The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-29
EPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET.
TWO BUSINESS MANAGERS.

Assuming mat the government % "
large business concern, and that you
have an interest Therein, an election
then becomes merely the solicitation OF
two men who want TO be placed IN the
business Office Of your establishment
One man makes you promises, the
other man makes you promises. You
decide between them. One man falls
10 keep his promises. You hasten 10
bounce him. The other man keeps MS
promises and increases your business.
You increase his salary.
Last fall you put the Populist party
in as business manager of Kansas. HIS
PRINCIPAL promise had been maxi
mum freight rate law. He said 1t
would perform wonders. You believed
him. He told you that Republican leg
islatures would not pass it because the
railroads had bought them up. You
made the Populist party business man
ager. You told him that everything
was in his hands. He had a m2gnlfl-
cent majority in the lower house at To-
peka: he had a majority in the senate;
nc had governor and supreme court
10 maintain the law when passed. You
turned the whole management over to
him. Now, whether he, after going 10
to Topeka. discovered that maximum
freight rate law was not good thing,
whether that legislature was bodied
into defeating that bill, whether it was
Just naturally incompetent TO pass 1t,
the patent, plain, clear, rugged fact
stands out that that business manager
failed He failed. 1t makes no differ
ence how he failed. What interests you
and what affects you is his failure, no
matter through what channel failure
came.
At the same time you tried to give
the national government over to the
pop0cratic party. The rest of the ma
ton prevented you. You did not believe
the Republican party. You did not
think il would make good business
manager. You said that even if 1t could
pass a protective tariff, that tariff
would not bring in enough revenue to
run the government and that gold
bonds would have to be issued. But,
further than that, you said the Repub-
lican party could do nothing, because
the United States senate was against
it and would be against it. You must
distinctly remember this point-that
Inc United States senate would not be
in harmony with President Mckinley.
So you said: "Mr. Republican Party,
do not want you for business maDas-
err" The other members Of the firm
disagreed with you and made him bust
ness manager.
They said to him: "The house of rep
resentatiyes is yours; the president is
yours, but the senate is against you"
Sc handicapped. the Republican bust
ness manager went in. 1t was business
from the word go. 1t makes no differ
ence 10 you how Mckinley overcame
the senate difficulty; it makes no differ
ence TO you if Tom Reed did shut off
the orators in the house until he could
pass a protective tariff. 1t makes no
difference to you how the business
manager succeeded. What interests
You and affects you is his success, no
matter through what channel success
came
What you want is success. What
you do not want is failure. You want
tie business manager who can succeed.
you want TO reward him. You do not
liant a business manager who fails
You want TO bounce him. ond do it
quickly, TO save further losses.
Look upon the Kansas legislature.
Then look upon the United States con-
gress. See what the Republican con-
cress has done with one branch of it in
the hands of the opposition. See what
the Populist legislature did not do with
both branches, a governor and a SUI
rreme court in its hands.
Voting is business proposition. |
When times are bad you are a fellow |
sufferer. When times are good YOU are |
fellow beneficiary. You say 1t is a |
mystery how one party. with every
thing in its power fails. while another |
party, handicapped, succeeds
1t is also a mystery, one of the great !
es; in the world. why one merchant |
viii rush headlong into bankruptcy |
while his nextdoor neighbor. likewise |
Il merchant, will grow at the same mo- |
ment IN Opulence and commercial |
power The mystery is business man J
j cement. /