The Leavenworth weekly times., 1879-01-23
TOPEKA, January 2lst.

These Ii The brightest, blandest and balm
lest days of the New Year. The snow and
ice are melting and disappearing from our
late slippery and hazardous streets and side
walks, as the hopes and expectations Of
many an ardent a.pirant for political place
and honors are doomed to melt and vanish.
The business of the day at the State
House will be the election of State Printer.
1t is position OF trust, and the money sup
posed to be in it, makes it a prize we'll
worth contending for. Geo. Martin OF this
city and Mr.. Dodsworth of Leavenworth
have been regarded from the first as the
leading contestants for the position. Mr..
Baker Of Topeka has some strength, and q
few scattering votes will be thrown for can
didates who are not regarded az prominent
Mr.. Dodsworth, considering all the circum
stances, has doos remarkably we'll in work.
ing up his strength. II beaten, it will not
be badly; and If the election of Martin to
fourth term should not be held - tanta-
mount in effect to election for life, then no
man would have q better show for the next
term than Mr.. Dodsworth. He has msde
hosts of friends for the plucky energetic
and honorable manner in which he has
been pushing this canvass.
As stated in yesterdays dispatches the
House will meet daily at O'Clock and nd
journ at five p. m. 1t has heretofore been
the rule to hold two sessions, one in the
morning and one in the afternoon of each
legislative day. This change although op-
posed by some of the members a. seeming
to open the way for an unwarrantable
'fooling away" of time, was thought TO be
advisable n afording members more time
for work in committees. The heaviest
work Of Hesitation is done in committee
rooms and the idea is . good one. Sitting
for hours N the General Assembly, listen
ing to . hubbub Of chatter and controversy
on immaterial points Of parliamentary
practice on local and individual Affairs,
and speeches calculated purely for bun
comb, il not business.
The Topeka "Blade" comes out in an ed
itorial taking grounds against what it is
pleased to term "uufriendly" railroad leg
islation. The "Blade" holds that the rail
roads should be let alone that they can be
trusted to do the fair thing without lesis-
lative interference that high rates must
be put up with for q while to encourage
the extension of roads through our still
sparsely settled counties, &c. These are the
old. .threadbare arguments; they have hsd
their day they have BEEN weighed in the
balance. There is no unfrieudIy disposi-
tion felt to the roads, only determination
that they shall adjust their wsys of doing
business to the necessities and requirements
of the people. The legislation contempla
ted, should in fact, be termed, friendly
legislation" for any policy which helps
the people, must needs help the railroads
There is q community of interest between
the one and the other, which does not seem
to be we'll understood by those who are
eternally making ado about unfriendly leg
islation.
Mr.. Ingalls, is expected to-day by the
two O'Clock train from the east He
has engaged rooms at the Tefft House the
same room. that we're occupied BY Senator
Pomeroy when the light of his Senatorial
prospects vas 90 efIectually snuffed out by
York. All the other candidates on the list
session last evening il was announced that
. meeting of Republican members would he
held 1t the State House this evening to
consider the .dvisibility Of going into eau
Gus on the Senatorial question. In all the
tAiA WuiCu Ouc ucdre ouOut tuc "htSI,
there is . recognition that Ingalls, ia either
the man to be elected or to be beaten. This
does not look ~ If the Atchison candidate
il already "busted," a. some are quite free
to insist. De.pite all the speculA,ions and
predictions Of those Who know and pretend
to know. there is yet . . great deal Of
Sphynx like mysti6ca,ion in the outlook,
and there is no telling what . day may
bring forth.
The tee-total element is beginning to
take an aggressive attitude. A committee
for the grinding out of Temperance legisla-
tion has been constituted anything in that
line will Be seconded BY the Governor and
ehampiooed With all his Official influence.
How this line of policp may effect the pros
pect of the Kansas City annexation scheme
u not clearly srttled. =, ia. B.