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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-15
AN OUTSIDE ESTIMATE.

The Republican state convention held at
Wichita yesterday elected Colonel Marsh
AIurdock A delegate-at-large 20 the St
Louis convention. after a hard fight
against the railroad and prohibition gangs
Of the party.
Colonel Murdoch IS the editor Of the
wichita Eagle. paper that has done
more for the Republican party in central
and western Kansas than any other
agency, yet its editor has been subjected
10 a hard fight ever time his name has
been presented for preferment IN conVen-
tons The reasons for all this are quite
plain to the writer. who has known Col
onel Murdoch for ten years. We have
watched the course and policy OF his paper
in its fight for right and justice FOR the
people Of Wichita, central and western
Kansas. Much Of Colonel MurdOck's work
has been outside OF party lines; IL was for
the interest of the people OF all parties he
labored. The impreguable convictions OF
Mr. Murdoch. in connection with strong
individuality, portrayed in many O. his
truthful editorials on the question OF rail-
road discrimination against his adopted
city and surrounding country made him
many enemies in the ranks OF the power
ful railroad syndicate Of Kansas.
HIS open fight against the hypocri-ica1
prohibition law made enemies OF another
crank element whose lives are polluted
with deceit. and his noble stand for Wich-
tia has made enemies in surrounding rival
towns.
/, Is the same old story-an editor Tho
fearlessly fights the battles Of he people.
generally speaking IN his columns IS al
ways unpopular with politicians. corpora
lions and general aU-around cranks, hence
is rot a. liable 10 Re elected 20 oflce g.
a fool editor who fears The expression q
an opinion in his paper. The Wave con
graduates Brother Muriock: and II Kan
sss must have a Republican governor Ne
would b. pleased 90 attend the inzUgDTz-
ton Of Governor NJ. NJ Murdock--En-d
G.. T. Daily W4ve
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-15
SNAP SHOTS OF sHARPsHoorERs

Kansas City Gazette: Marsh Aurdooh
and Mary Ellen Lease seem 20 pe greatly
mashed On each other.
Hutchinson News: While he European
d-e.bund IS s,3u solid the wichita dry
bund appears 20 Be busted.
Oklahoma City Republican: Here's %
You, Colonel BiurdOek- The Old guard
may Gle. but u never surrencsrs.
II Dorado Republican. The Wichita
convention irdorsed T-gs- B.u. Marsh
Murdo-k and the 4;h % July. ~; forge; %
say anything about free silver.
Aschisoa champion. II. wichita con
vsnsion was not a 3o.at a1a-r. and Coionel
Afsrtock was not OF. o. 1olat "a tbs favor
ite son candidate Ok che Peerless F-.acssa-
CONWAY srrnrz sta-i We soal4 have
gwen = cent? n free silver % have heard
Nix sutton szy rs; vha- be wanted 90
~ ths Wichita congressional oo1veatior
Hon4ay.
Atchison Globe: Gove-zo- Norm ard
wichita have sasssd ard rnz9s ~. There
would have been 70 quarrel y - gov
error had used rs SEn 5z5zz1e1- u ths
a-zt place
N-ss County News Th@ s.ranrex;
pheEouleEoa a. tzs p ehlta s-ats CONVEX
;,oa =zs the array q re a1ui- E.rz-.oa
supporters WORKING FOR ne e,e-..oa o.
s,zrsaaI n 1la-s51x-
Able-s Reflector: TIE yrieaIta esav@.-
Tor. rislt Ia Harsh Mg-sock'E oza ,ovn.
lndorse1 Norm ard as ssui1is<rz;.7a
C0vs-ror Aor-.ll's pan appears 20 have q
fss roses ia q after al
Conway Sprays star. Colsnei - 81
MErtock got tAe-s IA Hes a dele
Este-a.-iarEs 20 tAs 3. LoslE eoaveaaga.
rs frien1s are isb-lzz- We aye Eia5 20
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Tltasla Tribune: TIE Wichl;a EaEi-
last T1ez12y ~as great pap Tn-
Ezzis - ~ s.zrtE, al s@zs paper for 49,
sze - shs ;oFn west o zee Misslzss -
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-15

