The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-28
ARE TRYING TO KNIFE Him.
Congressman Broderick May Yet Be
Turned Down
IF HIS FRIENDS ARE NOT ALERT.

Boss Leland in LeavenwOrth Looking
Personally After the Fight for
BaiIey-BaiIey's Claims Put in Fig
ures.
There is a possibility that Congress
man Case Broderick may be defeated for
the denomination for congress in the First
district, if his friends do not do some hard
work at once.
The Republicans of the district, by a
large majority, favor the denomination of
their present congressman. but the trick
sters are trying in this campaign to de-
feat the will OF the people.
Mr.. w. J. Bailey of Bailey vile who is
trying to get the nomination away from
Mr.. Broderick is being assisted in eve ry
way possible by Cy Leland who proposes
not to leave stone unturned 10 defeat
Broderick who would not help him last
winter when he was a candidate for
United States senator.
Mr. Broderick has several counties in
the district which canaot be manipulAt ted
by the machine but there are also sever
al counties in which the machine has alb
solute control and few counties holding
the deciding votes where the machine is
now at work.
MIR. Bailey of Baileyville says he ex-
poets 10 get enough votes out of Leavsn-
worth county to elect him. Mr.. Bailey
says:
"Leavenworth holds the key to the
situation. There will be seventy three
delegates in the convention. will
carry Doniphan with eight votes, Rrown
with ten, and Nemaha with nine, making
a total of twenty-seven votes aud lacking
only ten of enough to nominate Mr..
Broderick's friends claim Jackson with
eight votes. Jefferson with eight, Potta-
watomie with eight, and Atchison with
nine, making total of thirty-three votes
l don't concede these counties to Broder-
lex, for l think have fighting chance
in Atchison and Jefferson. Leavenworth
will be divided, with the majority of its
thirteen delegates for me. Giving Brod-
erick the four counties he claims, l will
need only ten votes from Lsavenworth,
and believe will have them"
The Leland-Bailey scheme to capture
Leavenworth county and take il away
from Broderick, is to have the work done
through w. c. Hook of LeavenworLh,
who is a candidate for delegate to the
national convention from the First dis
trlct
They figure that if Mr.. Hook could
get Leavenworth county delegates elect
ed satisfactory to him he could then vote
them for Bailey for congress.
Mr. Broderick's friends in Leaven-
of delegates for Broderick for congress
aud for D. r Anthony for delegate to
the national convention.
Cy Leland is giving his personal a t.
tention to the Leavenworth coun ty
scheme. The Leavenworth Times sa id
yesterday:
ICY Leland came down from Don;phan
county yesterday to take personal charge
of his fight in Leavenworth. The fig hit
became too big for Hook to handle and
the boss will undertake to stem the tide
that is setting in against him. He has
a room at the National hotel and is Civ
ing out refreshments in a lavish man
ner.
yesterday afternoon he was going up
and down the streets begging Republi-
cans and Democrats to vote for his COM
bine. What a spectacle, this man, who
wants to be Quay, presents to the citi-
zens of Leavenworih! Just think of
Quay, Elkins or PIatt coming into a
strange place loaded down with liquor
the eve of a local county primary con-
test"
While CY Leland is giving his person
al attention to Leavenworih, Mr., Bailey
is going over the district trying to break
into MIR. Broderick's solid counties He
figures that in the absence of Mr.. Brod-
erlck, who is attending TO his congress
ional duties in Washington, he may bs
able to get few votes out OF the recog
nized Broderick' counties, and if he is
he will be nominated.
Mr.. Bailey has been in Pottawatomie
county several days this week on this
business.
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