The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-05
EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS.

pudlatlng its own unsolicited promises,
and in turning itself over bodily to the
combination which in pretending to de-
pose Rudolph Hatfield, accepted
George Douglass for their leader, for
season, has made pretty mess Of 1t.
That crowd openly boosted last winter
that the commission appointed by the
governor and confirmed by the senate,
would be superseded within sixty
days, with RudOlph's old city marshal
and his gang again in full command,
| they having run in said ex-marshal and
some Of his pals and converted them
| during the winter
! But, answers one, the church is 1T
the back of this move, and its minis
| tiers are its chief supporters. II that
is true we pity the churches. Seth
Tucker and Bill Campbell are shining
examples indeed for any church, or any
minister, to pin their faith. 4 man
may be so biggOted as to pretend that
a secret joint is better than an open
saloon, and that hidden vice should be
countenanced and permitted for the
sake of seeming enforcement Of law,
but angular, indeed, must be the crank
mess Of that man, or woman, or preach
er, who would select such instruments
| m ronrocopt tho cauSa of ChriStianitv
as Tucker and Campbell. In doing SO
they not only stultify themselves and
| disgust right thinking people, but put
in evidence a vast chunk of unadulter-
ated hypocrisy. If prohibition is a
moral rather than a political question,
| one Of religion and good conscience,
! why should those who profess piety
select as their representa- tives men who
utterly repudiate all that the churches
hold sacred? 1t wont hold water.
There is no real religion in it. 1t is
all the work of a few political dema-
gogues who Use the churches, through
the preachers. In one instance the
preacher and the demagOgue We're
identical, the same individuals. He
sought notoriety, however, rather than
politics; but he helped the politician all
the same. Another one Of the prime
movers has the possibilities of a can
didacy for the United States senate
n vr-l1f nj,
movement has hurt Wichita more, and
came nearer utterly destroying all her
chances Of ever being city, than any.
thing that ever happened. This can
didacy Is true, the declaration being
from his own lips within q few days.
So these preachers who have been de-
nouncing the editor of the Eagle from
their pulpits as a ''bad man." either
did not mean what they said, or other
wise they have very peculiar concep-
tons Of what constitutes "bad man"
1t may be a prohibitory esti-
mate.
In backing up this plot, for which tho
leaders in certain Of the churches and
their preachers have become sponsors,
in holding up his end of political bar
gain, Governor Morrill, lends his
power to clinch the utterly rotten Job.
Morrill, knew that both Campbell and
Tucker were late candidates for the
district judgship, the place with which
the Republicans of Sedgwick county
honored Charles Hatton. But not
withstanding that neither Campbell or
Tucker had a ghost of a show for the
nomination, still Campbell was en-
powered to kick Hatton out and to put
Tucker in his place.
ingalls, said, in his great speech. at
Topeka on Monday, that greater than
constitutions or laws is the wish of
majority Of the people. That ought to
be true, but down in this country we
have learned that few broken down,
ambitious failures and political hacks,
backed by Governor Morrill,, and his
windy Dawes, all acting IN the name
Of law, are not only greater than an
overwhelming majority of the people
of Wichita, but with the aid Of three or
four preachers can, not only, success
fully rise superior to the wish and will
Of the majority, and in doing so ignore
their own professions, but can clothe
infdels with authority in the name of
Christianity.
To the churches, among whose honest
and more conscientious membership
the Eagle hopes 1t has n greater num-
Der Of friends than have these bias
leaders, the above plain statement of
facts IS submitted. by one who In be-
lieyeing In God, and the right, cannot
be turned aside from his plain duty. to
this people. by either the cries or de-
nunciatons Of men who, protesting
Christ, uphold and clothe with power
His enemies, and IN the name Of Chris
tianity.
THE CASE OF JUDGE HATTON