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Supplement to THE WESTERN KANSAS WORLD, WaKeeney, Kansas, Saturday, October 13, 1894. 11 mMi MM Awful Story of Populist Cor ruption from the Ex Lottery King, 2ho Charges of Boodling Hore Than Sustained by the Man Who Paid the Money. 9 04,500 Was Paid to 2 f Eepresented the Governor, in Two Installments. attorney General Little Got 84,000 Under Promise to Stop All But the Louis iana Lottery. Populists Got All of Kline's Money and Then Eepudiated Their Part of the Contract Taaa la romantio old aWy to ths --Scat that there is honor among thieves. 3ate Kline, the man who used to con trol the gambling hells and lottery fee? ot Kansas City, Kan., ia trying to lisprave the adage and in reply to Sena "ior Tsylor of Wyandotte county he gives aha following interesting aocount of the aywtematia manner in which blood money waa extracted from him for pro tection that did not protect: XLuisas City, Kan., Sept. 23, ISO 4. LXea. Kdwln Taylor, Edwardsrllle, Kan.: 11 Dear Sir Some time since I re calved a letter from you making aomo in sjalries ia regard to the connection of the present Populist state administra tutm of Kaaaas with the lottery business Mi Kansas City, Kan. Your letter is as followa: Xr. P. 1. Kline, St. Louis Mo.: Dear 61r Although we have never met In Mnoa 1 presume we are fairly well ac qoatated by reputation and report. I pre HM we aliould And could we ever come to - aaow each ottter that we have many points ta common. I notice we each have the avMrve to cat after what we want and what -we aare to dream of we dare to do. Acalust Ike Use of life In which you are engaged I atarialn a deep hostility. I made auch ef tort aa I could at Topeka to put it under the bene ef law. I encountered you at every -tern. )ra beat me completely. There wai mm Investigation after the close of the Letts Ja&are devoted la part to your successful ef ul ef- tlga- any iturt irseif forte in opposition to me. That lnves laa fastened nothing directly upon laertat member of the Leglsla tmi it did bring out that joursei sfl your attorney. Air. James Legate ef Leavenworth, beld sn audience with the attorney general of the atate and the cover nor 's private secretary In an ob enre place in the outskirts of town In the small hours of the night. There Is an un defined Impression abroad that yo -r neKO UaUoaa that night referred to an agree aeaat upon their part to shield you and year friends from laws passed or to be -eaaead for walch you were to ray or did 97 avctmal money In hand. If that charge f ia true, I can imagine the contempt you laast have felt for those political prostl--tates after you had used them. I am sat isfied that you will agree with me that the basest and most despicable crime cn the calendar is the act of using an official posi tlon to shield people denounced by law, for ST. On the one hand 1. society entrusting momentcTas interests In the hands of its mEtcrm with all the confidence that a client --ma repose In bis attorney or a maiden in tier lover. On the other hand are those same officers betraying that client's caase pretended lovers ravishing ia disguise the fair victim they Mrre sworn to protect. Wind, I Alma's say that any one has been guilty of MCb conduct. I merely say that the state meoalnlstratlou Including the Governor has carried itself from the first in what, seems "to sne a suspicious manner and I ap peal te yen to clear up that suspicion If It Is waxounded, or If It is correct ta put me a possession of proof that I can use with whlo to blow the contemptible harlots out mt water and put the state house in a way mt disinfection. I make this apne&l purely Tresa the standpoint ot the publlo welfare ost as I would expect you to assist me in everting any other pestilence ; to give me a full zpoee of the underground work: of the ad Calais tratlon as far as you know it ; to give sne such dues as you may possess to fur ther information, and 1 cn my part will tre notes you that I will exhaust myself In a effort to hunt the vllllans down. Yours truly, Edwijc Taylor. Relieving the facts to be as potent -sew aa then, I nave concluded to answer your letter and believing you to' be an seaest man and that you will receive ay answer with the candor that a frank, pea aad truthful statement of the facta merit. RII TELLS HIS STORY. In December 1892 I met Mr. James T. Legate and had a lengthy conversa tion vita him ia regard to affairs in Ifaasaa' The conversation had was cheat the Legislature. He told me th at ' h House ot Representatives was Re- KbUoaa. bat that he waa anx.oua to re the Popuiista control the House. Xlseaid be had seen men enough to Jdmw that with money he could