Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1898-01-27
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WAR IN KANSAS.

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full State. Its early settlers fought
each other, and their ancestors and
successors have kept up strife IN
n form or another ever since.
1t is no longer "bleeding Kan
sas,n it never ceases to be tuning
and snarling Kansas. The methe
DDS of warfare have changed, but
the bcllicose spirit remains and
rankles and testers.
One of the numerous wars now
going on in Kansas is that be-
tween ex-senator John j. Ingalls,
and ICY" LelaId d.
The latter is pension agent at
Topeka, and for years past has
been a Republican boss in Kan
sas,
Leland is one of the coterie of
politicians whom Ingalls, charges
with responsibility for the present
demoralized condition of the Re-
publican party in Kansas an in a
recent newspaper letter pours out
upon "Cy" three columns of fine
sarcasm. Among other delicate
illusions in the ex Senator's letter,
we find the following:
"Assembled around him is a
gallant band of young, generous
and lofty spirits, like George Fin
lay, Lit Crum, Frank Brown,
Mort Albaugh, Jim Simpson and
their associates, animated 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
to ~carrion, or Esquimaux to an
occasional walrus, is an offense
not defined in the criminal code.
To continually stigmatize these
young men as professional buns
and muckworms, living at politi-
cal free lunch counters, scurvy
thimble Triggers, crooks, gamblers
bunco ~steerers and confidence men
who have worked conventions and
legislatures as fakirs and pick
pockets follow a circus; boodling
bawds and drabs whose leprous
infection no potash, nor mercury,
nor hot springs can cure, is an
outrage on decency and truth. Ii
there is any dirty work about le-
gislatures, any votes to be bought,
any reports to be smothered, any
statutes to be mutilated, the people
know it is not done by Cy Leland
and his cabinet.
mo student OF human couns
tenance can look upon Cy LELAND
and not feel that he is a borr
leader Of men. There is nothing
sneaking or furtive about his
glance and bearing. When he en-
tiers a room no one would sus'
pect him Of design 10 steal the
slop jar or purloin the cuspidor
He gazes straight and fearfes:
into the face OF friend Or foe
with steady eye, and not with
the shrinking glimpse Of a sheep
stealing cur, with wool in hi'
teeth.
THAT a man so gifted, endow
ed and followed should be tn
subject of censure aud reproacl
shakes faith in the capacity 0
the citizens of Kansas for self
government"
ICY" Leland is not the man t,
sit still under such words a
these, and he comes back at In
gals with ~ferocity quite as ter
rife as that of the ex-senator
but with hardly as nimble a US
of caustic. The following is tn
best ICY" a do;
IF you ask me what has bee
the great obstacle to rebuildlni
the Republican party in Kansas
my answer would be-Ingalls
But he is now politically dead
and everybody knows it. He i
like a venomous serpent that ha
received it's death wound, an
hereafter there will core fror
him only a hiss now and ther
and he will soon be forgotten, II
will wriggle around reportin
prize fights and splitting his We
nom occasionally, but will not b
able to sting anybody exceE
himself. Nothing is left Of his ir
tellect. save his immeasureabl
conceit. and nothing of his heal
save the most bitter maleyo
lence."
At this distance it appears tia
up to date Ingalls, has the best {
"Cy" in this refined contest, bl
we have no idea how it strike
the admirers of each of thes
statesmen in Kansas.