Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-01-13
From the Loavenworth Times.
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Ex-senator John J. ingalls, has re-
turned to Washington and is busily
engaged with preparations for an
other lecture tour. OF the Kansas
situation he said that intelligent and
sagacious leadership was indlspen-
sable to success and the most dis
couraging symptom was the malig-
nant attacks IN some OF the news
papers upon that great and good
man, Cy Leland, whose wisdom and
courage had done so much to main
tain our ascendsncy in the West
since Lincoln's time. So great was
the condition be had inspired that
the national committee in the last
campaign intrusted Missouri, Ne
braska and Arkansas, as we'll as
Kansas, to his management, aud but
for his magnificent generalship the
electoral vote OF each of these states
would undoubtedly have been lost to
Mckinley. He added: IF these has
been in the last quarter Of a century
any crisis in our party's history when
the discouraged and falterlng masses
have not instlnchvely turned to the
experience Of Cy Leland for counsel,
and to his genius for inspiration, /
do not recall it, How often when the
battle seemed lost have we not all
heard Cy Leland's trumpet tones
calling on freedoms shattered hosts
TO rally round the flag Of equal rights
protection and sound money?
LELAND DIsINTEREsrED PATRIOT.
''In all our party platforms Cy Lee
lands fscile and graphic pen has
formulated the issues of desperate
campaigns in pregnant sentences that
have been the prelude OF victory.
Consider, too, the admirable ca
reer of this venerable leader as coun-
ty commissioner Of DoniphaD, where
he has kept tho party solid for twen-
ty years and marshaled its delegation
10 every state and district convention,
with no suspicion Of trade aud dicker,
nor any accusation that be YVES IN pol
ltics for what he could get ont OF it.
"That this disinterested patriot who
aspired to a cabinet portfolio as SEQ
rotary Of the Interior or Of Agric1l-
ture, to which, by bis talents and SER
vice, he was justly entitled, voluntar-
Ny accepted the inferior position Of
pension agent, when everybody want
ed Tom Anderson for that place, ia
conclusive proof that he did not
enrich himself by stealing the money
contributed 10 the campaign fund
OF the state, as has bean 80 basely
insinuated,
ATTACKS UPON LELAND DBpLoRED.
"These calumnious assaults on Cy
Leland weaken the defenses OF public
virtue. What encouragement remains
for ambitions young men to devote
themselves to the public service,
it the exalted character and honor
able fame of Cy Leland are no ar
NOR against the weapons Of envy and
personal detraction?
"Tbose who impute sordid and sell
fish purposes to our revered leader,
who impugn his motives and sheer at
his qualities, forget that in 1892 the
republican convention at Hutchinson,
with much enthusiasm, demanded his
retirement from the national commit
tee. But he knew what the party
needed better than it knew itself, and
by an act of Incompatible self sacri-
foe he saved it from the consequent
oes of its own error, He continued
on the committee, and out of the
chaos OF the revolution Of 1891 he
created an organization that in 1896
turned ever every department OF the
state government to populism and
gave the electoral vote to Bryan.
"No ordinary, cheap, yellow dog
politician conld have done this. It
required genius of the highest Or
der. Such a prodigy must be born
and not made.
LELAND's "TRIUMPHs" SET FORTH.
"It was the same skill and fore
sight, the same gift of management
that decreed the defeat Of Morrills
nomination Last year, selected Peters
as the candidate for governor and
gave Morrill, every vote in tho con-
ventlon; that tried to beat Broderick
with Bailey in the First district and
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