The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-07-27
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NJ. VI MURDOCH. Editor.
LOOK OUT FOR THEM.


Where the slush fund is there will be
gathered together the boodlers- Grow
ing out of an impecunious spirit which
has been fostered by unworthy motives
and a low political standard, in which
all ideas of honesty are wanting, and
under which proper conception oI
principle is impossible. copied partly
from the example set by disreputaole
ring organizations in the greater cities,
and encouraged by the collection ana
distribution of campaign funds by reg
ular party organizations, there mas
come to later day politics the CONNER
cial gentlemen who through the en-
ployment Of paid heelers, strikers and
the like, seek to hold the balance OF
power and thereby determine the re-
suits of elections. The money used by
these commercial politicians is not
their own, but a good per cent Of all
that passes through their hands man
ages to stick to their fingers. They
have no higher conception of party
than as an organization to gain per-
sonal ends and reap money reward.
They are for sale themselves, and they
do business upon the theory that ma
jority can be bought. AS rule they
pose as respectable factors of society,
and as integral parts Of the business
community. The money which they
get out of politics is squeezed from
candidates, bIackmailed from those
supposed to be dependent upon the po-
litical results Of the campaign, and
gobbled bodily from all-around slush
funds collected especially for them.
Wichita is not an exception, but has
her quota of this stamp Of statesmen.
Unless misinformed, a slush fund Of
tempting proportions has been accu-
INFLATED in this city within the past
few months. 1t was wrung from un-
willing victims for the most part in
the name Of law and order, probably
with the connivance or by the consent
of officials. These commercial politi-
clans, the class alluded to, who care
nothing for principle and only for par
ty as they can get something out Of it,
have their eye on that fund. They
have had a promise of the most Of it,
they agreeing to do certain things. 1t
is unnecessary to designate what those
certain things" are, further than That
certain numbered wards are to be man
ipulated through the heeler and boodler /
contingencies and the city carried !
against the Republican party. 1t is
also unnecessary to allude to the fact |
Of the outcome Of two or three recent |
elections in this c.:J, and the general |
all-around surprise over the unexpect- |
ed results. \ subsequent analysis |
disclosed the gentleman of color in the |
pile Of wood. He will emerge in due |
time again. or as soon as he gets his |
clutches fairly fixed on his portion Of !
the slush fund alluded to. There will |
De no danger of making any mistake
n marking your men. tThey will not
ak loud or do arr t3astng, but they
will be insidious to a degree and nys- |
teriously Industrious, so much so that /
the average observer will find no diff |
Guilty in spOttin: them.
1t is this character of unprincipled |
manipulators, this kind of disreputable /
politics and dishonest methods which
have almost ruined the Republican or /
ganization of this city and county, and /
which string game viii be soon openly /
on the boards and played, not only To /
cut down the Republican majority Of .
SedgUick county this fall for what po- /
litical effect it may have on the state, |
but to maintain the domination of the |
commercial combine aforesaid, over the /
political situation.