put the arantrol ia the hands of the Populists. After so any conferences he told me fc wished me to raise him money t aeoomplish that objeot. I asked fefcst how much he wanted or aew little he could get along with. He finally said $3,000 or $4,000. I asked him how I could be benefitted. U replied "that waa for me to say, not him", leaked him if I could be protected ia say policy business. He said that he had the aeauraooe ot the Governor that Jeaald ooatrol the appointment of the fuelioe com miss ion era. After considers tie I told Mr. legate that I would pay N CZJCOO provided I could dictate the ap 3elalment of two of the police commia ml ta of Kansas City, Kan., and that th other abou Id not be unfriendly tc see and that I should have a A LEAD PIPE CINCH". avf all gamblicc, lottery and saloon privi lege in the city. He told me that I ceald do this. I paid the $3,000 in the jrasence of N. F. Akera, my attor awy, ia tha form of a cashier's check, a oj of which, is given on this page AH toat was totd me by Sir. Leeati ahoat his authority was afterwards re eaiadly confirmed by Mr. Close, pri ts aeoretarr of the Governor. Th persona to be appointed were all agreed tseen. The appointment of these men ipca. The appointment of these meal $ not oaas ana a grew ub.w. , .. Col. Fred Close, Who rent ray attorney to Governor Lewer ing in peraon to find out why they wen not appointed. The Governor assured him that the appointment of these mei would be made in a short time. I wai then satisfied. Still they were not ap pointed. I soon mot Mr. Legate and ha raid to me that the Governor and hit friends wanted him to raise more money, but as the Governor had not made thi appointment of the commissioner! agreed upon, he advised me not to givi any more money until they were op pointed. Finally by appointment bj wire, I was to meet Attorney Genera John T. Little, Judge S. S. Sharps and James F. Legate at the Blossom House in H J, - 1' I v gUj, cassis city, Ma, the first week in Feb. ruary, 1893. PULLID HIS LEO AGAI2T. Sharps and Legate came to me I thinl on the afternoon of the fifth day but Mr. Little did not arrive until I wai compelled to leave because of a businesi engagement. Mr. Little came after 1 had gone and had a conference with Legate end Sharpe. After this confer snce Legate and Sharpe both came to me and informed ma that Mr. Little had said that if I would pay $1,500 more money the original contract would be carried out to the letter. Upon this aaaurance, I took the $1,500 in cash and went to Topeka myself. I said to Mr. Legate that before I gave up the money I desired to see the governor in peraon and to receive from him assurances that the agreements would be carried out. With this suggestion Mr. Legate seemed pleased and left ssying thst he would see the govsrnor and report. After awhile he came back and said that the governor declined to see me but would send Mr. Close, his private secretary, over to the Union Pacific hotel in North Topeka where 1 was stopping and the place where it was agreed thai we should meet, and instruct him what to say. Very soon. Mr. Close came in and said to me that the governor thought it not prudent for him to see me and had instructed him (Close) to say that if the money waa turned over to Mr. Legate the contract heretofore made about the $3,000 would be carried out He made his whole statement positive by aayiog the governor had instructed him to say just what he did and he said this in the presence ot Mr. Legate and Mr. Akera. my attornej who had met me there by ap peintmeni. 1 tooic the money out of my pocket and held it in my hand. Close took his pencil and a piece of paper out of his vest pocket and took down the names of the men who were to be appointed police commis sioners at Kansas City, Kansas. I then said to him there was danger of the Taylor lottery bill pasaing acd Mr. Close assured me thst if the bill did pass he would guarantee that the governor would veto it. He aaid that he wanted it distinctly understood that the governor would stand by bis friends I then pud the money to Mr. Legate. BX.XD BY HATHAWAY. AfUr tb- lg,laior adjourned, Mr. u:ossjrausUy called at atr oaa aad elscnssed these matters with me and gave me numerous excuses for not car ry is g out the agreement made in con sideration of the money advanced by sue. During this time Mr. Close intro duced me to Mr. Hathaway, assistsnl bank commissioner under Mr. Breiden th el, and also at that time one ef the Populist state central committee. Mr. Hathaway came to me frequently aad . demanded money, and I gave him ever $200 at different times. After the governor bad failed to earry oat the oentraet with me aa to my