The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-02
BLAZING The WAY
POpuliSt Candidates Withdraw
ing From Race For Governor.
Breidenthal Influence Is Pro-
nounced Too Strong.
J.C. STONE WITHDRAWS
Leayenworth Could Not Be Car
ried Against Breidenthal.
Senator w. III. Ryan Said to
Be Seeking a Compromise.

The developments during the past
week in the Populist political camp
have been rapid and surprising as well.
Senator James G. Stone of Leaven-
worth has been eliminated from the
race and Senator w. H. Ryan of Craw-
ford county has intimated that he will
quit running if he is taken care of by
the man he favors.
Stone is out because he can not get
his home county. Ryan thinks he is
now beaten and has intimated that he
will give way to Breidenthal if the
BreidenthaI forces will support him for
lieutenant governor.
Thus far it seems the Breidenthal
workers have declined to make any
promises of that character to any one.
The motto which the Breidenthal people
claim to recognize as their only stan
dard is this:
mo ante-election promises;
No subsequent embarrasSme ents''
The managers of the Breidenthal
forces say that many good men have
been ruined politically by promising
men preferment in advance of the cleo
ton. AS the supporters of the bank
commissioner are confident of his NOM
ination and election, they are planning
that their favorite shall be free from
"entangling alliances
The practical retirement from the
race for the nomination by Senator
Stone has connected with it a series of
incidents which are at times amusing
although there is a serious side be-
cause there is reared a monument to
Stones gubernatorial aspirations
Ex-Governor Leedy who is making a
fight on Breidenthal went over to Leav-
enworth to see John H Atwood about
an nti-Breidenthal delegation from
that county. Atwood thought he could
manage in this to return faVorS he had
received from Leedy and Immediately
went to work to see what could be DONE
He made inquiry of several men and
found them OutspOken for Breidenthal
Two or three days passed with the
same result whereuDOn Atwood set
about to discover the reasons why he
was meeting with no success He asked
a number of his close friends who told
him they were for Breidenthal because
Ed. Murphy asked them to be. Atwood
then discovered that Murphy had been
all over the, county and had practically
completed Breidenthal organization in
every precinct. Atwood then tele-
graphed for Leedy, who spent sunday.
wood told the ex-governor they had
waited too long and that the county
could not be carried against Breiden-
thai.
Now that Senator Ryan has inti-
mated that he will quit in favor of
Breidenthal if he can be made the NOM
inee for lieutenant governor, the Bred-
enthal forces which have been at work
all week in the grand lodge of the A. o.
u. w. are jubilant. Many of the rep
resentatives to the grand lodge meeting
are POpulistS and they have been seen
during the week by Breidenthal men.
Breidenthal is a popular member of the
order and has been busy all week on
committee work to which he has been
assigned. His workers cOnf1dentially
claim a majority of the 1,700 delegates
present will support Breidenthal if he is
nominated.