years ohie will have solid and en-
thHsiastie delegation ia favor of the
favofite sen of that state for president,
the ST: Louis convention. AT several
national conventions in the Interim q
pretense was made of supporting John
Sherman. and the entire Ohio delega-
ton. with the exception of Governor
Mckinley himself, voted for Mckinley
at Minneapolis GA the ballot which re-
nominated President Harrison in 1892.
But 1t is a matter of history that Ohio
never was earnestly in favor Of the
nomination of Sherman for president,
and IL is equally probable that the vote
cast for Mckinley at Minneapolis was
a political manoeuvre not intended to
have any effect beyond mere show:
The financial plank adopted by the
Ohio state convention and which was
undoubtedly written by Major MeKin-
ley himself. declares positively for BIZ
,netailism and the use of both gold and
silver as standard money: He has
borne himself ia a way TO command at
tention and to gain confidence from his
first entry into politics, and nobody
can Justly say that he IS not thoroughly
qualified for the highest Office within
the gift of the people in so far as hon
estv. ability and familiarity with pub
lie affairs are concerned. If he should
be nominated and elected the country
would have a right TO expect clean,
decent; cFeditable administration at his
hands, ana it would not be disap-
pointed.
We still have hope that when the st.
Louis convention assemblies right and
reason and patriotism viii compel
majority of the delegates to favor the
adoption of a platform and the nomi-
nation Of a ticket, uAequivocally favor
able TO the restoration of the coinage
policy which prevailed In this country
from 1892 until 1873, and we think that
all the Republican state conventions
so far held indicate that this hope is
neither unreasonable nor likely to be
disappointed.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-15
FRUSTRATED INDUSTRIES.

1t is not all plain sailing for the gold
bug manipulaJorS Of the eastern states.
The industrial interests of the country
are down in the dust. beneath the heel
Of greed and we find IN interior New
York. in Pennsylvania and Ohio strong
demands for more good money. for
money made of the metal which the
founders Of the government held to he
the real unit and standard OF all val
Ties. FOR bimeJailism. for free silver Is
To l. Its hard times a home with n
failing trade abroad. especially with
the silver dealing Oriental countries.
Ia long editorial on the position Of
certain Philadelphia manufacturers in
favor OF silver coinage the Boston Her
aid fails to hit the main point OF in
terest in this change OF front by the
manufacturers. 1t has much % say
about the alleged indifference Of silver
advocates IN mining states 10 silver as
money providing they can get good
price FOR the metal they have 10 sell
Bur il contains little more than hint
at the danger which threatens manu-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-15
MORRILL, AND MURDOCH.

And 50 the fight against the Wichita
joints is 20 abandoned. l. L: Lleuranee,
the member of the board Of police eomu-s-
sioners who has been making an honest
effort TO enforce the laws has been de-
posed and Oscar u. Smith has been ap-
pointed in his place. Mr.: Smith is de-
scribed by the Wichita Eagle is "a gen
tleman who is neither a hypoc4te nor a
crank; but a broad-minded. liberal and
progressive citizen of Wichita a man who
has the good sense and patriotism 10 be
strictly in touch with local sentiment"
etc. etc. All of which, being interpreted,
means that AR. Smith viii give whisky
free rein and not only permit but eneeuF-
age open violation of the law he has
sworn 10 enforce: In other words. II
means that the rebellion" has succeeded
and that Merrilrs is defeated and Muir
dock is triumphant, 50 that hereafter, in
stead of harsh, belligerent screams We
may expeet the victorious Eagle 10 eee
and ehrp and twitter as sweetly as any
sucking dove. All OF which is very eemely
end pleasant and Infinitely pFemetive.
doubtless, of brotherly unity between the
Wichita sanetum and the Topeka sane
forum. But how about the rest of the
state which still has some oid-fashioned
notions about courage and consistency
and the majesty of the Viola Regis
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wICH1TA's WHIRL1NG WHEEL.

There was a great turn of the wheel of
fortune at Wichita yesterday. One Of
the cid commissioners was removed and
a new one substituted. The first official
act of the new board after It's organization
was to fire" all the officials who have
been instrumental in closing the saloons,
and the next act was The appointment of
new men who have been fighting TO have
things the good old way in wichita
If the reports brought back from Wich-
tia by the delegates to the state conven-
ton are to be relied upon, and We think
they are, Wichita may as well get some
revenue out of the liquor sales. AfteT all
tho trouble and war and bitterness and
expense It appears that the only difference
between the old way and the new was
that lately the places have been called
joints, and the city has had no revenue
from them, while prior TO the crusade
they were called saloons and paid the
city's expenses. The local sentiment in
Wichita IS decidedly opposed 10 prohibi-
tion.-Lawrence Journal
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LOTS OF FUN:

