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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-17
PRESCRIPTION IN POLITICS.

One OF the faults Of all politicians is
that they cannot look beyond a tenn
porary victory When this New Year
dawned. the assumption was general
all over this country that it was a Re
publican year as il certainly was and
certainly is at the present time. But
TO be faithful 10 the truth it must be
said that it is not so much a Republican
year now as il was three months ago.
The politicians feeling the atmOs-
phere as the whole nation felt 1t came
10 the conclusion that it was 4 Repub-
lean year, and all that was necessary
for election was To secure a nOmina-
ton The fights for delegates 10 na-
tional conventions and other conven-
tionS have been made SkirmlShes. The
politicians assuming that it was a Re
publican year are fighting one another
With an Intensity which they should
now reserve and have hitherto reserved
for tie regular campaign against a
legitimate opposition The result has
NCNA htA~S dAA stNS ~ NDElI Sh ~ It THIS
country. Every Eagle printed shows
four OK five Republican bolts. There
is good reason for this and il Il be-
cause bitter and unrelenting fights are
being made for nominations. and when
a side i victorious il ST once becomes
prcscriptive. IL throws out the dele
cations Of the opposing Republicans
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THAT FIFTY CENT FAKE.

If the goldites knew it they only show
the poverty of argument in reiteratine
! the ''fifty-cent dollar" fake 1t is liz
by implication and in fact 1t is q
bold assumption OF premises, in order
to enforce a conclusion. and they know
it. Who ever heard of debased sill
yer coin in this country? Where is the
| precedent in coinage issues, or cur
rency legislation that warrants such an
assumption? Even under the despised
Sherman law, which they hold up as q
climax of financial heresy, every dollar
| issued was worth q hundred cents. II
is putting up an arbitrary standard
which they have no right to do, and
from that standard, arriving at a con
clusion which is neither ethical or
truthful 1t is a double falSehood
which proves nothing but the want of
sensible argument There is better
ground for the assumption that the
gold dollar is a 200-cent dollar than that
the silver dollar would he worth only
fifty cents. 1t cannot be denied that
the purchasing power of silver dollar,
as measured by all other values, is as
great today as when it was demonetiz-
ed, while that Of the gold dollar has in
creased 100 per cent
Then who is to warrant that even the
unlimited coinage of silver as legal ten
der money would result in a fifty-cent
dollar? The government stamp on
all coins has been good up to date. Are
we to assume that the vast resources of
this country are inadequate as pledge
for a part of its issue of coin? Surely
it is not proven by the past, nor is it
warranted by the proportion of silver
to the plighted faith, not to say the
wealth of this nation. The fact is
that nobody believes it, not even the
claquers and strikers for a gold stan
dard. 1t is simply a garbled view of
the whole question, manufactured from
whole cloth and promulgated through
selfish interests 1t is the assumption
of an insignificant few who would re-
strict the legal tender money to the
least possible fraction of our currency
if they could. 1t will be time enough
to stop the coinage Of a debased cur
rency after it has been done. The
people are not chasing phantoms, nor
would they be slow in repudiating an
act which had proven 10 be against
their material interests. They repudiat-
ed the Mckinley tariff at a late cleo
ton. 1t proves a disastrous failure,
and the way they will repudiate their
Reputation next November will satisfy
even the gold fiends that the business
interests Of the country are safe in their
hands. The trouble with the fifty
cent dollar lie is. that it was Matched
in London. and Il is being worked for
all il is worth by the Belmonts and
MorganS Of this country.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-17
AccLAMATIoN RARE THIS YEAR.

