The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-01-19
LELAND SAYS HIS SAY
In Reply to the Recent Attack
of ingalls,
PLAYING TO POPUllSM
Since the Campaign of 1890,
Says Your Uncle Cy.

washington, Jan. 1S.-Hon. Cy Leland,
Jr., is a guest at the La Normandie no
tel Mr.. Leland is the member Of the
national committee from Kansas and has
held this position for fourteen years. He
is the present United States pension
agent at Topeka, and was intrusted by
the friends of the president with the man
aeement of his campaign in Kansas,
which secured for him the twenty votes
of that state at the st. Louis convention.
lie is also a very close friend OF Senator
Hanna and on confidential relations with
the president; besides he has been init
mately connected with the politics Oh
Kansas for the last thirty years.
Recently ex-senator John ]. ingalls,, in
a carefully prepared and signed inter-
view, published in the Leavenworth
Times, and copied extensively throughout
the country, attributed the loss of Kan
sas to Mr.. Leland and his lieutenants.
When asked his opinion of the Republic
an party in Kansas, Mr.. Leland replied:
THE condition of the Republican party
did lighting trim and will win the state
pack this fall. Our vote has increased
at every election since 1890, and we now
have a clear majority of the votes in
Kansas There are no factions or inter-
nal discussions of any character in the
party in the state. The national admins
tration is deservedly popular. The peo-
pie are prosperous and Populism is on
the wane."
What caused the loss of your state in
1850, Mr.. Leland and why has it been SO
hard to reclaim the state"
WHY KANSAS WENT POP.
1.-THE loss of the state in 1890 is at
tributable partially to the collapse of the
boom which struck us in 1889, but the in
culcation of false ideas of Republicanism
bv Senator Ingalls, for years before 1890
left our party in a bad condition. In
1880 ingalls, stood for reelection. There
had been growing discomfort against him
for years. The Populists charged that
he had entered the senate eighteen years
before and had disgraced the position"
Here Mr.. Leland recalled the growth
of til private fortune of the ex-senator
and gave the explanation surrounding the
same which was offered by Populists.
He continued: 1.-THE Populists further
alleged that Ingalls, posed as great
friend of the soldier, and asked what ne
had done for the soldier or his country,
and Republicans had to remain silent,
while the Populists answered that he had
never been in the army; that he had
gained membership in the G. A. r.
| through fraud and Misrepresentation.
He has since been dropped from the rolls
of the Loyal Legion.
| THE Populists further asked what had
he done during his eighteen years in the
| United States senate for his party or the
nation, and the Republicans again had to
remain silent, while for the past few
wears prior to his retirement he had be-
come so inflated with his own imagined
| greatness that he had to go to New York
| City before coming to Kansas for the
| campaign of 1890. and be interviewed and
! have his pictures taken in seventy diff
ferent pastures, and sent the paper con-
tanning them TO the state as campaign
document. The Populists established his
reputation in Kansas at last, and the
worst of it is that they made the people
| believe it.
THE PASSING OF INGALLS,.
"Ingalls being a candidate for re-elec-
ton in 80. he naturally became an issue
in the campaign, and as result the party
went to pieces. Immediately after the
| election the senator gave it out that he
! would again be a candidate for his old
place. The defeat of ingalls, had a strange
| effect upon him. He thought the worlc
was coming to an end-all because he was
defeated.
During the summer and fall of 1891
| when we were trying to rebuild the party
in Kansas, ingalls, was going around with
a wall of woe, prophc5ying the speedy
destruction of the Republican party. and
| giving out the most rabid socialistic in
tarviews. He refused to take any party
in the campaign that year, and his gen
eral department had been so bad that
when Senator Plumb died in December
1891, not a single Republican in Kansas
asked Governor Humphrey to appoint IN
gals TO the vacant seat in the United
States senate.
ITO illustrate something of the charac-
ter OF the man, the nature of the attacks
upon myself and the relations he bore tc
the party in 1892. he was very anxious tc
be one of the delegates-at-large to the ma
tionaI convention that year. He wrote
me begging my support for the place.
at once answered that if he would stay
away from the convention he might pos
siDly be elected, but that under no cir
cumstarces would it be wise for him II
be present. After my friends and myselt