The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-05
LELAND FOR BAKER.
Announces Positively That He Will
Not Be For Burton.

IN OF Dc 4 OF BURTON
Cyrus Leland has disconnected the
Burton forces by declaring that he is
for Senator Bakers reelection. The
Burton workers have been claiming
that Leland was in their camp, to some
people. To others they have proclaimed
their enmity to Leland Burton has
been making an effort to conciliate Lee
land, but failure is recorded by Mr..
Leland's own statements.
It would be a fool to quit Baker"
said Mr.. Leland to an interviewer.
Burton came to me six months ago
with a proposal of that kind. and I
told him then no less emphatically than
I say it now that I would be for Baker.
Burton said to me that I did not
like Baker, that Baker had not kept
faith and all that; but did not admit
anything of the kind and 90 not now.
He has been all right since the Hutch
inSOn convention and l so told Burton
when he came to me. Why should I
hunt up Burton or anybody else for
senator when we have a real live SEN
ator already made? Besides, he lives
up in our country and is our neighbor.
No; Baker and are hooked up together
and when we get through with the
First district fight we will turn our at
tention to Mr.. Burton. A man is a fool
who believes that after the First dis
trict fight I will abandon Baker and go
to Burton, who is doing all in his power
to help Curtis against Bailey.
Burton is no more for me than I am
for him. He is saying little himself,
but his friends speak for him and that
is enough. Why only this week, his
bugler, Frank Grimes, rushed up to Pat
Coney and in the presence of a half
dozen men exclaimed: Keep up your
fight on Leland. 1 am opposed to Lee
land and L say for you to keep it up
4I,of to toll f1.- dot 20
for reelection to make. isn't it? And
Grimes is only a, sample of the whole
lot Burton and his olive branch are
joke.
Did you ever look over the fellows
who are raising this silly anti-bosS
cry? There is not a man among them
who has not been up against me some
time or another and got hurt. That is
to say, when they wanted something 1
happened to be for the other fellow,
and the other fellow won. There was
no boss about it. 1t was simply work
and friends that won, and now they
have raised the cry of boss when there
is no boss. If you want to know how
the fight is coming on, read the Repub-
lican papers of Kansas. Joe Hudson
scrapes them over with a fine-tooth
comb every day, but takes care not to
print what the papers are saying for
our side. Not a cOrporapS guard of
papers are on the sorehead side. But
getting back to this gang. Let US see
who are in it.
"Well, there is R. NJ. Emery. We
beat him for judge, and he's mad. We
had a right to nominate a Doniphan
county man. We never had had a Don
iphan county man for judge since the
district was created, and when we saw
a chance to put in Stuart we did it.
That's why Emery is mad. 1t is not
a question of party with him. He is
just sore.
'"rhen there is old John Seaton, who
really is the only man in the crowd
that one may look out for. Old John
wanted to be governor. He is a good
old fellow but I happened to be for
Stanley, and Stanley was nominated.
Now I didn't nominate Stanley. I was
only for him. Stanley nominated him
self. But for all that, Seaton goes in
with these bowling dervisheS who never
helped a friend and never were any
good in their lives.
''And then there is John Q. Carpen-
ter, who never won a fight in his life,
and is of no more use to the party than
the vermiform appendix. He simply
makes trouble; that's all. He's mad
because [ was not for him for national
delegate in 1896. He got beat, you will
remember.
saThen we have Pat Coney. Who
ever heard of Pat Coney doing any good
for a friend. Borrowing from Jim Orr.
he is like a cowcatcher, always in front
but never pulling a pound.
II NOISE counts, Joe HUDSON Is
power; but everybody knows Joe, and
laughs. His grievance is that I was
once his friend.
"Old Farmer Smith is mad because
he is played out. That's the way to
put it; played out. The old man was
outclassed when he was nominated for
governor and like all men of that type,
he debts the world with his own re-
peated failures. He's mad because he
hasn't got a job. and I had nothing
whatever to do with it. But he charges
it up to the boss and airs his griev-
ance from the housetops.
1--WE mustn't overlook Dick Blue.
Poor old Blue. He thinks he is in it,
but he is dead as a mackerel. He's
mad because Bailey beat him for con-
gresham at-large,. and 1 happened to
be for Bailey How he is bowling be-
cause we did not call two conventionsl
Il guess that's about all of them.
Some have Clipped in who had no bust
ness to get in, but not many. 1t is a
gang with a grievance, and the world
hates a man with a grievance.
"Will Bailey win in the First dis
triet? Yes, but his friends are not
hunting for counties with a brass band.
OF the three disputed counties we need
only one to win, while Curtis must have
all"