The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-04-15
Daily Eagle
NJ. NJ MURDOCH. Editor.
THE DUTY OF THE HOUR.

THE DUTY OF THE HOUR.
The Leavenworth Times fortifies
very strong appeal for the Republican
rehabilitation Of Kansas with rea-
sons as numerous as they are unah-
swerable. The editorial Of the Times
referred to, has an old-time clamor Oh
arms in its sonorous sentences and
ring Of war in its rounded PERIODS.
The season of Popocrat experiments
and of demagogic fusion is past, ana
the hour of earnest council and OF pa
triotic resolves has come. The land
of Washington stands confronted
with unknown perils, and the princi-
pies of civil and religious liberty,
conquered by the fathers and defend
ed by their sons for century, as also
the nations right to protect the in
dependencies and to stand for the des-
TIMES Of the Americas. are being ques-
toned by foreign despotisms, by alien
oligarchies, whose dynastic preroga-
tives inhere only in heredity, and
whose sole right to rule is but an en-
tailed might. In this perilous hour on
which hangs the fate of freedom and
the solemn obligations sealed by the
blood spilled on Bunker Hill, and con-
secrated anew in the compact signed
by Grant and Lee at AppamatoX'
Kansas must vindicate her birthright
and take her place as the leading star
of the constellation. These are not
the tense words employed by Colonel
Anthony, but they briefly portray the
spirit Of his double-leaded appeal for
recovered Republican supremacy in
Kansas, a state whose demands must
supplant its prophets Of disaster with
champions and heroes. 1t would
prove a useless waste of words and
an unwarranted consuming Of time to
ask why, or to explain how it happens
that in this moment of national eX
tremity Kansas is being voiced in the
national councils by a horde Of ca
lamity shriekers.
The humiliation of the patriotic peo-
pie of the Seventh district of Kansas,
yesterday morning, on reading the re-
port of the stand taken by the coward
" Canuck who represents them in
Washington, voting, as he did, with
the nineteen" was beyond expression.
This sociaIistic adventurer never was
an American, much less a Kansan. He
was born in a foreign land and bred of
anarchy, and his highest conception Of
freedom is license. He will be defend
ed by the calamity howlers and the
Democrats who voted for him on the
plea that their Jerry voted against
the resolution for intervention at
once" on the ground that the resolu-
ton is not radical enough, or that it
a de facto government. But every
body who knows the man knows that
he is Of that stripe of alien dema-
gngues who fight with their mouths
and sneak for votes. Had Chester
Long been in congress that vote
would have stood S23 to II instead of
800 to 10, and the people of this dis
trict would not have been left hang
ing their heads in shame over an i'm
portation whose only claim to fame
hinges upon the fact that he is a
blatherslkite.
The Times is right, and Kansas
should not only recover Republican
supremacy, but her patriotic majority
should see to it that the eight repre-
sentatives who shall be elected to con-
gress from this state this fall are men
who will be found upholding the hands
of the president and defending the
honor of the nation. These are not the
times for yellow dog puppets or dem
Rgogic boodlers, but for patriotic
self-respecting, honorable and incor-
ruptible statesmen. Fling the banner
phalanxes and place only patriots or
guard from the chief in the state
house TO the overseer in the township
The risk is too great, the feeling of in
security too torturous, and the
chances of humiliation and dishonol
too imminent with irresponsible fusion
in control and its heterogeneous CO.
horts directing the vital affairs of &
situation involving interests of such
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