The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-01-10
WHAT CAN SHE mean
Mrs. Mary E. Lease in the City
Today.
4 Reporter Asks Her About the
Conference
At ST. Louis With Peck and
ROssingtOn.
TELLS TWO STORIES.
In One Mrs. Lease Says She
Doesn't Know Peck.
Later She Says She Did Talk
With Him
st ST. Louis on Tuesday
Morning.
fRW uTpW NO RErWEVrE7 ,
Later She Says She Did Talk
With Him
st ST. Louis ON Tuesday
Morning.
WHICH no BELIEVE2
She Makes Of the Matter 4
Tangled Web.

IN OUT dispatches ON the second page
is dispatch from ST. Louis in which
Mrs. Lease IS reported to have met Geo.
r. Peck and W. H. Rossington at the
Southern hotel in that city yesterday, ana
held a conference.
On the same subject. the Kansas City
Times today contains tie following
special:
Sr LOUIS. Jan. "a most peculiar
conference occurred ia room 800 at the
Southern hotel here today. The partici-
pants were Mrs. Mary Ellen Lease Of
Kansas, Sir. George RI Peck, general s0-
lcitor of the AtchisOn, Topeka and Santa
Fe road, and w. IL Rossingt0n of TO-
peka. What brought this oddly assorted
trio together it is impossible tonight to
learn. but rich developments may be ex-
pected.
Mr. Peck arrived at the Southern last
night. He did not register and his pres
ence was not proclaimed from the house.
tops by any manner Of means. Mrs.
Lease came ia this morning. and was
assigned tO room 1856. She did not reg
lister. and her presence here was vlgor-
ously denied By the hotel clerks
AIr Rossington also arrived this MORN
ing, registered for breakfast and shortly
after partaking Of that meal paid his bill
Then by various routes the female Pop
list, the Republican attorney and the
Democratic lawyer reached room 356s
q
held. Absolutely no information as to the
purpose OF result of the caucus could
be obtained
Mary d. Lease is in Topeka today. and
has been at the National the entire day.
She arrived here at eleven O'clock. and
the forenoon she spent with her attorney,
Eugene Hagan.
AT one o'clock a JOURNAL reporter
called at her rooms and was shown in,
where he found T. T. Nandegrift, COR
respondent of the Kansas City s.Star."
Mrs. Lease denied point blank the dis
patch that she was in consultation with
George Il. Peck, Of the Santa Fe, and
Colonel wv. q. ROssingtOn of this city. in
room 356, at the Southern hotel ia St.
Louis.
"Why" said Mrs. Lease. 81 never saw
+ George R. Peck that L know of. and / ann
quite sure that I should not know him if
j should meet him ia the streets of To-
peka or anywhere else. | admire the
man because of his speeches THAT 4 have
read and his ability as 4 lawyer but i
have had no consultation with him
whatever. Butt added Mrs Lease, Il
should mus rather counsel with him
than with the Bourbon Demo Gratis with
whom the governor stands in so we'll and
/ who are running the state government 2
My visit iii 81. Louis was to meet
sister who lives in Indiana. but who is on
\ her way to the Pacific coast and when
( she reached St Louis her daughter was
taken sick and She wanted me TO meet
/ her in Kansas City on Sunday. 1 left
/ here Sunday afternoon and when Il
reached Kansas City / had dispatch
awaiting me from her asking ME to
/ come on to St. Louis Is She was unable
I t1 leave there because of her daughters
/ illness / reached St Louis on Monday
morning and we left there Monday even
/ ing. so you see i was not in st Louis at
! ali Yesterday. My sisters room was ON
the fourth floor of the Southern, but [ do
& not remember the number Of its ii must
/ have been four hundred and something,
as the number of the floor governs the
index figure Of the room at the Southern
hotel.
Il think they got the persons mixed
up if there was such am interview. And
ii must have been Governor Leweling.8
she added. smiling mischievOusly. s'whO
saw Mr.. Peck. and / should think be
! would want to, after he sees the way his
case against myself is coming out.
+ shall remain ON the board until my term
/ is out. If I want to, as I am sure that my
position is right. and the courts viii sus-
/ tain me in my position
ssI am not counseling with any Repub-
lican or Democrat. but am fighting both
! parties and want to make the Peoples
! party such a party as it was intended to
be before it was betrayed ln this state
/ by alliance with the Democrats.
eI shall.meet with the board tomorrow
at the insane asylum