The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1898-01-14
LELAND'S aPATRIOTISM.7
ingalls, Csustic Pen Reviews the Re-
publican Boss Great Services"
The Would Be Dictator satIrized ~ the
Ex-Ssnatt ALLEGED Party Services
Ironically Enumerated with
Telling implications

John J. Ingalls, caustic tongue has
lost none Of its cunning is shown in an
interview made public here to-day, in
which the former senator holds Cyrus
Leland up to ridicule- Tt is by far the
most artistic SHINING the AtchisOn
statesman has administered since his
retirement from public life seven
years ago Mr.. Ingalls, begins by an
irOnical rebul1e to those who have at
tackled that great aud good man, Cy
Leland, whose wisdom" he continues,
''and courage have done 50 much to
maintain our ascendancy in the west
since Lincoln's time So great was
the confidence he had inspired that the
national committee in the last cam
paign intrusted Missouri, Nebraska
and Arkansas, as well as Kansas, to
his management, and but for his
magnificent generalship the electoral
vote Of each Of these states would IN
dOubtedly have been lost to Mckinley"
ingalls, then continues
In all our party platforms Cy Lelands faCile
and graphic pen has formulated the issues Of
desperate campaigns in pregnant sentences
that have been the prelude Of victory.
Consider. too, the admirable career Of this
venerable leader as county commissioner Of
DOniphan, where he has kept the party solid
for 20 years and marshaled its delegation IN
every state and district convention, with no
suspicion OF trade and dicker, nor any accusa-
ton that ne was in politics for what he could
get out Of it
That this disinterested patriot who aspired
to cabinet portfolio as secretary Of the interior
or Of agriculture, to which, by his talents and
service he was justly entitled, voluntarily ac-
eepted the inferior position as pension agent,
when everybody wanted Tom Anderson for that
place is conclusive proof that he did not enrich
himself by stealing the money contributed to
the campaign fund Of the state, as had been 50
basely insiuuated
These caIumnfOus assaults on Cy Leland
weaken the defenses Of public virtue What
announcement remains for ambitious young
men to devote themselves to the public service
II the exalted character and honorable fame Of
Cy Leland are no armOr against the weapons
Of envy and personal detraction2
Those who impute sordid and selfish purposes
to our revered leader who inpugn his motives
and sneer at his qualities forget that in 1892
the republican convention at Hutchinson with
much enthusiasm. demanded his retirement
from the national committee But he knew
what the party needed better than it knew it
self, and By an act Of Incompatible self-sacri-
fee he saved il from the consequences Of its
own error. He continued on the committee
and out Of the chaos OF the revolution Of 1921 he
created an organization that in 1895 turned
over every department Of the state government
to pOpulism and gave the electoral vote TO
Bryan
No ordinary, cheap, yellow dog politician
could have done this It required genius Of
the highest order Such q prodigy must be
born and not made
It was the same skill ana foresight, the
same gift Of management, that decreed the de-
feat Of AIOrriI's nomination last year, selected
Peters as a candidate for governor and gave
Morrill, every vote in the convention; that
tried to beat BrOderick with Bailey in the First
district and gave BrOderick . walkOver; that
endeaVOred TO throw Judge Wells at Wyln-
dOtte and gave him an easy victory; that Op-
pOsef the nomination o. Tom Ryan as assist
ant secretary OF the interior and secured his
unanimous confirmation
1t is these deep and subtle methods, these
brilliant tactics and startling triumphs which
gain their ends by seeming TO oppose them,
that have established CT Leland's claim to
supremacy. given him the prestige he justly
enjoys and excited the implacable hatred Of
those he has passed in the race for glory and
who vent their Intellectual spleen and chagrin
by calling him q boss and q dictator
Assembled around him is q gallant band Of
young, generous and lofty spirits. like George
Findlay, Lit Crum, Frank Brown, Mort Al
blugh, jim Simpson and their associates. ami
mated by the patriotic passion which drives
heroes 10 battle and martyrs 10 the stake To
say that these eminent citizens are attracted
by Cy Leland like flies TO feculence, like buzz
zardS 70 CarriOn, or ESquimauL 70 an occasional
walrus- is an OfIenSe not defined in the criminal
code To continually stigmatize these young
I
ing at political free lunch counters, ScurTy
thimble-riggers. crooks. gamblers. buncO
Steerers and confidence men who have worked
conventions and legislatures as fakirs and
pic}pOckets follow circus; bOOdling bawds
and drabS whose leprOus infection no potash.
nor mercury. nor not springs can cure is an
outrage on dccCnCy and truth II there IS any
dirty work about legislatures. any votes to Re
bought any reports to be smOthered, any stat
utCs to be mutilated. the people know 10 is not
hV- r LEILA rTrls and rs1f1
No student OF human COuntenanCe can look
upon Cy Leland and not feel that he is 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 Stop jar or pUrlOin the
cuspidOr. He gaZes straight and fearless into
the face Of friend OF foe, with steady eye. and
rot with the Sinking glimpse OF q sheep
stealing cur with wool in his teeth
That q man so gifted, endowed and followed
should be the object Of censure and reprOach
shakes faith in the capacity OF the citizens OF
Kansas for selT-gOvernment
What right have Baker, BrOdericz and Cur
It's TO oppose the viii OF CT Lslands They rep
resent nobody but their constituencies Their
credentials were written only by the people
That these mere creatures OF the popular viii
with nothing behind them but majOrities,
should have the efr0ntery to recommend any
body for ONCE without first obtaining the con-
sent Of Cy Leland seems like unwarranted and
insuferable impertinence
The president must naturally feel the same
way To ratify treaties, to confirm nominal
tons. to reform the currency, in a doubtful
! senate the president doesn't want votes he
wants Cy Leland The administration can
stub along without the cooperation OF Baker,
but Cy Leland is Indispensable
What Kansas needs is more Cy Leland. and
II this seuse5eSs warfare does not stop we may
lose him He may get tired OF ingratitude and
migrate 70 Oklahoma or the KlOndike and
. leave the republicans 20 their fate with no one
70 pick out candidates for governor. congress-
men and pOstnaSters. start newspapers on
EOodts money. set up primaries, pack Conven-
tons set little Ofdces for himself and relatives
and promise the rest TO somebody else
Everyone shuddsred the other day at the ~
NOR that 6 Leland had abolished a post once
where some enemy received his mail. and II
Baker and Curtis do not compromise with him
he may abolish everything. including the pen
sion agency, before he goes
Is is not too late 20 avert this bereavement
and these threatened dangers and save the
party from disiutsgratiOn- Our CT Leland IS
reasonable He is not obdurate he is will
ing that Baker and BrOderick and Cur
tbs shall serve out their fun terms
Nc VIII not insist on thsfz rcsi-na-
tons II they VIII only surrender their
duties and prc-ozatiVes 20 him No sensible
nan should Object 70 this. and 10 Is 70 Be hoped
[ that oneof the first acts q The Jim Simpson
Z COMMITTEES VII &c 20 establish this CQuitable