The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-10-12
AM|DON IS THROWN
Party Organization Doesn't
His Style of Campaign.
HOW 1T ALL HAPPENED
"Amidon Push" Started the
Factions.

"AmHoa Is 10 stronger than ene rest OF
tns ticket That little sentence has been
passed about among the Popuhsts the
last two days. until the cyclone which
Sam has been riding with his reizls loose
the last two weeks has suddenly turned
about. wtarled tie other way and landed
Sam al spraddled OUT On the ground
The "Arnedon push" caused the whole
trouble. The "Amidon push" started out
about five weeks ago 10 elect Sam entire
~ andspe-ldent OF the central committee
and the party organization, II tIes.sosd
on The repeated assertion: sam VIII nun
away ahead Of his ticket on. yes; sam
will lead Haymaker by hundreds Ahead
Of Arnezt? Yes. as far ahead OF Arnett
as he Is ahead Of HayInaker. And Col
vide? We'll. I reckon
You could hear this on the street scores
Of times every day.
Al first the party organization stood
this easily. Sans popularity was won
derfm thing 70 behold and pleasant TO
look upon
But the "ArniIion push" became little
bolder and switched off to the assertion
that there would only be one man on the
/ ticket elected in all probability. and That
would be Aulldon-
Then lawmakers friends, and A-netts
| friends and Colvule's friends began TO
snort And as they made up the organ
ization IN Sedgwick county the snort had
carrying power.
! Arnett and his friends believe that he
has made JUST as good district clerk
as Arnidon has an attorney. II not a Ut
tie better: Haymaker and Colville enter
tain Like opinions in regard To their Of
/ fees.
| And they began TO talk II among them
selvvs. What wonderful thing had Sam
/ done which should make him so tremend-
/ ollsiy popular over them? During his
whole career as county attorney he has
had one notable conviction.' they argued
that OF Paddy Shea, and the supreme
court reversed that because he didn't know
! how to draw up a verdict. And then he
has Shea arreste ed on a new charge ana
dlsmisses the original case. and the coun-
/ ty pays the enormous COSTS
What they ask themselves, has he
done which should make him so over
whelmingly better than ourselves?''
And the upshot OF the argument WAS the
conclusion that in reality Sam was not
more popular than they were. and that an
Independent campaign, where ones
| friends were pushing ham, to the detri-
ment OF the rest of the whole ticket
should be set down on.
| And so the talk began which started
Sans whirlwind on its reverse motion.
I The Sankey and Flavius Green crowd
began to ask why Sam Amidon did not
prosecute Toler and Spencer when they
asked him.
The HUFFMAN crowd began to row BE-
cause a week ago Sam tried to pull Hen
~ HUFFMAN off the ticket.
The KIes crowd began to ask why Ami
don as county attorney approved of Dea-
con Wilson and Sealock. commissioners.
allowing Denny. county clerk. $3.50 for
extra work.
The Fitch crowd began to whoop Il up
over a compromise verdict " wherein a bur
glar who invaded an old mans house and
cut him all to pieces. was sent up for the
prodigfous term OF eighteen months. For
the Fitch crowd knows that e. Anidon
runs ahead Of his ticket he viii use his
!
Simpsons place two years hence, and
Fitch has q me rtgage on that prospect
and wants no competitors.
The Jim Burton crowd, the strongest
in Alle bunch by all odds. also began 20
hint that Sam was little too friendly
| with Deacon Wilson. who turned in and
helped Denny beat Jim Burton a year
ago
And without any preconcsr+ed agree
menr. but in concert just the same, the
whole kit and posse, the Amidon push
alone excepted. began to ask where THIS
wonderful popularity Of Sam Anidon
came in
The cyclone turned about. Sans friends
are hearing on the streets nowadays that
"Amisfon IS no stronger than the rest Of
the ticket It makes them snort OF
course. sam not stronger than Hay
maker Nonsense.' they cry.
But the cyclone IS s-31 going backwards
and before another two WEEKS unsess
something = done TO untT1st the thing.
the CRY will be "A1Tdon Is running BE-
hind