The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-11-06
LANDSLIDE I0 LONG
And the Factors Which Have
Gone to Cause It.
BIG SEVENTIES CHANGES
Which Have Come to a Focus
in This Campaign,
BIG SEVENTIES CHANGES

Medicine Lodge. kan, Nov. 81 A re
view Of the congressional campaign in the
Seventh district just ended. which lacks
no certain symptom Of eventuadng in a
landslide to Long, shows some peculiar
features. arising out Of the changed con
diions from those which prevailed before
Democratic deglutition had enaced the
Populist party that once was. Here are
some Of the peculiarities Of the campaign:
First-Changed condition shat have
contributed to the result to be Of Tues
day.
-Rezubncan reclamation OF a
vote which for ten years has been
against the party.
Third-The numerous issues which have
been made paramount by Democracy,
illustrative Of the forlorn hope which has
been prevalent in it's ranks among the
best thinkers and politicians of the party.
Fourth-Ease with which Mr.. Long
has bee nenabled to make the campaign,
other than the necessary hardships
which perforce must be expected in q
campaign in the largest congressional
district in the country
aking Up and analyzing the above sub
divisions. the following deductions may
be drawn;
First-Conditions have greatly changed
with regard othe vote Of the district
Among the elements which will go to
make up the majority Mr.. Long viii
have are these:
l. PopuHsts: the old time Populist; who
has felt his party gradually eliminated
the PoDulist who came from the Repub-
Ican party originally, and the ant-fusion
Populist as well To this may be added
the Populist who wa sneither Republi-
can nor Democrat prior to the organiza-
ton Of the new party, but who affiliated
with the Union-Laborites.
2 Sound business men, Democrats and
Populists alike who place the CONNER
cial world and the stability Of the af-
fairs in the country at large abpve
party and who wish to see conditions
now existing in the nation perpetuated
by the reelection of President Mckinley,
and who wish this district represented
by a strong, dignifed, capable man, such
as Long is, who viii sustain the presi-
dent in his policies.
8. The average good American, who has
his ideals in politics and public life and
who feels that Chester T. Long reflects
credit upon the district and state he rep
resents and that he is safe man:
man of ideas and convictions; a partici-
pant in the great things which are con
stantly being done to mould the coun-
try's history and destiny.
4. Absolute and unparalleled Repubu-
canunity-more unity and harmony and
energy and enthusiasm tina MAS existed
for many a campaign. Republicans have
attended all meetings. and have not man
Tested the slightest apathy at any time.
Second-This subdivision has largely to
do with the first. The vote which has
bee nreclaimed this year may or may
not be permanently allied with the Re
publican party-it VIII depend on future
pilicies Of the party and on the men
themselves, but it Is safe proposition
that the men who realize the end Of
the PopuIist party. who are breaking
away from Democratic tendency to cor
ner them, win never become Democrats.
Third-The Democratic party in this
district has been in desperate straights
since the 18th day of April, this year,
when at Great Bend, the bold effort was
made to foreclose on the Populist party
and assimilate it. This has resulted in
the divorce of a gaad share of the Pop
ulist party from the Democratic party
after ten years OF combination. Every
imaginable trouble has succeeded to the
Democratic party on account of that
course. Every effort has been made to
hold the Populists in line: to check the
disaffection' to be at the Republicans.
ourth-There never was a time when
the campaign was such a pleasant task
as now. because the fire has left the
opposition. 1T has been largely crushed,
and no longer has it been necessary for
Long to work himself to pitch of
c0mbativeness and meet force and shirt
with force and spirit throughout a cam
paign as long as this has been. These
conditions have never before existed in
this district
The POpuiist party has not organized
as a recruiting station for the Democrat
lie party. This IS a fact that the Dem
ocrats have discovered in this campo .en.
good faith. lit was organized because
The PoDlist party was organized I'm good
faith. tt was organized because the men
who went into It thought they we're not
being lsed right, and wishe dto secure. the
branches Of government that they might
put into operation schemes and ideas
which they considered would be to their
advantase. The men who organized it
went over from the Democratic and Re
publican parties alike They triumphed
ia Kansas and seemed to be more OF less
lasting a So party ~ opposition to the
Bea8alican party. II spread to other
states ana secured a national organiza- +
t.on. Then came fusion. which is