The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-05
MONEY BEING USED
BOSSES FRANTIC EFFORTS TO IN.
FLUENOE VOTERS


Ward Heelers for the Alias Ticket Supplied
With Funds From Some Source TO
Garry the Election-Liquors and Cigars
Used With a ProdigaI Band-Men in a
Chronic State of Burst are Now Flush
With Crisp Notes-Candidates are Bled
for q Hopeless use-Patriotism and
Not Money to Win Tuesday.
The heelers Of the alias ticket were
out all day yesterday spending money
with a prodigaI hand against the Re
publican ticket. Where they got the
money from is not hard matter to
guess. The bosses first got the poor
deiuded candidates to consent to run
thinking il would not cost them any
thing and then when they got pretty
well into the race made them believe
that unless they put up some money
they would be defeated. The bosses
understand human nature pretty we'll
They know very Well that when candi-
dates are once IN the race they hate to
get beaten and while in this condition
they will put up money TO get elected.
Aside from the money plucked from
the candidates a levy has been made
on some Of the men who are expected
10 get to the pie counter If the citizens
ticket IS elected. Some of these poor
deluded fellows are hard up for the nee
essaries of life and yet they will allow
themselves TO be bamboozled by the
Stalled bosses into putting up money
for hopeless cause. They ought TO
know that the effort being made is de-
signed principally 10 cause trouble in
the Republican ranks in order TO elect
the PopuliSts and Democrats in a fuS-
Ion next fall
V 'iile tn Reiul u ans are not pre-
pared for to meet them with money
they viii win every Office in the city
anyway. Elections vii be carried this
year by patriotism and not by money
Is the bosses win find out next Tuesday
Men who have been robbed or taxed
TO death by Democratic policy during
the past three years are not going to
have their votes influenced by money
or buck beer this spring. A few glasses
Of buck beer may change the vote Of
Chicago or New York slum but it will
not change the vote of a sovereign and
Independent citizen of Wichita. The
people of Wichita. if the are poor,
they have high sense of honor
and they are not going to sell their
votes TO the bosses. What Wichita
wants at this time is city council to
represent the conscience and patriot
ism Of the people. The Eagle has never
yet by intimation or inuendo attacked
the character Of single candidate on
the citizens ticket, nor will it. They
are all Wichita people. They live here
like the candidates on the Republican
ticket and have wives and families and
name and reputation. 1t does not say
now that the candidates on the citizens
ticket are trying to prostitute the honor
OF the voters but it does say and every
one who was around town yesterday
knows il, that money and its equiva-
lent in smokes and liquors was used
freely by the heelers of the bosses. The
Republican party has always stood for
honest methods in elections. The leg
Islation of Kansas under Republican
administration has always been direc-
ted to that end. It IS deplorabIe, there
fore, that any means should he adopted
whether with consent or knowledge of
the citizens candidates, or not, that
would prev mt Il fun free am fair ex-
preston of the popular will next Tues
DAY.
With all due respect for the character
and standing of the candidates the citi-
Eens ticket was conceived in darkness
and dark methods have been adopted
to elect it. Republicans are not hide
bound. They have no objection to see
ing q candidate on the SF.izens ticket
treat a friend or a voter TO a cigar in
q social way, but when heelers who
have not had a dollar for six months
are spending rolls OF money they know
there is something wrong.
There is only one or two issues in this
city campaign. II is not a question of
men. One issue is the Endorsement of
plain open handed Republicanism with
q record Of nearly forty years of pros
perity and honor or the Endorsement of
Democracy, masked and disguised, with
its record of starvation, stagnation,
poverty, bankruptcy, national ruin and
the ruin of national honor. This issue
81 70 be made this year from Maine to
California and from Dakota TO the Gulf,
and no one has the least doubt OF the re-
suit Does Wichita want to stand
alone in the column of defeat next Tues
day? Do the Republicans of Wichita
want 20 go into the battle for prosperity
under Napoleon Mckinley next fall
with the first stain of cowardice and
defeat on their brow? Perish the
thought
The other issue IN this campaign is
responsibility. Do the people of Wich-
tia want a council to manage their af-
fairs this year who have a party re-
epons,bility or Go they want council
without a party responsibility?
The people Of Wichita car be trusted
and when the votes are counted next
Tuesday night every man on the Re
publican ticket will be elected.
BEN MILAN Is 4 TARGET
outraYeouS Ahuse f4uried at Him by the