The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-26
REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET.
DO YOU WANT RESULTS?

tracks in this city a great ten-story
building, with men rushing busily
about il, long strings Of farm wagons
leading up to it, farmers with every
evidence of prosperity about them
standing around, if that building had
stood there three or four years, a great
sub-treasury warehouse managed by
the government, and it had for -four
Years done the people an immeasura-
bic amount Of good, you, Populist
might have some reason for voting the
Populist ticket this year, to reward the
Populist party for the fulfillment OF
one of frs promises.
But that building il not there.
If there was IN the city Of Wichita
an immense department store filling a
whole block, full of busy clerks, with
the people rushing in and out OF this
one store. while all other stores were
deserted, and this store bought direct
from the manufacturer and conse-
quently sold you your merchan-
disc at half the cost the private mer-
chants could sell it, if this great AL
lance Exchange stood there, saving
you a great amount of money on each
purchase you made, you. POpullst,
might have some reason for voting the
Populist ticket this year, to reward the
Populist party for the fulfllment of
one of its promises.
But that store is not there.
II there rushed through this city
trains bound, on the one side, TO the
Gulf of Mexico, ON the other side to
North Dakota, and if these trains were
loaded with goods and products and
CARRYING stuff at rates which had
forced the other railroads to stop run
ming trains, and if this great North
and South railroad was carrying the
farmers and merchants wares for
next to nothing and saving them al
most the entire cost of freight trans
portation, you, Populist. might have
some reason for voting the Populist
ticket this year, TO reward the POpulist
party for the fulfllment of one Of its
promises.
But that railroad is not there.
If, through a maximum freight rate
law passed by the last legislature, 1t
was possible on the old railroads for
a farmer and a merchant 10 ship goods
so that the cost was little or nothing,
and we were all counting our profits
lin excessive freights saved by the
thousands, you, a Populist, might have
some reason for voting the POpulist
ticket this year, TO reward the Populist
party for the fulillment of one of its
promises.
But that law was not passed.
If the bankers We're lending money
at two per cent, and it was possible
10 borrow any amount for the quick
improvement of your property, on &C
count of a law passed by the last leg
islature reducing the rate of interest,
if you were proSpering on the easy
money, forced as a concession out of
the money sharks" as you believe
them to be, you, POpulist, might have
some reason for voting the Populist
ticket this year to reward the POpulist
party for the fulfillment of one of it's
promises.
But that law was not passed.
If politics were pure today: if men
were nominated without asking for the
honor; if there was no corruption in
office; il the members of the last leg
islature had each one of them, upon
being approached by bOOdler, at once
rushed to the chief of police and had
that boodler placed under arrest, if the
reformers Of Kansas, after killing Mr..
ingalls, off for saying politics could not
be purified, had proceeded 10 prove
that plitics, as they claimed. could be
purified, you, a Populist, might have
reason to vote the Populist ticket this
year as a reward 10 the POpulist party
for the fulillment of one of its prom
jses.
But politics Is not purified.
If Governor Lewelling and Edward
Little, and Jerry Simpson should step
on train at Wichita today and you
with them, and each of you should pay
a cash fare 10 the conductor. instead OF
you paying the cash fare and Lewell-
ing and Little and Simpson each flash
ing free pass, in accordance with a
law passed by the last legislature that
no public officer should accept a free
pass from a railroad, you. n Populist,
might have reason 10 vote the Populist
ticket this fall as a reward TO the Pop
ulist party for the fulfllment of one
of It's promises.
But those three men carry passes.
IL the PopuliSt party had taken up
one idea, say the sub-reaSury ware
house plan. and stood by il year after
year, in storm and calm. through thick
and thin, night and day. campaign af-
ter campaign, until it was actually ac-
complished, you might have a reason
for voting the Populist ticket this fall.
But they have given YOU one prom ise
one year, another the next, a new
promise the third. and a novel scheme
the fourth. Next year they will have
another one.
But they will always be promises
They Will never sprout into results.
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