The Wichita daily eagle., 1898-01-06
INGALLS, AAYS LELAND
lrideScent Sarcasm Poured
Out on Your Uncle Cyrus.
In GUISE OF PRAISING
His Onceness Accuses His
Enemy OF Every Meanness.

ed TO Washington, and is busily engaged
preparatory to another lecturing tour.
But the senator still takes an active in
terest in Kansas affairs, and when seen
the other day by the Times correspond
ent in his apartments at the Cairo hotel,
discussed Kansas politics with percepti-
bic interest and avidity.
Speaking of the political situation IN
Kansas. Mr.. Ingalls, said he was away
SO much in his lyceum work. and so
busy with other matters when not on
the road, that he was not as well inform
ed as he should be, but the outlook for
'58 seemed favorable on the whole. If
Republicans would realize that they had
votes enough to make one party, but not
sufficient for two.
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 good
man, Cy Leland, whose wisdom and cour-
age had done so much to maintain our
ascendancy in the west since Lincolns
time So great was the confidence he had
the last campaign intrusted Missouri, Ne
braska and Arkansas, as well as Kansas,
TO his management, and but for his mag
nifcent generalship the electoral vote OF
these states would undoubtedly have been
lost to Mckinley. He added:
IF there has been in the last quarter OF
a century any crisis in our partys his
tory when the discouraged and faltering
masses have not instinctively turned TO
the experience OF Cy Leland for counsel.
and TO his genius for inspiration, do
not recall Il. How often when the battle
seemed lost have we not all heard Cy Le-
lands trumpet tones calling on free
dom's shattered hosts TO rally round the
flag OF equal rights, protection and sound
money?
In all our party platforms Cy Leland's
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 commits
sioner Of Doniphan county, where he has
kept the party solid for twenty years and
marshaled its delegation in every state
and district convention, with no suspicion
that he was in politics for what he could
set out of It.
That this disinterested patriot who as
pired to a cabinet portfolio as secretary
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 every
body wanted Tom Anderson for that
place, is conclusive proof that he did not
enrich himself by stealing the money con-
trtbuted to the campaign fund Of the
state as has been so basely insinuated.
These caIumunious assaults on Cy Le-
leand weaken the defenses Of public vir-
tue. What encourage remains for
ambitious young men to devote them
selves 70 the public service II the exalted
character and honorable fame of Cy Le-
land are no armor against the weapons
or envy and personal distraction?
Those who impute sordid and selfish
purposes to our revered leader, who i'm
pugn his motives and sneer at his quail
ties. forget that in 1892 the Republican
convention az Hutchinson with much en-
thusiasm demanded his retirement from
the national committee. But he knew
what his party needed better than Il
knew itself. and by an act Of incompara-
ble self-ss crifice. he saved ii from the
consequences of its own error. He con-
tinued on the committee, and out of the
chaos Of the revolution of 1891 he created
an organization that in 1895 turned over
every department Of the state govern
hn al
vote To Bryan
NO ordinary. cheap, yellow dog politi
clan could have done this Ie required
genius Of the highest order. Such
prodigy must be born and not made.
1T was the same skill and foresight,
the same gift of mana cement that de-
creed the defeat of Morrilrs nomination
last year. selected Peters as the osndi-
date for governor and gave Morrill, every
vote in the convention that tried 10 beat
Broderick with Bailey in the First dis
trict and gave Broderick a walkover. that
endeavored 10 throw Judge Wells at Wy
andotte and gave him an easy victory.
that opposed the nomina ton OF Tom
Ryan as assistant secretary OF the in
terror. and secured his unanimous con-
firmation-
1t is these deep and subtle methods,
these brilliant tactics and startling tri-
.mphs which gain their ends by seeming
70 oppose them, that have established
Cy Leiand's claim 20 supremacy. given
him the prestige he Justly enjoys. and eX-
cited the implacable hatred OF those he
has passed in the race for glory. and
who vent their Intellectual spleen and
chagrin by calling him boss and E die
tstor
Even Joe Hudson has so far yielded 10
this irrational clamor as % join the sense
less and disintergrating cry against
'bossism in Kansas politics, ignoring the
fact that by the exhibition of his gigantic
resources. and the inspiration OF his in
Vulnerable victories. Cy Leland has at
tracted to himself an immovable phslanx
made Up Of the moral and intellectual
forces Of the state.
Assembled around him Is gallant
hand OF young. generous and lofty spirits.
like George Findlay. Lit Crum. Frank
Brown, Mort AIbsugh. Jim Simpson and
their associates, animated by the patri-
otic passion which drives heroes 10 bat
tie and martyrs 70 the stake. To say
that these eminent citizens are attracted
10 Cy Leland like flies 70 feculence like
buzzards 10 carrion, or EsQuinaux 70 an
occasional walrus. is AT osfense not de-
fined in the criminal code. To continually
stigmatizs these young men as profes-
sional buns and muckworms. living at
political free lunch counters. scurvy