Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-01-20

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cen "Apple- ack Cy-and, as he
:'winks the other eye" we can almost
see him chuckle and grin as he did of
old, when a '.reber' he'd skin.
Leavenworth. Kan, Jan. 4th-lhe
Times published the following from
Washington this morning:
Ex-senator John J Ingalls, has re-
turned to Washington and is busily en-
gagged with preparations for another
lecture tour OF the Kansas situation
he said that intelligent and sagacious
leadership was Indispensable to success
and the most discouraging symptom was
the malignant attacks in some OF the
newspapers upon that great and gooo
man. Cy Leland, whose wisdom and
courage had done SO much to MAINTAIN
our ascendancy IN the west since LIN
coins time. So great was the CONN
dence he had inspired that the national
committee in the last campaign intrust-
ed Missouri, Nebraska and Arkansas, as
well as Kansas, to his management. and
but for his magnificent generalshlp the
electoral vote of each of these states
would undoubtedly have been lost to
Mckinley. He added: ''lf there has
been in the last quarter of century any
crisis in our party's history when the
discouraged and faltering masses have
not instinctively turned to the expert
ence OF Cy Leland for counsel, and to
his genius for inspiration. do not re-
call it. How often when the battle
seemed lost have we not all heard Cy
Lelands trumpet tones calling on free
don's shattered hosts to rally round the
flag of equal rights, protection and
sound money.
LELAND DISINTEREsTED PATRIOT.
"In all our party platforms Cy Le-
lands facile and graphic pen has form
ulated the issues of desperate cam
paigns iu pregnant sentences that have
been the prelude of victory.
Consider, too, the admirable career
Of this venerable leader as county COM
missioner of Doniphan, where he has
kept the party solid for twenty years
and marshaied its delegation in every
state and district convention, with no
sucpicion of trade and dicker, nor any
accusation that he was in politics for
what he could get out of it.
That this disinterested patriot who
aspired to cabinet portfolio as secre-
tary of the interior or of agriculture, to
which, by his talents and service he
was justly entitled, voluntarily accepted
the inferior position of pension agent,
when everybody wanted Tom Anderson
for that place, is conclusive proof that
be did not enrich himself by stealing
the money contributed to the campaign
fund of the state. as has been so basely
insinuated.
ATTACKS UPON LELAND DEPLoRED.
''These calumnious assaults on Cy
Leland weaken the defenses of public
virtue What encouragement remains
for ambitious young men to devote
themselves to the public service, if the
exalted character and honorable fame
of Cy Leland are not armor against the
weapons of envy aud personal detrac-
ton?
.Those who impute sordid and selfish
purposes to our revered leader, who i'm
pugn his motives and sneer at his quail
lies, forget that in 1892 the republican
convention in Hutchinson. with much
enthusias sm, demanded his retirement
from the national committee. But he
knew what the party nee',ed better than
knew itself, and by an act of incompar-
able self sacrifice he saved it from the
consequences of its own error. He con-
tinued on the committee, and out of
the chaos of the revolution of 1902 be
created an organization that In 1896
turned over every department of the
state government to populism and gave
the electoral vote co Bryan
mo ordinary, cheap. yellow dog poll
tician could have done this. Itrequired
genius of the highest order. Such a
prodigy must be born and not made.
LELAND's s'TRIUMPHs'' SET FORTH.
at was the same skill and foresight
the same gift of management that de
creed the defeat of Morrlll's nomination
last year. selected Peters as the candi-