The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-11-19
"XICKTIyITY" RAMPANT.
That's what IL the Matter with KRn,n,
but She Is Not Entirely Hopeless,

EmporIa, (kls), Gazette: It's born
in the blood TO be restless. We are the
children, here in Kansas, OF 4 race OF
pioneers. Our fathers pioneered Ohio
and the middle states. our grandtath-
ers pioneered Western New York and
Nermont,our great grandtathers Tough:
Indians and French 10 satisfy their
love OF change and excitement, and
their fathers and great-grandfathcrs
plowed the Wilderness and crossed the
sea" and quenched the fire OF restless
ness within them.
To-day all the battles are fought, all
the wilderness Subducd, all the seas are
crossed. Kansas has the energy OF the
westward rowing Aryans. and finds no
other outlet than that which comes In
what Sister Lease appropriately calls
raising hell"
In other communities the energy OF
the people Is released in the building
OF cities, or In starting and operating
great enterprises, or In fighting the
battle OF commerce. But In Kansas the
chief pursuit Is agriculture quiet and
embarrassing one. The possibilities OF
getting up In the world.-of Change
In other words-are not great. The
AN'S Spil4k lIpEiS, ,iEi lIEG dGNll ~ ~
pay. The note seems TO be overdue and
protested Just now.
Some way or another Kansas got or
on this sociHllstic track. The people
have got the idea that the government
could do things for them. Statesmen
taught this idea. Lane was dema-
SoGue; he taught It. Pomeroy wns n
scalawng; he taught 1t. Ingalls, taught
il. And so did dozens OF others,of small
cr caliber and less Importance.
For years when the state was build
ing up the boom It's excitement fed the
fever. But when the boom fell eight
years ago the hunger for excitement
turned to politics.
Since iSSS things have been going from
bad to worse. The same person who
piled up the great majority for Hnrrl-
son in 1855 and elected Plumb ut the
height OF the boom, sent PETER 10 the
senate and Jerry Simpson and Ben
Clover and Milkman Otis 70 Congress
In 1880. The party leaders are the
same. The Union Labor party, which
was guyed and jcered and rcvled IN
Kansas In 1883. Is the same pnrty that
elected Lcedy last week. Its principles
have not changed. The people have
turned from n love OF what the world
once sought capital, who courtcd Syn
dlcntes,' who met the rcpresentati vcs
OF corporations looking for Investments
Mt the depot with band arc now car
rying banners on which are Inscribed
Down with tho money power" "Abol-
ish interest and you will abolish pow
erty," Hang Shylock," "Goldbugs are
worse than Chinch bugs" and other
equally stirring legends. There has been
n revolution of opinion In I<apsas. We
hnve decided against the odd order"
We have seeded from the commercial
union that binds civilization together.
We have Crossed the sea" We are
out here on these fertile praIrlcs, where
by training with the best Thought "
our nntSn aud race we might be
wealthy md prosperous. We are losing
wealth. We are losing population. We
Nrc losing standing. We nrc fighting
capital and the fntes arc against us.
This ls said In sadness. not I'm anger.
Ana 1t Is while looking squarcly Mt the
situation ny II Is that the Gazette voices
the belief OF most Republicans that Il
Is uphill work to pull Kansas back in
to the ranks.
sun. II Is not impossible or lmprob-
able Never before, until this year, has
there been a fair and square fight for
n principle. We, OF tho Kansas Rcpubll-
can party, have begged the question
too much. nnd have promised anything
to get votes. In 1890 VIC thought that
the way to get Popullst votes was Ia
adopt the Popnllst platform. to tell the
leludcd people TINT We We're just MS
dishonest and Just as anxious TO rob the
crcdltoTs aS they were. III 1899 We told
the people that Republicans were al
most M dishonest NJ the PupulIsts,and
that We hn1 n farmer" candidate and
were more friendly 10 silver" than the
Democrats. In 1891 We admitted that
Tho Populists were half rIEir. and in
lsyh We made the. first fair and square
iEht Tor honest money and national,
Republican principles We ever made.