The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-10-19
CONE ON STANLEY
Why the PopuIist Leader is
for Wichita's Candidate.
FRIENDS AT THE CAPITAL
Would Help the City--Leedy
a MiSmanager.

There IS more than politics in my sup
port OF W z. Stanley" said RUfe Cone
yesterday. Everything that Wichita has
accomplished aas been by the splendid
unity Of her citizens. We have simply
pulled together. When there is anything
il sight for Wichita, II has been the relig-
ion Of this people TO 60 after it and get
IL. And nearly all we have secured has
been in a field outside Of politics. The
only time Wichita ever suffered severely
was when she voted a Wichita man down.
But I would like % ask the Wichita
man who is thinking % voting against
Stanley on political grounds, how Olathe
secured q state institution?
1T was because Olathe had q man at
Topeka guarding her Interest.
Il would like 10 ask the same man
how Leavenworth got 3 state institu-
ton?
1T was because Leavenworth had for
years the big Offices Of the state.
4 would ike 70 ask the same man now
Atchison. Emporia, Lawrence and other
cities secured public Institutions?
1t was because those towns have had
men who have been in the high public
places IN Kansas.
Even If 4 governor at Topeka could
not directly benefit his town, he can pre-
vent Determinations against ii, and
heaven knows Wichita has suffered
plenty Of Determinations.
Wichita ought 10 wake up to the fact
that it pays, and pays big. 10 attend 10 a
matter Of this kind. Wichita hasn't a
n
has something there. the name of John
Seaton s on every step in the building
and Wyandotte has her share. II Wichita
VIII get together and pull for a Wichita
man. Wichita may have some carpets in
tte state institutions. some dry goods,
some groceries, some labor. Other Kan
sas towns enjoy these benefits and why
not Wichita?
The matter IS in the hands OF the
people themselves. 4 man who votes
1or Leedy this year votes 70 give his town
q black eye. I an in business. and view
the thing from business standpoint. and
I know that every day-laborer, every
merchant, every business affair in this
city cannot afford 70 nave Leedy elected.
But then take the political side Of
the question What IS there in II for
Wichita 20 elect Leedy. What will Leedy
do for the town? Reelected, viii he even
treat the town fair? Did ne treat it fair
when ne allowed a police commission 10
exist here seventeen months at a loss Of
1880 a month 10 the city? 1 would Ike
u have him answer that I would Ike
q have the man in Wichita who IS going
70 vote for Leedy, answer that. II Leedy
had conducted the police affairs of IVIch-
Ira fairly and 70 the interest Of the town.
We would have in the treasury S25 800
pore than we have today. And this talk
about Leedy getting credit for abolishing
the commission is rot He didn't abolish
II until the convention threatened to turn
him down and nominate Boyle II he
didn't
Il know Stanley and Leedy both well.
n both of them lived in Alaska should
vote for Stanley. because I know that
Leedy is a man unfit for that high place. .
and = uismanager the state should get
nd Of There - nothing 20 induce a man
10 vote for Leedy. There is everything
10 induce one 20 vote for Eugene Stanley.
honest, capable. untiring and a Wichita
man 20 the bone.
And we should make the majority a big
ona. I think the poresr thing Sedgwick
county could do would be 10 give Stanley
a little. petered-out majority when the
rest OF the state had elected him with a
whoop. L would be a pitiabIe thing. sure /
Il this county should go out TO the world
Is the only county in the state mat ap-
proved OF the scandalous. naUseous official /
maladministration Of that man Leedy.
Il am a Populist and I will remain a
Populist. And I believe II IS the duty Of
every Populist who has the interests Of F.
his party a. heart % throw his vote good .
and hard against this man Leedy who
elected as a ref0rmer, has reformed moth .
ing today and IS today a stencil in the nos I
tr.ls OF the whole people. members Of his .
own party as well as the state at large
Let Us all line up for Stanley. I re- /
member when Lewelling was nominated .
t3r governor in the opera house. how We .
went out and asked the Republicans II .
support q home man 7 remember that .
hundreds OF them did support Lewelling.
for he ran hundreds ahead OF his ticket.
Turn about Is fair play"
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