The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-02
WHY AN ALIAS IS USED.

Wichita has put up for election next
week are all good men. They are men
known 10 every citizen of the town.
They are Republicans now and will be
Republicans next fall.
OF course in the minds Of the average
federal office-holder and Democratic
newspaper being a Republican is
species Of disgrace. But the fact re-
mains that the Republicans Of Wichita
are not ashamed of their party and are
not afraid to be known as Republicans.
They do not hesitate 10 fight the OppO-
sition under the name of Republicans.
In this they differ from the Democrats.
The Republicans of Wichita do not
hesitate TO fight the mistakes and fol
lies of their own party and in this they
also differ, thousand thousand miles,
from the Democratic and Populist
bosses Of this city and county.
No one ever hears of a Sedgwick
county Democrat or Sedgwick county
Populist fighting his own party or rails
ing his feeble head to protest against
the wrongs il has done his home town.
In the state Of Kansas the Democrats
and POpuliSt bosses of Wichita are
known to be of just this dOcile, servile
kind. When the POpulists Of the state
had state conventions 10 give, the state
bosses knew this and Wichita secured
none of the POpulist conventions. When
the Democrats Of the state had conyen-
tions TO give to towns, Wichita secured
none. 1t was understood perfectly
among the POpuliSts of Kansas that
Mr.. Breidenhtal would hold Mr.. Rufus
Cone level, whether Wichita got any
conventions or not. The state central
committee of the Democratic party un-
derstood perfectly also that the Wich-
tia Democratic bosses would submit to
anything that was done, principally be-
cause they did not dare to kick, for
well known, federal office-holding rea-
sons.
Wichita Republicans are not made of
that kind of stuff, and these same Dem
ocratic and POpulist bosses, knowing
the fact and appreciating the utter fu
tility of making an open fight have set
up a lot of puppet tickets, calling them
mon partisan" The -partiSanS"
are mostly Democratic. the Pops partly
having consented to keep out of the
fight The non-partisan ticket is, in
the Judgment of the Democratic bosses,
the only plan whereby Republican vot-
ers can be fooled into deSerting their
party. They have found it impossible
to break up the Republican party in
Wichita by encouraging the trouble
making PrOhibitiOniStS. Over the pro-
tests and to the chagrin of all these
Democratic bosses the Republicans of
Wichita have won their fights and are
again in the field, and the Democratic
and POpuliSt bosses have nothing
stronger to meet them with than a lot
of candidates who are Democrats and
POpulists but are afraid to say so.
Every man. woman and child in
Wichita knows the struggles the Re-
publicans of Wichita have had. They
know what the results have been. They
know that in all their troubles the Re
publicanS have always remained Re
publicans and not sneaked under the
cover of an alias that means nothing,
that promises nothing. that is response
BILE for nothing, the alias of ''nOn-parti-
san"
The Republican voter should not for
get this fact: Once a Democrat always
a Democrat, and the men who are run
ming as nOn-partisans are Democrats
seeking to be elected by Republican
votes, and once elected will turn Demo-
Gratis and so remain until another cleo
ton comes around. when the Demo
cratic bosses will again have use for
them to run as "'nOn-partiSanS"