The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-06-22
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9ai1Y Eagle
NJ. NJ MURDOCH, Editor
THAT EXPEDITED MAIL AGAIN.

department, whereby mail service ]!
expedited at one end for the benefit OF
two Missouri papers and retarded at the
other end to the detriment Of all the
big towns and counties OF Southwest
Kansas and of Oklahoma. The failure
of the Capitals article comes of the
combined ignorance and prejudice OF
Its editor. His ill-conditioned sheer EVIL
dences all the way through that he does
not know what he is talking about. It
Is certain that he has never read the act
containing the proviso relating to the
unexpended balance in question AS
to the Capitals personal filings at the
Republicanism of the editor of the
Eagle. they are too contemplate to no
tice. They are on a par with The char
acter of a paper which has been more
of a break on the wheels than an in
gpiration or stimulus 10 the progress or
tbe community in which it is published.
AS for anything else, or touching his
attempted parallel between himself and
the writer the editor Of the Eagle was
voting for Republican principles and
lighting for the Republican party be-
fore the editor Of the Capital was out
of his clouts.
Touching the responsibility for this
expedited mail train, which fails 10 eX-
pedite except for a lot of people who
will not be out of bed, and which VIII
compel the holding Of the real mail
train until it is overtaken by the half
baked editions Of two Missouri papers,
we do not believe the assertion of the
Capital that Judge Sam Peters Of New
ton, backed by the people Of that town,
inspired the order. much less had any
thing TO do with the contract Subse-
uuently entered into to carry ii out, fur
Their than TO urge a fast mail train from
Kansas City to their town. NewtOn's
interest in the matter is not in an eX
pedited mail, but in the men who run
1t. If there was no ''job" in it, and II
1t Was but a desire upon the part Of the
department TO serve the people and not
certain Interests, why was not the facil-
jtated mail train run directly west
through Emporia and made TO Overtake
the train which really carries the mails,
at Newton or elsewhere on time? One
would be led to believe from the Capt.
tails childish talk that the Eeople of To
peka would moi protest if their regular
Irail trains were held 70: two hours at
Tccnnseh or IccOmrtol until overtak-
en- by some ak, edited traih carrying
Kansas City or st LoT.s papers There
Is in fact but one lucid point in the
Capitals entire TRADE and that is its
self-evident admission or deduction
that the entire expedited scheme is at
the expense of the Eagle, although
that papers criticism of the Eagles
monopolistic occupancy Of the Oklaho
ma field falls to the ground from the
simple fact that there is no Associated
Press paper published between Wichita
and Dallas Texas. There is no doubt,
however, so far as Oklahoma is con-
cerned, that the Eagle will hold its own
as against any outside paper, for the
simple reason that the Eagle is devoted
TO the interests Of that territory and lis
people. as its news and editorial pages
abund3ntly attest No other paper
ko Of II, mid 10 -sr,
devoted TO the interests Of that people. |
Its editorial page is daily mirror Of all |
Its affairs. local, political and Industrial. |
In addition, it carries all the general |
telegraph news carried by the Kansas |
City sheets. Anyhow, the Capital need |
not eXude any crocodile tears, nor I'M |
duly squeeze its gall-bladder on account
Of the Eagle. The Eagle still has left |
the morning trains of the Rock Island, |
the Missouri Pacific. the Southern Kan
sas. the st. Louis and San Francisco.
the Kansas Midland and the Wichita
and Western railways over which 10
reach its patrons and it reaches a great
err number than is reached by any other
daily in the state. the Eagle being
easily, as is everywhere conceded, the
only really metropolitan paper in Kan
of the Missouri river. The
Eagle Was not. therefore, upon personal
grounds or wholly for selfish reasons
the job" whereby an uneX-
pended balance. authorized by an OBJ
scure proviso. of an almost out-of-date
law. is made TO do duty,
II the expense OF the most densely
populated section of the state. TO do
iuty in boosting TO the front a paper
hat has never ceased 10 queer the
present Republican administration. and
which yet daily jibes the Mckinley
wave of prosperity"
This brings up another point and with
which we conclude. The Capital could
cot refrain from mounting the coyote
-elp that the Eagle is not as blindly
PARTISAN as il might be as a Republican
'aper Whether the charge be true or
lct, tie Eagle is no hoss-tool nor par
While not man worshipper
Is editor does admire President Nc
llnley, who, above all things, seeks 10
re just. and we have said more in his
'ehalf. before and since the election.
i've columns TO enc, than was ever
printed by the Capital The Eagle in
icing welded to Republican principles.
However, Will not hesitate to denounce
he man, be he high or low, who vio- I
ates or tramples upon those principles.
That is the difference between the
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