The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-17
DENMAN SHEDS LIGHT.
Says There Is No Trouble Be-
tween Leland and Allen.

Osborne. Kas.. Oct. IF. B. Den
man. of this city. who is an associate
of H. ]. Allen on the state board or
charities. denies the story that Mr.
falling out over the discharge from a
state charitable institution of Young
woman who was a Drotege of Mr. Lee
land. In speaking of the statement,
Mr.. Denman said
There is absolutely nothing to it.
Mr.. Leland and Mr.. Allen have had no
disagreement. The purpose of the pub
1ished statement, however, is apparent.
It 1t is Sob, believed that if .,a5 it can
behind Mr.. Aliens candidacy, and
for some reason has seen fit to with
draw his support, that it will greatly
weaken Mr.. Aliens chances of securing
| the nomination for congress.
But their premise is wrong, no mat
ter how good the reasoning might be.
In the first place. Mr.. Leland is not be-
hind Mr.. Aliens candidacy, and has
no more to do with it than any other
citizen of Kansas. Let me tell you who
is behind-no matter how far behind
Mr.. Aliens candidacy for congress. 1t
is Congressman Bowersock. 1t is
we'll known fact that Allen could have
had the nomination in 1892 if he had
desired it. The Wyandotte delegation
came to him and begged him to take it,
but he declined. He had passed his
word to Mr.. Bowersock, on the latter's
sockl would not be candidate this
coming year But it was a case of
Curtis and Bailey over again. With
this difference: The friends of AR
sock pledged himself to Mr.. Allen. The
people who love fair play are behind
Mr.. Allen. 1t is not Mr.. Leland, nor
any other politician, who is running
Second district. and of course you know
what will happen when the people rally
about a man who has been given the
worst OF it
WHAT NOMINATED BAILEY.
And this reminds me of the fact"
continued Mr.. DenInan, that the break
ing of the Horton agreement was what
made Willis J. Bailey governor of Kan
SaS. The people all over the state were
not slow to see that Mr.. Bailey had
been tr1cked and wronged by a coterie
of clever politicians, and they simply
rallied to his support. His nomination
was foregone conclusion from the
start. No one against him had ghost
of a chance from the day his candidacy
was announced. l feel like saying this,
however, and I think I know what am
talking about: If James A. T'routman
had not previously made an unsuccess-
full race, against a man up for renomi-
nation, in 1895. Mr.. Bailey would not
have been candidate in 1902. This
might be food for thought for those
who are trying to get Ed Hoch to COM
mil, political suicide by urging him
isagainst his better judgment, to get into
the race for the nomination next year.
WHO DEFEATED HOCH?
/ There is no man in Kansas who
would rather see Ed Hoch honored by
the party than myself. I helped to
nominate and elect a representative
from this county. who stuck to Hoch
through thick and thin for state printer.
Who was it. by the way, that defeated
Ed Hoch? Was Senator Pestana, who
has since been honored by the so-called
anti-machine faction, a supporter of
Hoch in caucus? How did the good
Buschow, that rock-ribbed anti-machine
man, vote? If these two men had voted
for Ed Hoch in caucus he would now
! be state printer. If Governor Bailey
| had rushed to the rescue of the man
who knitted him at Wichita, in the in
! terest of a man who had not a ghost of
a show to win, Hoch might have real
lied the only ambition he has ever had.
But where is the man who would not
have acted as Governor Bailey did under
the circumstances Remember what a
! triumph he had achieved and against
what odds How through treachery he
had been at one time practically elin1i-
mated from politics. and how by an ex-
| hibition of courage and true manlineSS
| he triumphed over his enemies and be-
came the first citizen of the state. Was
it to be supposed that he would turn
around and assist those who had sought
to destroy him? Does the political his
tory of the state show an instance where
Eanother has acted differently than did
Mr.. Bailey?
And, finally, if it is a machine which
is behind Bailey now, was it a machine
which crushed him by treachery in the
First district a few years ago?'