Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-05-21
From tho State Journal.
CY LI1LNAD'S GRUDGES,

through acts of political treachery,
the district is already regarded as
lost beyond all hopes Of recovery by
the republican party.
The men responsible for this are
Cy Leland aud Judge A Ii. Ellis, Of
Beloit, the nominee for congress. All
news sent out from Hill City, and all
word brought to this city TILL today,
went to show that everything WAS
quiet and peaceful in the extreme but
today, the story came out regarding
the true situation.
The whole trouble comes on &C.
count of the failure of the convention
at Hill City to send Webb McNall
aud Jim Reeder to the st. Louis ma
tionsl convention, Up to the very
last moment, it was held out to both
MCNall and Jim Reeder by Judge
Ellis that they should be chosen to
the convention, and as Judge Ellis
had it in his power to fulfill his prom
ises to this effect, both gentleman be.
lieved the promise would be kept to
the letter. Then when the vote came
for delegates, Ellis threw the vote Of
Mitchell county, his own county, as
follows, Robinson, 4; Purcell, A.;
McNall, 4, and Jim Reeder, 4. In
stead of doing this, he was expected
to have given McNall and Reeder
each eight votes, according to agree
ment. Then, though Reeder would
have still been out of the race alto
gether, McNall would have been one
vote shy, but it had been arranged
that Sherman county, which was last
on the list, should throw its three
votes to McNsll the moment he had
forty-nlne votes, 1t taking ffty-two to
nominate. Had Mitchell given eight
votes to McNsll as had been agreed,
Sherman county would have nominal
ed him.
All the time after his arrival on the
ground at Hill City, Jim Reeder in
sisted that if there were no chance for
his nomination as delegate, he want
ed to know 1t in time to withdraw
and let any other candidate have the
place. Ellis told him there was not
the slightest doubt that he would be
chosen and for him to stay in the
race. Reeder stayed in and now his
friends say he was the victim Of
treaChery second only to that directed
against Webb McNall.
Cy Lelsnd's hand was in this. For
his position, there are three reasons.
In the first place, all the trouble dates
back to the time when Webb McNall
is said to have participated in the
Kansas City conference which agreed
upon Judge j. d. johnson of this city
to oppose Cy Leland for national
committeeman and state chairman.
Then at the late Oakley appellate
court convention, Webb McNall op-
posed Joe Gill, candidate for the
nomination for appellate judge in the
western division, northern depart
ment. Gill is member of the state
central committee and Cy LELAND was
"for" him. McNsll was against Gill,
and Gill was defeated.
The third reason is that M. A. Low,
general solicitor for the Rock Island
at this city, greatly desired Webb
McNall to 20 to the st. Louis nation
al convention. Low, at the Wichita
convention in March, led the forces
against Cy Leland IN the fight for the
last named delegate at large to st.
Louis. Cy beaded the movement for
Marsh Murdoch and Low tried to
break the slate with State Senator
John O. Carpenter of Chanute. Low
was almost successful IN accomplish
ing his end, but finally failed.
80 it happened that in this three.
fold way Leland got back at Webb
McNall and defeated him at the Hill
City convention. AS to Judge Ellis.
Ellis is but putty in the hands of Cy
Leland and there is no doubt that the
movement TO defeat McNall, the Gull
minatlon of which occurred at Hill
City, started at the Beloit eDcsmp-
ment of the g. A. II. 1t is no doubt
true that Cy tod Ellis to keep Nc
Nall and Reeder on the string, the
former especially, and drop them at
the proper time Granting this sup
position to be true, aud seeing that
whether it is nor not it worked all
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