The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-19

paign thunder signify the condition of
the whole public mind. That it does
not. For the men who carry elections,
the men who do the solid voting, the
men whose suffrage is not to be bought
with cheap cigar, the men who con
troll at public elections, outside Of the
very largest cities, are the men who
act on their own Judgment, who keep
| their heads through all the noise and
bang and din of a campaign, who
! laugh at the fellows who are making
all the racket and smile pitifully on
the fellows who have been razzle-daz-
Zled, and on the morning of the cleo
ton, these men, who are the real bona
! tide voters, who are the true index Of
| public sentiment, march up 10 the
polls and, regardless of political din,
regardless Of ephemeral sensations, re-
CARELESS Of boiier-shop warwhoops-
these men vote as their judgment die
tates, vote as they believe it is to their
interest to vote and go away and wait
the result, confident that whether they
are on the winning side or not they
have voted their best and most true
and most deliberate sentiments.
| These are the men who are going to
carry the election in Sedgwick county
this fall. The men who are in bust
ness either for themselves or in the
employ of other men, will carry the
| election. These men in making
trade do not need the aid Of a speech
! or bass drum or a horse-fddle and
they do not need it a bit more when
they are selecting candidate to sup
port.
How are these men going to vote
this fall? AS usual they will vote as
their business interests demand, for 1t
is their business interest that is near
est their hearts. What ticket should
they vote in aid of their business in
terest?
Here the echo Of the campaign thun-
der comes in. Here is where the bus
mess man and the man whose liveli-
hood depends on business either as an
employer or an emplOye will stop and
think. He hears a great deal of noise,
the rattle and clatter and war-whoOp
of the PopuliSts, the agonizing yell that
if he votes for the Republican ticket he
will vindicate Morrilrs treacherous
course towards this city. And he
pauSeS and thinks. He wonders what
the Populists would have done for
"a mn rtQ ion {
mission in Wichita had been let alone.
Could they have attacked the person.
mel of the Republican ticket? No. 1t,
is the cleaneSt ever nominated by any
party in Sedgwick county. Could they
have attacked it on the ground of in
competency? No. A set of more
competent men were never placed in
nomination by any party. What then,
asks the man whose livelihood depends
on the commercial prosperity of WITCH
tia, what then would the Populists
have had for campaign thunder: Moth I
ing, nothing under the sun. How
could the Populists have made a cam
paign without their usual thunder?
Then it was to their interest to have
that police commission changed and /
the idiOtic reign of Bill Campbell in 1
Sttuted? OF course it was. 1t was 4
to their interest to cripple the town,
empty the store rooms and drive peo- /
pie away? OF course. Do they still |
regard it to their interest to keep Tiger /
Bill going? OF course. If a promo !
sition We're submitted to the Populist |
nominees today TO call Tiger Bill off, |
would they like it: If it We're in the |
power of the PopuliSt nominees TO re-
place the old commission and fill I'D
the vacant store rooms and stop the /
expensive taxation and secure a reve-
nue. for the city, how many of the Pop
ulist candidates would agree to do it?
Not one.
Who started the row that instituted
the reign of Tiger Bill? Was it the
Republicans? Did they not send dele
CATION after delegation TO Topeka To
prevent that thing? Did not the Popu-
list candidates cheer the thing on. did
they not encourage those political non-
descriptS Hi Lewis and Billy Smith.
to- keep nagginS at Morrill,? Did not
Rufe Cone make an out,and-out bar
gain with Billy Smith for that very
thing?
If the commission could he changed
today. if Bill Tiger could be boosted
higher than Hannah. who would OBJ
ject: Would il be the Republicans?
No. Would the PopulistS object: They
would undoubtedly.
Now suppose the old commission had
never been removed and Wichita was
in her normal commercial condition.
What would the Populists be doing?
Every man on that Populist ticket
would be going around among he Pro
hibitioniSts. would be hanging on Ia
Iii Lewis ooat-tailS. would De tagging
after Lieurance calling their attention
to the fact that Merrill WAS allowing
the Prohibitcry law TO be violated. and
urging them 10 vote for the PopuliSt
ticket and rebuke Morrill,.
DO You think those Populist noEni-
neeS would DO Il: Did they nor do it
last year: Did they not follow like
80 many spanieis AT the heels Of the
Law and order league last year and
beg FOR the Prohibition support: II
the commission had not been changed
and the Popuiis5s had been shrt OF
from any thunder in that way would
they not be lghting the Republicans
this year because they encouraged The /,