The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-15
Is AFTER BARNES
GEORGE MARTIN WANTS HIM TO
GIVE WAY TO An ALTERNATE.

the st. Louis OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES is
Fighting Barnes Because. He Alleges,
Barnes Forces Counted Buchsu Out
After Buchan had Won the Delegations
in Kansas City-FIght in Wyandotte is
Being Watched With Interest-It is the
Old Fight in the Second.
Topeka, Kan, April 14.-AIl eyes here
are turned 10 the row in Wyandotte
county and the rebellion which George
Martin Of the Kansas City Gazette is
leading.
George Martin is fighting Barnes Of
that city and asks that he be pulled of
the list of delegates to st. Louis and his
alternate allowed to go.
Martin claims that Buchan was beat
en- by the most bare-faced fraud in Kan
sas City, Kansas. This was an electiin
for delegates to the second district con-
gressional convention. Buchan's dele
gates were elected, riding 10 the
Gazette, but were knocked out of the
convention by the fragrant abuse Of
power by the Barnes crowd.
The Gazette calls it a rape" and
says:
I'VE warn Republicans Of the Sec
ond congressional district and of the
state of Kansas that they must not
nominate candidates for any position
and with the aid Of delegates manufac-
tured by ballot box stuffiing, by stealing
a convention and by the disfranchise-
ment of Republican voters. 1t is now
ten years since John A Anderson was
slaughtered in the Fifth district and we
recall the fact that never before or since
did the people administer such rebuke-
The 1000 Republican majority of Wyan-
dotte county eliminated by this rape
and while it may not Of itself cut much
of a figure in the aggregate we must
bear in mind that such outrages are far
reaching among all fair minded people
and that the conscience Of the party and
the people is not dead as it is with those
who perpetrated this outrage. Should
Buchan still be nominated we predict
that this unfairness and fraud will
make him stronger in Wyandotte coun-
ty and with the people of neighboring
counties as in the case of Anderson in
the rape of 1885.
I'VE confess however, that we do not
understand how the party at large is
to escape the odium of this rape. 1t
will not effect matters in the national
canvass but in Kansas there will be no
margin to risk in outrage. One OF the
principal manipulators in this job was
recently elected delegate at large from
this state to the national convention.
This delegate at large loudly boosted Of
his Doodle, exhibiteding his wad to var
ious parties and claiming after what he
had used in the primaries he still had
some left. He has betrayed the trust
the party has reposed in him, covered
US with dirt, odium and probable defeat,
and if possible he should be choked out
and his alternate admitted"
HAS HEARD OF HARRIS.
Topeka, Kan, April 14.-John Breid-
enthal returned from St Louis today.
where he has been arranging for quar-
tiers for the Kansas delegation, which !
will constitute about one-third Of the
Populist national convention. Mr.. |
Breidenthal says the hotel keepers tried |
TO hold him up for more money than
board and lodging is worth, and so he
contracted with a boarding house for
meals for ninety-two Kansas men and |
hired hall in one of the great buildings !
devoted to lodge purposes.
Ex-Governor LeweIling also return |
ed from st. Louis today and to a repor- |
ter unburdened himself of number Of !
political predictions; the first was that |
there would be a bolt in the national /
Democratic convention. If the gold |
bugs secure control, he said, the free /
silver fellows will bolt, and come over /
to the Populist party in a body. Speak
ing along this line Mr.. Lewelling said: |
iS MI he
Democrats meet there will be a bolt. If |
the free silver faction controls, the gold |
men will leave the convention, and If |
the gold men control the silver people |
will leave. In case the silver people |
control the convention, then they will |
be the regular Democratic party and il /
is hard to tell what would be the result /
upon our convention 1 do not know |
what would happen. If, however, the |
gold men control, we would expect TO |
get the silver element at our convention. |
Then there would be the silver Demo-
Gratis, the straight free silver people, the |
silver Republicans and the Populists TO |
unite, and you can see that the task will |
not be an easy one by any means"
When questioned as to his candidacy !
for governor, he said:
That is a matter about which / do /
not care to talk. II is too early to say |
anything about state politics. There |
will be time enough for that after the /
national conventions are over. 1 think. |
however, that the Populists should elect |
their state ticket this fall. The out
look is very promising. indeed"
Have you and Chairman Breidenthal /
made up your differences"
There is nothing personal between |
Mr.. Breidenthal and myself The diff /
ference is only one of methods. He |
thinks that the chairman of the state /
central committee should be selected /
one way and l think he should be selec-
ted another. and that is a matter which |
will have to be settled in the state con- /
vention. I do not wish 10 talk about it" /
''Will Kansas have a presidential can