The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-12-30

and organized and organized. 1t fought
for every township. for every precinct;
it learned the names of every Republican
and set him to work got in touch with
other Republicans. gave them ammuni-
ton, encouraged them, kept them TO work
and that. too. without any office or
much hope of office TO back them No
other district in the state was so hopeless
in no other were material obstacles
so great-in no other was there such an
organiza ton; and. finally. after years of
that work the district went Republican
and stayed there. jerry Simpsons ma
iority in 1896 was 1893 over Mr.. Long.
Do YOU know, general, what Mr.. Long
majority was this year? Just the tr1t7
of 1923 \ change of over lo,ew votes
since the machine was organized. How
was it in the First district? In 1896 the
Republican majority was 3.400, and this
year 1880, a change of 100 votes, Just
little over half the increment we have
made in the Seventh district. You had
no such conditions 10 contend with as
We The eastern half of the state never
saw the hard times we saw, the univer-
sal ruin and despair, that only the strong
est hearts could resist and combat. And
so you see, general that out here in the
Seventh district, where we have seen the
disreputable methods of til machine at
work. where we have seen this magnlh-
cent and steady increase of the Repub-
lican vote We somehow like the machine
We wish more power to its elbow. And
the men who made that machine, whose
work was hard, intelligent, persistent.
and for many years unrewarded, are
mighty close to our hearts.
And the man whose banner we have
followed for ten years. from hopeless de-
feat to magnificent victory, to whom we
owe more than to any other, this inspir-
ing change do you think any other Re
publican can be TO us what he is! DO
YOU think that any amount of derision or
uniformed denunciation can change our
regard for Chester |. Long? Do you
thing that when the final round in this
senatorial battle comes we shall follow
off after any strange gods, any ADVENT
tious beneficiaries of the work he has
done here? If 70 do, you do not know
the Seventh district
And now, general. finally. why is t
that the eSventh district is able to hog
so many of the offices? Why is it that
when we go into state convention. we
we take what we want and the First
district gets what is left?
why did the Greeks whip the Per
slams? Why did the Texans beat the
Mexicans? Why did the Romans whip
Pyrrhus with all his elephants? Why
have trained disciplined, organized
troops. Injured to war and hardships.
always and everywhere beaten the soft,
efreminate. undisciplined and inexperi-
enced armies? When you answer that
question general you will know why the
Seventh district always beats the First
( and always will till the First gets the
! kind of training we have received out
here.
at is not your fault. 1t is the fault OF
! circumstances. You have stayed at Ca
pua too long You have had an easy time
! in the First district, it has come your
way all the time. You have never had
1 to fight year in and year out for your
political scalp against hardy, unurlnS
/ and more numerous enemy, ana as a re-
| suit. YOU are Mexicans in politics. You
are soft. you have no tenacity, no CO.
! herence. none of the sense of organize
ton and leadership that our peculiar
training has bitten into Us. And so TINS
winter. general. we shall beat you again.
boat YOU lust as We did in IS. just as
we did nj Wichita this year And il yo'i
! will read these few lines carefully and
nnderstardingly. YOU will know why.