The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-11
CALAMITy'S CHEEKY CLAIM.

That consolidated aggregation of fun
damental bellyachers, sailing under the
political pseudonym of Popocrats, the
principal issue Of which party is the
double tail to head principally famed
| for excessive mouth. are claiming Kan
sas by majorities ranging all the way
| from fifteen TO thirty thousand: are
| claiming that their rooster Leedy viii
] be the next governor of the state; that
| Frank Doster will be its chief justice;
| that the legislature will be OF the same
| clan; that Bridenthal or some other
man of his breed will go to the United
! States senate. and that Jerry Simpson
! will again be the representative Kan
] sas clown in congress. The only rea-
son that they do not suggest some other
additional calamity is probably be-
cause they can think of no others
which would anywhere equal this
concentration of all around toughness,
their mental reservation no doubt be-
ing a resolve that once in, that all the
state institutions, and its laws, togeth-
er with the good name and credit of
the commonwealth shall be crowned
with dishonor and sacrificed to all
around infamy. Conceding the claim
possible one, the prospect becomes
anything but cheering TO the business
man who has so long and patiently
waited for the blemish of the Pop add
ministration of Lewelling 90 fade from
the mind of the world.
The wall which goes UP from the rep
resentative Of every material interest
in Kansas today, is but the cryStaliZed
essence Of a hard experience, begotten
of a political blunder, by which we lost
the confidence of the level-headed
everywhere In spite Of this experience
can it be possible that the people of
this state will repeat the mistake: Is
Kansas, the once banner Republican
state of the Union, going to be the one |
lone solitary exception among all the |
progressive commonwealth in pulling /
her political standard down to the level |
Of an Arkansas and South Carolina; |
to plane of ignorance, prejudice and |
superstition from which poor old Mis-
souri, and effete Kentucky are even
fleeing from and repudiating? Is Kan
sas going TO put herself in a position
along side of Republican Nebraske and
redeemed Missouri, under the McKin-
ley's administration, to be pointed at
as a degenerate, to be Stunned by enter
prise and avoided by capital, and all
because her people persisted in choos-
ing, of their own free will, an admin
/ tration. d legislature and a auDreme
court which the balance of the country
would not trust through fear?
Neither as a moral, political or bust
ness proposition can the people of Kan
sas afford to have this calamity claim
true. Experience is a dear
school," and Kansas graduated from
it at the foot Of the class, in 1894, with
a diploma of humiliation, and half
starved. One course of that character
ought 10 be sufficient. If there are to
be good tines in this country, follow
ing a return of confidence under a ma
tional Republican administration, Kan
sas does not want to be left out in the
cold, and Stunned by the very elements
which alone can enable her to proftab
y participate in them.
1t is a wise people who can gain wis
1om at the expense of others, but fools
even know what happened after the {
event. The bright thing to do it 10 :
decide for the right in advance, then {
20 ahead.