The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-13
CYRUS LELAND'S SALE.
A Leading Republican Daily At
Abilene DenOunces Him
For His Barter Of Kansas to the
GOIdbugs.
Not a Single Kansas Convention Ever
Declared for the Gold Standard or y
Wanted the Gold Standard
Kansas Republicans Mis-
represented and
Cheated

Cheated

The Abilene Daily Chronicle contains
the following just and powerful edi-
tOrial on the recent barter and sale of
Kansas to Wall street made by Leland
at st. Louis:
The st. Louis dispatches announce
that Cyrus Leland who claims to be
the Kansas boss, has declared that the
Kansas delegation must vote for a
single gold standard and the Republi-
can party must declare for gold. Leland
must have gone crazy. A few political
successes have turned his head. Who
IS ne that he should presume to give
I orders to the Republicans of Kansas ?
Where did he get his authority to COM
init Kansas Republicans to gOld2 What
Kansas Republican convention ever de-
c1ared for gold2
Cyrus Leland is not fitted by natural
ability, experience, or education to adj
wise any man on political principles.
he is an uneducated man and has alb
solutelyt never had any experience in
pubic life except as a caucus manipu-
Iator and convention 6xer. He has not
enough natural ability to express him
self intelligently on any public topic
that requires thoughtful consideration.
I ct he goes down to St. Louis hotels
and, posing as q leader OF thOught
give SOrders as to how we must vote
on a question to which he never gave
an hours serious study.
Ne violates every precept Of Kansas
kepubncanlsm when he declares for
gold as our representative, and then
he insultingly adds, IF the silver men
don ike It they can bolt; we've got
a clnch-" No Kansas convention ever
declared for gold. Time and again
Kansas Republicans have declared for
free silver BrOderick, Curtis, Ellis
every Republican nominated for con
gress this year in Kansas except Jack
Harris, VINO hasn't spoken either way.
IS for free silver. Ingalls,, who led the
Kansas delegation TO the Republican
TTT-
ernOr Tom Osborn, chairman Of the
delegation in 1888, and at least three
of the delegates at-large in 1882, In
SailS, Little ana Ellis, are for free sill
yer The Wichita convention which
sent Leland expressed no opinion what
ever The Wichita Eagle. Topeka Jour
nal, Atchison Champion, Kansas City
Gazette, EmpOria Republican, Salina
Republican. nearly every leading Re
publican daily in the state except the
Topeka Capital (which is owned by a
millionaire banl1erl is for free silver
The people of Kansas are almost unan-
imous for free silver.
Yet simply to control the patronage
of the state. this professional buck
STEERING politician, who has no idea
above the distri button of jobs for the
first time in his scheming. trading life
takes q stand on question of princi-
pie and betrays the men who sent him
to St Louis and the interests he repre-
sentS i'm favor of eastern money lords
and Wall street brokers' Then, Pre-
Stunning on Kansas admiration for Ma
jOr Mckinley, he grinningly says. ooh,
we are sure of $4,000 majority for Nc
Kiuley in Kansas"
Mr.. Leland may sell but he may not
deliver. Kansas admires Mckinley.
but Kansans are great folks to stand
by their convictions. A man of Lee
lands limited Intellectual attachments
may do very we'll in a ward caucus,
but he should not monkey with the
buzz-saw of mems convictions. If Nc
Kinley is nominated on q gold bug plat
form and is forced to endorse lit. it is
more probable that there viii be $4,000
majority against than for him in kan
sass in Novembe The Kansas Repub-
lcans are not to be bought betrayed
or bulldOzed.