The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-06-10
POPS IN TROUBLE
THEY APE DIVIDED INTO THREE
BITTER FACTIONS

BITTER fAUTlONSs
two Factions Appeal to Governor Jewell
ing TO Join With Them-One Wants
Simpson Laid in the Shade-They AL
leee that the Only Benefit Accruing
From His Congressional Career was a
Personal one-The Other Faction Want
Jerry Because he Amuses Them and
Looks cute in His Straw Hat.
Th=re Is trouble in the Populist ranks
lnd ex-governor Lewelling, B. L. hfes'
= a.. are having a terrible time trying
% QaelI a disturbance in different Iac-
lions. In Sumner county the county
convention sat down hard on the &C
ion OF the congressional committee; in
Kingman, Barber, Pratt, Butler and
Dowley~ counties the Pops are divided an
three separate factions and each is
swearing death 70 the other two. AS a
result each faction appeals TO the gov
Aruor for consolation and he is having
1 tine which he declares is worse than
y
demanding a, chance at the pie counter
WREN he assumed the executive chair
Et Topeka.
One faction want a new deal They
declare that Jerry has had tie nOmina-
ton three times in this district and is
afflicted with a habit of shooting off his
mouth TO the detriment Of the party.
They claim that IL was by Jerry's ad-
vice that the party was Inundated dis
gTaced and thrown from power during
the legisla tive war. That had he been
In Washington attending to the duties
as he was drawing pay for doing, that
Governor Leweliag would never have
made the b-under by declaring that 5S
was a greater number than 81; that
Jerry is Ike some lawyers-he Is good
10 get a party into trouble, but not TO
get them out OF the difficulty INTO which
he has ledthem.
They claim that his action at Topeka
drove from the party a. large conserva-
tive support which had unitetd with
them. That his last years record in
congress was one that drove from the
party a large body of voters which
new man would not DO, and they want
him and his straw hat laid to rest. They
point cut the fact that when jerry was
elected ne was in debt, but that now he
IS in splendid and easy circumsta nces,
while not three men. out of every one
hundred Of the voters who have barne
the heat Of the battle are as well of
today as they were when Jerry was a
dog catcher at Medicine Lodge.
Then they give the governor dig
under the ribs by telling him that Jerry
has done all he could against the COVER
nor himself, and point out that Jerry
ran behind the governor in the Seventh
congressional district and that he is a
losing man.
This faction is in the saddle. They
have captured the control of the con-
gressionaI committee; they have put off
the convention until August and intend
30 spring new man on the conven-
ton To this crowd belongs all the pol
iticians Of the party. In their ranks
are numbered all the men who had a
taste at the pie counter during the in
nings of the party and they are deter
mined TO down Jerry at all hazards and
swear that If they cannot beat him at
the convention they will at the polls.
The other factions belong 10 the
crowd who are stuck on the way Jerry
works his mouth. They are equally
ated as the candidate Of the party and
swear IF their idol is defeated they will
defeat the politicians man at the polls
They denOunoa the action Of the con-
gpeSsional committee, the dictations OF
Briedentnal and are ready for war.
They want Lawelling for governor, Jer-
~ for congressman of the Seventh dis
triot, and Jerry Bodkin for congress
man-at -large. They brand Brieden-
thal as a traitor and denounce his late
move in trying to GUST Costgan as edi-
tor of the Ottawa Journal
TwO-thir1s OF the Pops are down on
Briedentbal and allege that he is using
his Office as state chairman for the soul
purpose of booming his chances for the
United States senate, providing that by
any means the Populists should be Ia
a majority in the next legislature.( Per-
ish the thought that such a disgrace
would be possible)
The other faction. and really the
ablest portion Of the party want q new
deal all around. They declare that Lew
cling has had two nominations and
that when he was in office he was the
tool of the worst element of the party
and in his appointments made the ones
which would drive and not draw to the
party. They point TO Todd as labor
commissioner, to Chase as warden Of
the penitentiary. and others. They
say LeWelling is nice man as a citiz-
en- bit a failure as agovernor. AS to
they simply say that three
is enough and if they can
not have a new deal all around they will
either winter their vote or cast ii for
soTne one who viii bring honor and not
a. Sarrsc &c 10 the state