Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-01-07

he created an organization that, IN 1896, turned
over every department of the state governmt nj
to Populism and gave the electoral vote 10
Bryan.
"No ordinary, cheap, yellow-dog politician
could have done this 1t required genius oi
the highest order. Such prodigy must be
born and not made.
cit was the same skill and foresight, the
same gift of management that decreed the de-
feat of Morrll's nomination last year, selected
Peters as the candidate for governor and gave
Morrill, every vote in the convention; that tried
to beat Broderick with Bailey i'll the First dis
trict and gave Frederick a walkovel; that en-
deavored to throw Judge Wells at Wyandotte
and gave him all easy victory; that opposed the
nomination of Tom Ryan as assistant secretary
of the interior, and secured his unanimous con-
firmation.
1t is these deep and subtle methods, these
brilliant tactics and startling triuinphs which
gain their ends by seeming to oppose them, that
have established Cy Lelands 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
boss and dictator.
Gwen Toe Hudson has so far yielded to this
irrational clamor as to join the senseless and
disinteerating cry against 'bossism' i'll Kansas
politics, ignoring the fact that by the exhibition
of his gigantic resources, and the inspiration of
his innumerable victories, Cy Leland has at
traced to himself an immovable phalanx made
up of the moral and intellectual forces of the
state.
"Assembled around him is gallant band of
Young, generous and lofty spirits, like George
Findlay, Lit Crum, Frank Brown, Mort Al
baueh, lin Simpson and their associates, ami
mated by the patriotic passion which drives he
roes to battle and martyrs to the stake. TO say
that these eminent citizens are attracted to Cy
Leland like flies to feculence, like buzzards 10
carton, or EsnuimsuX to an occasional walruS,
;s an offense not defined III the criminal code.
To continually stigmatize these young men as
professional buns and muckworms, living at
p,li,ical free lunch counters, scurvy thimble
ripye,s, crooks, gamblers, bunco steerers and
confidence men who have worked conventions
and legislatures, as fakirs and pickpockets fol-
low a circus; boodlng bawds and draLs whose
,errous infection 40 potash, nor mercury, nor
hot SPRINGS can cure, is an outrage on dccency
and truth. If there is any dirty work about
legislatures any votes to be bought, any re-
ports to be smothered, any statutes to be mutt
lated, the people know it is not done by Cy Le-
land and his cabinet.
No student of the human countenance can
look upon Cy Leland and not feel that he is
,,or, leader of men, There is nothing sneak
;nu or furtive about his glance and bearing.
1ut.r he enters room no would suspect
him of a design to steal the slop jar or purloln
the cuspdor. He gazes straight and fearless
into the face of friend or foe, with steady eye,
and not with the shrinking glance of sheep
ct, a,inq cur with wool in his teeth
.That man so gifted, endowed and follow
cd SHOULD be the subject OF censure and re-
,roach shakes faith in the capacity OF the cltl-
zeps of Kansas for elf-government.
What right have Baker, Broderick and Curtis
70 onpose the will of Cy Leland? They repre-
cent nobody but their constituencies Their
Credentials were written only by the people.