The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-24

cIared to be His Friend, IDcIuding Presi-
dent CIeveland-Is said to be Warm
Personal Friend of Jerry Simpson and
LeweIIing as Well as Mrs. Lesse-Glick
Doesn't Like to Talk About the Matter
Kansas News.
Topeka, Kan, Jan. 23-In a column of
| Kansas politics in the Chicago Record
| that papers Topeka correspondent says:
In casting about for a suitable can
didate for governor the Democrats are
willing to permit the Populists to name
him, so long as he be man who never
has been other than Democrat. a doz-
en- or more men have been put forward,
but the only one to whom no objection
other than his Democracy has been
made by Populists is George ". Click
who in 1882 electrified the country by de-
feaung John 2. st. John, the Republi-
can candidate for governor.
! Click came to Kansas as a lawyer,
but for twenty-five years he has been
a successful farmer, owning $40 acres
| SIX miles from the city of Atchison,
where he lives. That his Democracy is
| Of the proper quality is proved by his
| having been appointed United States
! pension agent for the Topeka district
| during the two terms of President Cleve-
| land. He is liked by all the Populists
| because he has been a consistent and in
| Sistent advocate of free silver and be-
| cause as a member of the legislature
| from time TO time since 1851 he has been
| a friend of practical reform. He would
be satisfactory to the resubmiSsiOnists
! of all parties, because he has at all times
| and under all circumstances denounced
| prohibition as impractical and there
| fore failure. He is said TO have the
| political frindship-although not yet the
| advocacy-of Ex-Governor L. ID. Lew
! cling, ex-Congressman Jerry Simpson,
| ex-Congressman William a. Harris, eX-
| Congressman Harrison Kelley, eX-COn-
Congressman H. L. Moore and scores of
| others, not forgetting no less a person.
age than Mary Elizabeth Lease, who
! heretofore has been a ''middle-of-the-
/ road POpuliSt."
| A reporter for the Capital showed the
Record story to Ex-Governor Click yes
| terday.
Il wish you would tell the people of
Kansas" said the pension agent, as he
| turned in his revolving chair, that I
will have a check here tomorrow for
| s., 800 900 for the old soldiers
Well, governor, how about that
story?"
THE payment will begin the first week
| of next month, and we expect TO finish
| the work in eight days" said the ex-
| governor.
Would you be a candidate If you be-
| lieved the Democrats and Populists
would give you their united support"
! AT the last payment" said the man
| who defeated st. John, eve issued over
| 10, 600 checks in one day. 1t was the big
| gest days work ever done in any pen
sion agency in this country. The boys
were pretty tired when the day was
| over"
But, governor, do you expect to be a
candidate"
That's something" said Mr.. Click,
that there's no use talking about"
| Then as the reporter turned to go he
asked. what paper was that in?"
The Chicago Record"
"WeH there's no harm in being a can
didate for governor-in Chicago
w. T Bland, a prominent Democrat
| Of Atchison who was in Topeka yester-
day, says there is much talk up his way
of the POpulists and Democrats com
bining on Governor Click. He thinks
| the ex-governor would accept the nom
ination and would be elected.
ALL FOR MKINLEY.
Judge ]. b. Johnson's first choice for
president is Ex-Governor William Nc
| KinIey of Ohio; he believes that ma
| jaority of the Kansas Republicans want
| Mckinley.
| Ever since Judge Johnson announced
| his candidacy for delegate-at-large to
| the Republican national convention, his
| opponent. Cy Leland, and his followers
! have been trying to make il appear that
| the boss is the only man the Republicans
! Of Kansas trust to vote for Mckinley
| for president
Johnson about his choice for president,
and when he said his first choice was
! Mckinley the reporter asked him 10
state his position for the benefit Of the
| Republicans Of the state.
| Judge johnson said: MY reason for
making Mckinley my first choice is
| that he emphasizes more than any other
man who can be elected president, the
remedy for the Democratic ills which
| are upon us. During the Harrison ad-
miniStration, under the Mckinley bill,
the revenues Of the government We're
sufficient to pay the expenses, and keep
| a surplus in the treasury. When Mr.
| Cleveland and the Democratic party
came into power they repealed the Nc
| Kinley bill and enacted the Wilson tar
| if hill. Ever since that time by reason
| of the reduction of the revenues of the
| country by the action Of the Wilson bill
y
| the current expenses of the government
| and has been forced TO borrow millions
| of dollars to keep the treasury from
| bankruptcy.
The only trouble with our financial
| affairs is that our tariff laws, by which
| our revenues are raised, have been de-
| strOyed, and Mr.. Mckinley. As president.
| means their restoration, the payment
| of the expenses of the government
|
! lection to American institutions, and
! Return TO old-fashioned Republican
| prosperity"
Major ]. T. Anderson of Topeka said
! to reporter yesterday that he had not
J decided to he a candidate for delegate
/ at-largs TO the national convention. Ma
| jor Anderson said: Il have not yet fully
made up my mind on this question.
| am for Mckinley for president, but II
| am TO be a candidate for delegate-at-
| large it will not be as a clique candidate
or in opposition 10 any clique. but sim
| ply TO represent the people of Kansas
who are for Mckinley for president. l
| have not fully determined whether I viii
| be a candidate or not"
ARTZ'S LATEST SCRAPE.
/ Ex-Adjutant General Artz is gone
/ His friends do not know where he IS and
| his wife has not heard from him n a
month. The disappearance Of General
/ Artz is the result Of domestic troubles
! in which another woman played an i'm
portant part
Mrs. Artz, who lives in Hicks fats
| on Tyler street, is now lying dangerous
| " sick from nervous prostration sup
| pose,i to be caused by the trouble which
| eliminated in the light Of the ex-War-
| rior.
General Artz was a member OF The