The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-03
POLITICAL PsEPHoMANoY.

POLITICAL PSEPHOMANOi'
Kansas is to be subjected to announcer
outrage through the political ampitioh
of an individual. The business inter-
Of the state are to be made sui1ef,
.na every taxpayer mulct, for the bene-
fit of a heterogeneous conSlomefatioh vi
80 q,o+ office seekers and place holders
soi,inc under the political pseudonymh
e Democracy It is announced that i
raedv that seedy residium inoppof-'
timely foated to the surface by an d7
tatio, begctten of adverse cohul'ion''
has determined to reconYene the haii-
-. LEGISLATURE in an extra session Will
In a short time. 1t is unneceSsaf! ioi
rho Earle to tell the people what 'h'''
LEGISLATURE was like, nor to reler I" i''
,,.i, ri last winter. 1t outraged non
NJ dragged decency in the dus'' an"
hrazenlv bartered lis vehahty Ior VI
.,,e n fine proprietors of Kansas oliS
.o,- mans and sold themselves IN open
connection to the bOotllng pumps 81
row mInchers. According to their o~h
confessions. they were gang oil pool'-
tors while tie record of their Worh-
oroves them to have been both kna'e'
and incompetents. Indeed, the eAcu7e
for calling them together is based on
tbe fact Of their failure. If The charges
they make against each other are true
half Of them ought to be IN the penn
Tertiary and nobody ever denieu
4hem To convene that outfit AGAIN
would be nothing short of CRIME
against the people. Were M Jorily ol
that body honest and compeEent-a
thing NOT even claimed by the Pop lead
crs-an extra session of the legislature
al tf1is time would be little short OF an
outrage. TO say nothing of the expense
of II in the way Of mileage and per
diem amounting TO a thousand dollars
or more. n day. nor Of The lneVtaDie
evtr9yaganca and jobs for lncreased
concentrations. still the general depres-
1yonld overbalance any possible good,
= hundred fold. Congress after sell
Hing for good the tariff question having
adjourned and business and prices Tor
The first time in years beginning to en-
couragingly revive, it would be nothing
short Of Il crime 10 convene in extra
tl1S
Doodle gang Of Kansas, whose members
would have convicted each other OF
renitentiary ofenSes had not their own
supreme court denied them the priyi-
zee. The pretcnse OF Governor Leedy
and his gang that the legislature must
he convened to redeem itself and save
The Popuiist party from reputation, Is
hosh. The pressure is from the empty
gang which having escaped exposure
and grown hungry again. long for an
crher chance That. and Leedy's per
sanal ambitions. is all that there is a
the back and bottom Of this threatened
mischief to the people of the state ano
of a thousand in Kansas outside OF
this Fop gang Of intriguants. bu
breads and views with dismay this IN
usual and wholly uncalled-for an
nauncsment. There seems no way fol
tie people 10 protest, no authority Il
enioin. no showing of facts or argu
ment that might be employed, TO aver
The certain injury which must entail
Tie great body Of the PopuliSt party
itself would speedily and emphaticalll
Srt their seal of condemnation upoI
this conspiracy of their chief machin
aior could they but be heard. The well
meaning and honest Pop diStruSts, il
the oAtreme. net only the leaders. bu
the majority of a legislative body
whose enactments turned out a hodge
rodge of unconstitutional inc0nsisten
rieS. and whose record * blurred al
over with fut ie investigations and opeI
charges % corruption.
Can LOT some way be devised fO
calling halt on this threatened trouble
which can only mean a back set To
state whose people have but just com
meuctd To breathe freely again afte
years OF disappointment and disaster
but for which disappointment and dis
listers the crowd now holding the pres
ent interests 90 tGa people in thei
hands ullld nave never been heard of