The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-02-27
is GOING
TO PIECES
Nominees of Citizens Con-
vention Withdrew From Ticket
MORE WILL FOLLOW
Men Say They Cannot Run on
Such a Ticket.

| The anti-Republican ticket. headed by
Finlay Ross, is going TO pieces already.
1t went TO pieces some yesterday and
will go TO pieces some more. according
! TO the views and expressions of candi-
| dates libelled by a nomination without
consultation.
And it VIII go TO pieces by wholesale
later on when the calcium light is turne !
| on and the facts in the case OF the Citi-
Zensh!p ticket are made known. discussed
ana proved Fine specimens of the pieces
and fragments OF the Citizens ticket can
be secured in April when il will not be
necessary for Coroner McColister TO sit
, upon it TO find that il is as dead as Julius
Caesar.
Nermlllion Harris does not want 10 be
| among the dead fragments 10 be picked
up By Jim Dorsey or d. A McNichol to
be piled away in their museum of busted
Citizens tickets he is q young Democrat
VINO is and VIII continue TO be. inspired
by the leadership of such unquestoined
Democrats Senator Daniel and Richard
Oiney, instead of such Democratic"
leaders as Finlay Ross Milt Harris is
wise Tor young man of his years and
he could have done nothing wiser than
quitting the so-called Citizens" ticket
Here is what he writes for publication:
The Citizens convention nominated
me for city attorney without my consent
OF knowledge | was not 2 candidate
for the nomination, have detined it and
requested the chairman not 10 place my
name on the certificate Of nomination l
am not candidate for election and wish
the voters of Wichita TO know it
''VERMILLION HARRIS"
a WA o+I
son was induced 10 WOO the false goddess
OF municipal reform nasquerading under
the Citizens ticketship. Somebody told
him that Finlay Ross was the friend Of
labor, but after awhile somebody else
some better and more reliable authority
told him what's what and what's right
and now Mr.. Bronson has quit wooing
the false goddess and has withdrawn
from the Citizens ticket. telling the
reasons why. This is what Mr. Bronson
says:
ITO the Cimmittee of the Citizen Con-
vention. held at Garfield Hall. wednes-
day, February g. 1893:
'Sirs: After due elaboration l deem
1t my duty 10 myself and the organiza-
ton of which l am a member, and TO all
other unions and their members TO with
draw my name and support on the ticket
on which / was nominated at said conven-
llOil, Will De SldC 10 explain pun
hcly my reasons for so doing. / VIII state
that my reasons for declining are strictly
for the best interests OF all organized
labor in this city. ! regret that l allowed
my name TO be voted upon at the con-
vention, but being misinforIned as 10 the
existing state of affairs. / did so. Now
believing that l can only do my duty TO
myself and the best interests of labor
unions L must respectfully decline the
nomination of city marshal of Wichita.
II. E. BRONSON"
Others have told the Eagle that they
will not accept the nomination of the cit
liens convention for other reasons. prin-
cipally because they are for Ben Mclean,
but they can speak for themselves later
on. And probably more will quit and
want to quit when they hear the details
of the trade made in the Office Of a GER
tain Democrat on North Main street,
three or four nights ago. when ]. g. Nc
Coy. the boss ribber of two years ago.
was brought into the meeting with a
great scheme. which involves a disturb
snce Of the present existing harmony in
the affairs Of the city.
The ribber and the hot-air artists have
teen at work and the boys who are flee
irg from the Citizens ticket know II.