protection ia the lottery business in Kansas City, Kan. Mr. Close, bis pri vate secretary, by special appointment met me on Sunday at the Midland hotel ta Kansas City, Mou, and made a new deal with me by which he was to pro tect me la the lottery buaineaa in the cities of Atchison, Leavenworth, Fort Boott and Wichita, for which protec tion I waa to psy $1,000 per month to him in person, no one else to know of the deal. Ha would not include To peka, saying that he waa afraid that the ohurch people ia that oity wonld make trouble and that Topeka was too close to the headquarters of the admin istration. Afterwards, Mr. Atkins, claiming to be a relative and aa inti mate friend of the governor, went ia person to the governor and msde a proposition for protection for the lotter ies for $5,000 a month and the governor referred him to Mr. H. L. Taylor, then; and at this time coal oil inspector of the atate of Kansas, saying to him that he could not entertain the proposition per sonally. JtS. SUDDEIf EICH ADKHTS. Mr. H. L. Tsylor, the coal oil in apeotor under the appointment of Gov ernor Levelling, came to Kansas City, Kan., and appointed thia said Mr. Adkins his dsputy at a salary of $100 per month. Mr. Adkins at thst time was very poor, but since then he has become interested in many of the lotteries, policy and gam iblmg houses and saloons and he runs what is known as the "Administration Saloon," within a stone's throw of police headquarters. Before Mr. Adkins waa appointed, he worked for me at $i0 per month; since his appointment he has be come the owner of a lares residence, driving a pair of fine horses, wears dia monds and collects $5,000 a month for protection for the lotteries that are now running. Assooiate Justice Allen doubtless did not investigate these facts as thoroughly as he might have done be fore he gave out through Mr. Breiden thal his interview. John T. Little, attorney general, was sent by the Govsrnor to" Kansas City, Kan., and he by arrangement through, Judge Sharpe and others said that if I would rsise $1,500 more money and turn it over to Mr. Legate that the original, contract should be carried out, plainly; implying thereby that they all knew of the contract in consideration of the! " , . j r . re, $3,000. On the Sunday morning that Mr. Close started to the World's fair, Mr. S. S. Sharps paid him for me SKK) at the Chesterfield hotel in the city ot Topeka that being a partial payment of the $1,000 per month contraot re-i f erred to above. Within a dsy. or two after the attorney gen eral had written an open let ter to A. H. Cobb, the county attorney of Wyandotte county, demanding that he (Cobb) should put a stop to the infa mous lottery business that was being run in Kansas City, Ksn. Mr. Quarles, the chief of police of Kansas City, Kan., appeared in Topeka reported to have 85.C0O in his pocket to quiet the at torney general and the influence that was at work against the lotteries and he offered Mr. Breidenthal $2,500 as a oam- Jaign fund for the benefit of Governor eweliing's renomination. TH IHKOCEST GOVERNOR. Governor Lewelling seems to plead Ignorance to all of those things when he 'knows thst Mr. Akers, my attorney, took the check which I paid to James F. Legate as per contrsct and showed it to him in the presence of Mr. Close in his own privste office in the State house :andconcerning which Governor Level ling in an interview with a reporter ot ithe Topeka State Journal on Fridsy, March 3, 1893, said that: "He had heard where the money came from, but it waa told him in confidence and he would cot make that part of the story public at this time." ' On the Sunday after J. A. Smith wrote hia celebrated letter to Governor iLe welling, and before its publication, I aa sect for by Mr. Close, the gov ernor s privets secretary, to come to To iPeka. Mr. Close was anxioua thst I .should . keep still and say nothing ia corroboration of the statements made in that letter and promised me upon hia honor that he would make tbe change in the polios commissioa agreed upon under the $1,000 a month contract. He declared that as soon as Governor Lew elling, who wss at thst time in tbe west, resched Sslt Lake City, the whole mat ter wonld be arranged by wire. When the senatorial investigation was made at Kansas City, Kan., Fred Close, private secre tary of the governor, and G. E. xxatnawsy, assistant bank commissioner, came from Topeka and requested that I go tc CMfsgo where I could, not be sub- ' poeeaed before the -Inveatlgatlng com mittee and aaid to ms that if I would ksep out of the etste of Ksnsss they would see that I was not compelled tq appear before that investigating com snittee. DI8COVXRKD DOUBLt