The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-08
LEAVES FOR EAST
Miss Cloe Matteson on Way to
Washington.
Will Try to Prevent Reappoint.
ment of Leidy.
DIDN'T CLEAR IT UP.
Conference With Revenue Coll
lectOr Without Results.
He Still Refuses to Make a
Statement.


On train somewhere east OF st.
Louis. Miss Cloe Matteson is TODAY hur-
rying to Washington to Law before
President William H. Taft her charges
against Fremont Leidy, internal reve-
nue. collector for Kansas The senate
postmistress left over the Rock Island
Monday afternoon almost immediately
Following the consultation with Mr..
Leldy. Attempts at reconciliation over
the alleged existence of a marriage
contract failed. Now the pIucky little
woman threatens to ruin the man
whom she helped land a government
appointment.
For more than fifteen minutes the
young woman sat in the waiting room
at the depot Her tears of the morn
Ing had cleared and there was nothing
on tne calendar but clear weather in
dfcations. She discussed her troubles
| freely. She told of her past. her
struggles for existence, her triumphs
and her SORROWS. Each time her con-
Versation drifted back to the Leidy
courtship-how he made love, his
promises and her dreams of a happy
| future. Then the eventful day when
her lover told her that he had wed
You just don't know what If means
to me-" exclaimed Miss Matteson, You
just don't know. He seemed so aw-
fully good, SO kind and considerate.
He didn't smoke, or chew. or drink
| and he was so refined He had so
many good characteristics that most
men don't possess that a woman lust
had to like him. He was awfulIy
good to me when he was in the SEN
ate two years ago, too, and we were
together great deal.
Worked for Appointment.
| fho
he came to see me often. When he
| couldn't come regularly, he wrote We
made several trips together. Last
April he proposed and L accepted. He
was trying to get that appointment
and asked me to help him. Mr.. Bris-
tow was against him. But. had some
influential friends, who endorsed Mr.
! Leidy and he was appointed, although
am told that Mr.. Bristow protested
against the appointment. Now he
wants him ousted and I understand
that Mr.. Curtis isn't very, friendly
either. OF course I am interested in
the matter. I don't want to do Mr.
Leidy an injustice. Neither do 1 want
to do myself a wrong. / believe my
friends who were deceived in the mat
ter should be set right. That is why
I am making the trip
Here Miss Matteson told of her
preparations for the wedding.
"Of course We planned quite an
elaborate affair." said the Kansas City
woman, land 1 had announced our en-
gagement in the Kansas City papers.
bought my wedding clothes. Some
of the lace cost as much as $25 a
yard. 1t was real imported lace and
was, Oh, so proud and happy. Then
Mr.. Leidy received his appointment.
He came to see me and we had jolly
time. Two weeks later he came back
and told me that the engagement must
be broken. He said that he had been
married ten months. He asked me to
give him 5000 to fix the wedding. /
refused That is the last / remember
of the visit L tainted 6ead away and
was unconscious for seven days.
MY health seemed almost broken
after that and I went to sanitarium.
You don't know what a shock of that
kind means to a woman. 1t nearly
killed me. 1 will never get over it.
That is why I am going abroad. I
want to try to regain my health and
try to forget
Lost Life's Savings.
: Then the woman told of her efforts
to help float an investment company IN
Kansas City, how it was attacked by
the newspapers and she lost $500. her
life's savings
Newspapers are just the most
: heartless and wretched things there
: are" declared the little woman who
, vows she will have nothing to do with
, any publication, good, bad or indiffer-
ent 'It as this publicity that ruined
me several years ago. 1 don't know
how I will bear this, but now it is
= printed, want them to tell the truth -
Miss Matteson leans to literary work,
. although she expresses decided dis
, like to publicity of certain brands. She
: claims she has written book, which
1 she will have lblished and is going
! abroad for this purpose.
Fremont Leidy, to whom the wo-
man claims to have been engaged, spent
the day in Topeka. Throughout his
visit he refused to make a statement
for publication. He said he did not
know what steps the woman would
take to stop the confirmation of his
appointment Aside from admitting
having written the woman several
foolish letters. he will not discuss
any of the charges which she made to
j members Of the state legislature and
: which have been furnished to United
j states Senators Charles Curtis and
S Joseph Bristow. 1t is generally under
S stood that Bristow would move heaven
t and earth to drop Leidy from the gov
ernment pay roll. Until lately, it is
e said, that Curtis has upheld the for
e uner Butler county state senator, but
that letters furnished him by Miss Mat
| teson have weakened his position and
persons who are close to the situation
claim that the Topeka senator VIII not
| urge Leidy's confirmation
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