The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-01
KEEP THE DEMOCRATS DOWN.

Wherever the voter of Wichita finds
Democratic candidates head this year
he should hit it. For. he may rest
assured, tat head is put up by and for
the express use of local Democratic
bosses.
The nation is supremely disgusted
with the Democratic party. disgusted
with Cleveland and his emasculated
policy Of puerility and poverty-dis-
gusted with Democratic imbecility in
the department of the treasury, in the
department of agriculture, in the de-
partment Of the interior-lisgusted
with the endless sale of bonds to for
eign OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES with a
neryelesS vascillating foreign policy as
we'll as a ruinous and pauperizing do
mestic record.
Cleveland and all his administration
may appear great success to the aver
age federal appOintee who has TO be
appointed again, but in the eyes OF the
people it is not a success, and cOnse-
quently there is an attempt by the
Democratic bosses to hide their little
schemes under nOn-partisan move
mentS. This is not true Of Wichita
alone. There are nOn-partisan tickets
not only in Wichita and in Kansas;
they can be found this year in Ohio,
in Indiana, in Illinois, in Missouri, and
in Oklahoma, and in every case the
nOn-partisan tickets are the sly man
ipulation of the local Democratic
bosses, the pets of the papers which
are friendly TO Grover Cleveland and
the favorites Of the Grover Cleveland
pOStmasterS in every instance.
The office-seeking Democrat, asham-
ed and abashed at the infomaus misrule
of his party, has, in fear and trembling
placed these non-partisan tickets in
the field, hoping by this ancient politi-
cal trick to bamboOzle enough Repub-
icans to win.
The Republican who will be bam-
bOozled by any such Democratic fed
eral appOintee, Grover Cleveland wOr-
shipper scheme is a very shOrt-sighted |
The men who are urging
him to vote those nOn-p3rtisan tickets |
are men manipulated by other men. |
whose pauncheS are full of plums given |
them by his pot-bellied majesty in |
The very papers which |
are supporting those non-partiSan can |
4 I'm, IN, IN,
and the other states, are the very same |
papers that will this fall be asking the |
voters TO vote for Grover Cleveland for |
1 third term. The very men they are
asked to support now will be moving
heaven and earth within six months TO
iOist upon this country again this bond
SSuing, deficit-accruing, old soldier
'obbing, tariff Juggling prosperity-kill-
ng administration that we now have.
VIII the advise of these men and these
,aperS be good then? VIII the advice
# the Democratic organs and federal
in the fall of 1896 that
Cleveland is a grand good man, better
han Jefferson, better than Washing
on, better than Lincoln, that Cleve-
and's administration has been a boon
o this country and his acts those of a
ighteous and honest man he accepted
S good horse sense or idiOtic driveling
y the average voter
And if their advice is poor in the fall
f 1896, is it not likely that it is poor
n the spring of 1896? In short does
nyOne think that the nOn-partiSan can
idates are not manipulated by the
bosses? And does anyone
retend to say that the ''non-partisan'
Democratic Cleveland Democrats, now
andidateS in the city of Wichita, are
ny better, or viii make any better Of
cialS. or Will do their duty by the
ublic any better than the Republican |
There are two tickets in the field.
ne is the Republican ticket, made up
f good men representing a party with
5 principles of good, economical and
Onest government The other is ;
ticket calling itself 4 non
artisan ticket, made up of Democrats, /
Dr the most part, who have voted the ]
ticket all their lives, who /
ill vote the ticket for the rest of their
YES, and who never voted for a Re ,
ublic3n in their lives and never Will. I
.
Is IT NOT A FACT?