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

That these mere creatures Of the popular will,
with nothing behind them but majorities should
have the efrontery to recommend anybody for
Office without first obtaining the consent Of Cy
Leland seems like unwarranted and insufferable
impertinence.
"The president must naturally feel the same
way. TO ratify treaties, to confirm nomina-
tons, to reform the currency, in doubtful SEN
ate, the president doesn't want votes, he wants
Cy Leland. The administration can stub along
without the cooperation of Baker, bur Cy is
indispensable. In filing The Offices, if Bake,
recommends Scarne and c. Leland wants Crum
for marshal, the attorney general, whose nomi-
nation tor the supreme bench is now pending,
before the senate, will Of Course oppose Baker 4
If Cy Lei; nd is for him the gates of hell cannot
prevail against him.
What Kansas needs is more Cy Leland, and
if this sfnscl SIS warfare does not stop, we may
lose him. He may get tired of ingrattude and
migrate to Oklahoma or the Klondike and leave
the Republicans to their fate with no one to
pick out candidates for governor, congressman
and posinasters, start newspapers on Hoods
money, set up the primaries, pack conventions,
get little offices for himself and his relatives,
and promise the rest to somebody else.
"Everyone shuddered the other day at the rue
NOR that Cy Leland had abolished postoffice
where some enemy received his mail, and if
Baker and Curtis do not compromise with him,
he may abolish everything, including the pen
sion agency before he goes.
cit is not too late to avert this bereavment
and these threatened dangers al save the party
from dsintegratien-Ou Cy Leland is reason
able. He is not obdurate He is willing that
Baker and Brodeiick and Curtis shall serve out
their full terms. He will not insist on their
resignation, If they will only surrender their
duties and prerogatives to him. No sensible
nau shonld object to this and it is to be hoped
that one of the first acts of the Jim Simpson
committee will be to establish this equitable
adjustment by an edct and then keep on polling
the state as they did in 90"
That wonderful instrument, the DINGHY bill, \
has now been in force for five months. Its oh \
]ect was two-lod-to protect labor and replenish
The treasury. How has it done this? Wages
have been reduced, the cost of living increased |
and monthly dsfcit in the treasury of S1o.-
600, ooo.-Paoa Times
THE DIspATCAEs which occasionally, by
some strange oversight, print an item that
bears some relation to current facts, says that
]. Pierpont Morgan, the American representa-
tive of the Bank of England, now has control
of all the anthracite coal roads of the Atlantic
side of the nation. Now note that it does not
say that he has the coal fields entire, but that
he has the roads-thc means only by which the
coal can be got to market, and this gives him
monopoly III the COAL If this be true. whv
does it not follow as logically that the men who
control the roads that haul wneat corn, cattle
or other products control them Let the Bank
Of England gobble up all the property as it has
in India and reduce the American donkey kino
to the level OF that once rich and happy land
The donkey IS patient animal and likes TO
carry the load. Well can it be said to dav. ne
1t was In France century ago: 90, Libertvl
what crimes Innitted in thy namep, 81
Appeal to r ason.
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