The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-11-02
ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS
Bluff of the Leedy Gang Called With
What Talks-=Biggest Roll Ever
Put Up in Wichita.
REPLY TO CHALLENGE
Fmsy Charge That Stanley Will Appoint Police
Commission for Wichita SquareIy Met-Money
Is in the Hands of j. o. Davidson,

The largest wager ever put up In WIch-
ia Is now in the hands Of J. o. Davidson
q the Kansas National bank The wager
Is for 1900. that W. Z. Stanley viii not
while governor. appoint & police commits
sion IN Wichita
The wager IL called out by the blufing
of the Leedy gang IN Wichita who. after
enjoying seventeen months fruit under
Leedy, are now shaking the bugaboo be-
fore the town that Stanley. If elected, will
re-estabilsh me iniquitous police commits
sion System. under which system Leedy
lost this city in seventeen months 81. 0oo
A CITIZEN walked into the bank yesterday
and deposited an envelope containing loo
and with II two items-one a clipping on
the ''buga boo order, used by the gang;
the other the terms OF his wager. No one
o. intelligence who IS not partisan blind
In Wichita believes Stanley will re-estab-
lish the system here. The clipping Itself
reveals the cloven-foot. Stanley viii be
elected next Tuesday. Governor Leedy
will have two months to serve between
next Tuesday and next May.
The clipping handed in which called out
the wager is as follows:
Extract from the Wichita Beacon. Thurs
day. October q. 1888. page unnumbered.
fourth column. in article headed says It
Is Dead to-wit:
'sAny number OF men can be found in
Wichita who viii bet that II Stanley is
elected there will be metropolitan police
r. Wichita before next May, providing
there is a Republican legislature unpiedged
70 abolish the law
The wager is a straight-out, unwired an
Ewer TO this himsy. tricky statement,
which, while conveying an impression, says
nothing. Here is the wager:
~IwaSer $1,000 that w. f.. Stanley
will not If elected governor. appoint
metropolitan police commissioners
for the city of Wichita. as stated in
the article"
The gang n Sedgwick county Is lesv-
Ing no stone unturned TO prevent their fol-
lowing from stampeding TO Mr.. Stanley.
Everything that can be twisted into the
semblancs OF a fact is being greedily jump
ed upon.
Fake pamphlets. circulars. alleged to
emanate from Stanley. misrepresentation
and ridiculous charges win be forthcoming
the next few days. 1t IS the last stand
OF the gang.
The one string the gang has harped on
most IS that Mr.. Stanley as governor will
re-establish the police commission.
The first man in Wichita to declare that
system Ubiquitous was w. E. Stanley.
But the gang care nothing for mans
record or his belief. Their only campaign
argument is that Stanley viii re-establish
the police commission. He will do nothing
OF the sort. and the gang. having at last
been privately forced to acknowledge that
Stanley will not. have been left without an
issue So the gang Is pitiably at sea
Meanwhile Wichita is gathering herself
together 10 give the state one Of the grand
es- examples OF municipal unity in the
history Of the United States.
Even as great city as New York takes
& as a great compliment TO have gov
error OF New York from that city.
Chicago largely loses partisan lines when
she IS fortunate enough to get guberna~
torfal nominee in Illinois.
There IS not city in ne nation which
would not appreciate the honor which has
been offered Wichita
And Wichita. which has secured every
thing it has BY standing by Wichita, viii
give Kansas an astounding instance OF
municipal pride IN one OF her citizens next
Tuesday.
The men who some weeks ago were pro-
testing that "a governor couldn't do
town any good anyway" have quit talk