The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-15

Governor Bailey says he is going to wait
and see if this has any effect before he
makes any move himself
Conner Davies goes after Governor
Bailey rough shod in the Concordia
Kansan this week, but he attributes
Governor Bailey to the fact that the
governor allows Cyrus Leland and Nor
ton AIbaugh to run him. People who
are around the state house considerably
do not think the governor lets Leland
and Albaugh run him. They think he
does about as he pleaseS.
Here is what Davies says in his paper
this week: The state administration is
making grevious mistake In assuming
or pretending to assume, that the COM
plants and discomfort with the acts of
the administration and the record it is
making, emanates from a Burton gang.
Curtis gang or any other gang. It is
a roar coming from the forge, the field
and the fireside-there's no use for the
Lelandites to endeavor to pool pooh
this statement to one side by the mighty
wave of the hand of official authority.
1t is true.
1.-The arrogance of commanding official
position is shifted when the Office holder
again becomes an office-seeker and the
voter tired out by this arrogance and
indifference to decency and fairness, is
prone to square things up at the caucus
or the ballot box. Mr.. Baileys official
family is weaving for him a crown of
in the days to come. We say it in SOr-
row-certainly not in spite or anger.
The editor of the Kansan WAS a Bailey
man, is a Bailey man and wants to BE
a Bailey man-for governor, for senator,
or for anything else for which we know
the man is eminently well qualified for.
if ne will but assert himself and stand
on his own individuality as man and
not be the willing tool of gang of
leeches who have no more conception of
statecraft and care less for dignified
craftsmanship than Chinese high
binder knows about the decalogue-
Governor Leedy made the same mis-
take that Bailey is making.
He conceived the notion that the po-
1itical trickSterS who were largely in
strumental in securing for him the NOM
ination at the Abilene convention-not
that he was not entitled to the nominal
ton of his party on his own personality,
as was Bailey at Wichita-he made the
mistake of believing that these men
were bigger than the party. greater than
the state. He stuck to those political
henchmen through thick and thin, In
spite of the prOteStationS of his own bet
ter Judgment and of the people and
whatever of ignomy that came to his
administration was the result of fidelity
he believed he owed the contemplate
hangers-on who had assumed to them
selves the credit of being his creator and
the architect of his political fortunes.
Bailey has permitted himself to get into
the same boat. He seems to have come
to the conclusion that the conception.
parturition and propagation of his pres
ent political life took place in a room on
the second floor of the Copeland, with
Cy Leland as sire and Mort Albaugh as
godfather, and to them he owes his
first duty and allegiance-it isn't so. The
sooner Bailey gets that notion out of his
head the better it will be for him and
for the party. Bailey is big enough in
his personality, to clean house-he'd
better do it. We are not ready to be-
lieve that Bailey's heart is not IN the
right place The trouble is that his
heart is too big ard his fidelity to
friends leads him to do their bidding,
regardless of effect on the party or the
rights of the people. We are not ready
to believe that Bailey's conscience Is
not right-the trouble is that he has
put his own in cold storage and is using
the India rubber conscience OF others,
who have no greater aim in politics than
to be directed by the shortest route to
the pie counter These are the
views of the voters who are not in any
gang and the sooner Mr.. Bailey dis
, covers the true feeling in Kansas the
better it will be for his future political
future"