The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-03
OUT FOR M'KINLEY
GEORGE PRATT DECLARES FOB PRO-
HIBITION AND PROTECTION,

the Service of Life Time Because He
Good Days Wages - Citizens Ticket
People are Amazed at Dir. Pratts
Change of Heart and the Bosses are
TroubIed-He Will Vote the Republican
TIcket-DooIittIe Sweating Blood.
There is trouble in the camp Of the
managers of the Citizens ticket again.
The two great summer bosses of the
Deno-Pop party were down in the
mouth all day yesterday. Locke was
at the postoffice wearing a sad far-away
look on his face while Gone was at the
sheriff's office feeling very blue.
Poor Farmer Doolittle like an ami
mated fishing pole was running from
one TO the other in great excitement.
He sawed the air with his long bony
fingers and from his excited manner
an Eagle reporter judged that there
was something wrong. The Farm
er is a hot tomala when things are COM
Ing his way in the maiden days of
campaign but when the fight gets hot
and he meets with reverseS he gets
warm under the collar and gives the
bosses to understand that the Jig is up
with them. The farmer has more
brains than the whole outfit, for he can
81 fefeat quicker. Last evening he
wouldn't bet his suspender button
against a million dollars that any man
On the Citizens ticket would come
within the century mark of being cleo
ted. The bosses brush the farmer aside
when he tells them the truth. They
say eve buy your brains, they are ours
and they must give our opinions and
not yours"
Well, what this deponent started out
TO say was that there was great sad
ness, excitedness, blueness and agita-
ton among the bosses and the Farmer,
A reporter for the Eagle started out
to ascertain the cause and as if guided
by hypnotic influence bent his steps
10 the office of George l.. Pratt the
Democratic candidate in the Fourth
ward. There to his establishment he
ascertained from Mr.. Pratt's own lips
that he has changed his mind about
politics and has abandoned the Demo-
cratic party. Il am for Mckinley
and the Republican ticket" said Mr.
Pratt. 'I am opposed to the one man
power Of Mr.. Grover Cleveland. I am
for protection and prosperity"
While the announcement of Mr.. Pratt's
political change was unexpected to the
Eagle reporter it was no surprise. He
IS business man and he realizes that
the administra ton of Mr.. Cleveland is
not any more to the interest Of the bus
mess man than it is to the poor man
who carries a shovel on his shoulder
and a, dinner pail in his hand to work
for his daily bread in competition with
the monarch-ridden serfs of Europe.
Mr.. Pratt knows that the working man
Is the friend of the business man. He
knows that when the working man
prospers the business man prospers al
30. He knows that with the exception
nf the rewards Of a future life pros
perity is the main end to be sought on
this earth, for it brings happiness TO
the home, the wife and the little laugh
ing children that play and sing around
his freside and make his heart merry
and his life full of JOY
The fact that Mr.. Pratt has no more
use for the rotten old hulk of Democ-
racy-the old wooden bottom ship that
is sinking and taking those who cling
to it with it's what excited the bosses
and the Farmer. With its candidates
declining the nominations in one in
stance and declining to logger remain
with the party in another instance the
poor old Citizens ticket viii need a
pair Of crutches to carry it to the polls
next Tuesday.
The proper thing for Farmer Doolit-
tie to do now is to join Mr.. Pratt and
walk into the Republican party with
him, arm and arm. OF course it is not
10 be expected that Cone and Locke
would become Republicans now but
when their terms at the Demo-POp pie
counter have expired they can come ov-
er and il they promise to let the people
the Republican doctrine and not the
bosses they viii be admitted to full fell
iowship if they are willing to serve a
probationary term without seeking an
office This, of course. will be hard
for them TO do, especially in the case of
Mr.. Cone.
The people are getting their eyes open
TO the scheme of the bosses. They can
not see under what pretense a citizens
ticket could be elected over the regular
Republican ticket The citizens ticket
as everybody knows IS not a citizens
ticket at all but bosses ticket To
prove this its official organ never has
stated how single candidate on that
ticket was nominated. II any man in
town wants a good cigar he can have it
If he will produce copies Of the Cit
zens" organ giving the details of the
nominating caucuses, who was chair
man and secretary or the name of a
single man who put candidate in nom
ination. This looks easy, doesn't il,
but ii can't be done. And yet Farm
err Doolittle has the hardihood 10 say
that the ticket is the outgrowth OF a
wonderful citizens movement in each
ward. The Eagle has said before and
II says again that the citizens ticket
was conceived near A dark lamp post
in stairway PnnuliSm is
It's ia Their and that old strumpet. Kan
sas Democracy, is its mother. II is il
legitimate from start to finish and both
being ashamed TO own it they have the
audacity to ask the public to adopt
II. The council chamber should not
be used for a political founding asy-
mm. The people like 10 see decency
In politics as we'll a. in everything else
and they viii say so very emphatically
next Tuesday.
These little political waits are born
every spring and their average life is
only two weeks. This is no year for
them. The people want something
this glorious Republican year of 1896
with the pride of decent ancestry and
for that reason will vote and elect the
Antire Republican ticket. Such men
as George Pratt know this. The great
band wa gon of Mckinley and prosperi-
ty is coming gaily along enroute from
Maine 10 California and thence 10 the
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