The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-08-05
RAILWAY RULE IN KANSAS.

tige of its old platform and submerg-
ed its old-time leaders in Chicago, was
a protest forced by high-handed cor
porate trust and syndicate rule. Poll
teal revolution is inevitable if the cor
poration influences which are being
thrust into every convention, into every
legislative and judicial body, Is not
smote hip and thigh
1t is known to the people of Kansas,
or should be known TO them, that the
railway and other corporate interests
of this state are bent upon defeating
the nomination of Judge David Mar
! tin in the Republican state conyen-
ton. These corporations have no poll
| tics other than the desire to control the
dominant party, its executive, its JUDI
ciary and its legislative. David Mar
| tin, having in a decision or two. shown
| that he believes that the individual
/ has some rights which corporations
must respect, systematic and far
reaching effort is being put forth to en-
| compass his defeat There is no ques-
| ton about this. Were not our sources
| of information unquestioned, the thing
| is In the very air. Railway attorneys
are active in every county in the state.
! The delegates to the Republican STATE
convention elected last Saturday in
| one county were instructed to oppose
! the nomination of Judge Martin. This
was done directly and wholly by local
attorneys and railway employees at the
instigation of prominent railway
magnate One of the schemes TO in
| iure Judge Martin in the estimation OF
the Republicans of the state-and we
| think it one of he most disreputabie Of
which we ever heard-iS TO have Judge
Martins name presented to the Pop
convention, today, at Abilene. The
tools to do this work have been secured
and no doubt it will be done. This is
for the sole purpose of discrediting
Judge Martins Republicanism and rails
ing a howl against him that he is
Populist. Judge Martin has never
been anything but Republican all his
life. He never voted any other ticket,
or advocated any other principles He
summarily declined to have his name
mentioned in connection with a Pop
convention, but they will do it
The excuse set up by these corpora
ton attorneys for their fight on Judge
Martin is that he is a ''silver man."
This is a subterfuge, a mere trick.
These fellows know that without the
support and hearty cooperation of the
silver Republicans the Republican
ticket cannot come within miles Of an
election in Kansas this fall. The only
man who can bring or add any
strength to the ticket is David Mar
tin. To permit these corporation at
torneyS and other tools to defeat him
in convention is to jeopardize the sue
cess of the ticket. At the best there
are a lot of Jonahs who cannot be IN
prove as effectual in keeping the craft
afioat- The political strikers and lick
spittle aspirants who hang around To
peka see this, but they are afraid TO
open their mealy mouths. They dare
not say that their soul is their own in
the presence of any high railway Of
fetal These political barnacles who
can neither be scraped loose or kicked
from the old ship which has safely
made port so often. are becoming null
titudinous. They threaten to sink the
party, not by their weight but through
their cowardly subservancy to the cor
poration boss and the railroads hired
man. These combined influences are
found at work in every primary and in
every county, district and state conven-
ton. The Republican party must rise
superior to them or it is gone. There
| are two men connected with the state
administration that the party manag-
ers dare not turn down, at the request
of any railroad manager or anybody
| else. and one of these is Judge David
, Martin, chief justice of the supreme
| court. His silver views cannot in any
I way touch his decisions as a judge.
| No one claims such 4 thing for @ in
slant But he is one of the people and
| he is for the people and the party can
| only turn him down at the disgust Of
| the people, and at the peril of the
party.
The average railway official is &C
credited with more than ordinary
! shredwness. They are employed by
the directory and paid high salaries
only because of their supposed superior
intelligence and powers for quick OBJ
servation. This being true We are
astonished that they fail to see that
inviting cyclone with two distinctive
twists, which if it comes will wrench
the life out of the interests the repre-
sent In defeating Martin and with
| only would elect an open and ayowed
Populist enemy 10 his place, but engen-
| der such feeling OF resentment among
the people of the state as would GER
tainly be found crystalized, beyond the
influence of passes or patronage in the
next legislature. II Judge Martin is
defeated it will he a legislature of in
sTucted members on the railroad ques-
ton, next winter. with new and enlarg-
ed powers for the state railway COM
misSioners and authority TO enforce
their findings. behind all of which will
| be n siInTen,a cnIlrf rn sustain rho now