The Advocate and news., 1898-06-15
STANLEY is HOPELEssLY LOST.

convention ought to make glad the av-
erage Populist. Il clinches a cOntinu-
anCe of his party in power, and is a vlr-
tual admission that the Republicans
have nothing Of any substance to make
a campaign upon this fall. The people
have inspected the Republican machine
and pronounced 1t unsafe, but Boss Le-
land has patched 1t up. 1t may wabble
a short distance, but It can never make
the run from Hutchinson to Topeka
not in that brOken-down, wheezy cOndi-
tiOn, with load of bad records and un-
fulfilled pledges, and with that steering
gang.
The same old leaders are In control,
and that In itself is strong vote loser
for the Republicans.
Think Of ]. Ralph Burton!
With all its sneers at irredeemable
paper money the Topeka Daily Capital
does not point to that which Mr.. Burton
50 freely handed out in different parts
OF Kansas. On the contrary, with its
usual inconsistency, the Capital has de-
clared 1t one Of the greatest frauds on
earth, while ]. Ralph Burton, one Of
the swiftest exponents of irredeemable
paper money that ever struck Kansas,
has been the Capitals especial prOtege.
Burton is a bright and shining light Of
bankruptcy that is to illuminate the Re-
publican campaign again. He will not
do any harm, and he can't do any good
And the Boss!
1t is restful fact to think on, that the
Republican party Of Kansas with all its
incompetence, mismanagement Of public
funds, and ceaseless inability to keep its
promises to the people, has Cyrus Le-
land to care for It, The Republican
party could not live long without some
onc to nurture 1t in the ways Of wicked
ness. who could plot and scheme and be
cunning and sly for 1t, and who else Is
there In Kansas craftier and keener in
the wiles Of the devil and Mark Hanna
than your Uncle Cyrus? Leland con-
ttOlled the convention, and he and his
henchman, Dave Mulvane, will run the
campaign. They will be greatly aided by
the large slush fund which the corpora
tions will contribute.
The ticket put up is very Republican
corporation lawyers, left-overs from
the corrupt Morrill, administration and
other chronic offlCe-seekers Should they
slip into the State house they will slide
along in the same old easy way that
previous Republican administrations
have made so familiar, getting done only
the routine work of their offices and
nevertheless spending all the State
money at their disposal, while cobwebs
spread over the unfinished work Of
Leedy, Bush, Boyle, Stryker, McNall,
Johnson and the other real servants OF
the people. The good old times will
come again-for the corporations and
the people who are already well fixed,
but the wage-wOrker and the man with
out money or pull will be butting his
petition against a stone wall. But these
things are not to be. The present ad-
minlstration has done too much In the
way of action demanded by the people
and the Republicans themselves have
done too much that is away below zero
to make defeat for the Lelandltes any
thing else but a certainty in this cam
palgn.
A feeling of pity, however. is almost
sure to go out from every one to the Re-
publican candidates who were so heart
lessly left without platform, or course
the people know that they have. nothing
to stand on, but surely the ingenuity
and experience of the old-time politi-
clans might have patched up something
locking less like a general wreck than
the weak and watery imitation Of a
platform adopted at Hutchinson. No
ono Would have believed the Republican