DEALING. Being convinced thst Governor Lev elling and Attorney General Little didj not intend to keep their contract with me in regard to protection that they had, entered into and that thsy had entered into an arrangement with other parties to carry on the lottery business in Kaa aas City, Karu, and this opinion be ing confirmed by the fact that K. Fox & Co., M. Ottens, C. A. Gale fc Co. and iWinn & Co., bad opened up lotteries and made public drawings in the imonth of September, I immedi- f teiy opened up correspondence with ha Louisisna Lottery company and told them that I beieived that I could have the lottery business in the state of Kansas suppressed. By appointment, I met their attorney, Mr. Henderson, at Chicago October 11, and entered into a written contract which I now hold with him to suppress all lotteries in Kansas for the considerstion of $25,000 to be paid in payments of $5,000 each; $5,000 in oash which wss to be paid on Octo ber 14. 1893; $5,000 to be paid November J 5, 1893; $5,000 to be paid February 15, 1891; $5,000 May 15, 1894 and $5,000 July 15, 1894. Attorney General Little was to receive $20,000 of this money and I wss to receive $5,000. Of the $5,000 paid me in cash by the attorney at Chi cago, when I arrived at Kanaas City, I BIST $4,000 TO MR. LITTLS In crisp $100 "bills as per agreement. Mr. Little at once, as the rec cords at Kansas City, Kan., will show, .entered prosecutions against the lottery companies. When he came down to prosecute the osse, I met him and asked him if he had received the $4,000 I seat him and he said thst he had and I then showed him the contract which I made with the Louisiana Lottery company and which I now bold and he agreed to and approved the contract. But for Some reaaon beat known to himself (and .others), he has fsiled to carry out hia part of it and close up the lotteries aa he agreed to do, although he would hava received $16,000 more money in the ag gregate, $20,000 for simply doing his official duty. The only natural conclu sion is th.at it has been more profitable jfor Attorney General Little to follow jthe course that hoa been pursued in jKansas City, Kan., by the gang ia con trol there since that time. And now the Louisisna Lottery company has de manded of me that I reimburse them the $5,000 with interest which they fur-' nished me under the contract, $4,000 of which Mr. Little himself received. I have been criticised by the press throughout the entire west for my con nection with the lottery business. I have been abused not only by the news- papers but by the present Populist state administration and almost every other influence in this country. So far I have said nothing. I have remained quiet. The result ot my connection with this administration has been that they have ROBBED JIE OP EVERY DOLLAR that I had. My advances of money to them and my lossaa of property because of their broken promises amounts to $23,500. I have even been compelled to pawn the jewelry of my wife in order to pay them money which they demanded. I mortgaged my office furniture to se cure funda to comply with their de mands and when I could not longer raise money to pay them I lost all that I had and today flam poor and without means, while they are enjoying illicit gains upon a: questionable business disreputably con-' Quoted, and that tbe publio may kcow': tbe true character of these men whoi have been posing for the last two years' as reformers, I am constrained to make this statement voluntarily. As compared with them, train rob bers and Dalton gangs are respeotable,. and while my business in the eyes of, the publio is not looked upon wilh favor, yet as compared with them I em an honorable man, and everybody who knows me personally and who has had dealings with me knows that I comply with my agreements. Very truly yours, P. W. Eux. CORROBOF.ATTVr AFFIDAVIT. Kansas City. Kan., Sept. 12, 1894. In 1893, at the time Governor Lewell- . ing was insugursted, I wss aa aspirant for the position of police commissioner in Kansas City, Kan., and sought the appointment from the governor. For that purpose I procured the endorse 1 ment of about seventy-five of the promi nent business msn of ths city which X presented to Governor Lewelling at the same time I made my application for such appointment, and when I received from the governor very flattering assur ances that I would be selected as the Democratio repressntativo on tbe board. Afterwards I wss consulted regarding my being given the position of chief of police of Kansas City, Kan., instesd of a' place on the board, in order to permit the governor to harmonize matters as it was said, to which arrangement I as sented. During the same