The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-02-11
POOR POLITICAL PIE-PULLBRS.

In addition to the duties, emoluments
and responsibilities which fall to the lot
of the political editor which were not
enumerated in our editorial of the other
morning is that of ameliorator of the
condition of the defeated, and the poul-
tice applier TO the sore-headed of the OPP
position. He who is turned down right
fully or wrongfully, by his own party,
never goes to his own party organ for
redress, but carries his grievances TO
the editor whom he has laid awake
nights to defeat. There are hundreds
of sore-headed Democrats in this state
today and Discontinued Pops innumera-
BILE, whose troubles are traceable TO the
Fusion victory of last fall. UnquestiOn-
ably the Democratic contingent to the
compact have been utraseously treat
ed. 1t has been rubbed in on them.
They were lied to and broken faith
with on every corner. They sold their
birth-right for a mess of pottage and
the pottage was never delivered, but
given TO another element, which was
not strictly a party to the deal. The
Democrat is not in it with the Silver
Republican who voted for Bryan. so far
as the Leedy administration is concern
ed. Pops have even been ignored in the
interest of these Bryan
SilVerites, while Democrats have not
from representatives Of these two ele
mentS every day. A stalwart Demo-
erat complaining TO our sympathetic
ears the other night Of the bad faith and
utter lack of borse-sense evinced all
around, we asked him TO sit down and
cot down the things he at that moment
saw and felt THAI we might the more
vIvidly realize the outrage. This is
wnat We found on the three or four
sheets of paper spoiled for our delecta-
ton, and which we hope will be as thor
oughly appreciated as true by the Dem
ecrats of this section as it is by us. 1t
will be noted that he writes like an edi-
tor. and one in authority. Read:
In 1890 the impotent old Democratic
party in Southwest Kansas. by cow
aidly lay-down policy at their congress
sional convention for the Seventh dis
trict, and by covertly casting their bal
lots for the Medicine Lodge qucndam
statesman, aided in electing that foxy.
cunning biped TO the seat so long hon
orably filled by Judge Samuel Peters
Tickled at the unexpected results. the
discontinue of their historic opponents
the pigmy bosses of the Democratic
Renaissance made indecent haste two
years later 10 meet the fiXers of the
Populist aggregation at Kansas City
and there TO bargain away the support
of the Democratic voters of the state in
an unholy fusion wherein the Populists
secured practically everything in the
Way of state offices. including their cleo
toral ticket. Outside of beating the Re
publican party. we never could see the
motive or reason why the Democrats
supported that fusion deal, for they got
nothing worthy the name or the effort.
II they expected anything, they never
received it. unless 1t was a contemptu-
Gus ignoring by the partially Success
full Populists.
THAT such was fact was evidenced
by the disguised Democrats running
their own state ticket at the election Of
1894. which resulted in the Republicans
easily routing the Populistic hosts, foot,
horse and dragon.
But in the last campaign the party of
sound money and protection to Ameri-
can industries, handicapped by vascil-
ating. back homeless state administra-
ton. went down in honorable defeat be
fore the allied forces OF PopuliSm and
Democracy, aided in a small degree