The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-05
PAIR OF RUNNERS
BEAUTY OF JUSTIOE IN SEDGWICK
COUNTY POPULISM.
Geo. Spencer and S. Il. Jocelyn Who Run
the Politics of the Popuiist Party and
the Business of the Police Commission
are q Pair of Runners Whom the Popu-
list Party Might DO Well to Take a
Note Of-Appoint q Special Police Com.
mission and Proceed as Before With
the Political Snubbery

the Political Snubbery.
Jocelyn and Spencer, who divided I'D
the county ticket for the Populist party
and who are running the Campaign for
the fusion ticket, are running some oth
er things as well. A special police force
OF twenty men was put al the fair
grounds through fair week TO protec.
the crowd from the thugs and pickpock-
cts. The fair ground is away outside
the city limit, and Jocelyn and Spencer
had about as much right to put a police
force out there as they had 10 put one
al Cheney or to divide up the county
ticket, but that's not the question the
Eagle wishes To discuss in this article
The police commission did not select this
special force any more than the Populist
party nominated its. county ticket Ana
the Populist party VINO made il posi-
bic for these two men ID be on the pO-
lice commission got less Of a representa-
ton on this special police force than it
got on the county ticket, and what il
got on both is a good deal less than it
deserved on either.
Joe Furnish is a member Of the police
commission theoretically. His name
was in the list that Leedy sent down
here as his selection for the Wichita
board, but in reality Joe Furnish has
about as much to do with the business
as Ex-Governor Lewelling had 10 DO
with the reception Of Bryan, or the Pop
party had to do with the nomination Of
the fusion ticket. He was snuboel by
JOcelyn and Spencer in the appointment
of the special police force just as Lew
cling and all the old workers in the
Pop party were snubbed Friday and in
the county nominations. When the meet
ing Of Jocelyn and Spencer was called
to name the special force, Furnish ask
ed thirty minutes time 10 get from the
court house TO the city buil1ing. He
asked the appointment Of only one man
on the special force of tWenty-Harvey
Ritter of kechi township. But the ses-
sion was over when Furnish arrived
and Mr.. Ritter, who was a candidate in
the Pop convention for sheriff, wasn't
named, and for the reason that George
Spencer and Colonel Jocelyn didn't
think he was a good Pop. Jocelyn and
Spencer. neither Of whom is a Pop, sit
ting in judgment on the political fidelity
of an old worker in the party who
whoOpped il up for free silver fiat, equal
rights 10 all and special privileges to
none, who worked with his hands for
living and with his mouth for the
Pop party years before Jocelyn and
Spencer got an inning, is certainly the
beauty of justice with a patent leather
shine.
According to these men, Lewelling is
not good Populist, Ritter is not good
Populist, Joe Furnish is not a good Pop
ulist, and in fact there only few good
Populists in the county. except as they
are good to help elect a fusion ticket, |
the better half Of which is Democratic.
The Populists of the county are to the
Democrats as dozen to five, and yet
the Democrats get the best offices and !
half the number, which proportion is !
due to the Philanthrophic efforts of the
good Populists Jocelyn and Spencer,
who have grown SO swell and high hand |
ed that they consider il the proper thing |
TO snub Lewelling and Furnish and |
Ritter and the Pop party Of Sedgwick |
county and Oklahoma generally These |
men are tn self-constituted censorS Of |
the qualifications of a good Populist. |
and these are the men VINO nominated |
the Pop ticket and are running the cam |