The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-23
THE AwFULNEss OF .IF.-

The past is the scales in which we
weigh the future. Let the voter place
the Republican party and the Populist
party Of Sedgwick county on either
end of the beam, and add their record
TO it and see which way the scale VIII
] teeIer.
! The past had certain contingencies
| for this community. The sentiment
| Of this community prevented them
! Will the same community with the
same sentiment permit itself TO be
blinded, and allow the enemy TO cap
ture it by chicanery:
Listen. The past had Mr. Helm IN
store for Sedgwick county as county
| attorney. If Mr. Helm had been elect
ed. what would have happened: He
had given a solemn pledge TO the Law
and Order league TO enforce the Pro
hibitory law to the virtual and implied
exclusion of all other laws on the
statute book. If Mr.. Helm had been
elected, what would have happened?
He would have been in the county at
torney's office today, iii league with Hi
Lewis and Billy Smith, doing all in
his power to help Tiger Bill and his
poor creature Lieurance, doing every
thing in his power 10 heap taxation on
the county, doing everything in his
power TO empty store buildings, doing
everything liz his power to rack and
ruin and raZe the city of Wichita and
TO confiscate the farms of Sedgwick
county by exorbitant taxation. That
is what would have happened, what
would be taking place today if Helm
had been elected. Now who support
ed Helm: The same POpulist outfit
that is today fighting the Republican
ticket in Sedgwick county and trying
to secure its election through Repub
lican votes. Who did those PopuliSts
fight? John Davis, the Republicans
candidate, the man who beat Mr..
Helm, and who stands today in front
of the county treasury keeping the
hungry horde or imbecile fanatics out,
discOuraging humping and stamping
on them on every hand. This is the
man the Populists fought last year.
Had you taken their advice then and
beaten John Davis and elected Helm
you would have had a county attorney
today in full sympathy with Hi Lewis
and his gang, ready to do anything for
them in his power, ready to confiscate
and ruin Sedgwick county with liquor
prosecutions.
Listen again. The past had in store |
for Wichita, Mr.. Parkinson, a Prohi- |
last spring. If Parkinson had been |
elected mayor, as the Populists ad- |
yised only last spring, you would have |
had for mayor man who is a member |
of the Law and Order league, a man /
who as mayor would have given every |
encouragement to the follies and fool
cries of Tiger Bill, Hi Lewis and Billy |
Smith. A man who would have dis |
charged your firemen, sold youE fire
engines, neglected the sewer system,
and ordered an occupation tax if nee
esSary in order to pay for more spot
tiers in order to keep and to make more |
liquor prosecutions and to heap the |
burden of taxation higher and higher
That is what Parkinson would have
done. He was the man the Populists
We're supporting. He is the man for
whom the Populists begged you to
vote. And whom did they fight?
Mayor Cox, the Republican candidate,
the man who has stood down at the
city building as John Davis has stood
up at the county building defying the
Prohibitionists every minute in the
day.
Now which ticket will you support?
Will you take the lesson from the past
or will you walk blindfolded into the
future with your enemy leading the
way? Think. Think what would
have happened with Mayor" Parkin-
son and County Attorney" Helm in
power, as they would have been if you
had taken the advice of the Populist
party.
You did not take their advice then.
VIII you take it now?