The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-06-19
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NJ. n MURDOCH. Editor.
THAT FAST MAIL OUTRAGE.


1t is quite evident that the new post
master general from Maryland, is on to
his Job. There seems to have been an
unexpended balance for a fast mail
from New York TO New Orleans. The
postmaster general has entered into a
scheme, gotten up by the Missouri
morning papers, in Kansas City, to do
up the Republican daily papers OF Kan
sas One Of these Missouri papers IS d
Democrat organ. the other Of an uncer-
tain ownership, with a big tag on It sup
posed TO be held by the treasurer OF the
United States Republican central COM
mittee. The scheme is 10 run a fast
mail out of Kansas City to overtake
the regular train at Newton. The train
is 10 be run at the expense OF Kansas
papers. the government footing the bill.
That il is an outrage need not be stat
ed. 1t is on its face a high-handed Jop
for the benefit Of those who success
fully interested the postmaster general
in If. All the west bound mails will
have been dispatched on the evening
trains out of Kansas City for their des-
tinations. hours before this fast train
starts but which mails for Wichita
and Oklahoma will be held at the New
ton junction until the fast train over
takes them, and to the detriment OF the
business of the largest commercial town
in the interior of the state. The sole
purpose and service of this "fast mar
is to carry that Democratic Bryan sheet
The Times. and the miscellaneously
controlled Journal into the field OF Kan
sas papers. and to their detriment The
Eagle is served with exactly the same
Associated Press news transmitted the
Kansas City papers, is on the same
identical circuit. The postmaster gen
eral doubtless expects 10 bring his own
state. Maryland, and Missouri into Re
nublicau line by this brilliant admins
tratiye discrimination In the mean
time the Bryan organ Of Missouri VIII
be enabled to get in its work on Kansas
and Oklahoma at the expense OF pa
pers which have unselfishly, though
none the less heartily, supported the
head of the administration before as
well as after, his election, while the
Journal viii be helped to hquidate a
portion Of its obligation to the United
States central committee, or otherwise
be put in shape to unload. If the post
master general was only bent on serv-
ing the Santa Fe road. why did he not
also. at the same time. loan his efforts
to benefit the state that first declared
for Mckinley, by ordering the expedit-
ed service from Topeka or from Wich-
ita. into Oklahoma, thus delivering the
same news service to the people of
oklahoma three or four hours sooner,
instead Of later, thereby uniting more
closely and at the same time conserving
and stimulating the commercial inter
ests between Kansas and oklahoma?
His present job benefits no one save
the individuals and corporations, par
ties to the contract, and the Missouri
morning papers referred TO.
A special dispatch from Washington
to The Lea Venworth Times says that in
Washington at is considered an out
rage and that it viii prove the death
kneil 10 many Of the newspapers pub
lished in the towns beyond Topeka,
wherein it entails big expense to the
government for the sole benefit of the
Kansas City papers,
From n. commercial view, to show
how utterly ineXcusable the job is. we
have only to say that the city of Wich-
ita and oklahoma will, instead OF hav-
ing their morning mails expedited. have
them retarded and held at the Newton
junction for something like two hours
or more The whole transaction is a
burning shame, paltry betrayal of 10y
oil friends into the hands of an enemy, |
for a money consideration: is but the |
clampiGg on 10 Kansas of another OF |
the tentacles of the octopus at the |
mouth Of the kaw, which blood-sucker, |
having rendered il well nigh impossible |
for this state to ever have commercial |
cities of its own, seeks. night and day, |
the little advantages of meanness 10 |
discourage such enterprises as the state |
has left To it.