The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-02

not secure the asylum by Republican
votes alone. Senator thinner, Popu-
list. voted for Parsons on the last bal
lot and he would not have been influ-
enced by any arguments that it was to
satisfy Foley
Lit Crum smothered the animosity
that has existed between his town, Os
Wego and Parsons, and helped Foley
pull the asylum to Parsons. 1t is
charged that Cy Leland took a hand in
the contest to help Parsons on account
of his friendship for Crum and desire
to smooth things over with Foley, but
he denies that he had anything to do
with the fight, and seems to be able to
prove an alibi- The friends of Newton
tried to enlist Lelands sympathies with
their town, but the Newton delegation
was headed by Judge Peters, and there
has been a GOODNESS between Leland
and Peters ever since Leland supported
Judge Hook for the federal judgeship,
when Peters himself was a candidate.
Leland will have to bear some of the
blame, however. because it is impoSsi-
BILE for anything to happen in Kansas
that somebody does not blame Cy Le-
land for it,
The committee certainly did not need
to give the asylum to Parsons through
any lack of available candidates in
portions of the state where the asylum
could have been easily reached from
the territory which needed it, and
which the legislature intended should
have it. Wellington, Lyons. Newton,
Salina. Clay Center, Junction City or
Concordia are any of them more acces-
sible than Parsons. and are close to the
territory which the new asylum was
intended to serve. Junction City may
have been too close to Topeka, but this
cannot be said of the other towns.
Col N b. Brown, from Concordia,
who was here looking after the inter-
ests of Concordia said: I understand
that Governor Stanley said soon after
he became governor that anything Lit
Crum wanted he could have think L
- Do. n nicfr,
Parsons is close to Missouri and the
Indian Territory. The asylum should
have been located further west Par
sons will not suit the people OF the
western part of the state who have no
asylum. 1 am decidedly of the opinion
that some of the methods used in COM
ing to this decision would not bear in
vestigation. People of the western part
of the state expected it or they would
not have demanded it but of course the
eminent gentlemen of the committee
can not be criticised. All the rest of
the different delegations became dis
eusted before the decision was reached
and left for home"
The delegation from Clay Center feels
it's defeat worse than any other Clay
Center was confident that it would Sc
cure the plum, and it was generally ad-
1nitted that it was Clay Center against
the field. although several other towns
thought they had enough votes prom
iSed to secure it.
The friends of Clay Center. Senator
Anderson of Shawnee, Representative
Bigham of Morris and RepreSent tat1Ve
Reeder of Decatur. held out for the
town from start to finish, except on
three ballots when Mr.. Bigham voted
for Newton as an experiment. one
of these three, Reeder, is a Popullst
and the other two are Republicans.
Senator Lewelling of SedgW1ck, Popu-
list, voted for Salina on the last bal
lot Senator Fulton of Nemaha. Rep
resentatiVeS Moore of Marshall, Wright
of Stevens and Conrad of Montgomery,
all Republicans, voted for Parsons.
These with Senator thinner of Wyan-
dotte, Populist, gave the prize to Par
sons.
Senator Lewelling had been vot-
ing for Newton with extreme regularity
all through the balloting, and only vot-
ed for Salina by way OF Var1ety-
Those who intimate that the victory
was gained for Parsons by underhand
methods point to the chart of the nine
teen ballots as proof of their asser-
tiOns The chart shows that the votes
were kept scattered with remarkable
unanimity through the first twelve bal
lots Anderson, Reeder and Bigham
voted for Clay Center each time, and
Lewelling voted for Newton. None of
the other towns received two votes on
any ballot except Wellington, which
received two votes on the ballots, in
Guiding the twelfth. Neodesha seems
to have been alternated by some mem
ber with PittSburg- 1t received one
vote on the first. third, fifth. seventh,
ninth and eleventh ballots, while Pitts
burg received one vote on each of the
even ballots except the tenth, on which
the Neodesha man seems to have gone
to Parsons The same play was made
by some member between Fort Scott
and Chanute. Fort Scott received one
vote on each of the first two ballots.
and each even ballot after that up to
and including the twelfth. Chanute
received one vote on each odd ballot
beginning with the third and ending
with the eleventh. Salina received
one vote on each odd ballot, the vote
going on the even ballots to Columbus
or Junction City.
On the thirteenth ballot the friends
of Parsons began to mass. Up to the
tenth ballot Parsons had not received
a single vote except on the fifth. On
the tenth and eleventh it received one
each.
Following is the tabulated vote of the
committee: