The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-28
ONLY OFFICE GETTING.
Cy Leland's High Ideal Of the
Political
Mission of the Republican Party
in Kansas.
A General Revolt Against the Bios
som House Boss of Kansas
Politics

eff the Republican party of Kansas
attempts another campaign under Cy
Leland's rule, it viii meet with the
most crushing defeat ever administered
to a political party in the state" ex-
claimed DR.. H. w. King of Columbus
yesterday afternoon.
DR.. King was in the city on his way
to the mountains in Colorado for a
months outing While here he visited
some of his Republican friends and
took occasion to warn them or the rate
which he is confident will overtake
them if they attempt to work with Lee
land next year. DR.. King was defeated
as a candidate for senator last year by
Senator NJ. A. Householder.
Republican success in the last cam
paign might have been achieved by
proper management" continued Mr..
King. However, the same old gang
was in the saddle; the gang which
slaughtered it's friends to advance its
own cause; the gang that slipped
around behind mems backs and quietly
assaulted them, striking from an unex-
pected quarter and under the guise of
friendship. These are methods of cow
ards and rufhans and should be extir-
pated by the people of Kansas.
The crowd composed of Leland, Jim
Simpson. Frank Brown, Morton AL
baugh Charlie Jobes, Jim Dobson and
Bristow, not to mention constellation
of lesser lights, are remnants of the
gang, the corruption and rottenness of
which caused the people of Kansas to
organize new party. The crooked
ness of all kinds in political affairs be-
came 50 plain and the officers seemed
to vie with each other in an effort to
make each succeeding deal more con-
spicuous and damnable than the last,
that the people of Kansas banded to-
gether in a new party and marched to
victory.
This was a rebuke to the gang. They
reformed for a moment only-then
aIa llafts
domineering conduct. This continued
for two years and at the close found
a large proportion of the members of
the party deceived at the hands of the
boss from Doniphan county.
Nor did it end there. The Republi-
can national administration was inau-
gurated and the same old tactics were
renewed. Kansas politics were trans
ferred to the Blossom House in Kan
sas City, Mo. There the boss, sur
rounded by a lot of his henchmen,
planned the overthrow of men he had
promised jobs and continued pipe-lay-
ing in the direction which he hopes the
gubernatorial campaign will follow.
But right here is the point upon
which the grand viZier will find himself
disappointed. The Republicans CT this
STAGE have grown tired of seeing the
Issfrty everlastingly and eternally used
to put men into office and nothing more.
Since Leland has been attempting to
run the party it has represented but
one thing-office seeking. His contin-
uous declaration that he sought no Of
flee was SubStantiated by his eager ac-
ceptance of the appointment of pension
agent. This is not an unreasonable
thing to do Any man would accept
that kind of an office and would be a
fool if he did not do so when the op-
portunity was offered him. But when
it is necessary for a man, in order to
get it, to defeat the will of the old SOL
ton, then I say it is wrong. No one
criticises MIR. Leland for holding office,
but the Republicans of Kansas do sin
cerely object to the methods which he
employs in securing it.
Platforms should not cut an import
ant figure in the next campaign. The
issue should be squarely drawn and
should be anti-Leland. If the Repub-
Hcans of this state have the necessary
nerve to stand by their honest convic-
tons the days of bossism are drawing
to a close.
I propose for myself to go into the
school houses of Cherokee county and
make the fight against Leland. The
delegation which comes to the state
convention from Cherokee county, you
may now record, will be anti-Leland
and will be elected on that issue.
Colonel John c. Carpenter of Cha
mute and H. F. Hatch of Arkansas City
and myself have undertaken the fight
in the Third district. We propose to
make the issue that Leland should be
turned down and we desire to have our
delegations come to the state cOnVen-
ton TO stand for all time against every
man and every thing that Leland
wants."
John E Hessin, one of the candidates
for governor, while in Topeka yester-
day, said:
THE greatest and most important is
sue in Kansas politics today, so far as
the Republican party is concerned,
should be the overthrow of bossism,
which means that Cy Leland should be
dethroned. The party has been drag
ged down to defeat through his manip-
ulation and it should rise up and rid it
self of this heavy burden. 1t is more
than we can bear. We have had it
long enough. Let us now give the re-
sponsible men in the party an oppor-
tunity to give an honest utterance to