The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-26
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
Ex-GOv. Leedy Has Left His
Alaskan Exile.
Settled on Farm in Canada and
Be British Subject.
kANSAN SAW HIM.
kANSAN SAW
Mrs. Leedy Had Not Met Friend
in Ten Years.
Ed Greer Will Not Run for Con.
gresS in Third District.

Thirteen years ago this month a Kan
| sas FARMER was carried into the COVER
nor office on the wave of Populism.
Inc other day this farmer resigned the
| once OF city attorney of Valdez. Alas
ka, and went back to the farm-a farm
IN the northwestern part of Canada.
John W. Leedy, the old governor, has
gone back to the farm after 1s years
absence from the green fields. The poll
ticians and newspaper men who re-
member Leedy remember him kindly
I he was of a distinct type with more
virtues than weaknesses. There have
/ Eeen worse governors Of Kansas than
this husky farmer who knew so little
| ABOUT statecraft and politics.
After the decline of Populism in
Kansas he LEFT the state and went to
Alaska to make his fortune That was
ten years ago. John Redmond of Bur
ington came to town this week with
he"s OF the old farmer-governor- Red
mona ran across him last fall while
travelling through Alaska. Governor
Leedy was then serving as attorney
| 1or that town and he was tired of the
! job He told Redmond that he had
made arrangements to settle on a 16o
acre 1arm IN Canada and would make
! the move the latter part of January
Back to the farm to start all over again
in foreign country under the dominion
or king, this is the fate of the Kan
/ sas farmer who was called to Office by
the common peepul in 1897.
Govern 0r Leedy is now In his sixties
but Redmond declares that his health
| and spirits are fine. Mrs. Leedy is
with him and her meeting with Red
| mond. she told him. was the first old
| friend she had seen in ten years.
In order to get a grant of land in
Canada the applicant must become a
British citizen and subject of King Ed
Imagine an Old Kansas farmer of the
Pop type, after ten years of exile in
Alaska, applying for English citizen
ship and settling on a farm in the
frozen north. Truth is stranger than
the story books.
Leavenworth has seen the light at
last. Word comes to the attorney
generals offsae from that place that
jury has convicted a jointist of viola
ton of the prohibitory law. This
sounds impossible, but it is true. The
facts substantiate the report. Lee
Cough. a negro jointist. after three
trials, was really convicted by a jury.
The paddock and injunction methods
had been depended upon entirely in
Jury trials were a farce. Never before
in the memory of man had jury been
found to convict man on such a silly
charge as furnishing stimulant for the
weary pilgrims of the fort town. Once
there was A jury that had stood ten
for conviction and only two for ac-
quittaL- But the jurymen had been
stoned at the temple gate and 1t was
thought that the breed had become
extinct.
Ed P. Greer. editor of the Winfield
Courier, who had been talked of as
candidate for congress in the Third
district against Phil p. Campbell, has
1A1 70
thing. Like William Allen White of
Emporia, NJ. Greer would not trade
his job of running a newspaper for
anybody's job Mr. Greer declines the
honor in the following language:
Il am not a candidate for congress
or any other office. The work right
here on the Courier is more congenial
and its reward more certain. 1 don't
fancy going Gown to Washington to
be boSsed around by Uncle Joe Can
non until I'd be afraid to say my souls
my own. No, thankee. not for me
at $500 year with decent living
in Washington soaring skyward, and
with eggs at 8 cents each and beef 80
cents a pound-Fd rather stay in Win
field and write the Good Stuff for my
board.
This district needs 4 new congress-
man worse than 1 need new job.
A Kansas state official thinks that
Senator Bristow is on the wrong car
in his advocacy of meat boycott
This official argues that the boycott
will lower the price of meat on the
hoof and that the Kansas farmers will
suffer as a result. He seems to have
overlooked the fact that prices are
tumbling on necessities since the boy
colt has been declared Here is this
state officials veiw of the matter,
which will likely be agreed to by the
farmers and disputed by the men who
work in town for wages:
'sWho gets hurt in this boycott?
Just two classes of people; the small
neighborhood butcher shops in the
towns which will be driven out of
the cattle in the country. The people
who quit eating meat are not hurt,
because they can Subsist on other
things. The packers are not hurt be-
cause they can keep their present sup
ply of meat in storage until the furry
is over and can quit putting up any
more meat. Incidentally, this would
work a hardship on a third class-the
men who work in the packing houses
because they. would be thrown out
fool to think that the packers care
one way or another as to whether
prices are high or low. They take out
their pinch when prices a = low the
same as when they are high The
pinch is usually about the same. al
prices are low wish there was a
way to make the packers be decent
Perhaps the government investigation
now being made and the suits that are
likely to follow will do so. but the
boycott will not
Convict Owes a Million Has But S5.
Leavenwortn. Kan. Jan 26.-Wallace
Hopkins, a Chicago broker. arrived at
the federal prison here to begin serv-
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