The Wichita daily eagle., 1898-01-06

boodling bawds and drabs whose leprous
infection no potash, nor mercury nor hot
springs can cure, is an outrage on de-
cency and truth If there is any dirty
work about legislatures, and votes TO be
bought, any reports to be srnothered, any
statutes TO be mutilated. the people know
it is not done by Cy Leland and his cab
met.
NO student Of the human countenance
can look upon Cy Leland and not feel that
he is born leader of men There is moth
ing sneaking or furtive about his glance
and bearing. When he enters a room no
one would suspect him Of a design to
steal the slop jar or purloin the cuspidor.
He gazes straight and fearless into the
faceof friend or foe. with steady eye,
and not with the shrinking glimpse of
sheep-stealing cur with wool in his teeth
That a man SO gifted. endowed and
followed should be the object Of such
censure and reproach shakes faith in the
capacity of the citizens of ansas for self
government.
What righth ave Baker, BToderick and
Curtis to oppose the will OF Cy Leland?
They represent nobody but their constit-
uencies. Their credentials were written
only by the people. That these mere
creatures OF the popular will, with moth
ing behind them but majorities, should
haev the effrontery to recommend any
body for office without first obtaining
the consent of Cy Leland seems like IN
warranted and insuferable impertinence.
The president must naturally feel the
same way. To ratify treaties, to con-
firm nominations, to reform the currency,
in adoubtful senate, the president doesn't
want votes; he wants Cy Leland The
administration can stub along without
the cooperation Of Baker. but Cy Le-
land is Indispensable. In filling the Of
fees, II Baker recommends Sterne and
Cy Leland wants Crum for marshal, the
attorney general. whose nomination for
the supreme bench is pending before the
senate. will of course oppose Baker. II
Cy Leland is for him, the gates OF hell
cannot preavil against him"
what Kansas needs is more Cy Le-
land, and IL this senseless warfare does
not stop we may lose him. He may get
tired Of ingratitude and migrate 10 Ok
Iahoma or the Klondike and leave the
Republicans 10 their fate, with no one
70 pick out candidates for governor. con-
gressmen and postmasters on Hood )
money and set up the primaries, pack
conventions and get little Offices for him
self and his relatives, and promise the
rest to somebody else.
Everyone shudered the other day at
the rumor that Cy Leland had abolished
a postoffice where some enemy received
his mail. and if Baker and Curtis do not
compromise with him, he may abolish
rything, including the pension agency,
before he goes.
1T Is not too late to aevrt this be-
reavement and these threatened dan
gers and save the party from disintegra-
tion.-Our Cy Leland is reasonable. He
Is not obdurate. He is willing that Baker
and Broderick and Curtis shall serve out
their full terms. He will not insist on
their resignation. IL they will only surren-
der their duties and prerogatives TO him.
No sensible man should object to this,
and ii is ID be hoped that one of the
first acts of the Jim Simpson committee
will be to establish this equitable ad-
iustment by an edict, and then keep on
polling the state as they did IN So"