The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-04-04
END OF THE FIGHT
ONLY oNE MORE DAY OF TBE CAM
PAIGN REMAINS FOR STUDY.

Ross Election is Assured IL Those wht
Want an Economical Business Admin
istration, Free From the Influence o.
Secret CIiques and Ward HeeIers, VIII
Only Turn out-If Thoy Fail to do Thai
There is Possible Danger of TroubIe-AI
the Unsafe Elements With the Oppo
sition-Where the Danger Lies.
The people of Wichita have only one
dag more 10 give thought to the import
ance Of the city election. The tax pay
ers should be up and active, for they are
confronted with an element in politics
this year that is antagonistic 10 the in
tarests OF those who want TO bear light
er burdens. a strong combination has
been formed against the ticket that rep
resents business and unless those who
40 represent business get 10 the polls
Tuesday there will be trouble Seven
tenths of the people who favor the cleo
ION of Finlay Ross are men who repre-
sent property, business or Industry.
seyen-tenths of the men who are SUD-
porting George Young represent neither
property nor business and a great MANY
u them Go not represent any known in
dustry. 1ht men who represent some
thing must get the upper hand at the
poiIs next Tuesday and they will of the
men who believe that the tax payer
should have as much voice in the af-
fairs and transactions Of tax ridden
community as the non-tax payer will
turn OFT and vote.
The Eagle does not want to utter dis
respectful word against the candidates
On the ether ticket. l. started out 10
make a clean, quiet, conservative cam
paign ana everybody VIII admit it has
succeeded. Finlay Ross is the type and
exponent Of clean business methods as
well as clean honorable political meth
oes and Z is fitting that the methods of
the campaign should be Ike the cam
p9ign leader. 1t must be said. however.
that the men who are supporting Young
and his ticket are not the men tnat |
ought to control this city during the |
EeXt two years. While common sense |
and d due regard for business economy
in hard times would justify the conclus-
ion that man Ike Finlay Ross ought |
TO W:R by 1000 majority, yet it is pos
sl5ie that unless the business men and !
property owners, and every man who
has little home or expects to have one.
turn out 10 a man next Tuesday. the
election might be very close. Il Is quite
certain that it will be close among the
ward candidates and it is very import
ant that they should be elected. In or
der TO assure their election the class Of
voters nas1ed above must turn out and
DO the work, for if the men interested
N Wichita do not stand by the Repub-
lcan ticket it will be defeated
II Is also hoped that the ladies will
come 10 the polls. A woman. as usual
thing, when her home is threatened by
he tax .gatherer, can be depended on to
vote right oftener than the men. The
aides OF Wichita know that the element
hat is supporting Young is not the home
,WninS element and hence will not have
hat interest in keeping taxes down that
property owners viii have In order TO |
ncourage a heavy woman vote. know
ng that at this time il viii be Of I'M
20 the city. every effort Will be
made 10 extend female voters the great
ST courtesy possible. 1t is to be hoped
$50 that the managers of the Populist
icket Will do ali they can TO extend that
ourtesy to the ladies that they deserve.
George Younger rather his managers
are catering to the unsafe elements of ,
his city, the elements that are either
on-producers or professional politi-
lans who. at this period of Wichita's
-oubles. should he squat upon. Busi-
sss is What Wichita wants now and not :
Nv ward politics. The way 10 get that
TO vote for Finlay Ross. Every
lk!r Who has 4 graft to work is sup :
orting George Young and every secret
iqua obnoxious TO men of broad minds
I'd patriotic liherality is with Young !,
I'd he is courJing their friendship. al :
lough il will fall upon bis head with
rrible force some day. Finlay Ross. If
acted mayor, as he shall be if the bet A
i people do their duty. will be the
lyor OF all the people Of Wichita and
u the pledged mayor of secret cliques II
nj combinations of boosters. He will ~
u be the mayor of an element that r.
anted the police to suppress a mans :.
lsiness because he would not work as u
e gang wished him to work Nor the o'
ayOr OF 4 crowd who wanted Door 81
'Lcemen taxed 81 each to form a sIush al
nd. VI