The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-01
THAT NOTORIOUS FOUR.

and congressional ticket been left to
the Republican state central commit
tee themselves they would not, from
among the prominent Pops and mon
grels of the state selected weaker state
and congressional tickets, or ones more
easy to defeat There are three men
only who have more than local repu-
tation, viz: Jerry Simpson, Jerre Bot
kin and Frank Doster. Although Mr..
| Leedy, their nominee for governor, had
served a term in the state senate he
| had never been heard of in the state
| at large, and was only remembered by
the more attentive political reader as a
pestiferous talker eternally OIL his
feet either opposing measures Of IN
questioned practicability or advocating
some scheme Of revolutionary reach or
overthrow The average railway Of
fetal of corporation pet is the making
of a suspicious Pop. Mr.. Leedy be-
came a Pop only after he had failed
where the average man usually easily
succeeds. He has but one distinctive
quality, and that is no longer distinc
tive among the leaders Of his party
with whom it has become chronic dis
ease, and that is the gift Of gab.' He
is a Flagstaff in stomach without his
wit. What he does not contain Of pure
wind Is questionable gas. His nomi-
nation by the Populists and acceptance
by the Democrats has never been I'M
raveled. The reasons for his selection,
if indeed. there were any were never
understood outside of the fusion ring
who having agreed upon him piloted
him through. There are a hundred
men in every county in the state better
qualified to be governor. He is just
Leedy and that is all there Is Of him.
Jerry Simpson needs no introduction
He has the mouth disease also, not only
in q chronic way but of an infiamatory
type. Commercially and financially,
politically and socially the state of Kan
sas has suffered from this mans mouth.
Had Kansas never had any Jerry Simp-
son nOf POpulism instead Of losing pop
ulation she would have gained in the
past ten years. We have not only lost |
population because of the calamity |
crew, Of which Jerry has been the light |
and leader. but lost wealth. Money |
and men have flown as though from a |
plague. Better Observation-Disclosures
ism than the reputation this sOckleSS
congressman has given the state.
Then, there is that other Jerry, Jerry |
Botkin, less principle and equal gall,
who failing to make a political ma
chine of his church while high in its
ministry, became a disintegrating ele-~
ment and was finally deposed and let |
out into the blatherskite crowd. Hav-
ing been an advocate Of about every
ism, and failing Of recog-
milton of any, he espouses the cause of
several at the same time securing the
of these conventions. Be
ing prohibition, a resubmiSsiOnist and
a calamity bowler, he is placed on three
platforms, one calling for whisky, one
teetotalism and the other
HleSS corn and more hell" Readers
beyond the lines Of Kansas might deem
this a campaign exaggeration, but it is
absolutely true. This Jerry No. ,, is
actually the nominee of three conven-
lions holding each to the doctrines re-
ferred to respectively. This ex-Repub-
ican evidently expects TO sketch 'em
4 comm and a guyen."
The last of this quartette is Frank
Doster the Tallyrand of the Pop party,
l man who in Ianting less than his
,oadjutors Sneers more. With more
brains than all the other three combin-
ID, more political experience than all
.hree, knowing more law than his
been so embittered by reverSeS and dis
by defeats and blasted
lmbitons that he distrusts all good and
ices only the dark side. Consequently
With him nothing is right, all is wrong.
f he has one political desire greater
han another it is to see everything re-
'ersed. There is nothing pertaining to
he social and political life of the coun-
~ that he would not overturn. His
reed is to level by pulling down, rath-
r than TO even by building up. More
,rainy than his conferees he is the
more dangerous. He seeks to be the I
upreme udge of the state, whose consti-
ution and laws he believes TO be blum
Iers, to be the head of the court Of last
esort, whose decisions he holds TO have I
'een unrighteous. Plausible and ;
mooth on the stump there is only Bit
erneSs in his heart. there is only dis
ent and depreciation in his brain.
While no doubt he is honest in his be-
iefs, his convictions nevertheless come
f a mind askew and rebeIlouS, there
ore dangerous.
These are the "Big Four which the
lana gers of the disconnected minoriti $ ]
f this state seek by fusion to foiSt up ]
N Kansas. These are the four men {
Who viii set the pace and control our |
'ublic affairs should the Republican !
icket be defeated. There would be
10 hope for Kansas at home or abroad l
or years We would become by-word ;
md slur, Stunned and deSpised
OUR WHITE SQUADRON.
Dick Blue, congressman-at-large {