The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-07-05
"On Stanley. On"

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Florence Bulletin: The Leedyites are
worried because they can't find single
blemish on the character OF w. E. Stan
ley. At first they tried 10 rfdicule him
because he Is a church member. good
citizen and is respectable. They have
discovered that clean citizenship and re-
speetabiAty are more popular in Kansas
this year than IN 1882 and in 1886. The
people of Kansas have recovered from
their arrangement. They are asham Cd
Of their past foolishnes sand have vowed
TO get right and stay right Ths peo-
pie Of Kansas today believe in honesty;
they believe in law, IN the courts, IN
industry. The man is more numerous
IN Kansas today than ever who feels like
saving: 1T am a man." who doesn't
want the other fellow TO divide but
only an equal chance; who wants to give
honest efforts for honest dollars. Nat
urally, the people then will vote for Stan
ley-Stanley Is an honorable man. He
will make an honorable governor Kan
sas has been dimmed with foul fog.
It will clear away next November. and
Kansas will be the brightest star OF the
constellation forever and forever. she
will be the guide star for other states
and other nations, moving to a better,
purer and more perfect civilization. On,
Stanley, on
Lawrence World: A Topeka paper rs
out with statement that the fight for
governor Is between PETER and Stanley.
While we believe that PETER stands as
much show of election as the present
governor, still we believe that Leedy Will
get a few votes.
Parsons Independent: The platform
adopted by the Populist convention con-
tains no mention of the present prosper
ity in Kansas. Such a mention would
have been more inappropriate In Pop
platform than the mention of prize
fight would have been in a write-up OF
Sunday school convention.
Emporia Republican: Dave Leahy, the
newspaper novelist who writes up the To-
peka fakes for the Kansas City Times,
continues to tell mean stories about Stan
lev. Leahy is an old friend OF Stanley's
and is doing mis- best to get the latter
elected. And the versatile 1rishman has
hit onto" the proper plan.
Wilson County Citizen: The Populist
platform OF Kansas is the funniest thing
on earth, observes the Lawrence Jour-
nal. save and except the Democratic plat
form. Taken together, they are 80 ride
u!ous that 1t does not seem possible that
any man. or one in his right mind, would
either jndorse them or vote for men who
would indorse them. The Democratic
platform denounces the administration
for issuing bonds in time Of war. ignor-
ing the fact that Its own party issued
them in time of peace. 1t makes the
senseless and ridiculous charge that the
Republicans are issuing the bonds to
cover up the deficiency caused by the
Dingley law and not in good faith to
pay war expenses. This Is almost as bad
as the copperheads talked during the
civil war The Democrats of Kansas who
have had some degree OF respect given
to them in the past will, II they con-
tinue in this strain, deserve the con-
tempt of every patriotic citizen OF this
country. The one thing that is the mosa
absurd about the Pop platform is the
demand that all public utilities be owned
by the state. What does the platform
mean by public utility?" The Journal
will wager a ten-dollar bill that no two
Of the men who got up the Pop platform
will give the same definition for khe term.
A saw mill is public utility" just as
much as a railroad. A dry goods store,
a grocery store. a blacksmith shop,
telephone line, creamery. an omnibus,
a millinery store, a laundry, steam
line, each and all are public utilities"
to say nothing of the thousand Of other
Industries that are essential to our mod
ern civilization. Does the Pop party be-
leve the state or the government should
wn them all? That is what II says The
fusing of such materials as the Demo
cratic and Populist platforms are made
of is liely TO cause so much Kissing and
suffering that when the fustng is done
there will be nothing left of the two but
a big fiz8.