The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-06-27

most extraordinary position and SOUNDS
ike the threat OF political highway
man."
And again:
1--WE are told that the test Of Loyalty to
the republican party in Ohio for the year
1885 is preference for and the determine
ton to support acertain candidate for the
| United States senate. and unless he Is SO
supported to the exclusion of all others in
advance of the election Of the legislature.
| whose duty ii is to elect the candidate.
then we are to have a rup .ure in the pa ty,
and those ofus who may have other pref
erences are traitors to and disturbers Of
the so-called harmony of the party.
"Al. who thus differ are to be asSailed.
belittled and lied about and those who will
| not support this candidate Gor senator)
| cannot be nominated for the legislature.
THE insanity and selfshHess of such
political folly are only paraleeed by the
insanity and selfishness of the political
folly that peddled the banot box forgery in
1889 on the unsupported evidence of con-
fessed criminal. as the means by which the
republicans were to elect their governor
and defeat the democratic candidate in
! that year.
which afterward chose Senator Hanna was
being elected, is not yet forgotten.
Foraker has been printing letters which
| he then wrote TO substantiate his claim of
loyalty" 1t has never been disputed,
not even by Foraker, that the Foraker
Kurtz machine was used in that campaign
to prevent the election of q majority In
the legislature favorable to Senator Hanna
although the party in state convention had
named him for senator.
And when that failed what happened?
Foraker says he did not try to help EJECT
McKisson senator. But Kurtz did, and
| when were Foraker and Kurtz anything
but one In political piracy?
That was no mere case of treachery to
a man either Sound money" was at
stake. McKisson, the CANDIDATE of For
aker and Kurtz. went before a Democratic
| caucus to proclaim himself ''bimetalist''
who would vote with the democrats in con-
gress on the money question.
Foraker did not fight for McKisson. He
let Kurtz do the fighting-Kurtz is not
QUICKER" whatever else he may be-while
Foraker stood in the shadow.
A "quItter' in politics when the odds are
against him? Ask any one of the dozens
of old Foraker lieutenants who lOcked in
| to this city before the recent state conven-
| ton. They showed what sort of a fight
| was On. Most of them had political ex-
istence at stake. They had fought Fora
| ker's battles in other years and demanded
that he now come out and lead their fight,
| And Foraker quit
Up at Columbus the distinguished sena-
cha m cot
from under cover. The ''tip'' went to him
before the convention that a combination
| had been effected which would give the
anti-Hanna men control of the convention.
How quickly Foraker jumped to the front
then and made his little declaration OF
war; speech encouraging the McKisson
ccntesting eiegation from Cleveland.
In the afternoon the Combination" had
fallen through. Foraker straightway went
over to the convention hall, put on his
most sanctimonious air, talked harmony,
and next day submitted without word to
the turning down of Linn w. Hull, his
candidate for attorney general.
Ask some of George B. Cox's 1ieuten-
ants here what they think of Foraker as
a 'truebue" fighter. "sticker" In poll
tics-ask Gerry Hermann, ''Rud" Hyn-
fcka, peter Dnrr or any other OF the
''boys'' who have trained under Cox in
the Foraker camp. They know him and
hate him down to the ground, even as
more decent men in politics have hated
him for years.
But men can do much that is bad IN
politics and still hold up their heads on
the pea "poitics is politics" Men can
,slhI a
schemes in and out OF legislatures and
city councils and still claim to be respect
able and self-respecting citizens. so long
as the world Is willing TO let them make
operations with the title of attorney.
But there are forms of industry which are
a.wavs under the ban,sand among them is
grave robbing or acts akin to ii.
Here is the East bit of Forakeraina- 1t
relates. not to Foraker the lobbyist nor to
Foraker the attorney" not to Foraker
tho cornoration raider nor to Foraker the
political pirate. 1t relates to Foraker the
man.
Something more than three years ago
John W. Flora, an illiterate Kentuckian
about - years old. laid claim TO two
twelftfs OF the estate OF Nicholas Long
worth. one of Cincinnatis earliest settlers
and weagthiest men. Flora pretended to
he the iuegitimate son of Nicholas Long
worthis daughter. WHO had been ''rut out
O, the way in infancy and afterward
ad1pted by James Flora OF Kentucky.
Eliza I,ongworth Flaeg. the alleged
mother Of Flora had been born and reared
in Cincinnati. In her g,rlhoCd days Gin
cinna,i was a I;tt;e town Of 12.ooo people.
whore everyboly's business, especially
that of the wealthy and prominent resi-
dents. Is known to everybody else. She
lived a most esstfmable life from youth mp,
was married and reared n family. She
died in 1891. being then more than 20 years
old and left behind a stainless name.
When such lawsuits as that Of Flora have
been brought against dead mems estates
the word "b.ackma,I' has been usel. What
word fits when the claim ties against a
woman?
John w. Fora had lived all his life over
IN Kentucky. almost within sight of Gin
cinrati As far back as 1876 he had shown
that he thought the Longworth family
might know something about his origin.
bat ne never claimed relationship until
Eliza Longwor;h FlaEg and persons who
might have been witnesses for or against
him had died. Then his suit vas flied and
Senator Foraker became his leading coUn-
sci.
In the trail Of this case II was plainly
proved that the suit OF Senator Foral<eT's
client was put Up sob. II was ss,own
that he was too cid 70 be by any possihl-