1t is something in this great year OF
controversy to secure a nomination by
reclamation. This is what Elrick C.
Cole of western Kansas has done. He
received all the votes of the Dodge
City convention for the nomination Of
an appellate judge.
Cole received the nomination, not
because he was the only available man
for the place in all western Kansas,
but because the Republicans generally
knew him to be fitted for the place and
the aspirants for judicial honors in par
ticular were ready to surrender their
own ambitions in order that they might
reward merit in a man with similar
ambitions
What the opposition will do now, it
is by no means certain. The Populists
will in all Likelihood put a man into
the field, and the Democrats will scat
ter their votes. With a united Re-
publican vote behind his back there is
no reason why Judge Cole should not
receive the election by a large, COM
Portable majority.
Ali that is necessary is for the voters
to know individually what his talents
are in the judicial line and they will
make his election merely perfunction-
airy. He is young man of splendid
legal parts. His judicial decisions re-
feet at once an advanced stand for
evenhanded equity, so characteristic of
the younger judges of this country,
and a conservatism which is based ON
sound reason only and not on the petri-
fed prejudices of ancient rulings
The average voter is less partisan in
selecting his men for judges than in
making the choice of any other officer.
If the voters of western Kansas learn
the truth-that Elrick G. Cole is an
excelling judge-they will elect him
without much regard TO party, just as
the Republicans nominated him unani-
mously.
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without right or any consideration of
what the result in the future will be.
The opposing and crushed faction has
probably been whipped before, but
hitherto il has been rendered an apol-
Ogy and after some Skulking has climb
ed into the band wagon and helped
heap up common majority But the
fights this year are not being made in
this way. The faction that won keeps
on grinding the faction that lost under
its foot, and not satisfied with whip
ping it, it attempts TO drive it entirely
out of the party
This sort of politics is bad and, In
any other year, would certainly be
fatal
Prescription will not work in this
country so long as men can leave one
party and find another willing 10 re-
ceive them into membership. The pol
iticians, and the country just at this
moment seems to be full OF them, who
think that success can be gained by
prescription are making the biggest
mistake Of their lives.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-17

silver for gold. But it got the benefit
of both metals. So long as it could ex-
change gold for a silver dollar or a
silver for a gold dollar both metals
were available to the full extent for
increasing the supply of standard
money. When, for any reason, one
metal left the country, the other
promptly flowed in and filed the gap
in our circulation without causing the
slightest disturbance. That was BIZ
metallism. What are the conditions
now? There has been for several years
a steady outflow of gold. If our minis
were open 10 the coinage Of both metals
as before 1873 we could make this good
by receiving silver in its place; but be-
ing denied this privilege we must buy
back the gold with bonds, and we have
already issued S262, 100000 of bonds
for that purpose. This is mOnometal-
lis1n. MonometalliSm restricts coun-
try to the use of one metal only.
If it loses that or any considerable
proportion Of ii, it must go without or
buy it back at a sacrifice. Bimetallism
gives it the use of both and enables il
when one metal goes abroad TO fill its
place with the other without loss to the
circulation.
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BURIED THE DEVIL.

The Devil is not dead so the burying
| of him is not going to keep him down
The Old Boy is still very much alive,
roaming up and down the earth, seek
! ing his victims among the children of
the woman whom he tempted. His
horns, hoofs and tail are very much in
! evidence every day, everywhere Still
the Salvation army at Troy, New York,
the other day went through the form
of burying the arch enemy of human
kind. The occasion was the passage
of the new Raines liquor law, which
the Salvationists claimed had knocked
off his horns, pulled off his hoofs and
curtailed his barbed caudal appendage,
leaving him as dead as a mackerel.
No, the Devil is not dead. Christian
enlightenment may throw sand in his
eyes, brotherly love loosen horn, and
united church painfully twist his tail,
but he is not dead. Progressive civ
ilization is Gripping him not a little
and Christ will yet claim him for a
thousand years, but he is still doing
business at the old stand, open day and
night. He'll cannot be abolished by
penal statutes and Paradise cannot be
regained by a deputy sheriff armed
with a legal process. If statutes and
penalties could destroy the Devil and
Danish sin, Moses would have been the
Redeemer instead of Christ Human
laws are, indeed, potent either TO sup
press or encourage vice, but the effect
of any particular law cannot be known
until it has been tried and proved. But
whatever legislation may do, it cannot
kill the devil nor abolish sin, has
it any such place in the divine scheme
of redemption. The celebration OF
the enactment of the Raines law by
burying the Devils efigy was there
fore little better than piece of saeri-
IaUiouS hTffooOarv
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-17
ASSASSIN REWARD.

