The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-02
LELAND IS HOT.
Very Angry That Brown County
Instructed For Ingalls,.
Says the Fellows Up There
"Played --.'
CY is ANTI-INGALLS.
Doesn't Want Intellectual Bril-
liancy In the Senate.
ingalls, Isn't One of Cy's Kind
of People.

! A great deal of talk has been raised
| In the Republican camp by the action
| of the Brown county convention which
| selected delegates to the First district
| senatorial convention to be held on
the 1st Of October at Troy, and instruct
! ed them to vote for Schilling and at
the same time passed a resolution in
! dorsing Ingalls, for United States sena-
tor.
The First senatorial district is com
posed of the counties of Brown and
DOniphan, and they have been accus-
toned to alternate in the selection of
the senator. This year it is the time for
Brown to furnish the candidate. Brown
county is also the home Of Governor
Morrill,, and for this reason those that
are opposed to Mr.. Ingalls, claim that
Brown ought to be satisfied with one
candidate and not try to force their
choice for United States senator on the
Republicans who are said to be anti
ingalls, men.
Each county has II votes in the con-
vention and it is prophesied that the
coming convention will either result in
a deadlock or else that some one other
than Schilling will be announced as
candidate. Some Of the anti-Ingalls
men claim that Governor Morrfn could
have prevented the Endorsement and
that he ought to have done So
Cy Leland was one of the maddest
men in town yesterday when he heard
of the action of Brown county and he
had not cooled off yet when last heard
from. He said: "The Brown county
fellows have played -.'
What Leland will do is a matter of
conjecture. but it is thought that he
will do something to keep the eonven-
ton from following out the plan of the
Brown county fellows"
The same tactics were pursued by
the friends of ingalls, in the Fifth dis
tr1ct which is composed of the counties
OF Jefferson and Douglas. Jefferson
was to have the candidate and when
the convention in Jefferson county met
it instructed for Charles r Johnson
and tndOrsed ingalls,. This made many
OF the anti-IngaIs men of Douglas
county mada and when the convention
to nominate the candidate met they
nominated Johnson, but the conven-
ton did not take any action in regard
to the senatorship. The anti-Ingalls
men who are talking about the Brown
county case say that even if they
should nominate Schilling and fail to
take any action in regard to the sena-
torship, that when Schilling is elected
he will surely vote for ingalls, anyway
Governor Morrill, said this morning in
regard to the matter:
Il had nothing whatever to do with
the matter. have Studiously kept
out OF the senatorial fight. The peo-
pie or Brown county have the habit Of
doing what they please in their con-
VentiDns and not consulting the wishes
Of individuals in such matters
A friend Of J. Ralph Burton said:
''OT course do not think that the
plan of instructing the candidates for
the legislature is a good plan, and es-
pecially where it is conceded that the
candidate shall come from one county
and there is another or other counties
in the district it is unfair to the other
county for the county that furnishes
the candidate to instruct him as to who
shall be his choice. This matter OF in
structiOn might cut a great deal of a
figure in the election of a candidate in
a district that is close. In the present
case it is n good safe Republican dis
trict, and as far as jeOpardizing the
chances of the election of a senator IL
will not cut any figure. If the people
of Brown county are in favor Of In
gals, suppose they have a right to ex-
press it in the convention, but in case
the other county is not in favor of In
gals they may have deadlock and
some other than the candidate named
by the Brown county convention be
named. I don't know that there is any
sentiment unfavOrable to ingalls, in
Doniphan county or whom the Republi-
cans of that county are in favor of for
United States senator Mr.. Burton is
not in favor of any county instructing
and has not allowed any county to in
struct for him, not even his own
county"
The ingalls, people say that there is
nothing out of the way in the action
of the convention, and that no harm
can come of it. Mr.. ingalls, has said
in his speeches several times lately
that if an instruction for him in any
county or district will in any manner
endanger the election OF the candidate,
that he would release the candidate
from the instruction