winter I was invited to be press at at the Biossom house, ia .Kansas CilyMo to meet Attorney o flaneral J. T. Little and others. At the ! appointed time I was at that house and met P. W. Kline and James F. Legate. Wa remained there some time engaged ia conversation but Mr. Little did not arrive until after Mr. Kline by reason of business engagements was obliged to leave. When he did cosoe, bowever, it was developed that his coming was to arrange for and to induce Mr. Kliae to furnish and pay over to Mr. J. F. Legate an additional $1,500, to be ex pend for aomo purpose at Topeka which was not at the time fully explained to me, and Mr. Little then aad there gave positive assuranoss that ia the event Mr. Kline did furnish said $1,500, for such purposes, the origi nal agreement should be at once carried out. Thia meeting waa before any appointments hsd been made by; Governor Lewelling for Kansas City,. Kan., and a day or two previous to ths time when, as I afterward learned, Mr.. Kline did pay over to Legate at Topeka the $1,500, that was the subject of so much comment at that lime and since. I afterwards met General Little on sundry occasions and at each occasion he extended to me assurances that mat ters in Kansas City would soon be "sat-! isfactorily arranged." On the day previous to that on which Mr. Fred Close had arranged to leave for Chicago to attend the fair, Mr.. Kline came to me and said that Mr., Close had ome to him and demanded of him in consideration for certain pro tection of his (Kline's) business, $1,000 per month, end that they had come toj sn agreement sbout the matter. Hej said further that Mr. Close asked as a first payment under such sgreement $300, aad that ho (Kline) wished me to take some money to Topeka and deliver it over to Mr. Fred Close, and he gave mc $100 for that purpose. It was Saturday evening when I called at the residence of Mr. Close, but he being out I wss unable to see him. I however left word for him to meet me the following morning tt,the Chesterfield. The next morning Mr. Close csme to tbe Chesterfield with his fsmily, on his way to tbe train. Mr. Close recognized me at once and seemed very glsd to see me and immediately in vited me to a private interview. When in seclusion and apart from others I told him Mr. Kline was unable to raiae him the $300 which had been asked and had been agreed upon but had aent me with $100. 1 then gave him the $100, which he received and which disappeared in his pocket in an incredibly short space of time and then Mr. Close said: "We have been so busy getting things ready to 30 to the fair that nothing in particular has bean done, but just as soon ss we return we will arrange every thing 'satisfactorily.'" On aeveral occasions I have met Mr. Close in Mr. P. W. Cline's rooms in Kan sas City, Mr. James F. Legate being present at times. On these occasions he or they invariably had private conversations with Mr. Kline. On one of these occasions Mr. Close remarked in my hearing to Mr. Legate that he did not like t'he arrangement "here," In response to which Mr. Legate said: "What ia the objection?" Mr. Close cautiously and in an undertone said be did not like the presence of a certain gentleman who was Bitting near by and with whom he had an acquaintance. He said the gentleman acted as if he knew all about what wss going on; that he sometimes drank and waa liable to talk. At various times after tbe presenta tion of my application for the appoint ment as a member of the board of police commissioners I met Governor Lewel ling, and at each ot such meetings more or less was said concerning the affairs at Kanaas City. Until the appointments were made he invariably gave me assur ances of his intentions; he at all times expressed a willingness to arrange mat ters "satisfactorily". After be made the appointments he made excuses of an; ;indofinits character, intimating that for certain reasons be had been compelled to, do things not originally Intended, but gave me to understand he intended soon to rearrange and reorganize m afters in Kansas City. S. S. Sharpe. State of Missouri, County of Jackson, ss. 1 S. 8. Sharpe, of lawful age. betas: duly sworn, uron his oath states that the above and foregoiue statement is true and correct to the best of bis knowledge and belief. 