The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-07
Daily eagle
NJ. NJ. MURDOCH, Editor.
LEEpY's LEEwARD LEAP.


Mr.. Leedy of the Neosho bottoms will
be sworn in as governor of the state OF
Kansas IN a few days, principally be-
caUse of an unfortunate accident
which happened to the ballot boxes in
November last. This man, of whom the
people of Kansas will know a great deal
more next spring than they do now, has
been insidiously trying to impress the
state with the idea that he has fed On
better ripened meat than that dissolved
by the gastric juices of former Kansas
statesmen His posings have been re-
ported as unique, his daily observations
as profound. Cincinnatus went from
he pillow to the head Of affairs; Leedy
from being a corporation attorney and
drv-goods-box statesman 10 the plow
md politics; hence he held TO the doc
trine of reyersals during his brief, if
not oyer-brilliant campaign. As i can
didate he was going TO tear up the pollu-
ical foundations of the state and right
about face its destiny. As commander
Ln-chief of the militia, with veto in his
hand and his commission in his pocket,
be suddenly subsidies with the confes-
sion that his backbone is not an infiexl-
bic steel ramrod, nor yet any very still
stuff. and that, therefore, everything
considered. ii might be just as well for
all concerned for him to gently draw
his salray and 10 let the other things
slide along the old grooves with as httle
friction as possible. True, n majority
of the people at the ballot box, in No
weber. declared for revolutionary re-
forms, but a majority of the people did
not know what they were about, as evil
derced from the fact that they elected
I.eedy. If the words of his typewriter
and private secretary are to be relied
rIson. and everybody comedies that they
both krow too much TO live comforta-
biz. tIic only change contemplated by
His Sublime Suddenness is a change in
tie color of the hair Of the fellows flll-
ing the soft places. No place is to be
changed, nor law, nor constitution. II
IS TO be a AIede and Persian statu quo
kind of administration, in which the po-
lice commission policy will be adhered
to for the sake Of the safety of sixty or
so furnishing Pops whose gorge-de-pig-
ron appetites could not otherwise he
supplied with pie. And right there Is
where our whilom bull-whacker of the
Neosho bottom falls over his plow han
dies. The police commission stump mas
smashed the pillow of every governor
whose team has struck it. None of
them have dared dynamite it or 10 steer |
around it, and so it has stood there |
knocking them out successfully one by |
one. and the gumbo pulverizer of the |
Seosho bottom will prove no exception. |
II put Martin into his grave, tumbled |
Humphrey into the ditch, let Lewelling |
down and broke Morrill's back beyond |
the hope of srlints or plasters. In dump
Ing, ditching and breaking successfully
these chief executives, it disintegrated |
and finally defeated the Republican |
party. Whisky may not prove so det-
rimental 10 a combination of Pops and |
Democrats, too cowardly to ever take
sides on the question, either in their
platforms or on the stump, but Leedy
will bs thinking otherwise before next
June, we do not care whether his COM
missions be for or against whisky.
Whether it be a lack of it or an over
supply it will he all the same for him.
Either way, any way, the six cities
which dominate the politics of the state
VIII be making him long for the consist
ency of the gumbc, for the enduring and
unIaryinS qualities of the hard-pan OF
bis Neosho bottom farm.