The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-14
CHOOSE YE THIS DAY.


respectively, Of Kansas City, Kansas
and of Wichita, under the Morrill, al
: miniStratiOn. Unfortunately the art
icle was tailed on TO another, in tb,
Eagle, and was without a caption
However, the Gazette supplies its owl
heading as follows: ''Slow in Catch
ing On; Governor Morrill, Advised
Wichita to Follow Kansas City, Kan
sas, in the Enforcement Of the Law
and for Not Following the Wisdom Of
the City at the Kaw's Mouth, Wichita
Has Had 1t in the Neck all Along
The Leavenworth Times copies the
editorial from the Gazette with only
the following bracketed note append
ed: "The above appears in the Kan
sas City Kan) Gazette without a word
Of comment except the heading"
| Putting the incidents together and
the demand for the Eagles adding any
thing is not only rendered unnecessary
| but they constitute an acknowledg-
ment from the Gazette, upon the one
hand, that the Eagle had correctly
diagnosed the case, and upon the other
| hand, that the Times is convinced that
we had but stated the simple truth.
1t was a vivid realization of the in
excusable incongruity and manifest
hypocrisy of such state policy upon
the part Of the administration which
led the Eagle into the declaration, a
short time since, that the question of
''reSubmiSsion" must inevitably con-
front the next Republican convention
in some form as a principal issue
Neither the sneers or dissentings of the
Republican press or Of politicians can
affect the fact. Nor can the Republi-
cans Ignore the question as they did
in the last convention. The party will
be compelled to declare for prohibition
or for resubmission. The only posi-
bic dodge which we can conceive of
would be a strong whereas, followed
by demand for a new constitution,
which might or might not prove a sat
iSfactOry equivalent. Any attempt to
hide or cover up such issue by ignor-
ing the proposition would not prevent
the Democrats and Populists getting
together on a free silver-resubmission
platform and sweeping the state, elect
ing majority of both branches of the
legislature. So long as the ultra Pro
hibitionists, headed by Dick Wake and
others Of his ilk, cry "war" it will be
vain for politicians to cry peace"
Had Morrill, acted all the way through
as he has talked all along, the Fourth
OF July convention would have long
since been forgotten and the Republi-
can party would have been unit. also
victorious on the business platform
like unto that Of the last campaign.
The men who are doing the most eff
fective bowling now against Morrill,.
and who are crying the loudeSt for
more assistant states attorneys, for
more grand jurieS, for nonresident
police commissions and the like.
would have been as quiet and harm
less as mice, and they all would have
been found supporting the Republican
state ticket, from top to bottom.
though its platform did not so much as
hint of prohibition. There would have
been nowhere else for them to GO.
There would have been nothing else for
them to do. But not so, the element !
which Morrill, and Dawes and Dick |
Wake have Disguised with their double |
dealing. This element, a portion of |
which has Joined the Mystic Brother
hood will support any state ticket. and |
any nominee for the legislat ure. or for |
any or all other state, county and mu-
nicipal offices, who and which are /
pledged to assist relieving the state Of |
prohibition hypocrisy, and its cities of
the turmoil and expense suffered at |
the hands Of hireling demagogues set
on by such salaried fanatics as Rev.
Dick Wake and his coterie, whose prop
er political places are in the Prohibi-
ton party, not the Republican party.
With these parasites directing the |
administration, and DOM
mating the Republican party, and the
great body Of the Republicansyoters of /
the state are left ~ choose between |
two alternatives, both disagreeable. |
They must either vote the ticket which /
II elected viii continue the war Of dis
traction, or vote n ticket representing
party principles with which they have
no sympathy whatever. These Re
publicanS find no fault with the min
oriry of their party who cry: There
Is the constitution; there the law. and |
there the oath Of Office" Their dis
gust is with a shystering leadership
whose political cowardice will not per
init permanent settlement at the bal
lot Of that which was reSOrted To in
the hrSt instance as only a political |
eXpedient and an experiment
As for Kansas City, Kansas. Leaven-
worth and Atchison, in contra-diStiuc-
ton 10 Wichita, the former places. in
being permitted to violate the law.
hurts the Republican party just as
much as the party is hurt by the prose
culonS in Wichita. or will in the end
True, but for Morrilrs double-dealinr
with Wichita the Republican county
ticket would have been overwhelming
ly elected this fall. and further success
full prosecutions would have been i'm
possible under the present state admin
istration, still the same old perplexing
problem would have had TO be con
fronted in the personnel Of the next
state ticket.
FOR forty years Republican Maine has
had this thing: Republican Iowa kicked
It overheard after 4 very brief trial.