The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-23

for him, by being firm and close in the
friendship Of Lewelling than they
would be by him deserving Lewelling
and taking chances for himself against
Chester l. Long. Besides the Colonel
is entirely too foXey TO depart from
his old and wise policy of seeking Of
flee by appointment rather than by
election. The reason why Mr.. Lew
cling does not sanction the candidacy
of Colonel Taylor for congress is that
he will be a candidate for Governor
himself and that being the case it
would not look well TO have two candi-
dates from the same town in such
large district as this is.
The other scheme TO beat Jerry Simp-
son has been Matched by the friends
of Gil Forney of Belle PLANE the pres
ent senator from Sumner county. Gil
FOrney wants to be governor and his
friends have made overtures TO the
friends of Lewelling. They want
combination They think that If Lew
ellings friends would consent to sup
port Mr.. Forney for governor that For
ney could very easily receive for Mr..
Lewelling the nomination for congress.
John Briedenthal is heart and soul in
this scheme. He thinks it is exactly
the proper thing TO do. The friends
of Dewelling think, however, that Jno.
Briedenthal is advocating the scheme
not in the interest of Forney but in
the interest of himself. He simply
wants TO get Mr.. Lewelling out Of the
race for governor by putting him in
the race for congress. If ne could ef-
feet this he would then be a candidate
himself and he would stand a very
fair show Of getting the nomination
There is one thing certain and that is
that all the combinations being made
and attempted to be made are against
Jerry Simpson. The Sedgwick county
Populists are opposed TO Jerry Simpson
for the reason that he slipped up TO
LeavenwOrth recently and tried to in
duce Congressman Harris to be
candidate for governor. This made the
Sedgwick county Populists awful mad
because mis- action seemed TO be against
the interests of LeweIling and they
think il is very ungrateful on his part
to desert Lewelling. Pressure from
another source is being brought TO
bear on Mr.. Lewelling TO be a candi
date for congTessman-at-la but it
is said that the proposition does not
meet with favor with Mr.. Lewelling
and his friends. The fact is that the
Lewelling crowd are very much afraid
of the office of ressman-at-large.
They are afraid ST the Democratic
pOstmasters and do not hesitate to ex-
press themselves in that line. For
some reason they have got it into their
heads that the machine Democrats will
vote the coming fall for the Republi-
can candidate for congressman provi-
ded they are goldbugites, and that they
viii vote for them under the direction
of Cleveland and Carlisle through the
Democratic OfficehOlders. On the 9TH
er hand they believe that the entire
Democratic party will vote for ahe
state POpulist ticket and especially for
governor. Mr. Lewelling is a very
good reasoner and he knows enough
about state and national issues to know
that he would be much stronger with
the Democrats running on state issues
than national issues. So far as indi-
cations go, however, Mr.. Lewelling is
saving a great deal of wood while
the other fellows are talking and plan
ming combinations.
There is only one thing very plain
about the whole business and that Is
that a whole lot of working Populist
politicians are carrying knives in their
boots for Jerry Simpson, Esq, of Maid
son Lodge.