The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-03-21

vision of the forces that make an enter
prising business city.
From a political standpoint they could
not help the Republicans more than they
are now doing. in disgusting the public
with the rubbing methods, but the Repub-
lican party OF Wichita doesn need and
doesn't want the aid Of tom-foolery so in
furious to the city.
1t was only yesterday or lAe day before
that a prominent gentleman who is here
from Chicago with q view to investing,
told a reporter for the Eagle that he
would make no investment whatever until
he would learn me result of the election.
It was in vain that the reporter told him
that the alarm was stuffed and artificial
He heard the "Ribbers" say and read it
in the ''Ribber'' newspap ers that the
movement to overthrow the present bust
ness system is a formidable one, and not
understanding the real spirit and COM
mon sense Of the people Of Wichita, he
believed them.
From business standpoint the ribbers
are worse than the agitators, for with
out rbbing" agitation would have
ceased long ago, and men who seek in
template improvements would not have
become alarmed.
Any man who has q grain of common
sense relative 20 the affairs Of Wichita
and the sentiment that governs the peo-
pie, knows that Ben Mclean will be elect
ed mayor by an overwhelming majority,
and that the business system Of the mu-
nicipality will be conducted along pre-
cisely the same lines as marked out. de-
fined and sustained by the present adj
ministration. The talk of Jones getting
$500 votes and the election of George
Young by the element behind him is rot.
Mr. Young will not know he was in the
race when the votes are counted the cleo
ton night Mark this prediction.
The "Riboers' are also doing a great in
jury to the laboring people of this city.
and Indirectly through laboring men to
the merchants. A great many poor fell
lows have gone through the winter
months without work, their savings are
getting low and their homes, perhaps,
are in need OF things for which a few
days wages are needed. The season is
now here when they ought to be at work,
and they would have been were it not for
this artificial scare that the 'Ribbers"
have gotten up. Had there been no scare
during the comparatively fine weather
of the past few weeks, every labOring
man in Wichita might have been at work,
for it has been the purpose Of property
holders all winter to begin improvements
when the weather became permanently
settled. In keeping timid capital in its
hole the "Ribbers" have kept laboring
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the business they could transact by rea-
son of the more general employment of
the working man.
Mrs Nation was mild enemy Of the
town from business standpoint, com
pared with the ribbers. The alarm which
she created was only temporary and
would have ended long ago had it not
been the "Ribbers'' who have kept up
the gaitation tor political purposes.
Suppose tina "Ribbers" ticket wins out
this year by its ''ribbing" scheme what
is TO prevent some other aggregation
from ''ribbing'' next year, and winning.
too. The only way to prevent "ribbing''
in the future, and the unrest and distur-
bance which it creates, IS to give 1t a
good sitting down this year
Does anybody suppose that the RIB
bing" management of the "Ribbers'
ticket has any good purpose to serve by
urging and encouraging the church and
prohibition leaders to keep a ticket in the
field and vote for it? Are they sincere /
in their efforts at making these people
believe that they have a ghost of a show
on election day to elect Mr.. Jones. or
even to secure him votes enough to make
no feohi 20 "a
ance sentiment? Do not the church peo-
pie, the majority of them sensible and
nearly all of them wen-meaning people, /
know that the ''r1bbers" are simply try |
ing to work them in the interest Of the (
'Ribbers" ticket by taking such of them /
as are Republicans away from the sup
port of the regular party ucket?
The best Illustration of the fact that !
the 'Ribbers" are trying to work them
is in the communication of Col. J. G. Nc +
Coy to the Evening Ribber Of the night
before last. When, by his refusal to ac-
cept the nomination of the Mccoy tenn (
perance mass meeting, Mr.. Helm was re-
garded as injured by the ribber who came
to his rescue, but Colonel Mccoy, the .
very man whose nomination ar. Helm
turned down. Didn't Mr. Mccoy, by that
prove beyond doubt that
he is working in the interest of the rib .
oers ticket? His eagerness to square"
Mr.. Helm was so palpably in me interest
Of the Citizens ticket that he who runs
may read his designs.
Wichita cannot afford to be made
football by politicians in the future as
well as the present time, and to save
trouble IN the years TO come the business
men, property holders and good citizens
generally, whose interests are in this city.
should cause it to be understood now and
that the interests of Wichita
Its peace. good order and material pros
1eritv cannot be trined with with i'm