The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-03-31

of WouId-be Reformers are Exposed
Other Political Matters.
All the election talk ore could hear yes
terday was lot of loud-mouthed boosters
ers heralding al over the north part OF
town the statement that the colored peo-
ple Of the Second ward are 10 a man for
George Young and have knives in their
boots, and many of them. for Firlay Ross
This talk was also made pretty strongly
in the pool rooms and in several other
PAGES down town. II is made solely in
the vain hopes of reviving the spirits Of
those who once though: the citizens
ticket had a show for election and is
made for the additional reason Of keeping
up a show of enthusiasm in the interest
OF a few of the citizens candidates for
members of the council and the school
board. 1t would be foolish to deny that
there are quite a number Of the colored
people of the Second ward opposed 10 Mr..
Ross ard are fighting him openly, al OF
which they have, as citizens by right Of
law and before the law, the privilege OF
doing, and for any reason they may have
O rmay not have, or may think they have,
What the writer OF this objects to is not
the right Of the colored people to vote
against Mr.. Ross if they want TO, but the
wholesale Misrepresentation of the white
reregades who claim 10 have the coiored
vote in their pocket, that Sam Jones is at
the head Of the col0red revolt against the
ok I've
black, will concede that Sam Jones is
pretty decent and square man Who was
"a sed in this city since he was mere
child, and nobody has ever heard Of him
doing a single dishonorable act He
should no., as an ambitious young man,
be quoted as leading revolt against his
party unless il was true. From his own
lips it was earned that he was rot only
no boiler but that he was out and out,
with al his heart and soul, for Mr.. Finlay
Ross and the full Republican ticket He
is not only for the ticket but he is work
ing for il with all his might Before the
nomination was made he was for Mr..
Herman for the reason that Mr.. Herman
had done good turn for his brother. He
had right TO be for Mr.. Herman or any
body else, but when the majority of his
party had declared for Mr.. Ross in pref
erence to Mr.. Herman he yielded grace
fully and threw off his coat for the con-
venaior's choice. This was like Sans
,oyalty-,hat loyalty which he has always
shown to his party and his friends.
In speaking TO a reporter for the Eagle
about the matter ne said:
Il am for the ticket because I am no
sore-head; because it is good ticket, and
because 1 don't want TO fill the city nall
and the fire department with Populists
and have them control it as the county
and state are controlled. / don't want TO
see the Republicans knocked out of ev
erything in this county"
Some pinhead writing an editorial for
the organ of the alleged citizens ticket
yesterday over the signature of mon
Partisan" proceeds very cleverly to dem
onstrate that he knows very little about
this city campaign, He says that Mr..
Ross is not as good a man as he was two
years ago because he has been connected
with the administration, and then inti-
mates that the said administration was
corrupt By the way, everything along
this line is an intimation, nobody having
the courage 10 make an open charge. If
these intimatiors are true. why does not
George Young, the citizens candidate for
mayor, say so, or why doesn't he deny
them and repudiate the charges if they
are not true? He is now a member of the |
city council and has been for the past
year, and ought TO know if there is any
s~f -, . 1ko
rottenness in the city government Nh. |
Ross is in no position TO know anything |
about 1t, while Mr.. Young, as a council |
man was. and should have said so If ne |
meant 10 honestly represent his constitu- |
erts. This pin-head writer should present |
better evidence Of corruption than the |
mere statement of himself under fic- |
ti;ious name. The people of this city are |
not condemning Mr.. Ross on the mere as
sertion Of such uncertain persons as Non |
Partisan "A Prominent Citizen,'' 4 /
North Main Street Republican" "Vox |
Popul." AN Old Subscriber" "A Con- |
slant Reader" and so forth. The best
evidence as to corruption in city affairs
would be that Of Councilman Young, now
candidate of the publication outfit. who |
has been on the ground during the past
year.
There is not an hour in the day but |
what one can hear some '-reformer"
shooting off his mouth about wanting to
see the books and advising as the only
means Of getting az them the election Of
a courcL in opposition 10 the Republicans.
They think that if they had a city coun-
Gil in opposition 10 the Republicans that
they could make some amazing exposures
There ''reformers'' are not as a usual
thing interested in the city TO the extent
Of red cent, but they talk as loud as if
they were as heavy taxpayers as Henry
Schwei,er, John B. Carey, Charles H.
Smythe, W. r. Dulaney or q hundred
others who could be named easily. And
their talk and shoot mtuth has NOT been
in vain. They have actually made some
poor men believe that If the opposition
TO the Republican party got control of the
courcF and opened the books that they
could detect some extraordinary rascalitv.
These bloviating gentry, as well as the
better men whom they deceive with their
talk, are all seemingly ignorant Of the
fact that the opposition 10 the Republican
party now controls the city council and
has controlled il for some time. and We.
the books have not been opened and these
wonderful exposures made. There are a
great many people who do not know that
me Council has in il a majority Of one in
opposition % the Republicans and q
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