The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-11-18

Chicago Times-Herald, which made SO
hard a fight for Mckinley and the Re
publican platform, probably has sew
eral Kansas readers In the midst OF
the campaign the Times Herald, it Will
be remembered, published an expose on
the Nail Trust showing most dishon-
est and tyrranical domination or the
hardware trade by that combination
Let il be said that nine ont or ten OF the
Times Heralds readers in Kansas, IL
Republicans, ,rembled in their Repub-
lican faith when they read this. 1t made
Populist votes-there is no doubt OF IL.
Kansans said: See; even the Sold
standard papers themselves confess
that this condition exists. Bryan Is
fighting the trusts. We are for Bryan
Not one Kansan in a hundred VINO
read that article argued out to loSlcai
conclusion that if the Times Herald, an
ardent supporter Of Mckinley, CONFESS
ed Mckinley was the champion Oh
trusts. it would not have fared this de
nunciation of the Nail Trust into the
midst Of an exciting and then supposed
to be close campaign. Had the Times-
Herald been the dishonest sheet winch
many a Kansas Populist held it TO be
from its support of Mckinley, it would
have merely failed to denounce. but
the trouble with the Kansas argument
on that was that it accepted the repeat
cd charge that the trusts were behind
Mckinley and also accepted the deciar-
alton of Bryan that he was their enemy.
and that Mckinley was not. Popuilsts
believe that the trust is a menace to
trade and to the rights OF the people.
They believe they are all alike guilty.
This assumption is the basis OF hair
the Populist votes cast.
Another staunch supporter OF Major
Mckinley is the Chicago Tribune. In
the midst of the campaign the chicago
Tribune published special article
showing that ]. Pierrepont Morgan had
come to the aid Of the United States
treasury by supplying gold which he
had covered abroad by issuing his bills
of exchange payable in ninety days and
that in order to cancel these bills he was
going to force an early movement OF
cotton by closing down on certain cot
ton factors" money lenders) in the
south. Populists in Kansas read the
Tribune's article without supposlng
that the Chicago Tribune itself had con-
fessed that Mckinley should not be
elected, not because Mckinley had IN
any way defended either the condition
which made Morgan's action possible,
or the act itself, but because Bryan
occasionally denounced Morgan in his
speeches.
In these things Kansas has been
thoughtless: that is all. The good peo-
ple. the land over, are against tyrannl-
cal trusts and corporate greed; they are
against a narrow manipulation OF the
money market in the interests Of one
man: they are against the palpable
evils which infest the land and which
would never have been known to Pop
ulists had it not been for the great news
papers of the eastern cities, who first
exposed them and still continue to bat
tie against them
Kansas, to get an obnoxious rat out,
has been advocating the burning OF the
palace. The rest of the nation has just
emphatically announced that a poker
will do the deed with less loss, and
laughs at the Sunfower state.
And no one in the broad land will be
happier than a Kansan if it proves only
| a rat. But even if it should not, that
will not excuse Kansas for wanting to
burn the whole thing down.