Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-09-14
Leedy Gaining In Strength.

IlOn WOuiQ De elected Dy 70, ,UUO ma
jority. If the election had been held
on June 9, the republicans might
have carried the state. Stanley had
more votes the day he was nominat-
ed than he will ever have again
Every day from the day his party
selected him for It's leader has weak
ened him before the people, and it is
impossible for him to rally. Leedy
has gained every day since his nomi.
nation. It can not be denied that he
had considerable opposition before
his nomination, but it was al oppo-
sition without legitimate basis, and
it has vanished. He will lead his
ticket as surely as he is at the head
oft, il the over confidence OF his sup
porters does not prevent them from
going to the polls. The people who
are interested in good government
should be vigilant, and not q man
should be of duty the day of the
final struggle in November. 1t fre-
quently happened that men who
were not in the glorious battles and
victories Of Napoleon went and hung
themselves. He who fails, through
negligence, to be in the struggle Of
November will always regret it.
The lining up Of factions in the fu-
sion campaign is something phenom-
email in Kansas politics. 1t has no
precedent. Every faction of the re-
form forces are in line. A few have
deserted, there is no use in denying
that, but not a man has gone who
was worthy Of the cause from which
he fed. The eight or ten men who
have announced their conversion to
republicanism have been succeeded
by score Of recruits, men who can
be trusted in the heat of the battle.
Every deserter is jack leg; every re-
cruit is business man or a sturdy
yoeman or working man. The places
Of the shysters and the fly-up-the
creek have been filled by solid en-
thusiastic fellows. The republicans
opened their campaign the middle
Of last week at Lawrence. The
fact is they have been campaigning
during the last six weeks, but have
not shown their hands. They in
tended to get out campaign book,
but have abandoned that Their plat
form SO called, offers no suggestion
as to what they propose to say or do.
Stanley talks a great deal and
says nothing. He has no more
knowledge of economics than the
mule of Matanzas. He knows moth
ing of state history or state policy.
He is translunary thinker, nstur-
al born evangelist and that is all.
He can exhort to beat Sam Jones and
can saw air equal to "Sin-killer"
Griffin. He can not originate an
idea that a man can think Of two
hours after he leaves town. Stanley
is supposed to be good mixer. It
is a mistake. He knows nothing
about men he has poor knowledge
OF grown up human nature. At
Leavenworth the other day he met
German with a splendid abdominal
appearance and he said "Mine friend
dot ish fine stomach you we got; I
dinks / II dhrink some beer mineself."
That is Stanley's idea Of good mix
er. It wasn't the Germans idea,
and he gave Mr.. Stanley . piece of
his mind. He thought Stanley was
making fun of him. Stanley, in re-
atty, was not making fun of the Ger
man, he simply didn't size him up
right, and thought he was hattering
him. If Governor Leedy had been
in Stanlsy's place he would make
that German his friend by being
natural and talking sense" to him.
He would have inquired about the
condition of business in the town or
something else that q citizen would
expect governor to talk about. 1t
was Morrill's unnatural gladness to
see man that made him so unpop-
ular as q candidate for governor.
The handshaking, wife-praising,
baby kissing days have gone. but
neither Stanley nor Morrill, know it.
The people of Kansas have become
serious in politics. Serious questions
have made them SO and they want
no taffy.
Speaking about Morrill,, it might
be well to say that Stanley is enough
like him to be his son. In character
there are probably no two men in the
the state more alike. Stanley is
sleek fiatterer and so is Morrill,. Stan
ley is all to all men, and so is Morrill,.
Morrill, didn't have as much backbone
as an angle-warm, neither has STAN
ley. Morrill, never had settled poll
cy, neither had Stanley. Morrill, pre-
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