The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-15
BLEEDING KANSAS
Is Getting Tired of Being Bled-Re-
volt of Republicans Against
G. o. p. Rule.
Republican Papers and Voters Are Onto the
Leland Machine Rule and the Gold
Whippers-in.

There was Republican state conven-
ton at Wichita, Kansas, the other day
which started bleeding Kansas afresh
with hemorrhages which the doctors
cannot stop. Kansas is for the free coin
age of silver, and this Wichita gang
pledged it to the party rot and gold
platform. Kansas, as one of the speak
ers said, had not factory development
enough to make the woodwork Of jews
harp, and the Leland machine at Wichita
tied up the party to Mckinley and high
tariff. The revolt against Leland gov
ernment in Kansas may be judged from
the following Republican sentiment:
The Leavenworth Times Rep.) refers
editorially to the way things were run
down there as follows:
"Under the rule of ehe bosses the peo
pie are ignored, bamboozled or driven
atives of the masses are herded like
dumb sheep. That was how it was done
at the Wichita convention.
without regard to their convictions
or their records or their consciences the
promiscuous crowd were shepherded by
the bosses. EXpediency and compromise
were the motives Of everything.
"The friends and devotees of the ad-
ministraton found themselves voting
solid for them and who the other day pro-
nounced Governor Morrill, a lunatic, and
who has conducted the fiercest war on
the administration The Prohibitionists
found themselves voting for the dought-
lest opponent of prohibition in Kansas.
That was typical of the whole proceed
ings.
"And no less significant was the fact
that the state convention of the Repub-
leans of Kansas in this presidential year
framed platform which never mentions
a Republican principle, which has no
word to say on the great national and
international issues of the time.
what care the bosses for principles
and public issues?"
The Lawrence Journal (Rep) says that
Judge Broderick misrepresents his con-
stituents on the silver question and de-
served defeat.
j. G. Waters Rep) Of Topeka: I'VE
have the most magnificent laws on our
statute books but our Internal officials
will not enforce them. We have trust
law to shut out such octopuses as the
Standard Oil Company, and other trusts
and combines like it, but no Federal
Judge nor district attorney dares to en-
force it."
Leavenworth Times: "The scandalous
raping of the liberties and rights Of
Kansas Republicans is shamelessfy go
ing en-. They are reduced. to the position
of minions and serfs if they continue to
stay in the party. Leland has usurped
their power of government. The boss
and the machine are sovereign instead
of the people.
Atchison Champion (Rep): "Why does
Kansas need committee of fifty to en-
force its laws? Hasn't this state gov
ernor, an attorney general los sheriffs
and as many county attorneys? When
did it become necessary to draw upon
private citizens to- perform the duties
of public officials to obey the constitu-
ticn and enforce statutes?'
J. G. Waters Rep.) of Topeka: "Under
Republican rule values in Kansas have
gone down until nothing remains. 1t is
one of the lost arts. The only values