The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-04
The Kansas Campaign.

B. F. Lloyd. secretary Of the Democratic
club az Arkansas City, has become Re
publican. In announcing the fact in a
| letter in the Arkansas City Traveller ne
| says among other things: Taking it for
| granted that the laws of the Republica T.
party admit TO membership all men WIN
repent of their sins and some with bowed
| head and Bonded knee, with the banner
of the party IN one hand and fidelity IN
| the other. and recognizing that this right
applies to Democrats. therefore This day
| cast OF my Democratic garments. worn
for 80 years. and don the full and COM
! piete garb OF a Republican. II making
| this jump It has been hard for me 10 re-
conciIe myself 10 the abandonment of the
| principles 4 have so long upheld and
| fought for-an inheritage upon me one
| hand and long years OF study upon the
! ocher-but IL has been through my sedu-
! lousness and untiring energy in comparing
| the great principles OF the Democratic
and Republican parties that I have dis
! carded my dogu1atical Democracy and ac-
| cepted the principles of a party which
1 now believe 70 be the best and truest
! principles ever inculcated into a system
! of government which has for its chief
aims the irresistible PRONUNCIATION of
American manufactures and institutions
and the protection afforded the business
| Of the country as we'll as that Of individ-
uals, necessary to business men and ci-
/ villains in all walks of life. When the
white wings of peace shall have fiuttered
| upon the dome of the capitol at Wash
| ington, and when the god of nature shall
! have bowed its head TO liberty freedom
peace and happiness. McKinley's name
will go laundering down into the pages
| of history and creep in by the side of
| that Of the illustrious Lincoln. Three
fourths of the United States congress and
a still larger majority of the American
people shot out derisive denunciations
against the president when the Cuban bill
was before congress, because the presi-
dent had taken a firm stand against the
recognition of the Cuban republic. We
thought, as a people, that the Cubans
were self-sustaining and capable of main
tanning an independent form of govern
ment. The presidet said the Cubans had
no government, except that which was
carried about in the vest pocket of Gu
ban general, and the United States would
have. to furnish them a stable govern
ment until they could prove by their con-
duct and ability that they were capable
of maintaining a government of their
own. The events brought about during
the present war not only show that the
president was right and we were wrong,
but it expands and exemplifies his excel
lency as a most remarkable statesman.
I salute him now as my president but
in doing so I am mindful of the fact
that have accepted his platform"
Lawrence Journal: The calamityites
have funny-looking holes to crawl out
of. When the state administration was
charged with paying out almost $1,000 for
. r. A. -.
charge was boldly admitted. For this
there were two reasons; first, a part of
the administration has it sin for" Mr..
Boyle. In the second place, the vouchers
were on file to show for it. and denial was
useless. Now they come bravely, to the
front and assert that the payment of this
immense sum to Leedy's pets is objected
to by the Republicans solely and only
because the Republican corporations were
touched" by the legal skill of Ed. Little
and the rest of the gang who got the
50, 600. The Pops are playing the ostrich
act. They are sticking their heads in the
sand while the other more prominent parts
are exposed to the gaze of the public.
Judge Rightmire, in Emporia Republi-
can: eff could, would establish as the
law of this nation, whenever upon the
sol of any land the life-blood of an Amer
lean soldier is shed in the cause of lib
erty. that life-blood would consecrate that
soil to freedom, and on II / would keep
them there. in defiance of all the other
nations of the civilized world"
Wichita county produced this year more
than a thousand bushels of wheat for
each voter in the county. 1t may be said
in extenuation, however, that Wichita
- ,1,1.t H., hot
IS wholly out Of proportion to its voting
population.
Joe Lowe says PETER will get twice as
many votes as any other Prohibition nom
inee in Kansas ever got before. Even
if he does, he will not then get enough to
take him out of the scattering" col
umn. In fact, PETER scatters so much
naturally, that It would be difficult to
take him out of that column on any
ticket.
Kansas City Gazette: We sincerely re-
greet TO learn Of the death of Hon. B. H.
McEckron, Of Concordia. He was one
of the stalwart citizens of Kansas in
every feature which constitutes perfect
and useful manhood. He settled In Kan
sas in 1858. He was twice a member of
the legislature and the second time was
unanimously chosen speaker Of the house.
He was one of the committee of three
who managed the bolt for John A Ander-
son for congress in 1856.
Kansas City Gazette: The Marion Rec
ord calls the Beloit Gazette and the Kan
sas City Gazette down for criticisms on
windy enforcement Of the law at To-
peka. II says that we know very we'll
that for a dozen years or more Topeka
was the ceanest town of its size in the
United States. and the cleanest state cap
ital in the Union. It was that way nearly |
all the time II was under Republican |
rule" We don't know anything of the !
kind. We know that the average Of the |
people is the same everywhere. If Ma
rion was as big a s Kansas City or Topeka |
It would be just as "ordinary''-it is a. !
'ornary" today In proportion TO the num- /
Der Of people. There has been just As /!
much vice IN Topeka as among the same 1
number of people elsewhere, the shame, |
duplicity and hypocrisy more than off |
setting in moral effect any alleged de- |
creased consumption OF beer. VIII IL /
lustrate what we mean IN the recent /
Republican primary IN Topeka a candi- !
date for representative told one class Of I
voters that he was in favor of resubrnis- /
sion and told the other that he was op- /
posed 20 reSubmission. He was getting 1
along swimmingly until caught, and his 4
begun 20 work the same game 4
We were told rs 4 great Joke that the first /
one was beaten az hts own game. in other /
words. that the biggest liar. the man who /
deceived the most people. won. Is there 4
anything in this 70 offset the fact tina. /