The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-23
ANTS new TACK
POpulist Aspirants Plan to De-
feat John Breidenthal.
Emissaries Sent Out to Discredit
His Strength.
ATTACK BOB SEMPLE.
Circular Being Prepared Calling
Attention to His Acts.
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ATTACK BOB SEMPLE.
Leedy, LewelIing, Stone and
Others Are Interested.

others Are Interested.
The Populists who would like to be
governor have taken new tack to de-
feat Breidenthal, the details of which
were unconsciously given away by J.
c. Stone, of Leavenworth. one who
seeks the nomination and one who is
also a party to the scheme to upset
the Breidenthal fences.
One of the counties assigned by the
ants for Mr.. Stones attention was
Shawnee, and he came to Topeka to
discharge his duty. But instead of get
ting in among the men who might be
trusted to aid the cause of BreidenthaPS
opponents, the senator found Breiden-
that's friends and to them unfolded the
plans of the enemy.
The ants are now discrediting the ac-
ton of the conventions which have in
structed for Breidenthal. Mr.. Stone
stated in Topeka that AtchiSon county
would not be for Breidenthal.
THAT county has not instructed for
Breidenthal' said Stone, land he will
find out when he goes into the con-
vention at Fort Scott that the strength
which he has been claiming is not in
| evidence
Mr.. Stone concluded a series of dec
/ laratiOus of this character with the
statement that he is still Il candidate
for the place, but his own county,
/ Leavenworth, seems to be for Breiden-
/ thai, and it is an unwritten political
/ law that man gets no support I'M
/ less his own county stands behind his
ambition.
Mr.. Stone also stated that Wyandotte
/ county was not for Breidenthal This
| is where the plan of the antis to dis
| credit the action Of the Breidenthal
counties became apparent.
| When the convention in WyandOtte
/ county was in progress the committee
! designated to select delegates to the
! state convention reported favOring the
/ election Of several men who were
/ known to be against Breidenthal. The
! convention was fixed to Instruct for
| Breidenthal, and there was rumOr
| that some of the delegates would bolt
| their Instructions With this in mind
/ some of the leaders called upon the pro-
/ spective delegates to express them
! selves upon the subject. The delegates
/ who had been selected but not elected
| came before the convention and prom
| Used to abide by the instructions of the
/ convention.
The delegates were then chosen and
the convention unanimously instructed
| for Prudential
Jackson county, another county where
| Mr.. Stone says Breidenthal has no
I strength, is in no doubt. The political
| maneuVers among the Populists in that
county are managed more or less by
/ w. J. Hurd and Judge Price. These
men are Breidenthals sworn friends,
and they report that Jackson county's
delegation to the state convention will
vote for Prudential until the finish.
Mr.. Stone also stated that Chris Hon-
man is the only man on the Dickinson
county delegation who is for Breiden-
thai AS a matter of fact, the Dichin-
son county delegation is for Breiden-
thai and will vote for him on the first
ballot, unless Breidenthal is nominated
| by reclamation, and they will vote
until he is nominated.
| T3TIf hao Tsd
of the movements of the Leedy, Ryan,
Munger. Stone and Dennison forces
which seek to overthrow Breidenthal,
| who is Just the same as nominated, IN
less there should be a split with the
Democrats over associate justice. How
ever, the ants have started out again
with their poison sacks, and Mr.. Stone
was one of the first to be aDDrehended.
The Leedy forces having lost both
counties in which Leedy was interested
-Coffey and DOuglas-are now prepar-
ing to fight Bob Semple. A circular is
being prepared denOuncing Semple
and the charges made by Lewelling
and Leedy against Semple will find
a place in this circular. It is said this
circular will also charge that Mr.. Sem
pie has been running a joint. This Is
because of the fact that as president
of the Amity club he is being prose
cuted. This circular, unless it should
| be suppressed, will also charge thai
| Mr.. Semple has been furnishing the
Republicans with campaign thunder tt
frighten the timid POpulists.
Some of the antis has been delegated
! | to organize a fight on Breidenthal il
Labette county. There the convention
endorsed a man for congress- Car
VrOoman, and Frank Brady for attor
ney general and also endorsed Breiden
thai. The delegates We're not instruct
ed for Breidenthal. But there is moth
! ing to be gained in Labette county
, Breidenthal was a pioneer in the Uniol
Labor and PODulist movement dow
there, and the Populists there are sail
to be for him in the proportion of 9
to 100
! There is one unpublished inciden
, which displays the popularity of Bret
II denthal was preparing letter declin
L ing to make the race. but the publ
:, cation of this fact brought SO many pro
tests against such action that he finall
decided to retain the letter. The res
of the progress of his boom is an oil
story. The State Journal on Saturda
evening told of Mr.. BreidenthaPs pur
pose to publish a letter of Withdrawal
He was not in his office Sunday, bu
Monday morning when he returned t
the state house. two nights and on
day after the publication of the artfcl
referred to by the Journal, he had NOR
than 1000 letters from men in seventy
two counties of the state abusing hiT
for thinking of getting out and begin
him to make the race
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