The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-01

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By this time many Of the mysteries
the present campaign of ali parti.
should be solved But they are no
Further than a few breaks in II
clouds the sky is as threatening a
ever. The strange part about the mil
atory demonstration in the air is thu
every party appears to be at varianc
with the Fates.
The Republican party, being III
party in power, is Of course the large
of the abuse and condemnation, but
is not alone in its suffering. The POP
ulist party is at sea. No one particul
arly wants 10 run for governor on tn
Populist ticket, while on the Republt
can side no one in particular want
Morrill, 10 run.
jerry Simpson in an interview her
| today said that the PopuIist party il
Kansas was hunting for a Moses I
! lead them out of the wilderness. Jerr-
| is not even certain about himself. H
said:
Il do not know that 1 will run 70
| congress in the Seventh district.
would not walk across the street 10
an opportunity 10 run for congress
| w. a Harris is my choice for governo
but as he does not want il and JOIN
BriedenthaI doesn't want it, we ar,
in need Of a Moses who hasn't come
out Of the bull-rushes."
People who are acquainted with tn,
situation here declare that it is vair
10 think that the Populists will take uI
Lewelling again. They are as afraid
,7f I "a &C "a 81
Morrill,. Briedenthal, being a Prohi
btionists, is said TO be against Level
ling TO the extent of spreading the re-
port abroad that Lewelling is a mem
Der of the Mystic Brotherhood and get
ting Pops to write 10 Lewelling and
upbraid him for joining.
But the Republicans are having a
hard time with leaders TOO.
The fight between Leland and John
son amounts to nothing. Both men
are for Mckinley, together with Tom
Anderson, and the fight between them
IS not shared to any extent by the peo-
pie Of Kansas who do not care a con-
tinental sWear-word which is winner.
Cy Leland will win at Wichita, but out
side of his close friends, the enthusiasm
Will not be great
LELAND AND M'KINLEY.
His winning at Wichita does not
mean that he Will manage the presi-
Dental campaign of Major Mckinley.
The rubbish that has been published
about Leland promising the Kansas
delegation TO Mckinley months ago is
the worst balderdash. There are not
half a dozen men in the Union who can
approach Mckinley and talk about his
presidential campaign and Cy Leland
IS not one of these men. AS for Nc
hinley promising TO give Leland a cab
met position or promising him the dis
triDutlon of the patronage for Kansas
had Leland ever Ventured to suggest
SUCH thing 10 Mckinley he would
nave been Snubbed in a way that would
have turned him for Reed in a second.
However Leland's fight this time has
shown him to be weak in several spots
where he was supposed to be strong.
Atchison has elected delegates against
nm. The third district is also said
10 he Whetting a corn-knife for his
scalp. But the Seventh, the Sixth
the Second and the Fourth and Fifth
VIII be for Leland and may give him
MS victory at Wichita. But no one
viii care particularly who wins.
What IS exciting the Republicans Just
low is what they are going to do for
man who will lead the state ticket.
Or TO be cruelty plain: What can
re done with old Grandma MORRILL,"
MORRILL, VS.. FIRM.
That is what is keeping the politi- /
1ans awake at night. The decrep1t old |
nan declares in a peeviSh sort of way |
hat he Will make the race; that he |
must be vindicated; this, too, when his |
'eSt friends are calling on him and |
skiing him to get out of the race and |
ave himself before it is too late.
A man from Morris county was in |
he city the other day and told the
overnor's friends fatty that Morris |
ounty would help down Morrill, at the
oils if he was not downed at the con-
ention- This was carried To Morrill,
is said and he replied by saying that
e had given the state a good admin
stration and a second term was due
i'm.
As has been said in these dispatches
he old governor is a very close reader
I the newspapers and he has a merry !
US shock every time one speaks i'll Of
i'm.
There are plenty of newspaper motto
5 TO affect him this way. The fol-
'WinE from this weeks Pratt Repub-
can is a sample:
should Governor Morrill, be renomi-
ated, is an oft repeated question
mons Republicans today all over the
tate. The very fact that the question
raised at all among Republicans Is a
resumption that the present admins
alton has not been satisfactory TO
he party.
II must he admitted that Mai. Nor
"a made serious mistakes in his early
ppo'htmentS Of state officers by rec
SnIzinS and appointing several men
no had nearly always been in Office
no known as q part of the Kansas !
.3chlne, with all that implies. and
us mistake offended thousands of !
epublcans in the state. d
Again. in the enforcement. Of tho
7ohibitory law Of the stale II wouI5
ZEN that Major Morrill, could nor !
3d he tried. made worse history fo-
TSet than he has done Al ti~s- a..
ala no attention 10 the enforcement of
'e law Finally a state te.nparsn,,a
eelin% was held at topeka and mo
, vernon was roasted thoroughly for
us neglect and soon he began me on
i1eilient ot the LAW IN some parts of ;
.e Siaie-no;ahly Wichita. Fl. Scott. ,
-nSaS City. Kan. and a few other :
aces while ocher cities. as Leaven- ,
arm and A-chiscn received lt-la
lsi-i-on. If any To say the least the !
.-o1tcemens % Che law has been SPAS
oo't and unsatisfactory ana i this
y wonder when. the chief executive
-leer ~ tae state thinks X can7o, be ,
,lefeea. ana has so announced him
it publicly
-AiSo- while he governor : IN The
iaSj o. this temperance trouble ne ,
YES expression ~ MS approval NJ -ha ,
'uth Carolina dispeDsary system an
p the direction or the state This Z
as also a mistake ir our judgment. /,