The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-16
THAT BREACH.
Governor Bailey and Cyrus Le-
land Are Silent.
Governor Sorry Facts Have
Been Made Public.
TRY TO DISCREDIT IT.
Burton Partisans Call It a Po-
litical Trick.
More Gossip About Cause of the
TRY TO DISCREDIT IT.
More Gossip About Cause of the
Estrangement.

Neither Governor Bailey nor Cyrus
Leland will discuss the trouble which
has broken out between them. Both
refused to make any statement con-
corning it TO-DAY.
Il am sorry it has gotten out" said
the governor. and I will not discuss it
/ for publication at ALL
mo, 1 have no statement to make at
this time" said Mr. Leland.
Governor Bailey returned last even
ing from Kingman. where he had been
to attend the Wallace-Talbot wedding
He has been in his office today and
there has been a string of politicians
in to see HIN.
Mr. Leland arrived in Topeka at mid
night last night from Troy. He. came
to see Senator Long and some of his
friends. He goes back to Troy this
evening to look after the remodeling
of one of his store buildings there
The strained relations between. the
governor and Mr.. Leland are regarded
in very peculiar way. They have
been going OH for some time. but the
matter has been carefully hushed up
/ by the friends of both. The --arton
| element. which has been insisting that
Leland has always run Bailey, does not
want it shown that the estra ngem ent
today insisting that the break between
Leland and the governor is a trick and
that they have a secret understanding.
| The fact remains, however that there
is considerable bitterness between the
| two more so than was at first reported
II IS very probable that it will be parcfi-
/ ed up in time and that is why the
friends of both are trying to keep the
matter quiet.
Meanwhile Mr.. Leland and Henry Al
len are on the same friendly terms as
Mr. Leland and Charles Curtis They
DO not speak as they pass by
I When the extremely friendly relations
OF Governor Baily and Mr.. Leland here
| totore, are considered. it is difficult To
believe that they should fall out Blu.
| the truth is that few people have known
/ the real conditions. While BaiIey-s ene-
! mics have been abusing Bailey because
Leland runs him. Bailey was having
| trouble with Leland himself The an
po1ntments of Captain Mcdowell and
| w. H. Haskell of Smith county were
| both very Objectionable to MIR. Leland,
| because both are the friends of Secretary
of State Burrow. Then when Governor
Bailey took the part of Henry Allen in
! the controversy over the blind school
matter, Leland severed diplomatic re1a-
tons with the governors office but he
kept still about it.
It's the same old story over again.
said an old timer in Kansas politics TO-
/ day I have been in Kansas politics
and nave known good deal about the
{
/ the cry has been raised against every
one of them that somebody else runs,
/ them except George T Anthony, but
Anthony is the only one of the lot whu
was turned down for denomination
The trouble between Leland and the
governor is only the logical result of
circumstances. Leland has been used
to having a big influence in affairs.
Now there has a younger crowd come
on that wants to have share of the
honor of doing things. They don't want
somebody else to be the generals while
they only do the detail work. Now
they are insisting on having their way
in some things and we old fellows don't
! like it when it conflicts with u.s.
I remember when 1 first went into
politics I ran for probate judge when
I was only twenty-five. That was over
| thirty years ago and the fellows who
were used to running thing said What
does that boy mean by getting in like
that?' Now have got pretty well along
| towards sixty and I feel like saying
the same thing when I see a young fell
low breaking into politics and doing
something. I realize, though. that there
are a lot of young fellows who are COM
ing up, and the best thing I can do is
to quietly slide down the cellar door
and out of sight.
| Now Leland isn't built that way. He
isn't going to slide down anybody's cell
lar door. If anybody tries to put him
out of the way he will fight as long as
he is on earth.
The charge that Bailey has let Lee
land run him is not true-that is, not
in the sense that it is charged OF
| course, Leland has run him to certain
degree. just as every man is run to a
certain extent. A man has to take adj
vice from his friends. and in that de-
gree he is run by them But Bailey
has not always followed Leland's ad-
vice, but has listened to some of the
younger fellows occasionally, and that
iS hat haS 10 he 10
| 1t is also reported that while Governor
Bailey is entirely satisfied with D. A.
| Valentine as clerk of the supreme court,
| that Mr. Leland wants another man in
| the place
1t is more than a coincidence that in
! a number of recent appointments the
| Long portion of the so-called machine
has been in accord with the governor )
| action which has met with its approval.
| though with Mr.. Leland's displeasure.
/ This would indicate that Long and his
/ particular phalanx were pushing Lee
land over the edge of the platform and
reserving the more eligible center seats
for themselves.
There is one thing that is quite clear
in this whole matter and that is that
/ Bailey and Leland have radically dis
agreed over more things than the gen
eral public has been given to under
stand: and that while the governor does
not wish the ditch between himself and
! his old time political friend to be widen
ed to a SDace which cannot be brldged,
he is also determined to follow certain
courses that are counter to 1.-The LELAND
diagrams.
While Mr. Leland will not talk for pub
lication his free remarks to very many
people Indicate that he is really mad over
some things the governor has done
This anger may subside. but It Leaves
unmfstakable evidence that Gov. Bailey
has not nerited the charge that he 3
wholly run by Leland
There were readers of the State Journal
last evening who were disposed 20 smile
at the story first printed yesterday aud
ridicule the idea of anv serious diffe rences
between Bailey and Leland
Those who have cared for information
today have been able to get it and con-
| vince themselves of the correctness of and
the foundation for the article on this line
published last night
The differences between the governor