A number of rich Spanish nabobs, in
Havana, supposedly at the suggestion
of Weyler, have made up a purse of
/ $4,000, $4,000 to be given to anyone
/ who will asSasSinate Gomez and $780,
/ 600 to the one who shall assassinate
Maceo. This is horrible, but not I'M
expected at the hands of the butcher
Weyler. Maceo and Gomez have been
killed times almost innumerable, but
being still awe and fighting for the
rights and liberties of the people, this
is diabolicaL
At the very moment that Cleveland
was addressing his humiliating letter
to the Spanish crown, letter Of obse-
quious nonsense, Maxine Gomez was
writing a letter in which he declared
that Cuba would submit to anything
which meant liberty, but to nothing
which meant Spanish rule.
The question now is with Weyler
seeking to encompass the assassination
of these leaders, if they will not in turn
take advantage of the Ideally fever
season to wipe out the Spanish army.
With belligerency granted, the Cubans
would be forced to accept an armistice
in view of the impracticability of the
Spanish soldiers taking the field with
out at the same time taking the fever.
Without belligerent rights and treated
as pirates and banditti by WeyIer,
what is to prevent an aggressive cam
paign by Gomez in face of a plague
which to him is at most an inconven-
fence? 1t may be that he prefers to
spend these months in strengthening
his forces and equipment 1t may be
that the policy of non-retaliation for
butchery, and the observance of the
rules of war which has thus far char
acterized his victorious generalship,
will be extended TO protect Weyler IN
til the disease has spent its force. This
would be magnanimouS, though unap-
preciated. If Gomez wills it, the Span
iards could be driven out of the island
under cover Of the fever.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-17
SWEAT OR KICK.

Auditor Cole refuses to pay the sal
aries of state university professors
only for such time as they are actually
present with their classes and discharg-
ing their duties. Cole holds that when
professors are rambling around Eu-
rope, hunting in South America or ex-
plOring for the North Pole, that they
are not doing that which the state hired
them. If COiS is correct in his view a
number of professors of that institu-
ton will lose half their salaries. Some
of them are away much of the time on
one pretense or another. The state
does not undertake to educate these
teachers. If university teachers are TO
be permitted to go bug-hunting and the
like, why not the employees and teach
erS of the other state Institutions, and
for that matter, Of the public schools.
While absent others must fill their
places, or otherwise their places should
be abolished as unnecessary. If these
professors must have their outings let
them provide their own substitutes and
then let the state pay them a fair price
for the bricabrac secured by them.
The bottom truth is all of the big iu-
situations of the state, governmental,
charitable and educational, are located
in one corner of the state, and by COM
bining the balance of the state is made
TO sweat. The question for the inhab-
itants Of the other three-fourthS of the
state to settle is whether it is cheaper
to sweat than to kick. Auditor Cole
has decided that so far as he is con-
cerned it is at least legal duty to kick
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-17
..PooR OLD MISSOURI"

The double-dOllar crowd nave been
utterly routed in Missouri and the gold
standard is trailing in the slough OF
GeSpond. The Wall street-administra-
ton combine imported orators and con-
trolled all the big dailies IN the land
of Vest and Bland, but even the people
! OF poor old Missouri could not be made
to see that dollar with the purchas-
| ing power of two dollars was good
thing, especially so long as the dollar
was in the Golfers of the other fellow
and that fellows partner living in Eu-
rope. Even the city of St Louis with
its Z. S. sub-treasury has gone over
whelmingly against the appreciated
metal which is sought to be held as the
single, the only standard of value. This
Missouri episode is opening the eyes
of the money mongers and we hope IL
will prove a pointer TO the leaders Of
the Republican party. The cuckoo or
ganS have ceased to chattel that 1.-The
silver craze is dead" SO persistently
as this cry kept up last fall that many
bimetallist papers Topped to the double
dollar side. In the meantime circulars
and pamphlets, many Of them being
filled with statistical matters which
showed much labor and painstaking.
We will pay our gold standard friends
the compliment to say that no organiZa-
ton was ever more perfect and no cam
paign was ever prosecuted with greater
vigor. Yet despite all this it is beyond
all further question that the free silver
cause is stronger than it was two years
ago. Two years ago the Missouri Dem
ocratS were forced to qualify their
money plank, to dilute and weaken it
by concessions to their adversaries. Two
years ago the gold men were present
in force in the Tennessee convention
and able to put up dangerous fight
for control of that body. In both states
the Democratic sentiment is today
practically unanimous. The trouble
with the double-dOllar crowd is their
inability % convince the average man
that his property values have not
shrunken fully One-half, that times are |
not hard, that debts and taxes are not |
twice as hard TO pay. Theories and |
figures, however convincing, cannot do 1
away with an existing condition which /
in running One-third of the men of the |
country has left another third crippled |
and discouraged.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-17
THE FLOW OF GOLD.

