The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-04
HICKORY FLAT AND JIM's LANDING.

1t would be extremely foolish for the
people of Wichita to elect Democratic
councilmen and members of the schoo,
board next Tuesday.
Down in the jungles of Louisiana is
the town of Hickory Flat. Few PEG
pie ever heard of it. The people who
live there rarely hear Of the outside
world 1t is Democratic in sentiment.
The Democratic sentiment is controlled
by a Democratic postmaster. Cleve
land might issue bonds forever and
forever; the government might be sold
To England by Carlisle; Bayard might
call the United States a den of thieves;
H0ke Smith might borrow money by
putting a mortgage on the White
House; Dan Lamont might take the
army and rebel against the United
States; in short, the Democratic ad-
ministratiOn might do anything craven,
cOWardly, ridiculous or vicious and
thatDemocraic postmaster at Hickory
Flat would say: ''Vote the Democratic
ticket" and the people of the commun-
iry would vote it till the crack Of doom.
In the Swamps of Alabama is the
city Of Jim's Landing. The town is
never heard Of by the outside world;
and it knows nothing of the outside
world or its issues, its fortunes, its af-
fairs or it's pleasures. Once a year
the Democratic postmaster tells the
people TO vote the Democratic ticket
and they vote it.
Wichita is not Hickory Flat in a
jungle, or Jim's Landing in a swamp
Its people are known by the outside
world and the people Of Wichita know
the outside world. The people Of Wich-
tia read the daily papers. They are
connected with great bands of steel to
the rest Of the world, over which steel
trains innumerable rush daily from the
TO the Atlantic coast, from
the Gulf TO the Great Lakes. The
wires that reach to India and South
to San Francisco, London and
all the great capitals of the world, have
one end which ticks at Wichita, which
tells the news of the world, its affairs,
its fortunes, its wars, its issues and its
pleasures to the daily papers of Wich-
tia, and they in turn tell it to the peO-
pie of Wichita
No wire ticks the news to the people
Of Hickory Flat and Jims Landing
Public information is received from
the lips of the Democratic postmaster
and the peaceful, sluggish people take
it for the truth In Wichita 1t Is diff
ferent. The wire reaches the ear of
every intelligent Wichita man, woman
and child. 1t has been ticking away
for four years. 1t has told the people
Of Wichita of countless commercial
and crashes; countless failures
and bankruptcies; countless issues of
gold-bearing bonds to ROthSchilds;
countless instances of administrative
and corruption; countless
tales of misery and starvation trace
corrupt reign of the Democratic party.
The day that Cleveland sold this
country to the Rothschilds the Wichita
people read of it. They did not ask
a Democratic postmaster if it were
true as the people Of Jim'S Landing
did. The day the Democratic con-
gress sold out TO the Sugar Trust, the
people of Wichita knew it. They did
not ask Democratic postmaster if
It were true as the people of Hickory
Flat were compelled to do. When
Thomas F. Bayard, our ambassador to
England, maligned and lied about all |
America and Americans the people of
Wichita knew it Immediately and they
lid not ask Democratic poStmaster's |
permission 10 get mad about it.
If the people of Jim'S Landing and
Flat vote for the Democratic |
it is not their fault. They
are not in the world. They know no
better.
But the people Of Wichita do know |
better. They are in touch with the
world. They know that for prosper |
ty-killing, debt-accruing, patriotism |
English foot-licking, bond
issuing. pension-slaughtering. settlers
and commercial-paralyzing the
of Grover Cleveland is |
without parallel in this country. if not !
n the whole history of the world. They /
know that the whole country is filled |
with ineffable disgust at the vicious |
and corrupt reign of the Democrats, |
md Will smash them 1atter than a cold |
pancake the first time they stick up
their heads.
OF course the people of Jim's Landing |
and ick0ry Flat will vote for the Dem |
Dcratic candidates, but the people in
the world will knock them out
Wichita is not a Observation-Disclosures |
ed town. 1t shares with the whole ma
ton the universal disgust and contempt |
for Democratic miSmanagement, and
it should not be bamboozled into voting |
for Democrats. either as Democrats or
nOn-partiSans."
SHE is STILL AMERICAN.
1t is the custom of newspapers to |