The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-21
CASE OF LELAND.
The Emporia Gazette Reviews the
Situation.
[From the Emporia Gazette.1

EFrom the Enlporia Gazette1
The morning papers say that the Boss
Busters have started a letter chain
against the appointment of Cyrus Le-
land. This is not important, if true.
Letters never defeated man in poll
tics and never will But the really inn
portant part of the dispatch today is set
out in the fact that charges will be made
against Cyrus Leland for violating the
civil service rules. If he has done so,
he will not be re-appointed. There is
absolutely no doubt about that PROPOSE
ton. On the other hand, Mr.. Leland
and his friends have known that this
fight was coming for over month. The
agreement made between Mckinley and
Leland was that Mckinley was to name
Leland two days after the first of Sen
ator Burtons appointees was named.
That agreement was made al Leland S
request in order not to embarrass Bur-
ton-though Mckinley says that Burton
did protest against Leland's appoint
ment. Roosevelt was about to carry out
the Mckinley agreement, when Burton
intimated that if the president set the
he set in the Tracy matter, Leland
would not be appointed When the
story came to the ears of Leland S
friends then in Washington, he was
notified He authorized his friends TO
ask the president to give the enemies
of Leland all the time and every possible
opportunity they needed to make what
ever charges they chose.
Cyrus Leland does not care to be
smuggled into office with the hint of
charges" unified against him. If he
can't walk in the front door, he and his
friends do not care to have it limited that
he climbed in a window. If there are
charges filed against Leland, and OF
course there will be charges, Leland will
meet them as he would in a court of
justice. If he can't disproye them, he
will stand aside
1t is natural that a an who has been
actively in politics for 40 years in KAN
sas should have some enemies. 1t is also
natural that these enemies should be
active against him. But if he has lived
and worked and fought in Kansas poll
tics for 40 years and his enemies can
find nothing against him explicit, defin-
ite and culDable, is not that the hand
soonest testimonial to the official and
political integrity of Cyrus Leland that
could be offered. He seeks inveStiga-
ton. He asks the closest scrutiny of
his official and private life. He accepts
the standard of personal and official in
tegrity set by the president and will
rest his case on his record an officer
and a gentleman. If at the end of this
fair contest Leland is appointed should
there not be an end of the abuse of Le-
land. What other Kansas Republican
can hold higher certificate of charac-
ter. There can be no hint that Roose-
velt has played favorites. Tracy was
turned down with a United States sem
ator demanding his appointment. If Le-
land is appointed it will be on his rec
ord and without senatorial influence.
But Leland may not win. The out
come is uncertain. The charges have
not been filed, and what they are no
one knows. But whatever they are they
will be submitted to careful impartial
scrutiny and on his answer to them Le-
land will win or lose.
There is no need of any animosity in
the matter 1t is a question of fact not
of faction that is at stake