Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-10-06
HRS. LEASE TALKS.
She Scores BreidenthaI and
Says He Betrayed His Party.
ica1 scamp-MaJor Morrill, Handsome
IL OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Eaton
Because He is "a Democrat


yesterday resting after her political tour
in the northern part of the state. She
is suffering very much from the effects
of her recent illness, and while she is
gaining flesh rapidly she is not gaining
strength. She finds the strain of her
political work very exhausting and is
doing only a small fraction of what
Phe is accustomed to do under similar
circumstances. She will go to Bonner
Springs, Kan, this morning, where she
will address populist rally this after
noon. and will then do some work at
various portions Of Missouri and Kan
sas.
When seen yesterday afternoon at the
Midland Mrs. Lease stated she was in
the city consulting her dressmaker and
for the time bad laid politics aside.
Despite her fighting qualities she
pleaded guilty to the usual feminine
feeling and declared that when a woman
was having new gown made she had
no time or disposition for anything
else.
During the conversation yesterday
Mrs. Lease was called upon to answer
some questions as to her likes and dis
likes. When asked to state her favorite
trait in men che said it was ''That
nobility that instinctively commands
respect and awakens in other souls that
which sometimes sleeps waiting for
manly man to bid it rise" Her favorite
author she said was Victor Hugo and
she thought Lies Miserables." his best
production. She is also a great admirer
of James Whitcomb Riley's dialect verse
and enjoys it for the reason that it APP
peals, to tho heart and arouses good
impulses.
No one can long talk with Mrs. Lease
without asking some question concern
ing her favorite theme-Kansas politics.
Yesterday for short time she laid aside
the thoughts OF the style of trimming
she would order fer her Priests of Pallas
ball costume and talked freely on that
topic.
Eyes, indeed, am in politics in Kan
sas this year, just as I always have been.
Not because am able to be or on &C
count of my physical condition ought to
be. I am there just because Mr..
Breidenthal said I should not be. He
appears to be running the Peoples
party of the state, but will probably
find out ne is not running all the advo-
Gates Of that party. The idea of him
saying I should not be heard on the
stump this year! He is a nice man to
read me out of the party. Why, he is
the man who betrayed the party that
had elevated him to his position. They
put him in charge to run the machinery
of the Peoples party and he acknowl-
edged their kindness and regarded their
confidence by selling the party out
wholesale to the Democrats and then as
sisted in the election of that vile politi-
cal scamp, John Martin, to the United
States senate. 1t is now charged against
him that he is ready to drop the entire
state ticket, and after capturing the
legislature, attempt to force himself on
the state as the coming United States
senator. Just think of i'll There are
some things we must keep quiet on I'M
til after the elections but if we have the
legislature just let him make the at
tempt to succeed John Martin and watch
what happens"
AS she spoke these words her eyes
lighted with the old time fire. It was
evident that while she might be infirm
physically, her will power and her vim
and spirit had thoroughly recovered, if
indeed they were ever ailing, and that
she had winning hand, and intended
to play to win il she had to enter the
field and lift the scalp Of Breidenthal.
Il saw the interview of Mr.. Davis in
the Journal Sunday concerning politics
in the Seventh district. He said the
Republicans were going to defeat Jerry
Simpson, and have heard it from other
sources. Chester l. Long is pushing
him hard, and Simpson has nothing but
ridicUle with which to make reply. Rid
icule and sarcasm are the weapons Of
fools, as have said a hundred times,
and they do not answer when the peo-
pie are thinking as they now are
Simpson and Hudson were tho only
two Populists who could always be
counted on to vote with the Democrats
and against the Populists, and they will
probably be called upon to answer all
about it on the stump.
Hudson made a hurried exit from
the race, but it is stated he war is back
on the track now. There is some talk
of putting John Eaton on in his place
Eaton is Democrat and has no bust.
ness on Populist ticket. II they vii
put Percy Daniels on the ticket in Hud.
sons place will take the stump in the
district for him. He represents Populisi
doctrines and would be with the party
in the future"
Mrs. Lease is very much interested in
the letters written by Ben Henderson
and says she knows that Henderson il
an honest man in politics and is telling
the truth. HE is stating the same Al
stated year ago. I was never calico
to account for it and he will not be
The only reply they even attempted 70
me was dirty. disgraceful attack tina
they were too cowardly to carry out a
they intended" was the way she 81
pressed her version of the matter
There is plenty that has never bee
told yet, simply because there is enoug,
told to condemn those against whom
is charged. In this. as in all othe
matters, all have to say is let the pee
MIA knowv the foo4a ord La l..