The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-05-28

How could there be anything else with
everything agreed upon beforehand? III
there is any trouble, II ---1' be because the
rank and file OF the party does not accept
the dictates of those VINO are running the
new machine and they must expect to be
run over, as those before them have
been. What right has the, commercial
and industrial interests OF the state to
attempt TO dictate to those who have
started this movement for men and not
measures? Nnat right have these in
terests to interfere with the plans made
by the leaders to select railroad con-
tractor as chairman of the convention IN
stead of a stocAman? Isn't this q rail
road convention. for the railroads and
by the railroads? DIDN'T the rahroaos
gates with the understanding that GER
tain men were to be nominated and won't
the goods be delivered?
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The ma ,ority of the delegates will be
in tne city by this morning and py noon
the most OF ,-em will have been told
what part they are to play in the game OF
politics that is on. There, won't be much
for them to do. In fact, the less they 90
the better. and all they will have to do is
to watch the leaders and be careful and
not break the slate. With the arrival
Of the delegates. the whipping in for the
caucus this evening commences ana When
they are bound Dy that the rest Will be
easy and the convention that is to Follow
tomorrow viii be a perfunctory analr.
This article was printed before the con-
venticn met by one of the strongest Re-
publican papers in the state. And want
to read TO you from a few others what is
thought OF il after the convention had ad-
iourneu ana so ] read you now what the
Leavenworth Times sad of it:
1T is undenably true. that the rall-
roads dictated the nominees for railroad
commissioner nominated every state OF
ficer and elected the chairman of the
convention besides sending some OF their
number to the national convention ana
making one a Presidential electCr.
The stranglehold which the railroads
have on the party at this time must be
broken by the men VINO are IN r,.l Control ,rIr OF
the party is bound to suffer The people
are crying out against the opprerS on or
the corporations. Not town in the state
but which complains cf unfair and dis
criminate freigrC rates Wichita going so
far as to take her case into the courts
With such condition. with the allied in
Gustrial and commercial interests OF the
state in arms against the railroads 1t De-
hooyes the new managers or the party 10
take such stems as will insure the people
the needed reforms and protect them
against corporations.
And the following from the Seneca Tri-
bune:
The Republican convention at Wichita
IS past aud the expected happened. AT no
time was il thought that the nominations
would be diuerent than they were with
for supreme judge in place of Judge At
kinson who was appointed to fl the va
cancy Of Judge Pollock to the Cnited
States district bench by President Roose-
velt ,;udge Atkinson. the new machine
proposed and prated about renomlnaung,
but the controlling spirit at Wichita was
governed entirely by the desire To pun
ish and humliiate. and so Judge Atkinson
was used as a horrible example TO illus
trate the certain annihilation of Any who
might he suspicioned OF not endorsing all
that the new machine was doing The
purpOse of those in control seemed To De
10 demonstrate how completely they
would could and did blot out anything
and ANYBODY who did not bend to the cor
porate powers which are stranging the
Republican party in Kansas today.
The railroad interests are too dictator
iaI in political affairs of the Republican
PARTY They are bold and defiant, and II
persisted in Will turn the political AFFAIRS
into the keeping of others than the Re-
publican party. II the course at wichita
which placed the affairs into the hands of
railroads and corporations is persisted IN
il will result i'm disruption and laying OF
the foundation for an uprising that VIII
he a : emphatic and pronounced as was the
sweep of Popuiism in the early nineties Of
the past century. ana from which Il re-
quired ten years for the Republican party
TO recover. The great political pressure
which these corporate interests brought
20 hear about the neck Of the Republican
party at Wichita viii stvangle the life out
Of factions and the man who can not see
this is blind indeed -
And the following from the TonguoNte
Mirror:
thing IN Kansas politics Al present. The
presiding officer Of the Wichita conveH-
ton IS a rich railroad contractor four II
the six delegates n the national convcn-
tion are railroad stfOrneFS OF assistants.
c1sa eIector is 2 railroad ran. two of the
three or the board OF railroad com mis-
siGners were dictated by the railroads. md
the uc-uinces FOR the state beard 81 equal
izaiiou did not raise the railroad assess
melt when thev raised the assessment -
ali ether kinds Of property during their
present terms. And this IS the great ~
rising Of tie people against the machine
rule
And the following from the Lawrence
World:
The way polistcS Is run . enough - dis.
gust ny decent man. The most unfair
sdvarta ges ara tstcea and taaEted os The
most uaderh1-S things are boldly dore
and peraCs9 Men have come 20 Goir Z
things they would not have done ter
years zzo r. - face n this there has
been ea s-ctssi of public conscience II
has rot reached - the mans cement cf
parties his thing cannot 70 OF The
public T.n rot stand for what = beng
done Ia county after county the people
are being t-ifed with and deceived They
are going - have an inning at ise s3ec-
tiol- Mess Ws get 10 being more decent
II s3lIC= WITH fGcl oTrSE II ponies We
may expect he defeat that ~ 5eserTs-
Ard the following trorT. the E1tchs--
son News.
The general Indignation in tSe sta =
over the domination Of railroad inrle1c.
az the Wichita convention * al indication
of what wiu happen u the railroads 60
nrt get o-eT their EaieTy. The board q
railroad comm sstc1srS rIi De watched
ry,g-e cip<eiv thsa ever before and fUo
wears Is no; a long tire Il any sssos -
raent TIE present rSfirsz1 isv Is q
mighty poor excuse ar} ksv. srd the 5rr,
eHo-. ot TIRE shippers ard consumers Il
Kansas should BE- 20 get q good law. .
| better law. something lke the Texas lau,