The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-07-17
The Kansas Campaign.

Leavenworth Times: The Leavenworth
Times had something to say yesterday
about the personal magnetism OF Mt
! Stanley, the Republican candidate for
governor Sympathetic tact, pleasant
converse. courteous manners, are not the
most important qualifications for COVER
nor. but they are highly valuable adjunc1s
| to the most important, which Mr.. Stan
! ley possesses IN high degrees.
/ Large numbers of citizens Of Leaven-
! worth met Mr.. Stanley yesterday. some
! for the first time. though he has had
many friends for years in this city. To
/ say that his converse ton and character
made a good impression is 20 use hack
neyed expression which only mildly ex-
! presses the fact. Mr.. Stanley made
hosts of warm friends and won their
confidence and esteem. Republicans are
enthusiastic for their leader in this
state ca mpaign. He capuyated everybody
with whom he talked.
Mr. Stanley is. above adj. public man
Of liberal mind. AS governor, he will be
governor of the whole people. and not OF
any faction or clique. His policy and adj
mindstration will be broad-minded and
strong and not devoted to the propasa-
ton of any ism.
Kansas City Gazeute: Senator Baker
says the war will cost the country a bill
ion. and If 1t had had a regular army of
70, 900 men the war would now be over.
Kansas City Journal: eff the principles
laid down in the Topeka platform are so
near and dear TO the Populist heart, why
don't you call a special session of the
legislature this fall and adopt them into
law?" Walter Costigan asks OF Governor
Leedy. You now have absolute control
Of all branches of the state government
and If these principles are such grand
things, why run the chance of an adverse
election? Why not make them into laws
now? This may be your only chance for
some time.
THE fact u.s. said Costigan, the ad-
ministration doesn't intend to carry
out the pledges of that platform any
more than it did the pledges of the abb
lene platform. If 1t intended TO, Leedy
knows that not a single Democrat in
Kansas would vote for him this fall. The
platform means nothing. If so many
things need remedy1ng the Pops should
remedy them now. while they have the
legislature. Not a single plank in the
Abilene platform was carried out, and not
single one in the Topeka platform will
be carried out in the event of Popullst
success. If the legislature attempted 10
carrv out one of them Leedy would veto
the bill.
Kingnan Courier: The columns Of the
Leader-Courier are still open to any man
who will give one good reason why the
people of Kansas should re-elect Governor
Leedy.
Kingman Courier: The offer of Rufus
Cone, the well known Populist Of Wich-
tia, to bet $50 that Stanley would be elect
ed governor remains unaccepted.
Kingman Courier: It is amusing to hear
Populist office holders in Kansas boast
Of the disinterest edness of their party in
abolishirg the metropolitan police and
thus turning a number of Populist pie
counter statesmen out on the cold, cold
world. But it should be remembered
that Governor Leedy opposed bitterly the
a'bolishing of the police. That all lis
Office holders in the convention opposed
it. That it was passed. not because the
sentiment of the convention was against
the system, but because they thought
Leedy had made a dssraceful and out
fog IT,
fore the election Leedy viii obey the be-
hests of the convention, but afterwards
whether elected or defeated he will re
instate his police commissioners in every
city of the first class IN Kansas. Leedy
doesn't care any more for the pledges in
the 1898 platform than he did for those in
1896. They are for campaign purposes |
only; afterwards he will do as ne pleases. |
Kingman Courier: Recently the Populist |
executive committee let a paving contract |
exactly the same specifca tons without a /
single alteration. The wronged bidders /
took the matter into court, where it is |
on the state house grounds 10 the highest /
instead of the lowest bidder. There can /
be no other inference except that there 1
was a steal in II as all parties bid on 4
now pending. The job was so rank that |
at the meeting OF the Populist state com
mittee last week a motion to condemn /
the state officers who make up the execu- 4
tive council for it, after three hours OF /
bitter discussion, was tabled by only two
This is the character OF Popu-
list harmony the Republicans have to
contend with this year.
Florence Bulletin: The Leedyites are
worried because they can't find a single
blemish on the character Of ". Z. stan
ley. At first they tried TO ridicuIO him
because he is a church member. a good
citizen and is respects bic. They have
discovered that clean citizenship and re-
spectab.lity are more popular in Kansas
this year than in 1892 and 1885. The people
II Kansas have recovered from their de-
They are ashamed Of their
past foolshness and have vowed to get
light and stay right. The people OF Kan