The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-11-25
GOVERNOR At HOME
Debating Letters to His Many
Correspondents.
APPOINTMENTS WILL COME
Some Time Next Week to the
Lucky Ones.

Goveraor-elect Stanley has not decided
Is not ready 10 announce any, but may
DO so the first of next week. The COVER
nor remained at home yesterday the most
Of the day. He devoted the time to die
tating a large number Of letters which
will carry in them the news that has so
dong been andously awaited by those
who have written to the governor during
the past week or ten days While. it is
stated thai Mr.. Stanley has not yet de-
cfded upon any OF his appointments, il is
stated in Topeka dispatches that he has
selected mis- chairman of the state board
Of charities but will not make public his
name for the present. In the same dis
patches it is reported that Mort AIbaugh.
who has by common consent been slated
for the appointment Of private secretary.
has other aspirations. i Is reported that
he wants 10 be clerk Of the federal dis
1rict court In the same article Frank
Brown, secretary OF the state central
committee, mas been slated for the same
position.
a special TO a Kansas City paper states
that Warden II. S. Lands Of the state
peni;entiary, has given some % mis- Popu-
list associates 10 unC erstand that ne Will
Try 10 hold on TO his job under the Stan
ley administration. He claims that his
commission runs for two years yet and
that the only way he can be removed is
after an investigation He viii combat
any attempt to depose him. he says. He
Plenty Of charges can be made that will
justify Governor Stanley in removing
him. II no other one was needed. the
fact that ne forced the convicts TO print
Populist campaign literature at the eX-
pense of the stale, using state paper is
sufficient
Lands talks altogether different now
from what he did two years ago. The
day he Vas installed as warden Captain
11ckert, then a member of the board Of di-
rectors Of the penitentiary, was at the
prison He distated the resignation as
such member TO the steaographer.
lands was somewhat surprised, as
Eckert had a year yet to serve.
How does that Gomez" Lands asked
Of Eckert. You have a year yet to
serve"
Il know. but / am one of those who be-
lieve ;nat 70 the victors belong the spoils
and ] nave no desire TO be associated in
any way with the Leedy administration
or stand in the way OF its carrying out its
policies" replied Ecl'ert. Then two
years hence the I,eedT BOARD VIII have
4 chance to do just what l have done to-
day
s,-gt i'll
Lands Two years from row, If the
leedy administration IS turned out of
power, its successor Will not have TO bring
any charges against me like 1t did against
Dick Chase in order to make vacancy
in the wardenship l viii step out the
day Governor Leedy does"
Eckert has written Lands calling his
attention TO the conversation al that time
and advising him % rescind his present in
tention and stick to The one made two
years ago. BY doing so you may save
yourself considerable humiliation" said
Eckert. You viii lose the place any
how"
1t is being generally discussed in politi-
Cal circles in and around Topeka that the
system Of selecting subordinate employees
at the various state institutions under
the Stanley administration viii be alto
Eether different from that used by Cover
nor Leedy. Il is well known that Governor
Leedy dictated all Of the appointments.
lie decided who should have the places
and then the boards were instructed to
announce the selections. which they did.
The boards had no voice whatever in the
selection Of appointees.
Ii is thought that IL viii be Governor
Stanley's policy to name the very best
men in the state FOR members Of the
boards and then hold them personally
responsible for the management of the
Institutions. and give them fun power
10 name all the sgbordinates with the
injunction that they treat each portion Of
the state fairly I'm the distribution Of
Offices. This would be an excellent plan
and would have the effect Of enabling the
boards TO maintain discipline among the
employees.
At present no discipline can be main
tanned at any Of the institutions. II the
board or a superintendent discharges a
hostler or gardener. ne appeals the case
TO the governor. and in every instance. 50
or the superintendent and ordered the
discharged man reinsyated
The straightout Democratic orsaniza-
ton Of the state will dictate the Demo
cratic members Of the various boards I'M
der the Stanley administration. There
are number Of boards which tts 'aN
Mo AAJhCTu