The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-02
FRIENDSHIP FADING.
Cy Leland May Throw Morrill,
Overheard Next Year.
THERE IS An ESTRANGEMEaT

Say the State Esouse GOssIDs-Sec-
rotary EsrzstOyv Himself said to Ese
GetSIn. Ready tO Mount the Right
1saadwa=On.
If the political gossips are to be be-
lieved there has beer cooling of friend
ships between Governor Morrill, and
Chairman Cy Leland of the Republican
state central committee 1t is told Of
Chairman Cy that on the Kansas train
en- route TO the national G. a R. encamp-
ment at Louisville he made the state
ment shat it will never do to re-eiect
Morrill or to renominate him" 1t is said
that Leland feels that Morrill, has made
100 many enemies to endure another
state campaign.
Another lux in the evidence that
there Is d coidaess sprung up between
the chief executive and the chairman of
the state committee is the letter written
by Chairman Leland to an Emporia man
in which ne stated that he had no in
1uaDce with the ADMINISTRATION.
he very latest rumor is that the
trouble between Governor Morrill, and
Chairman Leland mas resulted il cold
ness between Governor Morrill, and his
private secretary, 1Ir. J. L. BristoW, who,
Il is said. IS warming toward Chairman
Leisrd
Private Secretary Bristow is secretary
Of the Repubficaa state central commit
tee. aud he is becoming Z great admirer
OF Chairman Leland.
The facts are not nisstated when it is
said that Chairman Leland has also be-
come d great admirer Of Secretary Bris-
tow A year ago last spring when Bris-
tow was elected secretary of the state
central committee. Cy Leland was dis
posed to think the committee had 'sat Oh
him" by making Bristow secretary, but
The two men were not long in office until
they became fast friends, and Chairman
Cy began saying to his friends, 'tThere is
more in that fellow Bristow than
thought there was"
On the other hand Secretay Bristow
soon began TO sound the praises of Le-
land and he keeps it up to this day.
The other day Secretary Bristow said
Soy Leland IS not nearly as bad a man as
he IS painted by his enemies. Unlike a
great many Of our public men he is best
liked where he is best known. Cy Leland
enemies are outside of DOniDhau county
81 would like to have you show me
another man who can be elected county
commisser continuously for twenty one
years in the same county.
"Cy Leland is a true friend of Doni-
phan county and the people know it: He
of the county as he does after his own.
Up in his county he is always fighting
trusts. He won that st. Joseph bridge
case and be is continually looking after
the good of the county. Not long ago
the Missouri and Kansas Telephone
company raised It's toll rates when the
Harrison company began building into
their territory. They raised the rates
between Troy and Kansas City and be
tween other points, Cy Leland got even
with them.
Through his influence with the other
members of the board of county commits
sioners he raised the assessment of the
telephone company just enough to cor
respond with the per cent they had
raised their toll rates.
ICY Leland, too. is good man to his
family and is respected by everyone in
his community. Every Methodist preach
er who has ever been stationed at Troy
will say a good word for him aud there
IS not d preacher in his town but will say
Cy Leland IS good citizen. He does not
go to church much himself, but he sends
his children to church and Sunday