The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-17
SOME INSIDE HISTORY.
Republi cans Who Want to Know
How Things Are Run
In the Inner Temple of the
Party Should Read
The Story of the New Arrangement t 0
the Party Machine by Cyrus Le-
Iand-How the Wires Are
Pulled

Cy Leland has achieved another great
victory. He has not only succeeded in
capturing the pension Office, but he has
organized a new political machine, US
ing Senator Baker as the instrument
through which the job was accomplish
ed. What does Leland care about men?
It is methods which he looks out for.
1t matters not to him If Lit Crum and
George FindIay have been his subser-
Went tools for years. If he finds that
he IS getting near the end of his polit-
zeal string he is smart enough to turn
his friends overheard and enter into
new aHgnmentS with his old time enc
mics, if such a combination promises to
give him a new lease of power.
These expressions and sentiments
have been uttered by scores Of Republi-
cans who are here to attend the meet
ing Of the state league. They refer, Of
course, to the new slate OF federal ap-
pOInteeS which Senator Baker announc-
ed Monday with SO much gusto, and
which he said would satisfy all ele-
nents CT the party. While Senator Ba-
ker did not say in his exclusive" dis
patch to Kansas that Mike sutton, W.
E. Sterne, and others were anti-Leland
men, the morning paper was kind
enough to help HIM throw dust in the
eyes Of Kansas Republicans by making
these matters clear.
To the oId-timers who are familiar
with the organization Of the new fed
eral slate, dictated by Cy Leland, this
the hand Of Leland is seen in every ap-
pOintnll 1t made. In the first place, they
say, Leland needed the help Of Mike
sutton and his seventh district follow
ing, and TO get that SO as TO insure that
district for his man Chester I Long,
for governor. he found II necessary for
Mike and himself TO get together"
Accord ngly Nike and Ed Madison, the
president Of the state Republican league
were summoned to Washington where
the conference was held. In the mean
zT - 1sea6 IA nor
Mixes appointment would be a strong
one to make. This thing fixed, Leland
proceeded TO arrange matters with
Nike OF course, Leland had promised
his support to George Eindlay, but what
OF rhaU2 Findlay could not help Le-
land any in pulling the Seventh district
for Long, therefore he went overheard.
After Leland had satisfa ctorily fixed
up matters with Sutton and Ed AIadi-
son. his next move was to form more
perfect union with the Republicans of
Shawnee county, where Major Tom An
dsrsOn lives. He didn't like Billy Sterne,
and il was only last year that he desig-
mated the senator from Shawnee as
that little Hebrew" but he needed
Sterne in his business, and TO make his
new combination sufficiently strong to
hold the management of the party in
this state for another decade, Leland
found it necessary to wipe out old
scores and make up with his old enc
my. Leland can DO this with q good
grace if he finds it is necessary to pro-
lg his reign of bossism. He knew
that the suggestion Of Sterne for mar
shall would meet Bakers approval, for
/ Sterne was one Of Bakers best friends.
About two weeks ago Leland returned
! from Washington and commenced lay
/ ing his lines for the new machine he
I has since organized. He did not come
( to Topeka, but met by appointment
( several Of the successful candidates at
I the Blossom House at Kansas City.
/ Among these, il is said, were Mike SUIT
{ ton, Senator Sterue, ". z. WilcOckSOn
and Ike Lambert. Il is related that
i after q session" of his new board of
directors Of the Republican party of
/ Kansas held on the second floor of the
Z Blossom House, Leland came out and
net his old friend Lit Crum at the de-
pot In a conversation with Lit he as
sured him that his appointment as mar
shall would as surely come as the sun
would shine on the morrow. Ten min
utes before, it is charged, Leland had
made a new cOmbina ton which meant
defeat and abject humilia ton to his
longtime faithful friend Crum-
Leland evidently felt that in defeat
ing Major Anderson for pension agent
and in turning adrift his friend George
Fin5lay, il was necessary to add Sena-
tor Sterne to his new slate for its
ameliorating effects in Shawnee coun-
ty. He was right in selecting a pOpu-
lar man, but if the boss thinks the
friends Of Major Anderson throughout
the state will tamely submit and sur
render TO the new combination, he will
be grievously disappointed.
Tt IS openly charged in Topeka that
Boss Leland proposes to name as a sue
cessor to Sterne in the state senate a
man who can be relied upon to support
Baker for reelection to the United
States senate, and that his choice has
fellen upon Lawyer a W Dana. a To-
peka Repu blican who claims to know
all about the deal said to a reporter for
the State Journal today:
las understand it, Mr. Dana has
been a candidate TO succeed Senator
Sterne in the state sena te two weeks,
1 nd "a Fri Ia heRr1 c11faf1y-
working to sOIdify matters in his inter-
est. How do I know this? know it
by what I have observed in certain
quarters The man Is remarkably dull,
or he must be blind not to have dis
covered this manipulation during the
past ten days. How did Dana know
that SteTne would be appointed mar
shal2 I can't answer that question.
Better ask Sterne Of Cy Leland,o if you
Will walk down Kansas Ave. with your
ears open you will discover that the
man most interested in Mr.. Dana's
candidacy is T. F. Doran- He headed
cOmmitte Tuesday morning and wait
ed upon Mayor Fellows and secured
promise of support for Dana Then If
you viii think back q little you will be
able to refresh your memory and dis
cover that when Cy Leland was revenue
collector Mr.. Doran was his chief dep
uty Mr.. Doran is doing nothing more
than any friend should do for another.
He is simply carrying out Cy Leland's
wishes in this senator matter, and If he
can land Mr.. Dana for Cy, and for Ba-
ker too. he will have accomplished an
| undertaking that the average Shawnee
county Republican, in the present heat
| ed condition of the party here, would
! approach with fear and trembling.
Mr.. Dana announced last night that
| be would not be candidate for senator
] In the conference with the mayor Mr.
/ Dana said he was a candidate and the
! line Of policy to be pursued in his cam
/ paign was talked over.
Mr. Dana also told Representative Ed
I Nc kGGT6r that he would be 2 candidate
/ J. b Furry to support him. Why Mr.
Dana With6raws, apparently at least
is question which the men he asked