8. S. BniRFE, Subscribed and sworn to before me this 13th day of September, A. D , 1894- JOH.V O, fTKAKJCS. Kotary Public, Jackson county, lit. A SECOND LETTER. Explained to Breidenthal. TOLD TFHT HE WOUD XOT HELP IX THE POPULIST HUSTINGS. Too Much Corruption, Dishonesty and Even Crimes Connected With the I,wlling; Administration for atr. Henderson's Con 1 p - science. Topeka, Has., Sept. 9. (Special.) The following letter from Ben S. Hen derson further expresses his defection from the Populist party: WixnixD, Kas., Aug. 30, 1894. Hon. John W. Briedenthal, Topeka, Kas. Dear Sir and Brother: I received your telegram last night at 8 o'clock, and wired you immediately that I could not come to Topeka. Our court con venes Tuesday next, and I am busy ar ranging therefor; then, again I am at work on a brief in a case pending in the United States circuit court of appeals, which must be filed with the clerk of the court before tho 6th of September, hence, if 1 was ever so well inclined to meet with the state central committee, I could not, on account of business affairs, do so. Before I wrote yon on tbe 2Sth inst. I had carefully considered the past, the present and the future. I had mentally wrestled with myself in every conceiva ble form to obtain my own consent to enter into the present campaign, and keep my lips sealed as to the corruption of many persons holding office under Governor Lewelling' 8 administration. I could not stultify myself bj enter ing the campaign this year, concealing the corruption, dishonesty, and I might add, crimes of members of our own party. From a political standpoint, I perhaps have made a mistake for the time being, but, as has been said by another, "I would rather be right than be president of the United Statea." In my letter to you I know I am right, if the principles of reform advocated by the People's party mean anything. I "have referred to Individuals and charges in my letter in a very mild form, as compared with the statements and declarations made to me ot and concern ing the gentlemen mentioned in my letter, some of whom I have known for years, and we have been quite intimate and confidential friends, but I could not help taking the position I have taken. I imagine some will say of me harsh and mean Unnrrs. but that matters but little to me, when compared with the great wrongs and deceptions practiced by Governor Lewelling' b appointees up on the people of our honored common wealth. I believe the defeat of LewelKug and his corrupt gang would be a wonderful advantage to the Peo ple's p-rty of Kansas. I believe that principles are paramount to the interests of men, nance ray position. In years to come I feel that the people of this com monwealth who believe in and are loyal to the real principles of reform will honor me in my position, though I may now be not only damned, but persecuted by the clique now in the "saddle." I an ready. God Almighty hates a coward and so do L As ever, your friend. Ben B. Hxxdebson. MRS. LEASE TALKS. She Scores Breidenthal and Says He Betrayed His Party. Senator Martin Ti-ferred to as a Tile Poll leal Scamp Msjor Morrill Handsome ly Complimented Aeainst Katoa Because He is a Democrat K. C. Journal, September, 25. Mrs. Mary E. Lease was in the city yesterday resting after her political tour in the northern part of the state. She is suffering very much from the effects of her recent illness, and while she ia gaining flesh rapidly she is not gaining strength. She finds the strain of her political work very exhausting and is doing only a small fraction of what rhe ia accustomed to do under similar circumstances. She will go to Bonner Springs, Kan., this morning, where she will address a populist rally this after noon, and will then do some work at various portions of Missouri and Kan sas. "When seen yesterday afternoon at the Midland Mrs. Lease stated she was in the city consulting her dressmaker and for the time bad laid politics aside. Despite her fighting qualities she pleaded guilty to the usual feminine feeling and declared that when a woman was having a new gown made sho had no time or disposition for anything else. During the conversation yesterday Mrs. Lease was called upon to answer some questions as to her likes and dis likes. When asked to state her favorite trait in men she said it was "That nobility that instinctively commands respect and awakens in other souls that which sometimes Bleeps waiting for manly man to bid it rise." Her favorite author she said was Victor Hugo and she thought "Les Miserables," his best production. She is also a great admirer of James Whitcomb Riley's dialect verse and enjoys it for the reason that it ap peals, to the heart and arouses good impulses. No one can long talk with Mrs. Lease without asking some question concern ing her favorite theme Kansas politics. Yesterday for a short time she laid aside the thoughts of the style of trimming she would order fcr her Priests of Pallas ball costume and talked freely on that topic. "Tea, indeed, I am in politics in Kan sas this year, just as I always have been. Not