The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-24
Curtis Finds Garden Seed Dis
tributiOn Troublesome.
Tried to PIacate His Enemies in
LeaYenWOrth.
ANGERED FRIENDS.
Col. ID. r. Anthony Is Now on
His Trail.
May Lose LeaYenWOrth County
as Result.

If Congressman Curtis loses Leaven-
worth county it viii be due to the gar
den and flower seeds which he sent out
last spring. Those seeds have caused
a great row in that county.
The condition in Leavenworth coun-
ty and it's development has been the
source of considerable amusement to
the politicians. When Mr.. Curtis was
candidate for the nomination in the
First district after it was increased by
the addition of Shawnee county, Col.
D. r. Anthony and his friends were
outspOken in their expression of pre-
ferences for Curtis as againstJudge Case
BrOderick. Among all of those men Mr..
Curtis had many warm friends, and
was nominated and elected.
Then came the contest for the federal
judgeship, following the death of Judge
Q. G. Foster in which Judge Albert H.
Horton and the successful candidate,
William c. Hook, were rivals for the
honor. Mr.. Curtis endorsed Judge HOr-
ton and made a wonderful fight for his
appointment. The LeaVenWOrth people
took no exceptions to the course of Mr..
Curtis at that time because he was
making a valiant fight for a home man
and this sort of business is never con-
demned by the politicians. It is regard
ed as strictly the right of any candi-
date to demand and procure the absO-
lutte and unqualified support of his po-
Htical friends at home.
Among the men who We're opposing
Judge Horton and at the same time
making a strong fight for Judge Hook,
was w. H. Bond, law partner of Judge
Hook and Senator Baker. He was also
the leader of a faction of Republicans
in that city with which the Anthony
forces have had frequent clashes.
Col D. r. Anthony explains the
break" with Curtis in very forcible
language. Mr.. Anthony says that when
Curtis went to Washington last spring
h. > ri r7cT,Sv
crowd but seemed to doubt the ability
of those forces to carry Leavenworth
county for his reelection. This, ex-
plains Mr. Anthony, caused Curtis to
cast about for means to warm the
Bond crowd to his interests.
At this point the garden seeds got in
their deadly work. The AnthOnys claim
that Curtis forwarded all the garden
seeds he had to distribute in Leaven-
worth county to Will Bond; he cores
pOnded with Bond and in other ways
showed faVors to the recipient of the
seeds which the Anthonys felt belonged
to them.
The result was inevitable. Col. An
thOny became angry and declared that
Curtis was treating him like a dog"
Now, there is not a man in Kansas who
does not know what Anthony ire is.
When it gets up the fur simply stands
out like frills. 1t can't be smoothed
down. It's Iige a fever; runs its course
without interruption.
The fur" on the AnthOnys is still
SUCKING out ana they are nSnIlnS Cur
tbs as hard as they know how The
Bond crowd is also against Curtis.
Therefore, the two factions which are
usually fighting each other, are now
united on Bailey and it would be
strange indeed if those men do not
carry their own county. If they do,
Mr.. Curtis of course loses, and it is ex-
ceedingly difficult for man to do 9TH
erwise when the machine and the work.
ers thereof are against him.
Curtis friends admit the condition in
Leavenworth county to be as it has
been portrayed in the foregoing. They
admit too that their supporters are
1imited.Th Bailey men claim that Cur
it's only supporters in that county are
Fred Willard, his father-in-law James
F. Legate and Arthur Clark who was a
member of the police board under Gov
ernOr LeWelling in LeavenWOrth Clark
is now a reformed POpulist He work.
ed for the Republican state committee
in the state campaign last year.
Mr. Curtis managers in Topeka were
asked if the above statements by the
Bailey men were true. Some of them
declined to discuss the subject but one
of them said:
4 have made careful inquiry into the
conditions in LeavenwOrth county and
am convinced that the three men
named constitute Mr.. Curtis supporters
now working for him there. Mr.. Curtis
seems now to have been beaten over
there, all because of a quarrel over gar
den Seeds