1,bara will be all kinds of fun in Kansas
notifies this year. That fact was demon
strated at the Wichita convention and the
bune,. Of the situation was intensified by
the peeuIiar combinations developed anu
the startling lines on which some ef the
forces were at work
Te begin with the state administration
was solid for Marsh Murdoch for dele
gate-at-large. Brown county, the home
of Governor Morrill,, when Mr.. MURDOCH
recently pronounced crazy, was solid fof
the editor of the Eagle, and all OF his ap-
peintees were straight for the representa-
tive of the Peerless Princess. Colonel
Murdoch Is considered the leading anti
Prohlbitienist of the state, and yet these
prohibition strongholds like Douglas, An
derson and Nemaha polled their vote
sel;dly for him. AIR. Burton's influence
was thrown against Murdoch because his
opponent, Colonel Carpenter, is an adj
m4rer of ]. Ralph. The new police com
missioner of Wichita was probably as
large a factor I'm the situation as any
thing The eembin atien IN the Seventh
district held good in the state convention,
and the counties OF Reno, Mcpherson,
Sedgwiek and Sumner were allied Ter the
first time In history, Close friends were
divided on new lines, old enemies marched
side by side, and the winning combination
of administration and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
prohibition and resubmission, eastern
Kansas and western Kansas, ingalls, and
anti-Ingalls, and both sides of every ques-
ton that divides Kansas politicians,
Cy Leland was not only Endorsed for
national committeeman, but he made the
slate which went through without
break But the strict understanding IN
der which he won was that his election
was not On Endorsement of the state ad-
mlnistrat1on any more than the victory OF
Murdoch was an Endorsement Of the Wich-
tia rebellion.
And that Is why the News predicts fun
In Kansas politics this year.-Hutchinson
News.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-15
NO COUNTRY TOWN.

The trouble at wichita has finally been
ssttIed. Thousands OF dollars Of expense
hundreds OF bitter aua-Tels among clti-
gems. the town badly injured. and the same
state Of affairs that existed before. IS
this not another argument that these
ouar-rels are unnecessary, foolish and dis
graceful? A. city like Wichita cannot be
governed as a small country place IS gov
erned; this is Il fact admitted by every
one familiar with municipal affairs. IL
is not TO the Giscredit OF Wichita that u
cannot be governed as Stockton is gov
erned. and Wichita people are entitled to
sslf-governmeut. which right has At las;
beon accorded them. after the waste OF a
great deal OF money. and a lot or dis
graceful quarreling tina; injured the town
-Atchison Globe.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-15
CONCILIATING WICHITA.

The revolution at Wichita has been
thorough. The Prohibiionists and Tiger
Bill forces have been routed. Governor
Morriu's surrender 10 the Peerless Prin-
cess is apparently complete
The removal of Lieurance. who as police
commissioner was the most v!gilant on
behalf of enforcement was followed by
Oscar z. Smiths appointment Now the
obnoxious police staff have been entirely
chan ged-and behold as chief of police
Frank Burt, the secretary of the Mystic
Brotherhood The Mystic Brotherhood is
the anti-prohibition organization which
originated In the midst of the late Wlch-
tia war and was the very Capitalization
of the element hostile to the administra-
ton and to Tiger Bill
Here we are from one extreme to the
other. The governor has gone Tisht-about-
face once more. Wichita must be placat-
ed: And there has been plaeating with q
vengeance this week.
Governor Morrill, after all Is to be com
Tnended for having made the change in
Wichita, and fer giving up the Perseeu-
ton of that city. It may show an IN
balanced and volatile mindj but the
change this time is In the right direction
The Leavenworth Times has all along
advised the abandonment of the fight en-
Wichita, and its advice has at last been
takeR.-LeavenweFth Times.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-15
TOO MUCH MoNKEYING.

The change OF police commissioners a.
wichita seems TO have been another mop
straight back 70 the whisky side. That -
what makes Us 40 tired about prohfbi-
ton. We have commended prohibition
for one thing. and that Is II has relieved
candidates from being he'd Up BY saloons
But since prohibition we have had nothing
but monkey and fool and shyster On the
part Of governors and state CONVENTIONS
and big leaders generally. il ia no longer
a quesuo Of prohibition, but which is
-bs worst eyste-n. 20 limit the shyEtsring
n municipal officers, or have ~ operated
entirely IN the state governmeni--ksnsss
City Gazette.
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EATS HIS OWN WORDS.

