The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-11-02
CONDITION
OF LONGS
CAMPAIGN
About to Gain Another Great
Popular Victory.
MAJORITY WILL BE LARGE
Some Interesting Memories
of the Past.
MAJORITY WILL BE LARGE

Wellington. Kan, Nov. when the
polls have been closed next Tuesday
night Chested I. Long viii have again
been reelected to congress from the
Seventh district.
His majority will have been larger
than in any year that he has been
chosen to represent this district.
Besides the election of Mr.. Long, any
where from twenty-four to thirty MEM
bers of the legislature from counties
and legislative districts in the Seventh
district will have been elected. This
will go a long way toward insuring the
election of a Republican United States
senator from Kansas will hail from the
southwest-from the Seventh district
thus succeeding Senator W. A Harris,
Democrat.
The state ticket of the Republican
party will have received larger ma
jority in the Seventh district than ever
before since the palmy days preced-
ing 1890
these are a few of the results so far
as this congressional district is con-
cerned. This is no boastful claim; no
wild figures or majorities will be
included in this forecast-the writer
makes no claims to prophesy, he simply
wishes to venture a forecast which any
sane, reasonable and alert man in the
Seventh district. no matter his politics,
will verify when he reads this.
Chester I. Longs standing in the Sew
enth district is unexcelled. Everyone
admits that There was a time when
this was not true, but that was in the
past. The events of the past few years
have abundantly demonstrated what the
district thinks of it's representative
whom it has kept in congress whenever
Republicans had a ghost Of shaw.
His work in congress has been so sat
isfactory TO district and state that
pride in him and his achievements has
grown up which is unsurpassed in any
congressional district in the state, with
out doubt, and in one branch or other
of congress, Mr.. Long can probably re-
main so long as he chooses and Repub-
lican majorities hold out.
The career of Chester /. Long in this
district has not been an easy one; the
path leading to his present position has
not been either f1guratively or literally
strewn with roses. He has had to con-
test for every inch Of progress; for
every bit of supremacy. The fact that
he has landed where he is today is due
to three things: His own indomitable
perseverance, the magnificent Seventh
district organization. the intense and
faithful loyalty of his political friends
than whom no man in public life ever
had better or ADLER.
But this campaign has been compare
lively an easy one in a congressional
way. In the ten years Long has been
a candidate for congress. this is the
first time his congressional opponent
and the political conditions of the dis
trict have not been a source OF great
worry. cause for strategy and shrewd
movepent, on the part of himself and
his friends. In the days OF the redoubt-
able and clever Simpson, the greatest
alertness was necessary; even that Oft
times proved futile. though in the end
Long conquered and drove his clever ad-
versary from political existence. Two
years ago CIaud Duval. with his tire
less individual work. with his admitted
sincerity and host of personal friends.
was an opponent Of no mean skill. But
this year. though Vernon ]. Rose be un-
deniably a pleasant gentleman, with
much sincerity OF purpose and action,
no doubt. the Newton gentleman nor his
friends have had much heart in the
campaign and have not been able TO
arouse the old enthusiasm OF Simpsons
friends or the backing even that was
given Duval two yeas ago. Mr. Rose
has perhaps made the most thorough
campaign any opponent Of Mr.. Long
ever made IN the Seventh district; but
there has been something iacking-there
has not been the spirit in it which for
merly characterized Longs opponents.
But this condition of things. apparent
from the beginning Of the campaign in
this district. has not deferred Mr.. Long
from taking every precaution. True, in
view OF his candidacy for United States
senator he has not made the extensive
campaign in the Seventh that ne has in
former years: but he has visited every
county but two OF the remote south
western ones. and he has spoken in
every county seat save two. He has
good crowds. and has made a splendid
district campaign