The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-23
CAUGHT AT THEIR TRICKS.
Great Double Biunder Made by the Dale
Cone Organ.

When Demo-Pops get in the habit of
icing during a campaign it is mighty
hard for them to get ON the track of
| the truth again
few days ago the official organ of
Dale and Cone became frothy at the
mouth because of a probable settlement
of the local troubles by a change of
police commissioners. The fact Is that
Dale and Cone and their friends were
interested in keeping up the local fight
and their official organ only reflected
their views in an unguarded moment
When the terrible article was publish
ed 1t was soon seen that a gigantic
blunder had been made for some of
their own friends went to them and told
them plainly that they had made fools
of themselves. IF you fellows had a
lick Of sense" one banker said you
would not object to settlement of the
local troubles-that is you would not
be caught objecting to II. If you wan
ted to fight the appointment of new
commissioners and the withdrawal of
Tiger Bill why in the name of common
sense didn't you go about 1t quietly
without having it published in the paper
under fash headlines"
Be IL said to the credit of the gentle
men they saw that they played thun-
der and they decided to lay low for the
first opportunity to rectify themselves
Orders were issued to their organ not
to say another WORD along that line
but to watch the first opportunity to
square the thing. The night before last
a committee was about to go to Topeka
to see Governor Morrill, and secure a
change of police commissioners. That
was just the opportunity of the organ
of Dale and Cone.
by jingo." said one of them, I'VE can
square that fool break we made the
other day"
How said another.
Darn it, man, don't you see. The
committee is going to Topeka tonight
to see Governor Morrill, We can write
a fake dispatch from Topeka something
like this:
Topeka, Oct. 22.-(Special to the Bea-
con. (-Committee of Wichita business
men are in consultation with Governor
Morrill, who has agreed to appoint j. p.
Allen, c. A. Walker and w. S. Corbett
police commissioners for Wichita.
How will that square it?''
at will afford us text to write an
article in which We can congratulate
the city and people on the settlement
of the trouble. That will show the peo-
pie that we don't want the fight kept
UP, The people, in exciting times like
lneSe, are easily IOOleQ.
But why not wait until a straight
dispatch comes?'
That would never do. We must get
in our work ahead of the other people
If not all the wind will be taken out of
our sails.
Yes, / guess that is a good scheme
since l have come to see the point
Good scheme, why it is just the thing
Don't you see that when We congratu-
late the people in the change of COM
they will not believe then
that We are against a settlement of the
local troubles"
At O'Clock yesterday the grapevine
pie were congratulated according to
program.
That would be all very we'll had 1t
not been for an accident Ii is true
that the committee had arranged to go
up the night before but wreck on the
Rock Island down near Caldwell pre-
vented the night train from coming up
and hence the committee could not go.
The very same wreck delayed the morn
ing train two hours so that it did not
reach Topeka until $40 o'clock yester-
day afternoon or not until three hours
and forty-five minutes after the spec
ial dispatch was received saying that
the governor and the committee were
in consultation. Then when the COM
nittee reached Topeka the governor
had departed for Ottawa where he was
billed TO make a speech at 1:30. The
fact Is that the committee and the gov
ernor viii not meet until this morning.
Cone and Dale ought TO get new or
gan for themselves.