Isn't It somewhat after the nature Of
the irony of fate that the man who fought
McKinleyism in 1880 more y.c!ously than
any other man IN Kansas and who did
more doubtless to defeat the party which
Mckinley stood for in that campaign
than any other man in Kansas. should
now be sent 20 convention under iron
clad Instructions to cast his vote for that
same Mckinley and McKinleyism? We
refer to the Hon. Marshall Marcellus Muir
dock, editor OF the Wichita Eagle and
delegate TO the s.. Louis convention. And
We can hardly make up our mind which
should be the more Inundated, Colonel
Murdoch by being thus forced 10 eat his
own editorials, or the Republican party Of
Kansas by being compelled 70 send % a
position OF honor ore who had done 50
much 20 bring upon II defeat and disaster.
lola Register.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-15
PAN=AMERICAN.

The dream of Blaine fer Pan
American commercial and monetary
alliance through Reciprocity, is bid
ding fair of realization. Invitations
have been received in Washington
from the governments Of Brazil, Uru-
quay and Argentina to various COM
mercial organizations in the United
States to visit the three countries
named sometime during the present
year. The object is to give represent
alive American business men an op-
portunity to see the condition of the
South American republics named and
study their trade relations with the
United States. The three governments
would do their utmost 10 entertain the
visitors, and it is said that a special
train will be run from Buenos Ayres
over the entire railway system of Ar
gentina. Similar efforts will be made
to entertain the visitors In Brazil and
Uruguay. The three governments are
anxious to reciprocate in some way the
cordial reception given their represent
atives to the Pan-American congress a
few years age Doubtless many
American business men will avail
themselves of an opportunity to see
something of South America under
such favorable conditions,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-15
The aahita gau eagle sunday soraimo sHare Is, 1896

in a sandy country. The Monitor voices
the sentiments Of every man who attend
ed the convention in acknowledging OBJ
cations 10 the hospitable Peerless Princess
of the Plains. The Seventh congressional
district OF the state of Kansas IS the
largest in the Union both in population
and area and 1t is not unjust that 1t
should have two delegates 10 the ST. Louis
convention. n. N. Murdoch, the editor
of the Wichita Eagle. as was sad In the
eloquent speech OF Senator Gordon in
placing him IN nomination, is man whose
name has been written on every page OF
Kansas history during the past forty
years. His unpurchaseabie devotion 10
the welfare of the common masses has en-
deared him TO thousands OF citizens OF
Kansas who never saw his face, but who
know that in Marsh Murdoch the toilers
have a friend always faithful te their IN
teFests.-Fort Scott Monitor.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-15

featuring In the United States through
Oriental competition. The reason the
protectienists have come out recently
In favor of silver is because they see
that the difference IN value between
silver and geld is stimulating indus
tries ia silyer-using countries and thus
puttig those countries in position 10
compete with eur own factories. Inc
Herald assures its readers in another
article that there is no danger that
''free silver" will ever be adopted IN
the United States. for the reason that
it is, so the Herald says, lost cause.
Nevertheless, that paper VIII pursue a
discreet course if it has as little as pos
sibIe to say about Oriental competition
1t had better not let its readers KNOW
what that amounts 10.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-15

No dignitary who shall 90 TO Russia
TO attend Pie coronation of the car
will receive or deserve greater atten-
ton than the venerable Chinese states
man, II Hung Chang. He viii not
meet his master in intellectual re
sources or diplomatic skill. His pres
ence in Russia on such an occasion will
be an ominouS political eveL The pre-
ponderanee of Russia influence in
China and the preponderance of Brit
ish influence in India give the two most
grasping powers Of the world the con-
troll of Unlimited food for gunpowder.
The terms OF the understanding with
Russia which Ii Hung Chang has
probably been commissioned II com
plete viii doubtless be Of great sig
nificance in molding and making the
future history Of ASiatie peoples.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-15
SILVER PULLED HIM THROUGH.

