The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-25
THE sEDGw1CK SITUATION.

| should be no question as TO where its vote
| is thrown. The prohibftory fight, how
ever, appears to have demoralized busi.
ness, politics and religion down there, and
the outcome is in doubt. The Republican
! party there has put up ticket that 70;
| the most part is a splendid one. and Il
| ought to be elected by a thousand ma
| jority at least. II will be if the prohibi-
| tory fight does not defeat it-Lawrence
Journal
The fight was not precipitated by
Republicans, nor by representatives Oh
the Republican party, but by members
of the Prohibition party and some kind
| of secret organization known as ''The
League" The men who precipitated
the row. only last fall. put their names
! to a manifesto pledging themselves TO
vote against any nominee Of the Re-
publican party who should refuse to
pledge himself in writing to their plat
form. Some of these same men were
in convention last week for the pur-
pose Of nominating a ticket against the
Republican party, and was proceeding
to do so when some of the members
protested, with the declaration that
they had sofemnly promised and as
sured Governor Morrill, in giving them
a non-partisan board of police COM
missioners, headed by a prominent
Democrat, that they would support the
Republican ticket This Democratic
chairman, whom they named, had sue
ceeded in fusing the Populist and Dem
Ocratic parties and their tickets. No
local party was ever given such a
swipe. such backset by its own adj
minisuation. The old board, which
Governor Morrill, removed, was Re
publican to the core. not only, but men
commanding the respect and conf
dence Of everybody save that of the
insignificant crowd whom Governor
Morrill, is backing. The board which
he kicked out and tried to disgrace
commanded the respect and confidence
of the Democrats and Populists of the
city, to a man.
The Journal is right In saying that
the Republican ticket for the most part
is a splendid one. 1t is a splendid
one, not only for the most part, but
altogether. Every man on it is a
first-class, first choice man. The even
ing Of the day on which it was nomi-
mated it was a general expression
among the business men Of the city
that the Republican party had put up
the best ticket ever nominated in the
county, by any party. But the first
thing Morrill's bastard board did was
to remove from the police judgship the
Republican nominee for district judge.
Judge Hatton has never been recog-
nized as great pleader at the bar,
but for many years he was a member
of the biggest law firm in this section
of the state, SluSs. Stanley & Hatton.
Judge Sluss, who is now on the federal
bench, and Hon. w. f. Stanley did the
talking and pleading at the bar for the
firm, but Hatton was the man relied
upon to hunt up authorities and TO de-
eide nice points of law. He is book
worm, and few lawyers of his age are
better posted on the rules of evidence.
on settled presidents and what the
great law writer's hold He was kicked
out by the League tools who had been
named to rule this city by the COVER
nor, because he would not permit
man to sit as a juror in liquor case
which man acknowledged to being pre-
JUDGED.
Sedgwick county, as the Journal in
is Republican county, and
this city is Republican. Sedgwick |
county will give the Republican NOM
inee for president next year from two
to three thousand majority Had the |
state administration refused to listen
to a diSgruntled clique, composed of |
such extremists as are found in every |
and kept off his bull-head- |
ed bum Of an attorney general, the Re
publican ticket would have been eleCs. |
ed with a whirl. The fusion opposi-
ton held that the Republican platform
wasn't sound on silver. which would |
lose votes. The silver plank was taken /
from the Ohio platform. But to make
that all straight every Nominee is a |
pronounced silver man. the head of the /
ticket, Judge Hatton. being the first
delegate that-ever went from the Sey-
enth congressional district of Kansas |
TO a national silver convention. Be
sides the nominees in body. indorsed
the Eagles position on
silver, which is the same as that held
by HI. c. Caldwell Of the United States
circuit court, by the supreme court
Judge Of Kansas. and by many other
Republicans of undoubted party 10y
atty.
As for the other suggestion made by
the Journal, touching the demoraliza
ton resulting from the action of Gov
ernor Morrill,, and from the menacins
letters written acainSr this posn-,J,nirr
by that conspicuous example of moral
rectitude and legal learning. Attorney