The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-06-25
Daily - Eagle
N. M MURDOCH. Editor
TIE EAGLE AND CAPITAL.

The Topeka Capital, in its defence OF
the bastard fast mail scheme, says that
the Eagle deplores the fact that this
train will enable a few Kansas City
sheets to get into the state at the ex-
pense os kansas papers. 1t is not a
case of diplomacy. 1t Is one Of indigna-
ton. It is a job of favoritism from
first to last, involving official bad faith
end corporate outrage. The unexpend-
ed balance, If any, occurs on the ooth
day of this month, and could have been
applied anywhere in the United States,
or could upon the other hand nave
been saved to the people by the post
master general. If it was decided 10
give it to this section of the country
and to the Santa Fe road, why was not
the mail from Wichita expedited into
oklahoma? All central and western
Kansas, along the lines of the Santa Fe,
Union Pacific and Rock Island, receive
mails in the early morning, from the
east. but the same mails are until the
afternoon reaching central Oklah
BY this Job the people Of southwest
Kansas and Oklahoma will have their
mails delayed and will receive them at
a still later hour in the day. The Eagle
cares nothing about the Kansas Clty
papers. There is but one paper publish
ed Ia Kansas City that in any sense RI
walls the Eagle as newspaper. and that
is an evening paper, which will not be
benefited but injured by this red-tape
outrage. Two hundred thousand peo-
pIe in south Kansas, and as many
more in Oklahoma, or in round num-
bers. a half million Of people Will be
disconnected that a couple OF papers
with their extra early and half-made-
I'D editions may be given new field,
and a chance, to one of them, 10 pay
q particular debt consisting Of CAM
paign money loaned. If the Capital Is
to be benefited we are glad of 1t, but
sorry that there was not some other
way TO do 1t than at the expense or
retarded malls to all the people of all
the towns and cities south Of the San
ia Fe's main line If the Capital is
benefited it will be the only institution
or interest in the state. The town of
Newton is dragged in. Newton will
have received her regular morning mail
two hours before the arrival OF the ex-
pedited bob-tail carrying half-baked
editions of the X. c. papers, and there
fore is not interested unless they want
the Capital. Iu would have been cheap
er for the Postmaster General and
much more just to the people south of
that place, if the Department had es-
tablished q good morning paper out of
the postal bonds for Newton. The Ea-
gle was not screaming because the
CAPITALS mail is to be facilitated, nor
because the town of Newton was to be
benefited, but only that it is proposed
to do it at the expense of retarded mails
for a much larger number of people and
q dozen larger towns than Newton. The
Eagle never fought anything that prom
Used any good or advantage TO the peo-
pie Of Kansas, as a whole. Upon the
other hand, had the other influential
papers of this state for the past twenty
five years, been as vehement in the de-
nunciation of the methods employed by
Kansas City, Missouri, to control our
legislatures and TO manipulate the man
agements of the railroads which Kan
sas-not Missouri built, the domineer-
ing boss and blood-sucking octopus at
the mouth of the Kaw would never
have been in a position 10 make de-
mands on congress or upon the Depart.
ments at Washington, detrimental to
the interests of a state which has made
her. The Capital, as heretofore, will
doubtless complain that it doesn't
know what the Eagle is talking about,
but the people do.