The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-29
SPEAKS OUT,
". L. Hackney Will Run for the
Legislature.
Makes an Address to His Pro-
SpectiYe Constituents.
TELLS PLAIN FACTS.
Issues the Republican Party
Issues the Republican Party
Will Have to Meet.
Mistakes of Wichita Convention
on Portions Of Ticket.

". P. Hackney. of Winfield, is a can
didate for the legislature He has is
sued statement setting forth some
of the reasons why he should be elect
ed
Mr.. Hackney has had wide expert
enee in the house and senate, is al
ways interesting and forceful. Here
are some of the things he says:
The Republican party. after the ov-
erthrow of Populism, seems to have
divided into two hostile camps, one
under the leadership of Tom Kelly, and
the other under the leadership of Cy
Leland.
The legislature in 1901, in both the
senate and house, were dominated alb
solutely by Kelly and his friends, and
Senator Burton was elected. In the
campaign within it's ranks in 1902,
which eliminated at the Wichita con-
Vention, the friends of Kelly were uni
ted or everything but governor. ana
Mr.. Bailey, a friend of Leland's, won
! that prize; everything else, with posi-
bly, one exception, went to Kelly and
his friends.
The Kelly senate of 1901 held over
and constituted that wing OF the legis-
lature OF 1903. Leland's friends beng
in the majority in the house controi-
ed that body, so that one was a check
other, in that legislature, and Senator
Long was elected.
There has been much said an1
printed about machines and anti-ma-
chimes, and Boss Busters and anti
Boss Busters in the campaign that re-
suited in the nomination of candidates
for the various state offices on the
Republican ticket at Wichita on March
9, 1904.
That there are two powerful and
hostile organizations within the Repuo-
lican party in Kansas, each fighting
the other and both seeking to control
the nominating conventions for state
officers. federal patronage, and poli-i-
cal influence Gor their factiOn) goes
without saying; and whether we call
Mr.. Leland and his friends a machine,
or Mr.. Kelly and his Boss Busters d
machine, when boiled down it means
that they are all Republicans and are
thus designated, each by the other.
The state convention at Wichita,
which nominated Hoch and drove
Bailey from the field. refused to en-
terrain d Pre- position of any kind look
ing to placing some one man of the
other faction on that ticket in order to
build a bridge, as it were, whereby
these two factions might be brought
together in support of the whole state
ticket in this campaign. Such sugges-
tons were srurned with the declera-
ton that so long as grass grows and
water runs no man who had been ia
vorable to Bailey should ever, in the
grave of oblivion to which they were
consigned, hear of the resurrection.
which was never to come to them; and
Hoch and Stubs, emblematic of that
fact, even after Bailey's Withdrawal
continued their fight on his friends
with more bitterness than ever before.
And why? Because Bailey was farm
er-the only man OF that calling that
ever occupied the governors office in
Kansas; man whom the railways and
other corporate interests in Kansas
could neither buy cajole. frighten in
timidate, nor drive. Hence the rancor
OF the representa- of these inter