The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-14
WHY NOT MAKE A TREATY
Offensive and Defensive Against Boss
Cyrus LeIand?
HOW J.B. JOHNSON AND T. ]. ANDERSON

Could Both Go 80 the National Com
ventiOn as Delegates and End the
Disastrous Struggle in Shawnee
County.
The political situation within the Re-
publican party in Shawnee county is like
ly to become embarrassing to the many
friends of Captain j. B. johnson and
Major T. ]. Anderson unless some ar
rangement is agreed upon for an amicable
adjustment of their several interests.
Captain J. B. johnson is a candidate
for delegate at large to the Republican
national convention, and is also candi-
date for member of the Republican ma
tional committee, contingent upon his
being elected to represent the state as a
delegate at large.
Major t. J. Anderson is a candidate
for deleg ate at-large to the national con-
ventioD, but denies that he is running for
that office against Captain johnson for
the purpose of aiding Cy Leland's candi-
dacy for member of the national commit
tee.
1t is admitted that if Major Anderson
is elected delegate at-Iarge, Cy Leland
will be aided in his fight for national
committeeman, or at least that Judge
Johnson will not be the next national
committeeman.
Major Anderson's long residence in
Topeka has given him a large acquain-
lance in this part of the state, particu-
larly in the Fourth congressional dis
trict, and it has been suggested that if
his am bition lies alone in being delegate
to the Republican national convention,
it would be good politics for him to be-
come candidate for delegate from the
Fourth congressional district instead of
deleg ate at-large.
If Major Anderson is really not run
ming for delegate at-large in the interest
of Cy Leland, and he says he is not, he
can become a harmonizing factor in Re-
publican politics in this county, if he
will change his candidacy for delegate
from the Fourth district instead of dele
gate at-larga
Captain Johnson's friends would rally
to his support from all over the district
as well as here in Topeka and Shawnee
county, and with his own personal popu-
larity, Major Anderson could without
doubt be named as one of the two dele
gates to be chosen at Emporia to repre-
sent this district at St. Louis.
Major Anderson's friends could then
unite in supporting Captain Johnson's
candidacy for delegate at-large and ma
tional committeeman and the interests
of the party in the county having the
largest Republican majority in the state
could be settled to the satisfaction of all,
excepting Cy Leland, who is not entitled
to any consideration from this county.
Cy Leland and his cohorts would of
course be expected to object to an ar
rangement of this kind which would be
unsatisfactory to the rule or ruin policy
adopted by the s"boss" They would
probably howl about Shawnee county
being the "hog" and make objections
of that character, but with only
two out of twenty delegates from the
state to the national convention it would
be but an equitable representation.
This would only give Shawnee coanty
ne-tenth of the delegates when she fur
nishes one eighth of the Republican ma
jority in the state.
The friends Of Major Anderson and
Captain johnson ought to be able to get
together on a basis of this kind in the in
terest of party harmony.