The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-10-12
MRS. LEASE TALKS.
She Scores Breidenthal and
Says He Betrayed His Party.
Senator Martin II ferred TO As a Vile Polit
ical Scamp-Msjor morrill, Handsome
Iy Compiimented-Agai Eaton
Because He Is n d. mocrat

Mrs. Mary h. Lease was IN the city
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
g;ining flesh rapidly she is not gaining
strength. She finds the strain of her
political work very exhausting and is
doing only small fraction of what
fhe 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. E.
When seen yesterday afternoon at the
| Midland Mrs. Lease stated she was in
the city consulting her dressmaker and
for the time had 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 Tor
manly man to bid it RISE" Her favorite
author she said was Victor Hugo and
she thought "Les Miserables." his best
production. She is also great admirer
of James Whitcomb Riley's dialect verse
and enjoys it for the reason that it ap-
peals, to the 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.
"Yes, indeed, am in politics in Kan
sas this year, Just as 1 always have been.
Not because am able to be or on ac-
count of my physical condition ought to
be. L am there just because Mr..
Breidenthal said 1 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 l 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 polti-
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 it, There are
some things we must keep quiet on IN
til after the election, 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. 1t 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 I. Long is gushing |
him nard, and Simpson has nothing but |
ridicule with which to make reply. Rid |
icule and sarcasm are the weapons OF |
fools, as have said hundred times, |
and they do not answer when the peo- !
pie are thinking as they now are. |
Simpson and Hudson were the 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 will |
put Percy Daniels on the ticket in Hud- |
sons place will take the stump in the
district for him. He represents Populist |
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 is
an honest man in politics and is telling
the truth. HE is stating the same as
1 stated year ago. was never called |
to account for it and he will not be. |
The only reply they even attempted for |
me was dirty, disgracefui attack that
they were too cowardly to carry out as
they intended" was the way she ex-
pressed her version of the matter. |
There is plenty that has never been
told yet, simply because there is enough |
told to condemn those against whom it |
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