The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-25
LELAND TALKS.
Has Something to Say About
Grinstead Subscriptions.
Says Wathena Paper Is Sup
ported By POpulists.
ABUSES REPUBLICANS.
Claims That Frank Elliott Is
In Control.
Took No Part in the Trials of
Grinstead.
ABUSES REPUBLICANS.

Some men stumble INTO GOOD fortune
when they think they are going just the
other way. For instance. the imprison-
ment of Pool Grinstead, editor of the
Wathena Star, for libel up in Doniphan
county. may result in a material in
crease in his finances.
The opponents of Cy Leland have
started a popular subscription" for
Grinstead's paper, and subscription
lists are being CIRCULATED all over the
state by the anti-Leland organization.
In Topeka the subscription is being
pushed by a. K. Rodgers and P. H,
Coney. The headings to the lists are
printed and read as follows:
SUBSCRIPTION TO AID LIBERTY
AND JUSTICE.
I'VE. the undersigned. firm adherents
to and supporters of the fundamental
constitutional right of Free Speech and
Free Press. do hereby subscribe the
amount set opposite our names for the
Western Weekly Star. of Wathena
Kansas. SO heroically published by that
intrepid, manly and honorable editor.
Hon. Pool Grinstead. now confined in
the county jail of Doniphan county
Kansas, contrary to all known pfeee-
dents, in judicial proceedings exceeding
that of. 'ScrOOgs and Jeffries.' to CRAFTY.
the dictatiOn of a political boss, and for
daring TO question his right to rule and
Tor exposing the corruption. chicanery.
immortality and Venality of the political
gang of dictators Price, 81 per year"
Then follows blank spaces for the
name of the subscriber. the number of
copies of the paper subscribed for, and
the amount
Mr.. Leland has not yet attached his
name to the subscription list but some
one, a practical joker possibly, took the
pans to send him copy of the sub
scrlptlon heading through the mail to-
day.
Anybody would know that Pat Co.
ney wrote that just by reading it," said
Mr.. Leland as he read it. " Hon. Pool
GrInSteadi' Just listen to that COnsiJ-
ering that Al Rodgers is a federal office
holder as assistant postmaster under q
Republican administration, I should
think 1t rather peculiar that he should
be engaged in circulating a subscrip-
ton paper like that Why in the
Stuart-FalloOn contest Grinstead ad-
United on the witness stand. on cross
examination by Joe Waters that he was
q blackmailer and a boodler
Since the purchase of Grinstead's
paper by the Democrats on security fur
nished by the DemO-POps. Frank Elliott
editor of the Troy Times, and executive
clerk under Leedy. has controlled the
management of the Wathena Star. and
since Grinstead has been in jail Elliott
has visited Wathena about twice a week
looking after the paper and its man
agement. He hires and DISCHARGES its
printers, and he has full control of it.
"Grlnstead was convicted in three diff
ferent cases of criminal libel. The jury
on the last trial stood six Republicans,
five Democrats and one POpulist. His
paper is filed continually with abuse
misrepresentation and SANDER against
many of the leading Republicans in
DOniphan county. When he was placed
on trial he had no defense He has
never attempted to prove a word of the
charges he made in his paper. He
would be convicted by any respectable
jury in any part of the state. regardless
of politics. He is under bond now on
two more charges of the same kind,
brought by County Treasurer Graves,
whom he accused of rObbing the treas
ury. Every honorable man in DOniphan
county knows that there is no truth
whatever in that charge. He is not
financially responsible, so there was
no other recourse except to prosecute
him for criminal libel.
The Republicans Who contribute to
Grinstead do so to even up with me, I
suppose, but they forget that Doniphan
county has always gone Republican and
that it gave the state ticket a majority
of 1000 in 1898. During all of Grin
stead's trials 1 never attended one of
them and took no part in them. Every
one who knows Judge Stuart knows
that he is an honorable man. and ev-
cry one in that judicial district recog-
nizes that he is making a fair and i'm
partial judge. If anybody wants to do
It, they can arrest me for criminal libel
and I'll prove what i saw