The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-03-19

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SOME MORE
DUPLICITY
"Citizen8" Aggregation Rap
idly Getting Tangled Up.
BLOWING HOT AND COLD
Mr. Helm the Latest Victim
of a Past Record.
LIKE GHOST OF BANQU0
Anti-SalOon Pledges Come Up
to Tease Politicians.
LIKE GHOST OF BANQUO
Anti-SaIOon Pledges Come Up
to Tease Politicians.

If the managers, boomers and boosters
of the so-called citizens ticket are al
lowed plenty of rope they win soon have
themselves hanged higher than Hamen.
For TWO weeks they. with their organs,
have been urging the prohibitionists to
place a ticket in the field and have con-
tributed money to professional "ribbers"
with that end in view.
They have stuffed and padded pro-
hibition meetings to deceive men who
are not acquainted ia the city, outside
Of certain circumscribed circles, into the
belief that there is an overwhelming
prohibition sentiment in Wichita.
They have had professional street
corner takers at work trying TO make
the public believe that the whole com
munity is agitated over the liquor ques-
ton and that it is possible that Wilbur
Jones VIII sweep everything.
In word the boosters and pluggers
of the citizens ticket are doing more to
rib up trouble and bring about dis
turhance and unrest in the community,
than any other element.
Are they honest in it?
That they are not is evidenced by the
fact of A. L. Helm. one of their candi-
dates, declining to accept a nomination,
or rather an endorsement, from that
mass meeting-of hfty-eight persons
which by two or three weeks work,
they were able to get together.
How did Mr.. Helm decline this nomin-
alton?
Meekly and politely to the Prohibitions
lists ana with roaring, almost ferocious,
Indignation to the liberal element
The managers and boosters of the Citi-
zens' ticket are doing more work. at
least they are writing more booming col
umns for the so-caIed Law and order
movement than they are for the Citi-
zens ticket only last night it was an
nounced by the inspiration no doubt of
the Citizens board OF strategy that the
so-called Law and Order ticket viii get
$500 votes.
Does any sensible man believe that
this is ar honest statement? Doesn't
everybody know that it was made for
deception?
Is there a level-headed man in town
who believes that A. L. Helm would re-
fuse an endorsement that would bring
him 300 additional votes.
Says Mr.. Helm boomers;
1T was a surprise TO many when the
so-caned Law and order party endorsed
him, because it was generally known
that Mr. Helm was opposed to the plan
of endless prosecutions and court costs
favored by the Law and order people"
If the acceptance of an endorsement
from people whose purpose is endless
prosecution and court costs" is wrong.
why isn't il wrong to spend money and
time and energy in nursing and stimu-
latiug and booming the movement cal
culated to bring about endless prose
cuuon and court costs2
But is the acceptance of such an en-
drosement wrong In the estimation of
Mr.. Helm? And if it is, how long? Is
it any more wrong to accept an en-
dorsement now than it was on October
/. 1894 when Mr.. Helm accepted a nomi-
nation from the Wichita Christian Tenn
perance Alliance. whose chairman was
Colonel H. w. Lewis. and whose secre-
tary was 5. ID. Leurance. two men who
had been notorious for their eagerness
TO bring about endless prosecutions and
court costsg
At that time Mr.. A. z. Helm was rum
ning against John Davis for county att
torney, and was endorsed by thar most
intoleraut organization. Fortunately one
of the circulars has been preserved and
is as follows
Wichita, Kan, Oct. l. 1891.