The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-01-18
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NJ VI MURDOCH. Editor.
KANSAS REDEMPTION.

Kansas would be fought out by the
Republicans along the old-time lines,
upon old-time principles, without any
frills or side issues; in short, upon the
tenets held and advocated by the ma
tional party. The fight will be against
the vagaries of the Pop party, and the
3bnormalties growing out Of the I'M
holy and irreconcilable thing sailing
under the name of Fusion" which
holds but the single suggestion Of
"spoils." But little of maladministra-
ton ever marked the conduct Of public
affairs in this state up to the time OF
the corruption, disgrace and all around
Eubversion growing out of an ascend
ant power, made up of fusion Of rev.
dictionary and incongruous elements
allied to the hungry remnant Of par
ty that was never anything but a min
ority in Kansas. This Fusion Of in
corrigibIe pessimists upon the one hand
and of political iconoclasts upon the
other has caused US disrepute abroad,
entailed tribulations at home, and de-
stroyed our state credit everywhere.
kansas people are tired Of wincing and
chatting over a crop reaped from seed
crat and Confederate in the United
States. senate from Kansas represent
ing nobody but himself; six other no.
bodies represent its congressional dis
un
body, assisted by a contingent Of in
fnitessimals, are administering the af-
fairs Of the tenth state in Importance
in the Union, at Topeka. All this has
come about and upon us through the
wearing of political frills, such as the
advocacy of portative variations, and
the adoption of peptic innovations,
thereby falling to stick to and stand by
our original faith and doctrines as Re
publicans. Calf-worship doesn't pay.
whether the genuf1exion is conspicuous
for mountain-tOp ostentatiOn or by its
patched-up knees bent in the CRIME
and mud A false god is a false god,
everywhere and at all times, nor his
humber or the size or the material of
which he is cast will make him any
thing else. The Republicans of Kansas
have run so far after false gods that
the chances are many of them are lost
for good, and will never get back from
the wilderness of calamity, of prohibit
ton, of resubmission, and what not.
The Kansas children of Israel are
coming back out of the wilderness to
their own again. But before they can
ford the Jordan dry shod they must
make such sacrifices as are mete for
repentance Their Moses is coming
down and when he once gets fairly on
level ground he won't do a thing to the
golden calf, made up of Pops and Denis.
and such like ornaments as have been
contributed by political prostitutes
who have sailed into snug positions in
the name of Fusion" There are some
protests coming up from here and there
against the Eagles declaration Of a
week or so ago that resubmission nor
prohibition were possible issues in the
next campaign unless forced by ''Fu-
Eion," whose cohorts are too cowardly
to force anything save that of forcing
themselves into taking advantage of
dissensions growing out of the mistakes
made by the Republican party in Kan
sas in failing to stick to their national
text.
OF the surname of the particular
Moses who shall lead the Republican
Kansas host to victory next fall by
heading the ticket for governor we are
not so certain. A number of names
have been mentioned and two or three
definite announcements authorized.
They are all good men, men of convic-
tons and Republicans without frills.
There is not a crank nor an irreconcil-
able among them. Among those who
have assented TO the use of their names
are Major Calvin Hood of Emporia,
Hon. John Seaton of Atchison and Sen
ator John Hessin of Manhattan, three
splendid men, all broad-gauged men of
experience and stability. and all tried.
D. Coburn, secretary of the board of
agriculture Of Kansas City, Kansas.
Thomas Potter of Marion county, and
ex-Leutenant Governor J. a Trout
man of Topeka These all live in the
northeast and eastern-central part Of
the state and are all possible candi-
dates. But the day of the nominating
convention is yet a long way off and
in the place OF some of these names
Others may be brought forward. But
such is the present temper of the party
and such the trend of conviction in its
ranks that there viii be little danger
of any man being entered for the race
who viii prove objectionable upon the
grounds of his extreme views or Of
side-issue procliviIies.
THREE MEN GONE.
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