'GOld would flow out Of the country
in the event of the rehabilitation of
silver" is the one string upon which
the dOuble-dOllar crowd never tire of
harping. As that is just what gold has
been doing in a disastrous way for two
or three years past there is no great
scare in that howl. An editorial writer
in the New York Sun has bumped
very thick head against an argument
made by on. Charles f Crisp in Georgia
in favor of the free coinage of silver.
Judge Crisp had referred to the diSap-
pearance of gold from our circulation
under the act of 1T92 and of silver IN
der the act of 1884 by reference TO the
conflicting ratios in this country and
France. The ratio of the French mint
kept the commercial values of the two
metals practically steady at the valua-
ton fixed by law. But when two ma
tons coin freely At different ratios both
ratios, of course, cannot control. and
each metal will seek the country whose
law gives it the higher valuation. This
was the substance OF Judge Crisp's
argument and the following is the
Suns reply:
Here were two instances in which
the mighty fat Of the United States
congress signed by the president,
couldn't keep gold and silver on a par
ity' il value at a fixed ratio, or Keep
them both in circulation. II was mono
metallism every time Yet the free
silverites, Joined by Judge Crisp him
self in the close OF this Identical speech,
plead that the United States can main
tain what they call 'bimetallisrl' by
starting alone on free silver coinage
at Is 10 l. We are living, We are NOV
ing, in q grand and awful time"
1t is plain that the writer of the fore
going did not even dimly perceive the
meaning Of Judge CriSp's argument.
and that he does not understand the
position Of the bimejalliStS or know
what bimeJalliSm means. BimetauiSm
exists in any country when its minis
are freely open 10 the coinage OF both
metals. when il gets the full benefit of
beth in sustaining and repleniShing the
volume OF is standard money and
when 4 stable ratio of value is main
tanned between them. Leading and
candid mOnometallists agree that
France by its mint ratio Of 15ls 10
substantially controlled the relative
market values Of gold and silver I'D 10
1873. When the United States set IN
q law, first in 1892 and then in 1884.
in conflict with the French law. il sim
ply resulted in this counry's exchang-
ing first its gold for silver and next its
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-17
PRoHIR INCONSISTENCY.

The Oskaloosa Independen: comes az Us
with a knock-down argument against our
assertion that the Republican party was
founded upon opposition 20 law It scouts
the idea Of comparing the Infamous fugi-
tive slave law 20 the righteous prohib!tory
Law. II proves Just what we sai3-thzt IN
the eyes 0: certain fanatics. the problbi-
tory law IS the only law that men should
concern themselves about enforcing. TIE
fugitive slave law WAS just as j. gal as
the prohibitory Law, and X was sustained
By the supreme court OF IRE United states.
But Il may Be according 70 he new gospel
Of prohibition, that ever man has r@Eht
70 rs own notion az 10 what Is al e.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-17

