Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-01-20

lShed Cy Leland claim to supremacy.
given him the prestige he justly enjoys,
and excited the implacable hatred of
those he has passed in the race for glory
and who vent their Intellectual spleen
and chagrIn by calling him boss and
dictator.
Even Joe Hudson. has so far yielded
to this irrational clamor as to join the
senseless and disintegrating cry against
'bossism' in Kansas politics, ignoring
the fact that by the exhibition of his
gigantic resources, and the inspiration
of his innumerable victories, Cy Leland
phalanx made up of the moral and in
tellectual forces of the state.
LELAND's STURDY HENCHMEN.
Assembled around him is a gallant
band of young, generous and lofty
spirits, like George Findlay, Lit Crum,
Frank Brown, Mort Albaugh, Jim
Simpson and their associates, animated
by the patriotic passion which drives
heroes to battle and martyrs to the
stake. To say that these eminent citi-
zens are attracted to Cy Leland like flies
to feculence, like buzzards to carrion,
or Esqulmaux to an occasional wairus,
is an offense not defined III the criminal
code. To continually stigmatize these
young men as professional buns and
muckworms, living at political free lunch
counters, scurvy thimble riggers, crooks
gamblers, bunco steerers and confidence
men who have worked conventions and
legislatures, as fakirs and pickpockets
follow circus; boodliDg bawds and
drabs whose leprous infection no potash,
nor mercury, nor hot springs can cure,
is an outrage on decency and truth.
If there is any dirty work about legls-
latures, any votes to be bought, any re-
ports to be smothered, any statutes to
be mutilated, the people know it is not
done by Cy Leland and his cabinet
LELAND's TITLE TO RULE.
''No student of human countenance
can look upon Cy Leland and not feel
that he is born leader of men. There
is nothing sneaking or furtive about bis
glance and bearing When he enters a
room no one would suspect him of de
sign to steal the slop jar or purloin the
cuspidor. He gazes straight and fear
less into the face of friend or foe. with
a steady eye, and not with the shirking
glimpse of sheep-stealing cur with
wool in his teeth.
THAT a man so gifted. endowed and
followed should be the object OF CEN
sure and reproach shakes faith in the
capacity of the citizens of Kansas for
self government.
"What right have Baker, Broderick
and Curtis to oppose the will of Cy Le-
land? They represent nobody but their
constituencies. Their credentials were
written only by the people. That these
mere creatures of the popular will, with
nothing behind them but majorlties
should have the effrontery to recon-
mend anybody for Office without OBJ
tanning the consent OF Cy Leland seems
like unwacranted and IHsufferable i'm
pertinence.
'The president must naturally feel
the same way. To ratify treaties. to
confirm nominations, to reform the cur.
rency, in a doubtful senate, the presi-
dent doesn't want votes, he wants Cy
| Leland. The administration can stub
along without the CO. cooperation of Baker
but Cy Leland is Indispensable. In fill
ing the offices, if Baker recommends
Sterne and Cy Leland wants Crum fol
marshal, the attorney general, whost
nomination for the supreme bench i:
pending before the senate, will of courst
oppose Baker. IfCy Leland is for him
the gates of hell cannot prevail agains
| him.
MORE LELANDIsM A CRYING NEED.
"What Kansas needs is more Cy LIE
land, and if this senseless warfare doe
not stop we may lose him. He may ge
tired of ingratitude and migrate to Ok
lahoma or the Klondike and leave th
republicans to their fate with no one t.
pick out candidates for governor, con
gressmen and postmasters. start news
papers on Hoods money. set up fh
primaries. pack conventions. get little OF
! fees for himself aud relatives, an