The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-17
BOYLE LOOMED
For Short Time While Govern
or Leedy Was Doubtful
Whether He Would Accept the
Behest of the Convention
AND TURN DOWN ALL
The Police Boards i'm Kansas.
BOyle's Boom
Grew Apace and He Would Have
Been Nominated
Had the Governor Continued to
Waver Longer.
TICKET Is RENAMED.
In Full by POpulists and Demo-
The Police Boards in Kansas.
BOyle's Boom
Grew Apace and He Would Have
Been Nominated
Had the Governor Continued to
Waiver Longer.
TICKET Is RENAMED.
In Full by POpulists and Demo-
Gratis at AtchiSOn.

Following is the ticket nominated pS
acclamation at the Populist state con-
vention:
Governor, John W. Leedy.
Lieutenant Governor, A. NJ. Harvey.
Associate Justice, S. H. Allen.
Congressman at large, ]. D. Botkin
Secretary Of State, w. E. Bush.
Attorney General. L. G. Boyle.
Auditor, w. H. Morris.
Treasurer, D. H. Hef1eboWer.
Superintendent of Public Instruction,
VIM. Stryker.
This ticket was endorsed by the Free
Silver Republican state convention and
the Democratic state convention.
The nomination of Governor 1eedy
and the entire list of Populist state Of
ficers by the Populist state convention
at O'Clock yesterday afternoon was
preceded by a period of most intense
excitement
A majority of the delegates had heard
that Governor Leedy would decline the
nomination unless the convention re
ceded from its position the metro
politan police law. Before the delegates
left the hotel Private Secretary Lewis
had whispered it around that Governor
Ieedy would decline the nomination un-
less the metropolitan police law was re-
considered. Z. B. Pfost and other Wy
andotte delegates said the same thing.
Now what will you dO?" said they.
The news went among the delegates
like a prairie fire but it did not wither
them.
Let him decline if he wants to- We
will stand by our action. If he don't
like it that way, let him decline" That
was the talk heard on all sides.
1t was the time for action. The friends
of Attorney General Boyle rallied and
passed from delegate to delegate urg
ing that Boyle be nominated. At the
hall before the convention assembled
Jake Sheppard of Fort Scott, Harry
Mclean of Miami county. George Clark
Of Topeka and a half dozen other young
men moved among the delegates.
The fight for a reconsideration of the
vote nv which the D06tTnnnTit9T nn1ipa
plank was adopted was bitter. Ed
Pfost, Governor Leedy's appointee. S.
w Case, superintendent of the Hutch
1nSon refOrmatory and Carl VrOoman
who appears to want to stand in with
the administration for some reason
made bitter speeches denouncing the
action of the convention and demanding
a reconsideration.
Delegate George Easterwood of Kan
sas City got upon the platform and
started to announce Governor I4eedy'S
determination to refuse the nomination
Edwin Taylor pulled him off the plat
form but he fingered long enough to
say: Governor Leedy has changed his
mind"
Grant Harrington of Hiawatha and
Charley Stevens of Crawford county
challenged the metropolitan police ad-
VOcateS to furnish arguments. The
speeches made by Harrington and Ste
venS who are both young men were two
of the most impassioned delivered in
the convention. 1t was plain from the
reception they received that there was
no reconsideration in sight no matter
what Governor Leedy did.
The situation was growing more
strained when George Harrison of the
Advocate rushed onto the platform His
face was covered with perspiration
and his collar was wilted. He whis-
pered to Chairman King who an
nounced: "A messenger from the COVER
nor
When Harrison could get his breath
he announced that he had lust come
from fynVPTn0r 7 nd +hot
ter what action the convention took he
would abide by the verdict
The vote on the motion to lay the
motion to reconsider on the table was
adopted by a vote of 3S1 to SO6, showing
that the stand taken by the convention
had been strengthened rather than
Grant Harrington then read the list
of state officers and moved that they
be nominated by reclamation, which
was done with a demonstration of en-
After it was all over 1t was agreed
that Governor Leedy's position was
simply a bluff 1t was a dangerous
one and if he had persisted in his stand
1t meant his downfall and the elevation
of Attorney General Boyle
After the nominations had been
state officers. Governor Leedy was the
speech:
ITO be endorsed by. E. denomination Is
man in this state. 1 can only saw to
you, and say not only on nv own be-
haf but on behalf of other members of
the administration that to have an entire
administration renominated. and an ad-
mlnIstration that has stood by me dur
ing the past two years. is the highest
encomfum you could bestow upon it.
l want to say that every member of
that administration has been loyal to
me and without their support the ad-
mlnistration could never have made a
success.
We have been standing up for Kan
sas in the past two years. More than
that we have been standing up for the
state of Kansas. We have a state here
that we may be proud of When our
friend, the federal judge of Arkansas
TOOK 1T into his head to run things his
own way in this state. he told Mr.
Boyle and Mr.. McNan that they should
disregard the laws of the state and do
certain things. Mr.. Boyle and Mr. Nc
NAH told him that they were officers of
state that was a state, and proceeded
70 ignore the federal Judge and when
He saw the way they were acting ne
SAID, Well, if you folks are going to
act up this way I'm going back to
Arkansas and see what the law says