The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-13
BOTH HOG AND BOSS.

The first Republican state convention
having been fixed for Wichita. with a
strong prOba bility of the second one 60
ing to Hutchinson, the Topeka papers
are having a fit. A number of jour
nails are very naturally observing that
| Topeka is hog This insinuatiOn has
not mended matters, but rather inten-
sified the CONFUSION. In reply 10 the
plea put up by Topeka that Shawnee
county is Republican by three thou
sand majority, another rural paper re-
minds its readers that Topeka has a
United States senator, congressman
and the lieutenant governor. The CO.
temporary might have added that To-
peka also has the chairman of the state
board of railway commissioners, a
| federal judge, the secretary Of the
State Historical society, the state Ii
brarian, the state printer. and host
of state clerkShips, TO say nothing OF a
state refOrmatOry and a state asylum,
| together with all the employees, assist
ants and the like which go with these
institutions. The governor himself is
largely financially interested in To
peka. And Notwithstanding Topeka
has the Republican state headquarters,
her political leaders are now seeking
TO capture the national committeeman
also. 1t would be wonder with all
the money that her people are drawing
out of the state treasury, directly, and
indirectly, and daily, if she was not
Republican. Her whine comes with
an i'll grace. Topeka is not only
hog, but seeks TO boss the entire state.
Her residents. ensconsed in every de-
partment of the state government, pre-
sumo to set the pace in morals, and to
dictate the politics for every other
town in the state There has not been
a day in months in which her papers
and politicians have failed Of criticiZ-
ing the city of Wichita and Of trying
10 dictate, through state officials, how
we should conduct our affairs, when in
truth Topeka as a town should not be
mentioned on the same day with Wich-
tia. But for the money paid out of the
state treasury daily directly and indi-
rectly to her people, and the money
paid out to them daily by two great
railway corporations which railways
belong to her no more than TO any other
town in the state touched by them, To
peka would not be a good average
cOunty-Seat town. As all Topeka has
was gained through no merits or enter
prise Of her own people, but were con-
coded as a gratuity, a mOdicum more
Of mOdesty evinced in the enjoyment of
her good luck would not OnIy prove
more Seemly but more satisfactory to
the balance Of the state, which balance,
however, her people seem TO think,
don't amount to much. As for any
thing else her hypocrisy overshadows
both her boSsy proclivities and her hog
giSh instincts. Topeka poses as the
pattern prohibition town of the state.
Her utter rOttenneSS in this direction
would paralyZe all the sneak jointists
of the state combined. One Of her
leading papers, but yesterday, slobber-
ed all over Bill Campbell as a hero,
and Landed Judge Dale as being wise
the while criticizing the Eagle for hav-
ing stood by its home people and their
interests, in that it would not permit,
without protest. TOpeka'S rotten dicta-
ton. In the meanwhile it is known to
the entire state that within Il week To- !
peka policemen were found drunk in !
their headquarters. The beer barrels. /
in transit, between that town and the /
Missouri river form an amending pro-
cessiOn, with the cars of the express !
packed with liquors, sand
wiched between.
Topeka is not Kansas, nor the Repub- /
lican party, and her perfuntory as /
of the ownership of both is ,
becoming slightly tiresOme.