because I am able to be or on ac count of my physioal condition ought to be. I am there just because Mr. Breidenthal said I should not be. He appears to be running the People's party of the state, but will probably rind out he is not running all the advo cates of that party. The idea of him saying I should not be heard on the stump this year! He is a nice man to read me out of the party. Why, he is the man who betrayed the party that had elevated him to his position. They put him in charge to run the machinery of the People's party and he acknowl edged their kindness and regarded their confidence by selling the party out wholesale to the Democrats and then as sisted in the election of that vile politi cal scamp, John Martin, to the United States senate. It is now charged against him that he is ready to drop the entire state ticket, and after capturing the legislature, attempt to force himself on the state as the coming United States senator. Just think of it! There are some things we must keep quiet on un til after the election- but if we have the legislature just let him make the at tempt to succeed John Martin and watch what happens." As she spoke these words her eyes lighted with the old time fire. It was evident that while she might be infirm physically, her will power and her vim and spirit had thoroughly recovered, if indeed they were ever ailing, and that she had a winning hand, and intended to play to win if she Lad to enter the field and lift the scalp of Breidenthal. "I saw tho interview of Mr. Davis in the Journal Sunday concerning politics in the Seventh district. He said the Republicans were going to defeat Jerry Simpson, and I have heard it from other sources. Chester I. Long is pushing him hard, and Simpson has nothing but ridicule with which to make reply. Rid icule and sarcasm are the weapons of fools, as I have said a hundred times, and they do not answer when the peo ple are thinking as they now are. Simpson and Hudson were tho only two Populists who could always be counted on to vote with the Democrats and against tbe Populists, and they will probably be called upon to answer all about it on the stump. "Hudson made a hurried exit from tho race, but it is stated he wac ts back on the track now. There is some talk of putting John Eaton on in his place Eaton is a Democrat and has no busi ness on a Populist ticket. If they wil put Percy Daniels on the ticket in Hud sou's place I will take the stump in the district for him. He represents Populisl doctrines and would be with the partv in the future." Mrs. Lease is very much interested ic the letters written by Ben Henderson and says she knows that Henderson u an honest man in politics and is telling the truth. "He is stating the same at I stated a year ago. I was never callec to account for it and he will not be The only reply they even attempted fo me was a dirty, disgraceful attack tha they were too cowardly to carry out bj they intended," was the . way she ex pressed her version of the mattei '-There is plenty that has never bee told yet, simply because there isenoug. told to condemn those against whom i is cnarged. In this., as in all oth matters, all I have to say is let the peu pie know the facts and let officers I. judged by what they did and not wh they promised to da" T6 you believe the republican tSaSaj will be elected in Kansas f" was a ques tion asked by Mrs. Lease of the raj porter. She was informed that maay well posted men declared that Morrill, will have a large and . robust plurality and that it was generally believed.' "Well, he is a magnificent man and i honest. He is making a macly and an, effective "ampaign and is getting very near the Hearts of the people. He is s man of sound judgment and trill be s safe leader if he is elected. "Now let me ask about the congres sional campaign in the Kansas City dis trict. I have watched with more than ordinary interest the fight of Colonel Van Horn and am desirous of seeing him nominated and trust he will be elected. He has made a long and win ning fight for silver, and even whsn th west was against him be never allowed that to interfere. He taught the correct silver idea years before it was apparent to other politicians, and he h&s aever flagged in the fight, and stands to-day the most honored silver advocate ia tha nation. In all of his measures he haa always been right. O, how much snoh a man could do for his district, for the city and for the west and the interest of the people." .Mrs. Lease will go to Bonner Springs this morning to deliver a populist ad dress. She said yesterday that shst would not state that the populists would carry Kansas by 20,000 majority, fo "as one of my enemiea