The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-08
BID THEM WELCOME
HEARTS OF WICHITA ARE OPEN to
THE DELEGATES.

Wichita May be a Little Disfisured But She
is still Ia the Ring ard Ready to Do
Honor to the Party That has Always
Been Accorded Her LoyaIty-The Peo-
pie Urged to show the Visitors That the
Peerless Princess Is Not Eebellious
Child But a City of Generous Hospi-
| tally.
Wichita welcomes TO its borders this
week the representatives of the grand
est political party on earth-or in his
| tory.
1t has been the custom for the Peer
| less Princess, ever since the day she
first broke the monotonous vaStness
and wildness of the prairie, 10 give the
keys of the city to her visitors. but con-
| ditions have changed and all that she
can now give are the keys TO the gen
erous and hospitable hearts OF her
people over which no living being ex-
erciseS a suzerainty.
Wichita IS little disfigured but she
is still in the ring and is yet able TO
stand a great deal of punishment be-
fore she is knocked out.
The delegates will meet, they are as
sured, in a city that has no parallel fer
loyalty in the Republican politics OF
the state-a city that gave Repubi-
can majority last fall under conditions
that tried mems loyalty TO the severest
extent; conditions that developed some
of the grandest sacrifices 10 political
principles that can be conceived
They will meet not only in a city Of
grand Republican past but one OF a
grand Republican future.
The Eagle never asked anything in
vain of the people of Wichita. Meth
er Democrat, Republican nor Populist
if he were true citizen of the Peerless
Princess, has ever failed 10 respond TO
its suggestions. Two weeks ago when
this paper asked the good people to lay
aside any political prejudices they may
have, hundreds of men and women of
all parties sent word TO the convention
committee generously asking what they
could do to make the visit of the dele
gates pleasant. The Eagle hopes that
the same spirit will continue to pre-
vail and that when the gentlemen who
came here to do work that will result
in the triumph of the Republican par
ty next fall, will go home they will
carry with them a feeling that Wichita
is not the rebellious child of the state
that she is painted to be, but that she
is a city that is marvelously generous
and hospitable; that she is a city, and
a community of citizens, that Kansas
has reason to be proud of and above
all that she is a city where Republicans
are loyal enough to make sacrifices for
their principles.
1t is hoped that the hotels will also
catch the prevailing sentiment of friend
ship and hospitality. 1t is the duty Of
every Wichita man who undertakes
to entertain one or more delegate, to
entertain him with the royal heart of
a true Wichitan.
The men who are coming to Wichita
are men who stand IN honorable places
all over the state. They are men who
have made Kansas the foremost state
in the union. They are men who be
lieve in the great principles that have
made this country the freest and gran
dest country on the face of the earth.
Many Of them are the men, or the sons
Of the men, who saved this country
when its integrity was threatened by
disloyalty, and they are still ready to
defend and save it from its greater en-
envy, England, whose agents are now
doing its business and its bidding in
the white house.