Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1898-01-28
VAR nc TIE KyIFE IN KANSAS


VAR TIC THE KNIFE IN KANSAS
Kansas has never been peaceful State
It's early settlers fought each other, and their
ancestors and successors have kept up strife
In one form or another ever since.
If 1t is no longer bleeding Kansas" il
never ceases to be tuning and snarling
Kansas. The methods of warfare have
changed, but the bellicose spirit remains
and rankles and testers.
One Of the numerous wars now going on
In Kansas is that between ex Senator John
J. Ingalls, and Cy Leland. The latter is
pension agent at Topeka, and for years past
has been Republican boss in Kansas.
Leland is one of q coterle of politicians
whom Ingalls, charges with the response.
bility for the present demoralzed condition
of the Republican party in Kansas, and in a
recent newspaper letter pours out upon
Leland three columns Of fine sarcasm.
Among the delicate illusions of the ex j..
Senator we clip the following:
Assembled around him is gallant band
of young, generous and lofty spirits, like
George Finlay, Lit Crum, Frank Brown,
Mort Albaugh, Jim Simpson and their as
sociates, animated by the patriotic passion
which drives heroes TO battle and martyrs
to the stake. To say that these eminent
citizens are attracted to Cy Leland like flies
to feculence, like buzzards TO carbon, or
Esquimaux to an occasional walrus, is an
offense not defined in the criminal code
To continually stigmatize these young men
as professional buns and muck worms, living
at political free lunch counters, scurvy thin.
BILE riggers, crooks, gamblers, bunco steerers
and confidence men who have worked con
ventions and legislatures, as fakirs and pick
pockets follow circus; boodling bawds and
drabs whose leprous infection no potash, nor
mercury, nor hot springs can cure, is an out
rage on decency and truth. II there is any
dirty work about legislatures, any votes to
be bought, any reports to be smothered, any
statutes to be mutilated, the people know it
is not done by Cy Leland and his cabinet.
"No student of the human countenance
can look upon Cy Leland and not feel that
he is born leader of men. There is moth
iIg sneakiDg or furtive about his glance and
bearing. When he enters q room no one
would suspect him Of design to steal the
slop jar or purloin the cuspidor. He gazes
straight and fearless into the face of friend
or foe, with steady eye, and not with the
shrinking glimpse of a sheep-stealng cur,
with wool in his teeth"
Leland comes back at Ingalls, with
lerocity quite as terrific. The following is
his most caustic paragraph;
"If you ask me what has been the great
obstacle TO rebuilding the Republican party
10 Kansas, my answer would be-Ingalls.
But he is now politically dead, and every
body knows it. He is like venomous ser
pent that has received its death wound, and
hereafter there will come from him only
hiss now and then, and be will soon be for
gotten. He will wrggle around reporting
prize fights and splitting his venom occa-
sionslly, but will not be able to sting any
body except himself. Nothing is left of his
intellect. save his Unreasonable conceit, and
nothing OF his heart save the most bitter
malavolenca