The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-19
GIVES KANSAS AWAY.
Cy Leland's Promise of This
State to Mckinley.
State Treasurer AthertOn Tells
All About 1t.
HE WAS IN THE CAR
In Which He Says the Deal
Was Made.
Morrill's Rochester Interview
Stirs Up Kansans.
NOT FOR M'KINLEY
AS Morrill, in His Talk Says
They Are.
Sounds of Loud Kicking from
Morrill's Rochester Interview
Stirs Up Kansans.
NOT FOR M'KINLEY
AS Morrill, in His Talk Says
They Are.
Sounds of Loud Kicking from
Copeland County.

Kansas may not be for Mckinley after
all. 1t is evident that the deal has been
made to deliver the delegation to the
Ohio governor, but the question now is,
can it be consu m ated?
If Kansas votes in the next National
Republican convention for Reed, Nor
ton. Harrison or Allison, Governor Nc
Kinley can charge it up to the stupidity
of his fool friends. Chief among these
is Governor Morrill,.
The Associated Press dispatch printed
in the STATE JOURNAL Saturday from
Rochester, in which Governor morrill,
declares that the Republicans of Kan
sas are for Mckinley, has stirred up
hornets nest. Nothing has happened
for many weeks which has SO wrought
up the politicians Particularly is this
true of the politicians who are not on the
inside with the present state administra
ton.
| 1t is safe to say that fifty prominent
Republicans of the state have clipped
the Rochester dispatch from the STATE
| JOURNAL and sent it to Thomas B. Reed
with assurances of support. In a little
| knot of Copeland five county politicians
! Saturday night announced that they would
assure Reed by letter of their earnest and
active support.
!
Atherton who declared that Morrilfs de-
claration for Mckinley would insure the
! two delegates from the Sixth congress
| sional district for Reed or some one else.
! Atherton said he was in the private car
occupied by Mckinley en- route from Ot-
4 tawa to Kansas City when the deal was
made to deliver the Kansas delegation to
the Ohio man. The car, he said, was.
divided into two compartments. The
rear end was used by Mckinley to meet
the common herd, while the forward end
was the private room where only the
! "anointed" were permitted to enter. In
this richly upholstered palace, reclining
on downy divans, hid away from the
gaze OF the gaping crowds. were Cy Le-
land and Lit Crum.
Governor Mckinley would spend few
moments with Atherton and the common
herd who managed to get into the rear
end of the car, and then he would slip
into the private room occupied by Cy
and Lit, and arrange about the carrying
of the Kansas delegation for president in
1896.
This story has been going the rounds
for several weeks. 1t cropped out during
the recent meeting of the state central
committee, but Leland and Crum denied
that the deal was made on the train.
Now, with Morril's interview on top of
all this, the anti administration crowd is
very mad aud promise to make things
lively for the Mckinley managers from
this time on.
1t is the talk that this row will divide
the state house crowd, and that Attorney
General Dawes will be the only state
officer who will stand with Morrill, in his
| endeavor to pack the next state con-
vention for Mckinley. Secretary Ed
wards, Treasurer Atherton, Auditor Cole
and Superintendent Stanley realize that
the hand of Cy is against them, and it is
| reasonable to suppose that whatever in-
fuence they possess will be thrown
against the Leland 81 Morrill- Crum- McKi1-
ley combination.
TURNED DOWN THE STATE HOUSE.
Crawford County's Big Republican Con-
vention Wouldn't Endorse Administra-
tiOn.
The Republican convention held in
Crawford county last week was the Iarg-
est ever held in any county in the state
The convention was composed of 32C
delegates and was a representative gath
ering of Kansas Republicans
By an overwhelming majority the fol-
lowing plank was adopted expressing
the sentiments of the party in Crawford
county on the money question.
"We, the Republicans of Crawford
county RECOGNIZES the fact that the fnan
cial system is the issue of paramount i'm
portance. and the supreme interest in
the minds of the American people. We
favor the free coinage of both gold anC
silver, at the ratio of 16 to 1, and the re-
peal of the preaent coinage laws, anC
their re-enactment as they existed priol
to the demonetization of silver, with the
unit of value fixed at 371M grains pure
silver as provided by such laws, and tina
) American product of silver be fully pro
} | tected by a tariff on foreign silver. WI
are opposed to issuing interest bearing
bonds in time of peace, and are opposed
: | to the retirement of the national curren
, cy. And in order to be able to maintain
3 a coin reserve. make all duties payable
r in silver and gold, and pay all our obi
J cations in silver and gold at the pleasure
of the government, and not at the dict.
4 ton of the bondholder We also favo
t the passage of such laws as will protec
the money of this country from the IN
friendly manipulations of gold STANDARD
s combines We favor the enactment of
l law prohibiting the making of contract
9 | for payment of money in gold.
: The state administration crowd pre-
soHted q minority report IS follows: