The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-04

ing to oppose them, that have establish
ed Cy Leland's 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 a
boss and a dictator.
Even Joe Hudson has so far yielded
to this irrational clamor as to join the
SenSeleSS and diSintegraUng cry
against 'bOsSism' in Kansas politics, ig
noring the fact that by the exhibition
of his gigantic resources, and the in
spiration of his innumerable victories,
Cy Leland has attracted to himself an
immOvable phalanX made up of the
moral and intellectual forces of the
state.
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 car
rion, or Esquimaux to an occasional
walrus, is an offence not defined in the
criminal code. To continually stigma
tie these young men as professional
buns and InuckWOrmS, living at pOllti-
cal free lunch counters, ,scurVy thimble
riggers, crooks. gamblers, buncO steer
erS and confidence men who have
worked conventions and legislatures, as
fakirs and pickpockets follow a circus;
boodling bawds and drabs whose lep-
rOuS infection no potash, nor mercury,
nor hot springs can cure, is an outrage
on decency and truth. If there is any
dirty work about legislatures, any
votes to be bought, any reports to be
smOthered, any statutes to be mutila-
ted, the people know it is not done by
Cy Leland and his cabinet.
No student of the human cOunte-
nance can lock upon Cy Leland and not
feel that he is a born leader of men.
There is nothing sneaking or furtive
about his glance and bearing. When
he enters 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 face of friend or
foe, with steady eye, and not with the
shrinking glimpse of sheep-steellng
cur with wool in his teeth.
That a man so gifted, endowed and
followed should be the subject of CEN
sure and reprOach shakes faith in the
capacity of the citizens of Kansas for
government.
and Curtis to oppose the will of Cy
Leland? They represent nobody but
their constituencies. Their credentials
were written only by the people. That
VIII, with nothing behind them but ma
jOritieS should have the effrOntery to
recommend anybody for office without
first obtaining the canSent of Cy Le--
land seems like unwarranted and insult
ferable impertinence.
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 cooperation of Ea-
ker, but Cy is Indispensable. In FL
ling the offices, if Baker recommends
Sterne and -Cy Leland wants Crum for
marshal, the attorney general, whose
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pending before the senate. VIII of course
oppose Baker. If Cy Leland is for him
the gates of hell cannot prevail against
him.
What Kansas needs is more .Cy Le-
land, and if this senseIess warfare does
not stop, we may lose him. He may
get tired of ingratitude and migrate to
Oklahoma or the KlOndike and leave
the Republicans to their fate with no
one to pick out candidates for govern
or, congressman and postmasters. start
newspapers on Hoods money, set up
the primaries, pack conventions, get
little offices for himself and his rela-
tives, and promise the rest to some
body else
Everyone shuddered the other day
at the rumOr that Cy Leland had abol-
ished pOstoftice where some enemy
received his mail, and if Baker and
Curtis do not compromise with him, he
may abolish everything, including the
pension agency, before he goes.
1T is not too late to avert this be-
and these threatened dan
gers and save the party from disinte-
gration-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. if they
will only surrender their duties and
prerOgatives to him. No sensible man
should object to this. and it is to be
hoped that one of the first acts of the
Jim Simpson committee will be to es-
ablish this equitable adjustment by
an edict and then keep on polling the
state as they did in go
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