The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-02
sEDew1cK COUNTY REpuBLIcANs.

| country best. He is the best Republic
can who never permits the individual
mistakes of others or his own personal
disappointmentS TO swerye him in his
support Of his party.
The Republican party of Sedgwick
county has a regularly nominated
ticket in the field Every man on
that ticket is true Republican. There
is not a man On the ticket whose party
fealty can be questioned Every man
is capable man. Every man on that
| ticket will, in the event of his election,
discharge the duties of his office as
effectively and honestly as the most
faithful and competent man possibly
could If any man on the Sedgwick
county Republican ticket fails to re-
ceive the vote and support of any Re
publican it will be because of some
personal reason or grievance. and not
because Of the candidates unfitness, or
that such candidate is not superior
man TO the fusion nominee.
A united Republican vote Of Seds-
wick county, cast solidly for the Re
publican ticket, will elect every nom
inee
These several declarations, taken sep
arately or collectively, being unde-
niably true the responsibility of de-
feat or the credit of a victory comes
home to the individual Republican. Ii
any Individual Republican thinks that
he has sufficient cause to scratch some
nominee, and thereby take his chances
as a party-man with the party in the
future, surely such personal chagrin
constitutes no excuse for his neighbor
to either follow his example, or coun-
sci, and thus make such sacrifice on
the score of friendship.
If there was ever time in the his
tory Of the Republican party more than
another, when the duty was encum-
bent for every Republican to vote his
principles. without reference to local
factions or the personal quarrelS or
ambitions Of individuals. that time is
right now. No argument, or even
words, ought to be necessary to sub
stantiate so self-evident' proposition.
Il ;,na; ha a
case Of belly ache, that fact may be
deplorable, but the soreness Of his pO
litical abdomen should be no warrant
for his personal friends to turn about
and stab Republican nominees and
thus defeat their own ticket. This is
not a propitious time to take medi- |
cine for the other fellow, though he |
may be a friend and imagine that he |
is ever so sick.
If the Republican ticket of Sedg
wick county is defeated next month it |
will be defeated in the interest of IN
dividual soreness. and not in the in
teresr OF either the party or its prin-
ciples, and not for the party's present |
benefit or for its future chances and
This is not a boiling or scratching
year. We would vote the Republican
ticket from top to bottom though Tom
Reed should bolt Mckinley and Frank
Dawes should scratch Morrill,.
If we had any local wrongs that need
Fighting, any Republicans who have
been neglected, abused or not properly
treated, let us right the wrongs after
the enemy has been whipped, and then
next spring or next fall take care of
the Republicans who did not have a
fair shake. All that will be wiser,
easier and better than the scheme of
slashing off our own noses because
some Republican friend has got the
big snout, and only that the Pops and
Denis may turn up their shoots at our
lisfigured faces in November.
We have just one month now in
which to get together as one man and
rs a brother, solidlv and into an ire
'istable column. ready for the march
% the booths where, with a clear con-
science, before God and man, we will
place our sawbuckS in i way that will
make the wild-eyed hungry opposition
'ick.