Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-07-20
CHAMP aAESETTR
Republican Split In Sun
flower State.
FIGHTING ABOUT SPOILS
School System Jeopardized to
Furnish Pap.
FIGHTING ABOUT SPoTLS
HOST PREPOsrEROus ASSERTION

MOST PREPOsfERoUs ASSERTION.
ST. Louss cIebe-De@srras says BuIk
of Educated Men Arc In RepubIieAa
PaFty-KansAs city wants Deme-
cratic National Convention = Hero
Of the spanish War Democratic
Greed.
Especial Washington Letser.l
Recently | was out in Kansas on g
lecture tour. Unless all signs fan the
Fusionists VIII carry the sunnower
State this year-and next hands down.
The Republicans are an gplit up the
hack over several things, especially
about patronage. Even at this early
date Charley Curtis, now r-epresentlng
the Topeka district and III. Bailey.
Congressman at large. are engaged In a
Kilkenny eat fight as to who shah rep
resent the Topeka district IN the Fifty
seventh congress. Boss Cy Leland Is
taking q hand In the fracas and abus-
Ing Curtis Ike a piekpocket. among
other things bowling about Curtis be-
ing part Indian. a thing which Curtis
couldn't prevent as nobody that 1
ever heard Of could choose his an
eesters. II seems 70 me that in that
regard Leland hit Charley below the
belt. That was certainly stupid on
Leland's part, for Curtis Is bright as &
dollar, a hard fighter and win never
forget or forgive that insult The war
is 81 bitter that certain persons are
calling on ex-senator Johh James In
gals TO come into the race In order to
save the district. AS that has usually
been considered the bulwark OF Re
~publicanism Ia Kansas, RepUblicanism
out there must be considered as on its
last legs when the Topeka district Is
reckcned as doubtful
AS near as l could ascertain about
one-hslf Of the Kansas Republicans
keep their vocal organs In training by
cussing Governor w. Eugene Stanley.
It's LAneoIn's old tale about the reIa-
tive number Of pigs and teats over
again. with variations
/ saw Hon. jeremiah Botkin, ex-con-
gresham at large, and Senator W. A.
Harris, both men Of experience, ca
paeity and veracity, and they both say
that the F1sionists will sweep the
state as with a new broom.
Politics and Edueathon.
One thing that worries the Republic
4 out there is Prohibition. Ingalls,
once said; 's0ut in Kansas the tiplers
have all the whisky they Want. The
Prohfbiionists have all the law they
want So everybody Is happy That
statement, however, Of the brilliant
yitrioiic and iridescent statesman was
only q g~littering generalization. They
are not all happy and never will be SO
long as Republicans rule the ToOst, for
some Republicans are Prohibitionlsts
and some are not nearly as the Eng
lishman takes his liquid refreshment.
"iaif and 'ak. So they keep up a
quarrel about il perpetunlly.
Other aus contribute TO the IN
happiness Of Kansas Republicans. but
perhaps the one that has disguised
most people OF intelligence and decen-
cy IS the outrageous name in which
the bosses are forcing politics into the
Kansas university and normal schools,
turning ont professors Of unQuestion-
ed learning, capacity and integrity
simply because they are Democrats or
Populists 10 make room for another
set merely because they are Republic
ans. and this. too, in institutions sus-
tanned by general taxation. In order
to furnish more pap for Boss Leland
and Governor Stanley to distribute
among their henchmen to keep their
W political heads upon their own po-
hhcal shoulders the schools Of Kansas,
which have hitherto been the pride Of
al her people and the crowning glory
of the state, are to be made the foot
balls OF the hazardous game OF poll
tics. For shame on a lot Of pothouse
politicians who would thus debase
their official positions to the injury Of
the rising generation II there is any
ID thing that ought to be kept out OF /
the maeIstrom OF politics it is popular
education.
What a contrast to this small, con-
temptibie, peanut politics OF persecut- /
ing college professors because they do
not believe In a robbeT tariff and a
robber goldbug system was the recent
action Of Professor W. T. Darlington,
superintendent Of public instruction in
Missouri, in voting to make Professor
Kirk president OF the KIrksvIlle nor
NAL school Darlington, n Democrat,
and Kirk. a Republican, were twice
pitted against each other for the posi-
ton which the former now holds.
Kirk won In the landslide Of 1894, and
Darlington came out on top IN 1893.
Yet in 1893 Darlington votes In his ex
ofBcio capacity as regent, votes to
make his Republican competitor presi-
dent Of oneof fOurgreat normal schools.
Phnrfsees Not An Dead.
While writing the foregoing para
graph as TO education in Missouri the
following astounding excerpt from the
St Louis Globe-D democrat fen under
my eye; "Nine-tenths OF all the persons
in the United States ct to hold college
professorships are Republicans"
How any sane and respectable man
could write that sentence passeth all
understanding. VOltaire once said.