The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-05-31

party leads without regard TO results
There occasionally comes a time intell!-
gence honesty, conscience and manhood
justify prompt and unyielding rebellion
When it once becomes an esta blished fact
that the yellow dog will not be tolerated
as a party leader his odious presence in
high places viii become thing OF the
past
THEIR OWN WORST ENEMIES
We have all been accustomed from
childhood to hear 1T said of a poor
friendless creature, who has suddenly
passed into oblivion. that he was mis- own
worst enemy" We all know what that
sort of forlorn and hopeless euloSy
means l regret to say that there is an
other class Of men TO whom this sorry
epitaph also applies. I belong TO that
class L have been a great sinner. We
are our own worst enemies. In most pro-
LESSONS. and in most lines of business
and labor, a spirit of fraternity prevails.
Is that true of the newspaper toilers?
Do we stand up and battle for each other
as other men do? There is hardly
newspaper publisher today in Oklahoma
who could not be convicted of the great
timony of his brethren, as printed from
time to time in their newspapers. could
be used as evidence against him. The
only defence TO this sort OF evidence would
be to show that the reputation of its NJ
thor for truth and veracity II the COM
munity in which he lives is bad.
When a newspaper man modestly yields
TO the urgent appeals of imaginary and
invisible friends. and expresses a will
lingness to be sacrificed for the good Of
his country on the altar OF a public Of
fee. which he seldom has opportunity 20
90, on account of the ever present other
fellow, how quickly and how keenly his
affectionate brethren pounce upon him
and proceed TO at once mangle him be-
yond the recognition even of his loving
and devoted wife.
THE dilapidated, seedy, insufferable.
illiterate, whisky-soaked old liar and dead
beat. who edits the dirty dishrag across
the way; the ancient mountebank and
corrupt scoundrel who prints the daub
out of his old, indistinguishable heli-box
at the other end of the street. the
groveling. whining liar and gutter snipe
who prints the little dirty evening thumb
paper the YOUNG upSldIl, WHO ID SUI
fering from softening of the brain. and
who is the most contemplate rogue and
petty thief that ever struck town''-these
are samples of some of the endearing
terms in which he is greeted by his be-
loved brethren. Not all of them. There
are honorable exceptions. And, besides,
this is the Missouri and not the Okla
home style Of Journalism.
FEW NEWSPAPER MEN IN OFFICE.
1t is an interesting fact that newspaper
men fill comparatively few official places
of great honor and profit. AS party can
didates they are Invariably voted to he
unavailable and this vote is cast by
the other fellow and his admiring friends.
a country publisher, VINO has spent
life time in hard. conscientious toll in
building up men and towns, in standing
heroically by the flag. in filing the Office
Of secretary of town meetings, and in
shouting at all times for the party, may
consider himself extremely fortunate If,
through the influence of men whom he
has created. to enjoy for a season the
modest emoluments of the village post
office. And even this small recognition
is, in most cases, grudgingly given him
over and against the united protest of
the other fellow and his clan of small
noliticians