The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-07-18
BROOKS Won I RUN
Declines National Committee
manShip Honors,
JOHN ]. TAYL0R'S NAME
Is Put Out TO Follow That of
Brooks.
Ohm j. TAYLoR'S NAME

Guthrie. O. r, July lin the fight
over the national committeemanship
Oklahoma Democracy for the time being
appears to be neglecting the delegate
fight entirely The disposition to drop
both Jacobs and Sipes as possibilities for
the national committee seems to be
growing and the Daily Leader of this
city, which has heretofore stoutly main
tanned the cause of Jacobs, is out in en-
other editorial urging that his name be
no longer considered in connection with
the committeemanship and in the inter
est Of harmony suggests the name of
Captain John I. Taylor, chairman Of the
Logan county central committee.
The Daily Leader, in harmony with the
wishes of a large number of conservative
Democrats who want to see all wings of
the party brought together. had first
suggested the name of Judge Caleb r.
Brooks as a suitable person for com
promise candidate, but the mere sugges-
ton brought forth a howl of protest
from the radical silver crowd, who wodld
have nothing to do with any person
whose views on the money question were
suspcioned as being Sound" Disguised
over the tactics being employed against
him, Judge Brooks went to Geuda
Springs, where he wrote a letter to Hor-
ace H. Hagan Of this city, declining to
allow the further use of his name as a
candidate for national committeeman. In
this letter he says:
'Gueda Springs. Kan, July a, 1900.
II. II. Hagan, Esq:
Dear Sir: Your telegram relative to
my candidacy for national committeeman
for Oklahoma, received.
I'm reply will say that I am not
candidate for the place and will not be
under any circumstances. If it had come
to me unsolicited and with substantial
unanimity, would have accepted and
served the party to the best of my
ability. But under no circumstances
would 1 contest for the position. Feeling
under obligations to you and other warm
friends who have profered me their sup
port, I must positively decline to enter
the race or allow my name to be used
in that connection.
II want to see harmony and unity of
the Logan county Democracy, as well as
in the territory at large. AS to the can
didacy of Captain Taylor. if he can win
in a way to harmonize the party. speak
ing for myself, shall be well satisfied
Truly yours, c. r. BROOKS"
The withdrawal of Judge Brooks and
the flop of the Daily Leader from the
Jacobs standard apparently gives the
support of the Logan county delegation
to Captain Taylor In the editorial above
referred to, explanatory of its desertion
Of the Jacobs cause, the Daily Leader
says:
The tone of the territorial press the
past few days indicates a desire for a
new deal in the matter of a national
Democratic committeeman for Okla
homa. A majority of the papers be-
lieve, with the Leader, that the selection
Of a new committeeman viii ltend to
pacify the warning factions and promate
harmony in the ranks during the coming
campaign. In referring to the committee
manship back to the territory the ma
tional committee merely made a mui1le
out Of plight; it clouded up but it did
not rain. The committee decided nothing:
it simply tossed off a bad Job in an airy
manner, and the only satisfaction the ter
ritorial Democrats received was at the
hands of the national committee and its
subcommittee. The half-baked action of
the credentials committee was final, how
ever, and no delegate who attends The
Oklahoma City convention is forced to
support Jacobs, the regularly elected COM
mitteeman, nor Sipes, the minority can
didate. The field is poem to all. and per-
haps it is best that it is So"
Whether or not SiDes will remain In
the fight to the end depends largely uron
the result Of the Oklahoma county pri-
maries this week. He is making a des-
perate fight to carry his county against
the same elements who fought him so
bitterly prior to the Ell Reno convention.
| # successful in this fight it stands to
reason that his prestige as a candidate
for national committeeman will be ma
terially strengthened.
Joe Wisely, who was SiDes' stanuch
supporter in the former fight. is not en-
Enthusiastically in favor Of the third can
| didate idea. He is inclined to let Sipes
and Jacobs continue to fight out the con-
/ test to a finish, inasmuch as they have
spent thei rhine and money IN making
two campaigns for the coveted place and
! one or the other is entitled to the honor.
! He asserts, however, that he will sup
port Taylor If it be the viii Of the
Logan county Democrats.