The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-11-13
WHENCE THE WHINE?


rugated headed nails, are just now
with much apparent glee, jumping ont
the supposed PROSTATE form OF th'
| Wichita bird That's right. Pile ont
the under dog, nor heed his piteous Ri
vi. There is something wrong VIII
that mans human nature who refraini
from kicking the fellow that is down
The Eagle Is no longer sailing tht
| empyrean blue. but is squat on the
| earth. with its tail feathers gone and
| both wings broken. Its wind is spent
| it's screen silent. AS these dearly be
loved hypocritical cotemporaries, il
Prohibition towns, may not soon have
such another opportunity TO shy theiI
empty beer bottles and whisky jugs al
the bald-headed emblem of American
| freedom, let them sail in while things
! are going their way. Time has but
a little way TO fly and, To- the bird il
on the wing, or if he isn't, he soon
will be.
All through the summer and fall
months these brave editors were hud-
died in silence, like a flock of panic
stricken geese in a thunderstorm, while
the Eagle put UP the liyeliest fight
against the greatest odds ever witness
ed in the state. The storm being
spent and the wreck left behind not be-
ing dangerous why not these towards
improve the opportunity for a little
brave G? and brainy squawking?
Wichita is a Republican city, from
eight hundred to a thousand strong.
1t is a Republican city today. Wichita,
as the home of the opposition candi-
date, rolled up for Morrill, a splendid,
a magnificent majority. In recOgni-
tion of that fact Morrill, promised TO
conserve the business, the material and
the political interests Of Wichita, SO far
as lay in his power as governor of the
state. Subsequently having, as chief
executive, violated his promise and re-
pudiated his own action by removing
police commission who stood Endorsed
by eight out Of ten voters of Wichita,
he put the city into a hole. VOluntar-
lily the Eagle simply went into the same
hole. 1t became question with this
paper of standing with the state admin
istration and the State Temperance
Union in their fight on this city, or of
standing by Wichita
Having chosen the latter course the
Eagle has no apologies to make, nor
any word to retract- The action of
the state administration. and not the
course of the Eagle, defeated the Re-
publican ticket Of Sedgwick county.
Had the Eagle acquiesced in the ap-
pointment of the leagues police COM
mission the Republican ticket would
have been showed under by two thou
sand votes. Hundreds of men in this
city voted the Republican ticket solely
as an Endorsement of the Eagles fight
for their rights. AS for Major f. \.
Morrill,, governor of Kansas, the Eagle
owes him nothing, politically or per-
sonally. For twenty-five years the
editor of the Eagle has stood by Major
Morrill, in all his ambitions as a poll
tician; was his consistent supporter and
friend years and years before the men
who persuaded him to make an Sex
ample of Wichita had even become
residents of the state. The Eagle did
more TO secure him his nomination for
and won more votes over TO
him, as against a home candidate, by
it's plea of q -'buSineSS administration"
than any other single paper, if the
chairman of the state central commit |
tee was not mistaken.
Prohibition being politics, pure and |
simple, politics only, and neither NOR
ais, religion or temperance, these |
punches, thrusts and whacks of the |
papers alluded to become probably. !
legitimate warfare 1t is at least the |
method of the heeler and |
claquer. But il these papers expect |
by such a course to either effect the |
Eagles standing at home or its power |
with the party in the state at large they |
were never more mistaken. Morrill, |
san, by the powers vested in him by a |
very dangerous and un-American law.
rule and govern any city in the state
against the convictions of an over
majority, as he has done in
the case of Wichita, but that kind of |
rule and law viii, while distracting
the people from year to year, newt
ably, sooner or later, carry the state out
Of the Republican column.
No, the Eagle fought the police COM
mission enactment even as a bill before
i became law, was the first paper in
the state to declare that unless the Re
publican party resubmitted the prohi-
oition question some other party would
10 so, for which course it was de-
Jared ta be in open Rebellion. 1t still
ives and still SO declares, and no
amount of SANDER nor slang from the
>apers OF Il whisky town like Topeka,
where n resubmiSSion sheriff was elect
ID only last week. nor any hypocritical
criticism from their claquers scattered
about the state, can avail TO discourage
n to intimidate us.
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SILVER CRAZE OVER