The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-11-23
WORK OF JOSHERS
(. {. Brown of Parsons Talks
of the Fate of
SUNFL0WER LEAGUE
Some Things He Thinks are
Liable to Happen.

E. E. Brown, the spirit and inspiration
Of genuine Democracy in Kansas, arrived
in Wichita yesterday from Kiowa, where
he has been for two or three days on
business other than pumping life into the
Democratic skeleton of Kansas. Mr.
Brown will be remembered as the political
Joshua of Parsons who proposed a league
Of the young Democrats of Kansas, the
result Of which proposition was confer
ence at Hutchinson, control of which was
gained by Cvermeyer, Atwood. Weilep of
Cherokee, Watson of Hutchinson and the
gang Of fusion sores that has been run
ming the alleged Democracy of Kansas
for Severa! years. The conference was
called for the purpose Of organizing
Demo cratic league, but when the meeting
got into session the sores didn't want it
caIcd the Democratic league because it
was suse ested that the name would be
distasteful to some Pops who would want
70 join. NJ. V. Watson of Hutchinson,
the most completely nut-headed fusionist
whp ever got mention in a Kansas news
paper, cbewed and mumbled over this
proposition for an hour. The final out
come of the movement was that Bill
Sapp, good fellow, of Galena, was elect
ed president of the organization and Wat
son secretary, and the organization was
called the Sunfower League of Kansas.
Now the name of the league didn't sug-
gest anything on earth, but everybody
said that the secretary at least was a
| daisy. Watson is supposed to be, or is
rated as a Pop. The Sunhower League
was Josh from the minute it was or
ganized, and only a few days ago Bill
Spp2 took it to his back door and threw
it into the back yard, saying it was a
sloppy mess, any way, and by virtue of
| the law of cause and effect ought to be-
a nameless fusion mixture
1.-THE result has been just as expected
and just as 1 said it would be when the
joshers got hold of it." said Mr.. Brown
last night But you wait" he said with
wink Of his other eye. NOW, it would
| not be bad, would it, If about ten thou
sand or more true blue Democrats would
bob UP in Topeka some fine cold morning
in January and have little private meet.
ing down in Hamilton hall and promul-
gate some real American principles, real
Democratic princ'Iles such as every good
American citiz,a With horse sense would
approve Of.
But there, I am DEPRESSING. You know
that the Sul4Owtr League was dead
hen it got dry and nobody expected any
thing else VIII AL the conference was zap
tured by growle:s. I've been all over
Kansas since theSsnnflower League was
born and died, fhe two results being the
fruit of one process. ! have talked with
Democrats. They say they are all Demo-
Gratis, all right, but they don't feel like
sending to a Populist secretary for the
charter for a Democratic league. They
won't do it OF the 100000 Democrats in
Kansas there are enough real American
Democrats to control a Democratic con-
vention, and you may hear something
'drap' if you keep your ear to the ground.
There isn't so much moss on Kansas and
Kansas Democrats aren't mossbacks al
together.
Il would like to see Democracy do
something once. For forty years we've
been squatting behind log to see what
the Republicans advocated and then we'd
take the opposite. 'Ferninsters' has been
our real lodge name and IF the Republi-
Democratic motto. This is hardly less
than idiotic. The Democratic party ought
by rights to be the leading progressive
political force of the world It was so
intended originally by name and princi-
pie. The trouble is we've been squatting
back and waiting so much the Republi-
cans have stolen ourtthunder. Now we
feel that our only right to existence
comes from our age-honored habit of
knocking. Expansion is a Democratic
idea, a Democratic principle. jefferson
was a Democrat and an expansionist
We've got on the other side because the
Republican party rooted us out.
Il am an expansionist Of the most rad
ical sort I'd 90 EN- one better and an
mex Asia I don't mean that the United
States government ought to get control
of territory, and colonize subjects to be
taxed without representation, but Amer