The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-20
WANT HIM OUT
Pop Machine Job to Bounce
Gov. LeweIIing
PLACE FOR OSCAR SMITH
Promises For Reinstatement
of Police Boards.

The Pops of Sedgwick county and Of
the state of Kansas, for that matter,
have noticed the pot hooks of fate on
the wall and are doing some OF the bold
est hustling for position and vantage
ground that has ever been known in this
County or this state.
Leedy did not abolish the police com
mission until he was compelled 20 do it
by the command Of the PopuAst state
convention, and then he performed the
Sob with a clumsy reluctance character
islic OF the present Pop administration.
Just why Leedy didn't want to abolish
these machines Of jobbery and political
hammer swings a whole lot OF people
know, though but few have cared 10
come out and state. And now that he has
abolished them 1t has crept out and is
common talk that it is only temporarily,
and that ne intends TO e-establsh them
IN the very month in which he is in
RugGrated If such an unexpected thing
Should happen as his election in No
Vember.
His old police commissions are tugging
away to have him put them back.
Why?
Not because he put them out, and not
because Leedy suits their private ideas
Of a governor, but because in all the
wriggling and desperate struggling of the
Pop party in its present straits they
catch a second or third hand breath of
q promise from the knife and stick
statesman Of Leroy that if he gets an
other turn at the executive door the
a1 oil
their turns, too. This is the principal
reason the defunct or deposed board in
this city will support Leedy and stretch
their ropes to a limit for his reelection.
An dthe local combinations that are be-
Fng put up over the state are famous for
their bayfield, lack of symmetry and for
their very apparent jobbery and purpose.
None OF them can ever reach the schemes
of Wichita ward bosses and Leedy cart
men.
Il has been known here all along that
the Leedy heelers have made a desperate
effort to get rid of Lewelling by having
him. choused off the board of railroad
commissioners. This ring which has for
two years made pretensions of running
the party in this county demanded the
removal of LeweLing several times and
we'll nigh accomplished their purpose
on one occasion. Now they are in q, posi-
ton TO demand at least a promise and
they have it is said, warned Mr.. Leedy
that they VIII support him on several
conditions. one of which is the removal
Of Lewellng from the railroad board.
They are supporting Leedy, and a man
with one eye can see the rest.
It is said, too, that not only have the
police board ring demanded the removal
of LeweIling, but they have labeled his
successor and nave given Leedy the tip.
Oscar Smith is supporting Leedy and
counseIing with his heelers. 1t is said
that Oscar Smith has been cited 10 Leedy
as man of model qualifications for a
railroad commissioner.
Leedy has given the crowd the wink
and thus the plans so on. There is MOTH
ing thaa exceeds the number of jobs and
plans put up here by Leedy heelers ex-
cept the rapid manner in which they
become known and are kicked into MEM
DRY by the better element of voters. This
better element is mighty tired of Leedy,
his job men and their jobs. The Popu-
lists who are in the party for principle
viii hardly stand for a governor who
wants police commissions against the de-
sire of everybody, and who wants the
leading party workers of the state
kicked out after they have made it posi-
bic to have Pop state administration;
who wants anything and any kind of a
Job II it means his election. Neither the
people of Kansas nor the Populists of
Sedgwick county are built that way.
Leedy Will not be reelected.