charged, 'it's s d lie.' ONE OF MRS. LEASE'S LETTERS Comes to Lifoto Ptasuetho Populist Administration. Mrs. Mary E. Lease's dispatch to the Populist convention here will be remem bered for tha two constructions that cu be put upon it It roads as follows: I "My afflictions haro cot disabled speech or pon. I am thirsting for tha fray. With an anti-fusioa convention, a clean, honest ticket and an equal suffrage plank in the platform, victory is assured. Yours, in the middle of tha road. Makt E. Leash." How woll this corresponds with a let ter written by Mrs. Loasa to EditorGo.! W. Hammond, of the Weir City Citizen,.) last winter, and published for the first time in yesterday's Fort Scott Monitor, the reader may judge. The letter reads as follows : ; Editor Weir City Citizen : ! Wichita, Kas., Jan. 20, 1831. Dear Sir and Brother: You and the miners of Cherokee county know how faithfully and earnestly I have worked for tho sue-' cess of reform principles. I have brave ly and conscientiously opposed fusion,' or deal, or compromise with either of tha old parties. In doing this I inoarred the hate and opposition of men who had no higher conception of reform than get ting and holding office. I openly pro tested against rewarding by paying office to 6uch men as Dick Chase and Todd, and others who entered into a deal with the coal companies while our- ining brothers were struggling for bread. I know that this administration is dishonest and corrupt, and that they received bribes from the M. K. & tha Missouri Pacific and Rock Island. Ther know that I know it. hence they re moved me and seek to kill me politicallT by blackening me and saying that I ana working for republican pay. There i not money enough in the Republican ex Democratio parties to buy me, or one speech from me, but the Democratio fusion crowd at the 6tate house want to hold on to the offices, and they can't if I go before tbe people and tell what X know, hence they seek to destroy dm, who has done as much as anv of thorn to build up this party, which they arc trying to destroy. I am in this move ment for the laborers because I believe in it, and I feel that if we nominate clean, honest men at our next stata cosv vention, we will win. Please publish article enclosed and this letter, too, if vou wish. Yours for tha triumph of right, MartE. Lojlsjl Tho Shame of Kansas. From K. C. Times, Oct. 1, '84. The extrordinary statement made by Mr. P. W. Kline, in a letter to Hon. Ed win Taylor, a State Senator of Kansas, corroborated a3 it is by an affidavit by Mr. S. S. Sharpe, who had persona knowledge of the fact, presents an ex hibit of official turpitude without paral lel in tbe history of politics. Not only the Governor of the State of Kansas, but the Attorney General and a number of thoir official and personal associates have been charged with prostituting their opportunities to foster enme, and they are alleged to have even disregarded that proverbial code of immorality that preserves "honor among thieves." Tha is to say, whilo dealing lawlessly with lawlessness, they have robbed their as sociate in crime w.thout fulfilling their obligations in the infamy. It is to be expected that Governor Lewelling, Attorney General Little and Private Secretary Close will deny tba circumstantial charges that have been brought against them. In thoir' denial they will have tho moral advantage of a better position in society than their accusers. Br' the charge is already corroborated in material points by tho amdavit ol Mr, Jsliarpe, and the check ot the American National bank, the eon- tract with the Louisiana Lottery com pany, other documentary evidence, and proof of the several meetings caa b summoned in support of Mr. KlinVa allegations and must be convincing. The testimony of County Attorney Boone of Wichita, though relating to anotner matter, will also bo relevant aa circumstantial evidence in corroboration. The people of Kansas can no longer, in justice to themselves, remain silent. It is not alone those residents ot tha cities that are debauched in then morals and robbed in order to enrich tha most disgracef:i coterie of official plun derers ever combined to perpetrate crime, that are concerned. Tha erood name of the State has been sacrificed, the integrity and morality of the peopls are brought into suspicion, and every man who has self-respect and a feebisj of pride in the good reputation of tba men and women of Kansas should units In a mighty purpose of turning thee atrocious criminals out of 'ha plaoes they have prostituted. It's no longer $ question of politics. DrxE George Pttllmas has influenre in the Kansas State house if the peop' haven't State Journal, Sept. 15,