The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-13
LET Us ALL.EAF, NOW, OUR CROW.


cans. All Of us do not agree, for in
stance, that prohibition is the wisest
and most satisfactory temperance mea-
sure, and we may differ in our esti-
mates of what the real value of 4121a
grains of silver under limited, or its
worth under free nlinrage would be,
respectively; but we are ali agreed
touching our faith in the great cardi-
nal principles of the party of Lincoln
and Grant to which We all belong, and
are all unanimous in our desire to see
Major Mckinley elected president of
the United States, with a Republican
congress at his back. That high Re
publican state, officer, or this ambitious
individual, may not have filled the
measure of our expectations: this cOun-
~ combination may have failed to line
I'D sauarely, or that other over-zealOus
ward faction, in its anxiety to win a
minor point, may have oVerstepped the
bounds Of party propriety; but we
are all Republicans, alike animated by
the laudable desire for a victory in No
yember, for a victory of our party In
the county and city, q victory for it IN
the state, a victory for it in the cleo
lion of a congressman who will stand
b. Mckinley, n victory for it in the
election of a Republican United States
senator to take PETERS place, and a
victory for it in the control Of the af-
fairs of the nation
While it true that we, the Republic
cans Of Sedgwick county and Of the
city of Wichita, are unanimous touch
ing the foregoing declarations and
propositions, it is equally true and
more evident that we as Republicans
are more unanimously tired of some
other things, and that we are all grow
ing more exceedingly tired every day.
We are all tired Of the assumptions
and prescriptions of the fusion Oppo-
sition; tired of their daily street cor
ner racket against our patriotic leader
who has proved his loyalty on the bat
tle-fields of his country no less than as
q statesman in the halls Of congress;
tired of the Popocrat smirk and the
Demopop wink; tired of the confident
self-congratulatory tone, currentamong
the leaders of the unholy DemopOpo-
crat alliance that in a hopeless divi-
sion Of the Republican ranks Of Sedg-
wick county the fusion dicker is bound
to win with hands down, and espe-
cialIy tired of the sly and inslncere
promises made by its managers TO Re-
publican candidates Of help on election
day
There is too much at stake at this
important juncture to permit defeat
Of our party in this county. Neither
individual grievances or personal pref
ereHce should be allowed to weigh any
thing at this time with any sound, true
blue dyed-in-the-wool steadfast Repub-
lican, much less should we submit TO
defeat through the tricks and one-sided
dickers of the opposition. Republican
control of the county is not only involv-
ed but that of the city election next
spring, and not only the county and
city but very possibly the choice OF a
Republican United States senator. The
Republicans of Sedgwick county, If
heartily united, can, with harmonious
and earnest effort, elect their state
senator and two, and probably three,
representatives TO the state legislature.
These four Republican votes may in
yolve the administration Of Mckinley,
in that the United States senate, no less
than the Kansas legislature threatens
to be very close. Besides united, I'M
selfish pull and n strong pull by every
real and true Republican Of the county
and city will insure the defeat of a
man for congress from this district
whose wild antics and demagogic
blather on the stump and in congress
has injured Kansas beyond computa-
ton, and at the same time insure the
return of 4 man who has not only been
credit to his state and his district,
but who viii be in accord with the next
Republican congress on all measures
q importance to the country.
Sedswick county is Republican
county, and Wichita is a Republican
city. We are in the majority. United
and harmonious we can show under
any or all opposition, combined or
otherwise, that can be mustered. and
the personal resolve of every Repubi-
can ought TO be for victory, regardless
OF individual grievances, personal diff
ferences or any primary" or ward
blunders or mistakes.
The Eagle. as the party's organ, has
been made 10 feel the pressure Of some
if not OF all these UNHAPPY differences,
for which it was in no way responsible.
Besides it has had to swallow more
crow, in larger doses and 1T more in
oportune times and unexpected and
disagreeable ways, in the past months,
than could have possibly come To the
dish Of any individual Republican.