The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-12-02
Daily g eagle
NJ. NJ. MURDOCH. Editor.
1EEDY,s EXTRA SESSION.

LEEDY'S EXTRA SESSION.
The one aH-oonsuming emotion OF
Leedy's official life has been his desire
for an extra session Of the legislature
70 he convened under a call issued by
himself, and for purposes when he'
through his prerogatives as the chiei eA-
ccutive of the state, must designate.
The constitutional or regular session
did not meet his expectations. Ii Jop-
bed. sold out and vacillated generally.
Two things have operated to prevent
Leedy from converting his Yenal mop,
one being fear that a second sell-out
would be more open and outrageous
than the former one, and the other the
knowledge that a vast majority OF the
people of the state have been utterly
ayerse TO any such unwise and expens-
i've experiment as an extra session OF
that Pop legislature. To overcome this
objection upon the part Of the people ne
has had it periodically given out that IN
the event of the people clearly dndlcat-
ing a warrant for calling an extra SEES
sion that he would have the metropoii-
ran police law amended or repealed
outright; that he would see to it that
maximum freight law was enacted,
and that he would urge a resubmission
of the prohibitory amendment to the
constitution. By these promises he eX-
pected TO develop an affirmative senti-
ment strong enough TO warrant the
step. But the people of the state could
NOT he fooled. The risk in that outfit
was TOO great Too many interests
would be adversely affected, while i'm
proving conditions noticeable every
where throughout the state might be re,
versed. The press of the state has been
well nigh unanimous in discourag1ng
and in denouncing the proposition of an
extra session of the legislature. Still, it
seems, Leedy does not despair of doing
the thing without the risk Of being po-
litically damned. So he is out with an
other feeler. His organ, a Missouri pa
per, the Kansas City Times, announces
that an extra session will be called and
it gives the reasons and sets out the
measures to be submitted and consider
ed. OF course Deedy is dumb as an
oyster, as he always is, but no one
doubts that he inspired the announce
meut found IN this Missouri paper,
which is his regularly recognized organ.
If Governor Leedy wants TO know
how it feels TO be publicly damned and
politically buried, just let him give that
boodling outfit another chance to sell
out by converting them in extra session.
The people of the state, without regard
TO party, want no more of their disor-
ders, blunders, irregularities and
shameless bribery. They We're greater
disgrace, and by their own admissions,
and under their own sworn testimony,
than the revolutionary body under Lee
yelling. No good measure which could
be possibly passed this winter will SUI
fer by a years delay. AS for anything
else, no reformatory measure is possible
with an outfit a majority of whom can
be bought outright to support or oppose
anything for 500 to $500 per head.
There is no excuse possible to be con-
jured up for the converting of that leg
islature in extra session, and Governor
Leedy's anxiety to the contrary, he had
better not do It. !