The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-15
NOT ALL SERENE.
Leland and Bailey Have Some
Differences.
Absence of Troy Man from Exec
utive Office Starts Talk.
HAS ANOTHER FEATURE
Also a Breach Between Allen
and Leland.
Two or Three Versions of the
Affair.

Bailey an,f Cyrus Leland. Neither of
them have talked about it, but the re-
port has leaked out that they have had
differences which have resulted in Mr..
Leland staying away from the COVER
nor's office.
Mr. Leland has spent much of his
time at Troy recently, but even when he
has been in Topeka he has visited the
state house without going into the gov
ernors Office as was his custom, and
the fact has now come to the surface
that they have. in a degree at least,
fallen out How serious the differences
are is not known
Neither the governor nor Mr.. LELAND
was in Topeka today. so that statements
from them could not be secured Cover
nor Bailey IS on his way to Topeka from
kingman in company with Senator
Long, Morton Albaugh and others.
while Mr.. Leland has been at Troy this
but did not arrive
MI Leland has not been in the COVER
nor office more than once or twice
Wltmn the past month, and this fact
mas been so nOticea BILE that If has
caused remark. This is not necessa riIv
an indication that there is serious trou-
ble between them, because MI Leland
mas spent much of his time at Troy for
several weeks past, but for a man uDon
whom is saddled the blame or the
credit for being the governors chief ad-
wiser, Mr.. Leland is certainly neglect
ing his work.
The reason alleged for the cooiness
between Governor Bailey and Mr. I.e-
land is the fact that Leland and H. J.
Allen. chairman of the state board of
charities. have had difference over an
appoin tment in the school for the blind
at Kansas City. Kan. and the cover
nor has either refused to take a hand
in the matter or has upheld ALLEN.
The Allen-Leland controversy has
been kept IS quiet as possible and the
inside facts have been covered Ip as
much as possible. One story is that
Mr- Leland asked to have a new super
'intendent elected in the place of Super
1ntendent Williams. of the school for
the blind. and that Mr. Allen would not
listen to such a thing. which started
the difficulty between the two. and it
has been gradually widening. Another
report IS that the trouble started over
the dismissal of a stenographer at the
blind school The young woman was
first employed at the Osawatomie
asylum, the story goes at the request
of Mr.. Leland. She was of excellent
family and good education but she had
not yet become proficient enough in
stenOgraphy to do the work necessary
at the Osawatomie asylum. and she
was transferred to the Topeka asylum,
and from there to the blind school
Superintendent Williams thought he
could find better stenogra pher and he
ulSlllSSeQ neT. Inc DOarQ OF charities.
of which Allen is the head upheld
Superintendent Williams and refused
to reinstate the stenOgrapher.
No matter which of these stories is
the correct one or whether there is
something else back of it all. it is GER
tain that there has been a coldness be
tween Allen and Leland. Incidentally.
il is said. that some of the anti-Kelly
element in Miami county are grum-
bling because the state board of chari-
ties has not given it more places in the
Osawatomie asylum. The board it is
said. has been tending towards putting
the state institutions on a civil service
basis and insists on retaining efficient
employees regardless of political fac
tions and parties. Two or three anti
Kelly politicians in Miami county are
complaining that there are a lot of
Kelly Republicans and Democrats in
the Osawatomie asylum. although
State Treasurer Kelly is bitterly fight
ing H. J. Allen in the Second district
congressional race, and that these keep
out anti-Kelly employees. The anti
Kelly element is for Allen in the con-
gressional race and some of them think
Allen should try to build up a machine
in Miami county by means of the Osa-
Watomie asylum to offset the Kelly
Macfine down there, and this Allen re-
fuses to do and for which he deserves
tne gratitude of the public
OF course Governor Bailey could go
far toward bringing the state board of
charities to act in accordance with Mr..
I4eland's wishes, but the fact that Mr.
Leland has not had his way, according
TO the stories of the Allen-Leland trou-
BILE. would indicate that the governor
IS either refusing to take a hand in the
difficulty at all. or that ne has taken
sides with Allen. 1t is fact however
that Allen is frequent visitor at the
governors office. while Leland has been
there very little during the past month
It is rumored that Mr.. Leland was not
entirely pleased when the close friends
of Governor Bailey, except himself in
the lower house last winter passed the
tax bill in the house over his protest
Representative George Hayden, of Gov
ernor Bailey's county, Nemaha, was the
governors personal representative in the
house, and Hayden was one of the tlhee
or four Younger members who forced
the bill through. In fact, Hayden. oC-
cupied the chair in the committee of the
whole when the band wagon was run
over Bale Waggener in formulating The
bin.
Governor Bailey personally kept out
of the fight so far as was apparent on
the floor of the house, but the fact that
Representative Hayden, aided by Ma
ton jerks, kfnkel and one or two
others showed the bill through. and the
further fact that State Chairman AL
baugh got up from his bed where he
had been for two months with broken
leg and went on to the floor of the
house and helSed the tax bill along, is
a, pretty good indication of where Gov
ernor Bailey stood.
The next thing that Governor Bailey
did which is said to have dispIeased Mr.
Leland was the appointment of Captain
Mcdowell of Smith Center the
board of regents of the State Agricul-
tural college. and closely following this
was the appointment Of w. H Haskell
Of Gaylord on the beard of directors of
the penitentiary. About two months