. Did he
have an interest in starting this fight
If ii would re-elect Rufe Cone? Ger
rainly he did. Isn't ii possible that he
started this row TO elect Rufe Cone 50
that he could get back his old job and
hold il for two years more? 1t is very
probable. But some one may say that
ne started ii before Rufe Cone was
nominated. That is very true and that
is exactly where the fine work comes in.
1t was started early in order to secure
Rufe the nomination. Does any man
suppose for moment that Cone would
be nominated by either the Popuhsts
or Democrats Of this county had 1t not
been for the local row. They admitted
when they nominated him that he was