The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-22
JUDGE DAVID MARTIN.

As the readers of the Eagle are aware
we have dissented from and deprecated
every proposition Of the Republican
leaders of the state to shelve Chief
Justice Martin, asserting that the new
candidates named for his place was
| to ,ir:eat his romii,atiop without as
signing real reason. At every oppor-
tuuity and upon every occasion. with
out eriticising either the worthiness or
the claims of the new candidates, We
Lave personally urged upon Individual
politicians the danger TO the party of
such a program, and the wisdom OF re-
nominating him. The only objection
which has been openly urged against
him was his monetary views. He is
free silver man. If man cannot
be against gold monometallism and at
the same time be good Republican
then Kansas is no longer Republican
state Judge Martin holds to exactly
the position of the Eagle on that issue.
Which is that of John j. Ingalls,, and
which was that of r. B. Plumb. He,
they and we may be wrong on that
question but that fact remains TO be
demonstrated by either proof or actual
test. Men who have been Republi-
cans for forty years, and who have
never bolted a nomination or scratched
q ticket, from the origin of the party
down to the present should not now be
kicked ont because of any difference
of opinion touching problem about
which the wisest differ, and which
has never been a party issue or tenet
Ia the past, even if it is now, which is
doubtful; for the Republican party IT.
self but thirty days ago declared. con-
ditionally, for silver. thereby admit
convictions on the silverquestionc cannot
initiate against his usefulness on the
bench unless indeed it can be shown
that no sound mind can favor silver,
and that might prove no easy task.
His honesty is conceded, his judicial
learning granted, while his love OF
right, his industry, and his sympathy
for the struggling masses are facts of
every day comment and commenda-
ton. The Eagle has said and it still
believes, that his nomination would
prove an element of strength rather
than of weakness to the ticket. True
the L. S. supreme court reversed Judge
Martin in a very important decision,
hur tbot CO ma c11nranoa onr1r>t ravorSad
itself by holding an income tax to be
unconstitutional, after it had first held
the ether way, and then changed its
mind If the opportunity were offered
it might change its mind also as to
David Martins opinion touching the
reach of mortgage law. Whatever
doubts the people of Kansas may enter
tain TO the honesty of the Z. S. supreme
court they have none touching that of
David Martin, and the politicians of
this state will find that out should they
turn him down, either because of his
silver views, or that the L. S. supreme
court, in its silken robes, couldn't dis
cover where the mortgage has any
rights of redemption which the money
loaner is bound to respect.
But even from a selfish partisan pol
icy, as the pull of a wire to win, the
nomination OF David Martin would be
the Smartest thing left for the bosses
to do Whether the majority Of Kan
sas Republicans are for silver or not,
whether majority of the voters Of the
state, without regard to party, are for
silver or not, the undisputed fact re-
mains that until we are kicked out, a
few Of us Kansas Republicans are with
Martin in his silver views, and will be
until we are convinced that we are
wrong. Being ourselves kickers our
kicking counts. We want to be patted
on the backs and told that we are all
right on everything else, we want 10
he trusted and affiliated with, and
honOred. One proof of the genuine
ness of such love and respect would
he the nomination of Judge Martin,
and it would be all the better for the
ticket were such nomination made
unanimously.