adaptation and variation of species and
Of natural selection The question OF
heredity has also established two op-
posing biological schools. While this
quarrel among the doctors Of science
has given ground to such theological
scientists as ST George MiYart. the
great Catholic botanist, for a repudia-
ton of evolution; il has (which Is OF
vastly more significance and encourage
menO given rise to a school of recon
oilers Of modern science and religion.
Such men as Professor Joseph Leconte
Abbott and DR.. Henry Drummond
within the church. They try 10 show
Christian inspiration in the doctrine
of evolution and to prove evolution in
Christianity.
To an unprecedented and unradical
view there can be no doubt that the
principle of evolution ennobles the act
of creation and gives the idea of God
sessed. 1t is decidedly a notable ut
terance, then, which DR.. Andrew ID.
White makes in his new work-''A
History Of the Warfare of Science with
Theology in ChriStendom." DR. White
is one of the highest authorities in the
world today on the various aspects OF
religion and science and their differ
ences and disputes. Declares he:
My belief is that in the field left 70
them-their proper field-the clergy VIII
more and more, as they cease 10 strng-
gle against scientific methods and con-
illusions, do work even nobler and more
beautiful than anything they have
heretofore done. And this is saying
much. My conviction is that science,
though ii has evidently conquered dog
matte theology based on Biblical texts
and ancient modes of thought, will go
hand-in-hand with religion; and that
although theological control will con-
tinue to diminish, religion, as seen in
the recognition of "a Power in the uni
verse not ourselves, which makes for
Righteousness, and in the love of God
and of our neighbor, will steadily grow
stronger and stronger, not only in the
American institution of learning, but
in the world at large.
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famous or righteous law. and to violate
or enforce 1t ordingly.-kansas Chief.
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

| Judge NIcAtee viii arrange for the future
residence of Bill Raider this week
Shelby Cullom Of Illinois. also claims he
has friends in the Oklahoma delegation.
The sheriff OF Greer county has notified
DeFord that hs has only one prisoner IN
jail.
The nearest the average Oklahoma edi-
tor comes 90 praying Is when he renders
q une-thanhs for rain
Near Blackburn a vein OF coal has been
found at depth of eighty feet 1t IS not
quite a foot IN thickness.
Those uninstructed delegates from Ok
lahoma are going TO have lots OF company
when they reach St LOUIS after al
Jim Kelly prints William McKinley's
name In bigger type than be does that OF
Dennis Flynn. He ought TO be impeached-
whittinehm should Iarat his national
committeeman boom out on the Rlslto at
Enid and see Il It IS yet strong enough to
Craze
Dick Plunkett has been appointed bailr
for ne grand jury at Perry and he can
lex them all with one hand. the foreman
thrown in.
Henry Asp Is said 20 b carrying 50 nnys-
terious a look since he was made delegate
that some OF his old friends wouldn't re-
cognizs him
II the officers didn't get Ira Terriu they
viii have nice damage suit on their
hands for keeping an innocent man locked
up this long.
Who do the presidential managers cor
respond with when they want 20 and cot
something about ths Oklahoma delegates
70 s.. LOUISE
The Office OF probate fudge a. Perry wss
suspended the other day. Judge AussiiAr
couldn't work the combination aaf al ne
docke;s were inside tie SAFE.
That explosion % a whisky barrel a.
KlnRashe- has caught on al over the
United states 7; has been rspslb.ishes
from saa Francisco 70 New YorS
A colored gin was found guilty. q lar
ceny a. Perry ard fuei 81 sac cent 20
AL sac was sooa after re.sase1 a. ase
had 10 money. "to save e1psase @ ise
cty-"
Bsu Crimes. A. J. Say aua Colonel Day
have been elected directors IN the Arkso-
Eas city ard Blackwell railroad for ar
o-aer year. Grimes has taksn q wagon
ard E1H haul Is pavt ot ths dlvi1ea1s
home oysrlaa1
Eala Wave: 4 ypgrE zaz Isft tAIs
city 6urirE The Eintsrs taxing Wfta I'm .
sllve- ai1o born. 80. s. Cohn" make. whl-h
g ire properly q M Ed Corast bard
sad younE nlaa saOuG send sd born
hsrs@ frgzn Missouri list a. soon ~ ia
syss rest o. this item O. suffer ergoagrs.