The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-02
VOTING AND VOTERS
Next tuesday and What the
Voter Will Do.
WHAT He WILL ASK2
Many of the Things Being
Talked About.

Next Tuesday the voter casts his ballot.
You are a voter. You are here 10 stay.
You have lived in Wichita for five, ten,
twenty years. or you came here yesterday
to stay. The destiny of Wichita is, to a
very great extent, your destiny. Wichita
on a basis of her registration has q popu-
lation of 1900 people. It is the third city
in the state, in this respect, and the sec
ond IN point of business. It is first in
point Of public buildings, and first in edu-
cational institutions sustained by private
enterprise 1t has more wholesale houses
and they DO a greater business than is
done in any other city in the state.
good municipal government for Wich-
tia is Of more Importance to her people
than good state or national administra-
ton of affairs. Why? Because you are in
close touch with it. It is a part of your
every day life. You are one of the factors
involved. It embraces home, family cir
Gle, all there IS of yourself and of those
in whom your interests center.
You pay taxes; you pay them because
the law requires #. If extravagant ad-
ministration makes them high your profits
q
twenty thousand dollars it helps you di-
rectly. It is a good bargain and you have
your portion Of it. If you work, and you
do, for there IS not one hundred able
bodied men in this city but who have to
work, you are directly interested in eco
nomical administration of affairs When
ever property sells for taxes because the
owner won't pay them, labor is out of
employment. Three or four years ago
property was being sold right and left to
pay taxes. Now it is being redeemed and
now the people in Wichita are doing more
business. There are more painters paint
ing, more printers setting type, more car
penters saving hammering, showing the
plane, more masons with something to
do, more transferring done by individuals
and transfer companies, more express
business. more statesmen coming and going
and more ana more taking up permanent
residence here.
The pOstoffice business has increased in
the past six months nearly six thousand
dollars. This would mean If paid in letter
postage three hundred thousand letters
This is the pulse Of the body polite It
indicates business, push, new life, energy.
It is always taken as a forward move
ment.
More goods of all kinds are being sold.
more freight is being handled, more Of all
the things which make a city, give en-
ployment and make people hopeful is go
ing on than two years ago.
Do you want TO change It? No. Does
any man, woman or child in this city be-
lieve that any one of the men who aspire
TO manage its affairs ever said that -
did not care for the laboring man? BE
honest now. Think what you would say
il you were IN business or were wanting
an Office. Would you say it? You would
not Can't you he big enough to give the
other fellow little credit for sense? Can't
you be broad enough to discredit an evil
dent falsehood2
Do you believe that any man can ad-
minister the affairs of this city save along
the lines of the average thought and i'm
pulse Of the average man? Do YOU think
that this hive OF industry. that this live.
progressive city of workers and home
builders, that the twenty-seven thousand
people who constitute this city, are go
ms to turn aside frool those beaten paths
which the experience Of the best judgment
Of the average man and woman have
selected as the best in which to travel for
that average success in life for which we
aim. Do you think that they are going
to turn aside and go out after some new
and untried theory on the way to do
things?
Do you believe the city has made pro
gress toward a better general condition of
all things in the last two years?
Do you believe that this condition has
been helped by having a good practical
business administration?
Do you believe that it would have been
better to have been experimenting with
some theory or 10 have been building
sidewalks and parks and making contracts
by which the city has saved thousands Of
dollars?
Do you think that It was better to take
q sluggish. miasmatlc river. make of it
thing Of beauty and profit for the city or
to have tried over again some exploded
fancy about the general building up Of So
ciety.
Have you heard one good practical rea-
son why the careful. prudent business
man. during whose administration the
city's debts have been paid. Who has taken
Into the treasury thousands Of dollars bv
reason of the making Of business con-
tracts. who has during his long residence
In this city done much in a private vrav
to improve il, who has paid out. as shown
by his books, over seventy thousand dol
lars for The item Of labor. the man OF
whom men have said: II worked for him.
and while 7 was sick he paid Just the
same do YOU think such a man worthy
OF approval