The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-13
LELAND'S HATE.
Is Directed at Shawnee COunty's
Billy Sterne.
Says the Entire Opposition to
Him as Chairman
Is TRACED TO ONE MAN
Namely, Senator Sterne of
Shawnee County.
Talks With the State Journals
Washington Correspondent.
MR.. LELAND'S MISTAKE
Which Is Likely to Offend Many
Worthy Citizens.
Thinks 1t an Epithet to Call
Sterne a Hebrew.
Talks With the State Journals
Washington Correspondent.
MR.. LELAND'S MISTAKE
Which Is Likely to Offend Many
Worthy Citizens.
Thinks 1t an Epithet to Call
Sterne a Hebrew.


From the State Journals Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.-Cyrus Leland,
Jr, national Republican committeeman
from Kansas who has been in Washing
ton since Sunday attending the meeting
of the national committee, left for home
Yesterday. He takes with him the salts
faction of having been on the winning
side in the selection of st. Louis for the
convention. For although previous to
the meeting of the committee Dir. Leland
expressed no preference for any place
except a moro central location than the
extreme boundary of the country on
either coast, he WAS for st. Louis from
the starr and worked with her boomers.
1t was doubtless this loyalty to the ST
Louis people who carried the day which
gave to Nj. Leland the additional honor
conferred on him Tuesday of a place on
the executive committee of the national
Republican committee which l wired the
STATE JOURNAL about
When asked about the opposition being
stirred up against him just now in Kan
sas MIR. Leland said that it did not worry
him in the least
''As for the craftsmanship of the state
committee" he said, 81 shouldn't care 20
have it anyhow. I've had it for eighteen
months now aud have done lots of hard
work and l am sure l don't care for it."
But as TO the bership in the na-
tional committee Mr.. Leland has a differ
ent opinion. 1t is position more to his
liking and though be does not say he
wants it, he does believe that if he de-
sres it he will get it.
lie said: II am not afraid of being
beaten for the place if l want it. There
may 0e others who would lika to have
the place, but have no fear of not get
ting the place if I should want it.'
1t was suggested that being a McKin-
ley man, if Kansas should elect delegates
for Reed or some other candidate that
might be against his interests. But Mr.
Leland said:
"No, that would not make any differ
euce, for 1 have many friends who are
Reed men and they would not go against
me on that account"
As Kansas has two delegates in the ma
tional convention for each representative
in congress and two for each senator, it
would take a majority of this number to
elect national committeeman. This
election takes place after the delegation
organizes at the national convention. The
committeeman of course in the first
place has to be a delegate to the conven-
ton. So Mr.. Leland has no fears that he
will fail TO be delegate to the conven-
ton or that he will fail to have a majori
ty of the delegation in his favor for the
position he occupies-''lf he wants it."
Mr. Leland was asked to state what
the opposition to his going to the conven-
tion consisted in. He said:
"The opposition to me comprises Just
fo foIlOxva al Topaka tn hat ia all Or
narrowing it down still farther, to just
one man, the little Hebrew senator from
Shawnee county. That is the whole
of it,"
The "do nothing" policy for this con-
gress as outlined by Speaker Reed at the
opening of the session is not Dir. Leland's
idea of the right thing. 1t may be be-
cause he is a Mckinley man that he
thinks this, OF it may be because he
thinks this that he is Mckinley man.
alt doesn't strike me that it is the
proper thing for this congress to do
nothing, The people declared in favor
of more tariff and the treasury certainly
shows that we need more revenues. 1t
may be they think that Cleveland would
veto any such legislation anyhow, but
that makes no difference. Let congress
go ahead and pass law making more
revenue, and if Cleveland vetoes it then
responsibility is his.'
Asked if he could give an opinion as to
whom Kansas was for for president Nr.
Leland said he would not venture guess
for the entire state but believed that
most of the people in his district were
for Mckinley.
"Both Mckinley and Reed have a
great many friends in theistate," he said,
"bus bslieve McKinleys has the most.
He has been out there several times and
he has made friends every time. He is a
man people can get close to- He spoke
from car platforms and they could come
right up and shake hands with him. At
every town in Kansas where he spoke
he had tremendous crowds.
''I think Reed lost some popularity by
failing to come to Kansas. We had
trip mapped out for him through diff
ferent part from the one Mckinley made
When he didn't come the people were
disappointed.
mckinley is strong because he has
gone about over the country helping the
other fellows"
Mr. Leland's attention was called to
the gossip that the Ohio delegation in
congress had become somewhat unpop-
ular on account of having gone into the
combine on house officers, and because
of its subsequent SO called greediness.
1t was said lhat this would hurt Mckin-
ley.
"Yes. but what about Tom Reed" said
Mr.. Leland "He WAS in it just as bad"