The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-21
DICK BLUE A HUGGER.
Cy Leland Tells What He Saw Down
in Washington.


A newspaper CORES pondent in Topeka
reports the following interview with Cy-
rus Leland, chairman of the Kansas Re-
publican central committee:
NJ am candidate for delegate at large
to the next national convention and there
is no use evading the question. l shall
ask the state convention to elect ms as
delegate at large. By the way, l observe
that Wichita is q candidate for one of
the conventions. That suits me exactly,
and my vote in the state cen
trail committee will be given to her for
the convention which elects delegates
ard dominates electors. | am in favor of
this convention nominating the congress
| man. at-large, instead of leaving that task
to the convention which dominates state
officers. The regular state convention
will be held in Topeka, I presume"
What kind of g time did you have
down in Washington" queried the re-
porter.
Immense. Kansas has a crowd down
there now of which no man need be
ashamed. The delegation is now work
ing harmoniously together and is at
tracing considerable attention, in spite
of the split over the organization of the
! house. l think the mem bers who stayed
out of the com bination did exactly RICH
| for outside of one good place for
| Missouri, the combination was in the
! interests of the east. Mr. Fisher
! got beat, but gauging places by the
salary they pay. Congressman Broder-
| lex turned around the next day and got
a better place than chaplain twice over
when he secured the appointment of
Reddick as lieutenant of capitol police
| You don't know Reddick? Well, he's
all right but it would make you laugh
to see him on duty. He can't be over
five feet tall and looks very short mong
the big fellows one usually sees on the
police force.
You ought to see Dick Blue. lie
has made the biggest kind of a sensation
down in Washington. The boys always
knew Dick as mixer. but they hardly
| expected to see him on hugging terms
with all the big guns inside of two
weeks after congress met. He is right
! in the swim with all of the old substan-
tial fellows. 1t would tickle you to hear
Congressman Cannon call him Dick
and then hear him call Cannon Joe.
The other day when the Bayard resolu-
ton was w in the house they offered
Dick ten minutes in which to give the
house a sample of Kansas eloquence, but
Dick thought he might appear 'Loc
FRESH aud so declined.
CONGRESSMAN Chef Long is also well
liked. His modest pleasing manners are
making him friends and besides that he
came to Washington with a big adver
tisement as the man who beat Jerry
Simpson. Calderhead, also, Is looked
upon as a strong, able man, though he
does not push himself in anywhere
Taken all around Kansas is in good
hands at Washington"
'As candidate for delegate at-large
whom are you for for president, MIR LIE
land?"
ri am for Major Mckinley" promptly
replied the state chairman. sit may bt
that some of the congressional districts
will be for some other candidate, but if
am any judge of Kansas affairs, the STATE
at large is for Mckinley. Four years
ago l was for Mckinley or Blaine in TIM
minneapolis convention. but voted fol
President Harrison, as l felt in homo
hound from the resolution adopted in thu
Kansas state convention. You will re
membe that all of the delegates did no
consider themselves SO bound.