People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1898-10-20

iUdL MOTTlll duu Ueeuy WERE dCIudlly |
almost forgotten in the race, and
during the last thirty days OF the |
campaign no one seemed to be running |
in the race except Mckinley on the
one side and Bryan on the other; yet |
when the votes were counted, Leedy |
had run several thousand votes be-
hind his ticket.
with a large majority of cur party
in both the senate and the house,
Leedy was seated in the governors
chair, ready as we all supposed to
carry out the promised railroad legis-
lation that the party had so long
demanded and fought to secure. Did
he carry out the pledges and party
platforms? No. He vetoed the only
railroad bill that was presented to
him, and that almost the identical
bill which he had championed in the
senate. And il the members Of the
legislature are to be believed, he be-
came very anxious for them to adjourn
with the understanding that he would
call them together again to pass a
railroad bill.
"When the legislature had ad-
journed and gone home, Governor
Leedy was entire master Of the situa-
tion, There could be no railroad
legislation without bis call for a
special session OF the legislature. No
one else had the power to do this.
What a chance Of lifetime for
deal with the railroads! Who can
compute how many thousands Of
dollars the failure to reduce rates was
worth to the railroads Of Kansas?
Was Leedy paid by them not TO call
the legislature together as he said he
would? | do not know. only know
that it was worth many thousands of
dollars to the railroads to not have
the legislature called together Bgain,
and that Leedy did net do so, al
though he had promised the people
so tC do, and that in the meantime
and since the railroads have been per.
mitted TO take out OF the pockets OF
the people of this state thousands
upon thousands of dollars in excessive
charges which special session of the
legislature should have saved tC
them. I alse know that last Febru-
airy or March, Governor Leedy caused
the publication Of the fact that be
had written to each member Of the
legislature, demanding to know
whether, If they were called together
they would vote fora railroad bill
Has anyone been permitted to see o.
know whether the answers wert
favorable or otherwise? Not a lint
has been published to indicate h0V
the legislature stood. Governor Iced,
alone knows. All the public knows Ii
that the whole matter was then anC
there dropped Ikea hot potato anf
from that time OIL adj his time an
energies have been,SevOted to seclr
ing denomination.
"To make sure Of this denomination
| he had the convention called la tn
middle Of June when the farmers wh
constitute the large majority of or
party we're in the karvesL field an
cruld not possiblg attend. Ther
were Others who could, however
Fron every part Of the state came
horde OF men whom de had appointe
!, to teefice. The railsOad passes the
presented TO the conductors GA tn
trains was a sight to make an oil
time Populist weep The cOnvensio
E must be held of course in TOpsk
where the delegateScould be met an
4 surgeuuded by "a hest Of Leedy's al
t pointees. Thus, while the bone an
S sinew Of the party were in the harEes
field trying to save their wheat Gro
e to be handed over later on to the cal
o roads for more liberal share tia
: the landlord receives for the rental {
= his lana or the man who owns h
!. land and puts in the crop receives {
d interest on his investment, the Hor
/. John W. Lsedy was renominated /
e reclamation.
d "Well 1t may be By acclanatioa q
II Topeka under those circumstance
o but it will be differezt at the ball,
}. box. There are Ia the ranks OF o.
7. party toe many NEE who feel tn,
y they have been betrayed, humiliat<
e and deceived, by this man who W.
y reDominated by reclamation. TIL,
is are men who carry their politics 81
II conventions under their own hats al
Is do their oWn thinking. They fe
= that a victory for this man who b
If been untrue to his party and Its pla
,r form would be worse ttan defeat, al
y 10 a man life myself wko went fort
ID 10 good faith, upon the stump, as
/. did tuo voarc suo ord pro~isad NJ