Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-01-12

drives ht roes to battle and martyrs to
citizens are attracted to Cy Leland
like flies to feculence, like buzzards tC
carrion, or Esquimaux to an occasion
al walrus, is an offence not defined in
stigmatize these young men as pro.
fessiona1 buns and muckworms, hv-
ing at political free lunch counters,
scurvy thimble riggers, crooks, gamb.
1ers, bunco steerers and confidence
men who have worked conventions
ard legislatures, as fakirs and pick
pockets follow a circus; boodling
bawds and drabs whose 1eprous infec-
ton no potash, nor mercury, nor hot
springs can cure, is an outrage on
decency and truth. If there is any
DIR work about legislatures, any
V tts to e bought, any reports to be
suloth h, rcd any statutes to be 1nutila-
d; the people know it is not done by
Cy Leland and his cabinet.
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nance can look 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 design to steal the
slop jar or purloin the cuspidor. He
gazes straight and fearless into the
| face of friend or foe, with steady eve,
and not with the shrinking glimpse of
sheep-stee1ing cur with wool in his
teeth.
THAT man so gifted, endowed and
| followed should be the subject of CEN
sure and reproach shakes faith in the
capacity of the citiz MS of Kansas for
self-government.
"What right have Baker, Broderick
and Curtis to oppose the will of Cy
Leland? They represent nobody but
their cons tituences. Their credentials
were written only by the people. That
these mere creatures of the popular
will, with nothing behind them but
ma jorities should have the effrontery
to recommend any body for Office with
out first obtaining the consent of Cv
Leland seems like unwarranted and in
sufferabie impertinence.
''The president must naturally feel
the same way. To ratify treaties, to
confirm nominations, to reform the
currency, in a doubtful senate, the
president doesn't want votes; he wants
Cy Leland Tie administration can
stub along without the cooperation
of Baker, but Cy is Indispensable. In
filling the offices, if Baker re commends
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. If Cy Leland is
for him, the gates of hell cannot pre-
vail against him.
'What Kansas needs is more Cy Le-
land, and if this senseless warfare does
not stop, we may lose him. He may
get tired of ingratitude and migrate to
Oklahoma or the K1ondike and leave
the Republicans to their fate with no
one to pick out candidates for govern
or, congressman and postmasters,
set up the primaries, pack conven-
tions, get little offices for himself md
his relatives, and promise the rest to
somebody else.
Everyone shuddered the other day
at the rumor that Cy Leland had abol-
| ished postoffice 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.
ut is not too late to avert this be-
reave1nent 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 pre-
negatives 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-
tabiish this equitable adjustment by
an edict, and then keep on polling the
state as they did in co.
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