At Wichita, Tuesday, Colonel Il y.
Murdoch was elected deiegste-at-la-se 20
the s.. Louis convention. The opposition
OF rather a part OF = was caused - the
course OF the Eagle Iu is attempts %
nulllfy the p-ohitlt0ry law No doubt
some OF his strength. perhaps g-esti deal
OF =. came from me resubmlssioo eie-
men;. But the result need noi brand The
Republican party a. law defylng nor nis
election as al expression % Republicans
as iudorzing rs course 81 opposing the
prohibl-ory law. ColoEel 1iurdock has
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-15
MoeGrNe IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Time was; aad act very far back
when children were logged by the
school teacher for slight of1enses' the
rod OF ferule being considered as an IN
eAntive to learning and the good ana
the bad boy Jared alike at the uhspar-
iHq and heavy hand of the despotic
DedacOgue. His ethics OF juvenile
government was comprised In the
single maxim, spare the rod and spoil
the child" Happily for the school
bows of these days, corporal PUNISH
meHt is generally regarded as one oI
the relies of barbarism for which re-
fined and cultured people have no more
use than they have for the thumbscreW'
the gag or the knOut 1t Is palnIui 10
think that any teacher ia this enhSht-
ened and progressive age should sthi
cling 10 a method of punishment which
appeals 10 40 higher sensibillty hah
fear and is degrading in It's tendencies.
But humiliating though 1t be, we are
forced 10 confess that an occasional
teacher IS still TO be found III our pub
lie schools, who relies more upon the
rod as n means Of maintaining disci-
Mime than that power to govern
through love and firmness, which alone
Is effective and lasting. If the above
remarks should meet the eye OF at
least one teacher in our public schools
who is Ia the habit OF whipping pupils
fer trivial ofrenses, and abandonment
of the practice should follow, IL VIII
relieve US OF the painful necessity OF
saving anything further on the sub
ject.
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1EE GREAT RIG SEVENTH.

The people OF Wichita may b reeell-o'is
a. times. unreasonable = The silly season.
ard somewhat given 20 personal fan
boyaacy on al occasions. but E-th al
their faults the delegates % the recent
Republican state convention he'd there
can testify thar they possess the virtue %
Hospitality 20 . degree that IS extreme y
gratifying TO weary wzyscra traEel.e-s
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-15

strong personality and his competitor mas
not. Again Mr.. Murdoch has been pro
nounoed friend of silver while the Leland
combination which tried 10 defeat him are
Sound money" men. We hope he VIII
fight for silver with as much energy as the
Eagle opposes prohibitiOn.-Augusta Jour
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-15

Perhaps Legislator Dunlap, the OBJ
durate Kentucky Republican, would
consent 10 take his seat if he could be
elected senator himself
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-15

The minute this country understands
that n protective tariff is to be made
business viii pick up. Every mer-
chant will begin to stock up before the
Increase in price comes.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-15

If Ballington Booth will discard the
bass drum and the accordion We viii
undertake TO work up such an anti
Spanish feeling that the American peo-
pie will discard the guitar.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-15

hansen should look at Spain and re-
fuse to discover the North Pole The
Esquimaux viii surely rise and take it
away from his descendants.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-15

The metaphor that Tiger Bill has
thrown up the sponge" should be a'Fa4
flied with the remark that tho sponge
was perfectly dry
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-15

Clarksnn and Quay can do nothing
EXCEPT TO cause a lot Of prospective
cos+mas ters an endless aRoHt of paF
pifaains anxiety
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-15

Up in Nebraska Mr., Henderson Is
having a hard time persuading the Re-
pubIieans that --dander' is the Swcd>
Ish for @4faVoriie."
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-15

Things in oklahoma have drifted int
the extreme stage where it is asked
"Can it be that men in this age will
thus consent TO be throttledY'
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-15

The Oklahoma Republicans are be-
+ve4n the devil and the deep sea and
snparentIy need hfe-QreseEvers made
IF aSlseS1DS
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-15

The eubernatorial boom Of Eugene
Ware f1nay his tribe mcreaSe9 appears
10 be in stain quo with a big boulder
over the entrance
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-15

]. r. Burton, it Is said, has the most
wonderful organization known in the
history of Kansas. ingalls, has no
more organization than Lucien Baker
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-15

Your Uncle Cy has got things in such
a shape in Oklahoma that the territory
may instruct against Mckinley and
the use of applejack in politics.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-15

1t Is interesting to watch p, p, Elder
1ie low and continue TO shop his hogs
with that delicacy and technique which
so few men can initiate.