The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-28
MORRILL, AND WICHITA.

state. Why should the violation OF
1.-The law" in Wichita prove more
heinous in his eyes than its violation
in any other Kansas town: Is beer
more deadly in Wichita than IN Hutch
inson, Arkansas City or Lawrence:
Was it a greater crime for Wichita to
rake in revenue from the traffic 10 pay
her street force, than for Kansas City
and Atchison? Is his pledge TO Wich-
tia less sacred than the enc he made
to Leayenworth: Is there any clause
in the Prohibitory statutes Of the state
warranting an administration in
mulcting the taxpayers of one city and
county in thousands of dollars in ex-
pensiye prosecutions the while permit
ting all the other cities to relieve the
taxpayers by ignoring the same law:
Is the reflection that joints exist III
Wichita more personally greivious, or
| the fact more damning TO his con-
science and to his administration, than
their existence in all the other cities
and towns in the state put together:
Nobody expects Governor Morrill, to
make answer. Any reasonable or sat
| isfactory answer is impossible. There
| is but one explanation, the one which
| has been given by the Eagle all along.
| Governor Morrill,, however loud he
may disclaim it, has simply become the
tool of the conspiracy to down and de-
stroy Wichita as a future commercial
center. His excuse is the the State
Temperance Union, backed by a pei-
ton from this place. A petition can
be gotten up at any time for anything
in any community. That Temperance
Union, which is represented in this
part of the state by man whom the
better ministers Of his own church VIII
not affiliate with, was very quickly
snubbed by Governor Morrill, when
they presumed to call his attention to
the non-enforcement Of 'the law" in
some half dozen other cities. "NO-
body wants the law enforced in said
Cities" replied his excellency, adding:
land am no noser OF spotter."
There is more than Topeka jealousy,
more than Kansas CityS commerce,
more than the interests of the Union
stock yards and elevators at the mouth
of the Kaw, seeking to cripple Wich !
iEa'S jobbing trade and livestock and !
packing concerns, a greater power |
than these which are for the most part
but competitive, and that power has !
not only enlisted but owns Governor |
Morrill, and his administration. To |
down Wichita it became necessary to |
more than appoint an inimical railway |
commission and to Cypress her tax
payers and depress her business by ,
making war on her through hireling Of
ficials To down Wichita the Eagle |
must be downed, and to down the
Eagle its enemies must not only be
encouraged and sustained, but it's
party must be defeated and its patron
age cut off. Without referring to the !
questionable movements and efforts
resorted to that this paper might be
brought into party disrepute because
of it's advocacy of silver, We only call
attention to acts Of which everybody
is advised. Dawes war could have
been prosecuted without defeating the
Republican party I'm Sedgwick county,
simply by selecting representative Re-
publicans, of discretion. who were in
terested in the material interests of the
city, to do the reasonable thing. under
all the circumstances. But that would
not have crippled the Eagle or damag
ed the trade and property values of the
people Of Wichita The instrument
chosen is a nondescipt politically and
religiouSly. He has been everything,
anything. nothing. In displacing the
board Of police commissioners, which
would have stood by the Eagle and
the Republican party. mongrel board
after the character of the prosecuting
officer was appointed. whose chairman
the fusion between the
Democratic and Populist parties
Every other city in the state has a
Republican board under a Republican
administration. When personal inter-
eStS forced this Democratic chairman
of a mugwump board under a Republi-
can administration to resign. Governor
Morrill, did not reorganiZe the board,
and give us board of representative
owners or business men. but
leaving the Third Party Prohibition
list 10 hold his place as secretary. he
. gain places an active Democratic poll
tician at the head of the most power
full political component known TO the ,
laws of the state. Thus, SO far as /
the state administration is concerned. [
he could go no farther in defeating the
party Of Sedgwick county
Governor Morrill, has dona his worst |
in making good his bargain with the :
interests to Wichita with s
which he is as a capitalist and banker. '
so closely connected.
But the Eagle still lives.-was never '
more vigorous. and still the Republi- ;
can ticket which il supports. is in the ;
lead. The greatest burthen it has IN :
shoulder, the most threatening ele-
ment, is the threatened support of {