The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-11-06
HAVE GIVEN It Up
Proved a Nut Too Hard for
Demo-Pops to Crack
so SAYS THE CROWD
Col. ToIer to Be Railroad
Commissioner.

The wager in the hands Of j. o. David
son stfH stands. The Leedy crowd now
feel that everybody knows the falsity of
their assertion that Stanley would ap-
point a police commission.
The campaign closed last night with
an entire change of front by the crowd.
From one end OF the street to the other
you could hear no word about police COM
missions. The crowd finding that they
had been proved false in their campaign
assertions against Stanley, passed the
word for everybody to shut up and not
talk about Stanley and the wager at all.
As one of their number expressed It last
night: Mind you. / do not say we are
beaten, but il we are beaten next Tues
day IL viii be beca use we have spent too
much time setting up an argument
against Stanley which has been knocked
down in three days. Our mistake has
been in not roUsing our fellows with en-
thusiasm for Leedy. We ought never TO
have mentioned Stanley. We should have
talked for Leedy and what he would do
for Wichita from the first. But 1t is not
too late to mend, and from now until
Tuesday night you will hear a different
campaign cry"
He was a man VINO knew what he was
talking about. Yesterday afternoon the
campaign changed suddenly.
From mouth to mouth the word passed
"a vote for Leedy is a vote for Toler
for railroad commissioner"
At first the cry didn't go very fast. but
a very curious thing took place. The
Toler crowd has never known exactly
what Colonel Toler wanted in case of
Leedy's Observation-Disclosures he was after
railroad commissioner or mayor OF WITCH
tia next spring. So at first they didn't
put much credence in the vote for
Leedy for governor and Toler for rail
road commissioner.
But, as stated above. a curious thing
occurred. Some one, the name is not d.
vulged, returned from Topeka yesterday
and told Joe Furnish that he had seen
Taylor Riddle, and Riddle had said that
there is this much in Leedy's reelection
for Wichita, new railroad commission
er from Wichita"
The nthe campaign cry went on in
earnest. Here was proof that Colonel
Toler was in it at last.
The hardest working faction in Wichita
is the political group behind Colonel Toler
and so the cry went up. now strong and
penetrating:
"a vote for Leedy is a vote for Colonel
Toler for railroad commissioner"
DISTINCTIONS of every kind were swish
ed out of the road.
Some one stopped and said: what
about Lewelling?"
"Lewelling's dead" was the answer.
"a vote for Leedy is a vote for Toler."
Some one else interposed: But Taylor
Riddle didn't say Toler.''
The answer came back quickly: What
Wichita man is next to Governor Deedy?
A vote for Leedy is a vote for Toler."
So the people the next two days will
hear the slogan again and again:
"Vote for Leedy and a railroad COM
missioner who will do something"
The wager is forgotten. 1t still stands.
It is no bluff. It is bona fide. Any man
who believes that Stanley will appoint
police commission; who is so dead sure
of it that he will vote for Leedy for that
reason, can form pool among his friends
and take It.
But he VIII lose money II he does. And
the Leedy crowd knows It. and that Is
why Il hasn't been taken, and why they
have shut up.