The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-01-04
SISTER LEASE BOUNCED.
GOVERNOR LEwELLING REMOVES HER
FROM THE BOARD OF CHARITIES.
the Was Preparing TO Show Up the Rot
tennsss Of the POpulist Administra.
tion Of the sunfower State
and Had to Co.

TOPEKA, Dec. 2S-Mrs. Lease has
been removed as a member of the
state board of charities. The governor
made the removal after long confer.
'ence with his associate officers and
other Populist leaders, and the action
was no doubt in anticipation of the
war Mrs. Lease is preparing to declare
against the state administration. To
reporter the governor said he had
removed her in the interest Of har
mony and good government. He
might have stirred up a great row but
guessed no great trouble would come
of it. @Before the announcement of
her removal had been made Mrs.
Lease, who is in the city, had been
comforting with Populist leaders about
the appointment of George r. Thau-
Der as steward of the deaf and dumb
asylum at Olathe by the votes of the
Republican members Of the board.
EITHER he goes or | go" she had de-
clared ~ do not believe in appoint
ing Democrats to office when good
Populists have been ignored. Besides,
Thauber's appointment is to secure
the beer drinking element of the state
n the Populists in the next election
sS;l not that kind Of a politician"
1T was not intended to remove Mrs.
!sase, but this morning the governor
learned that she was getting ready to
make another assault upon the admin
Lstration before her removal was made.
Che removal means that the admins
ration has accepted her challenge to
battle and the coming contest will be
ull of fire and interest.
She takes her removal like a trained
politician. She says: elf Governor
Lewelling can stand it | can l will
saw wood, as politicians say, You
may congratulate Governor Lewelling
upon downing the best friend and
most sympathetic and cordial worker
the Peoples party ever had in the
state of Kansas.
Mrs. Lease when asked by an Asso-
ciated Press representative tonight if
her removal would cause split in the
party reiterated the statement made in
Topeka a mouth ago that the present
administration would be turned down.
81 lever denied the interview de-
clared Mrs. Lease, "and every charge
preferred by me will be snbstantiated
at the prC Der time. The old crowd
must go. | went into the fight for
principle and can and will not tolerate
the corruption of the present admin
istration, an administration more cor
rupt than any Republican administra-
ton that ever disgraced Kansas. Gov
ernor Lewelling seems to make ap-
pointments to further his own politi-
cal ends regardless of consequences.
When he finds an appointee whom he
can't use he deposes him.
MRS. LEASE WILL RESIST.
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 2S.-R. NJ. Chen
ault, one of the most prominent Popu-
list of Kansas, and attorney for Mrs.
Lease, arrived here tonight. He was
very bitter against Leweling for the
removal of Mrs. Lease. Speaking
about the matter he said: TIN per
fectly satisfied after consultation with
the attorneys employed to assist me in
fighting Lewelling that the gov
ernor cannot remove Mrs. Lease
legally without cause, and in his
letter notifying her of her
dismissal he gives no legal cause
We propose to fight the case TO
the bitter end The removal of Mrs.
Lease will certainly disrupt the
Peoples party in the state and lead to
shameful and disgracefu! defeat at the
next fall elections. l certainly con-
slider the governor the most unwise
and indiscreet governor Kansas ever
had. He has done more to bring re-
proach on the state and stop capital
from coming 10 it than all the govern
ors Kansas has had from the time of
her admission to the Union. | will do
my utmost to defeat him for renomina-
tion, supported by thousands of our
people"