The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-01
FOR SHAME!
One of the Editors Of the Official
State Paper
Says Stalwart RepublicansW Want
Chief Justice Martin
PUT OFF THE BENCH
Because He is a Non-Partisan
Judge.
Who Instigated This Attack on
the Chief Justice?
MARTIN is CRITICISED
By the Free Silver Kansas City
journal"
Because He Made a Free Silver
Speech.

A remarkable dispatch under a To-
peka date appears in the Kansas City
Journal today from it's Topeka CORES
pondent, who is also one of the editors of
the official state paper, and as such is
supposed to, in a great measure, voice
the ideas and opinions of the Morrill, ad-
ministration-at any rate. he would
scarcely run counter to them.
The Kansas City Journal is one of
those papers which, although grown to
the size of metropolitan newspaper,
still retains the rural custom of permit
ting its correspondents to write editorials
under the guise of news dispatches. AS
consequence, it has three or four policies
at once, and usually succeeds in making
itself ridiculous in several spots each
day The Journals article is as fol-
lows:
TOPEKA, June 30.-(Special) During
the past two weeks a political storm
has been gathering over Kansas, which
is liable to burst at any moment. Politi-
clans who have been at the state capital
from different parts of the state bring
word that there is a muttering among Re-
publican voters which is growing in vol
uu1O anu WHICH DOQSS no ROOQ 10 tu0 CAN
didacy of Chief Justice Martin. Four
weeks ago it looked very much as though
there would be demand that the state
central committee meet and place Judge
Martin in nomination without the for
r 4lity OF a convention. but there is we'll
grounded suspicion now that neither the
committee would choose Judge Martin
a standard bearer, nor would conven-
tion be anywhere nearly unanimous in
such a choice.
"The cause of this coldness toward
Judge Martin lies in the fact that the
POpulists have taken him up and are en-
Enthusiastically supporting his candidacy.
The newspapers seem to be able to get
more information from John BreidenthaI
about Judge Martins views upon public
questions Than from any other source.
The Populists are altogether too we'll
pleased with Judge Martins candidacy
to suit the stalwart element of the Re-
publican party, and there is a good deal
of unfavorable talk about him. Some
are criticising Judge Martin for what
they call his lack OF dignity in attending
the Pat Coney conference and making a
speech among a lot of fellows who
seemed to be organizing to disrupt the
Republican party.
1.-THE opposition to Martin is talking of
nominating Judge Carver of Salin3 who
now occupies a seat in the Appellate
court One enthusiastic wester Kansas
man asserted at the state house yester-
day that the western part of the state
would come to the convention solid for
Carver, as there was a crying demand
for western man on the supreme bench.
There is also some talk of Solon o.
Thacher of Lawrence as a candidate for
the place.
1.-The feeling developed against Judge
Martin makes it certain that judicial
convention will be held this summer and
there will be more than one candidate
before il. 1t is said tn at a majority of
the state central committee are against
Martin and there is no likelihood of their
meeting and declaring him the nominee
of the party. One member of the COM
mittee stated yesterday that if the matter
was left to the committee the next nomi-
nee for chief justice would be 7. F. Gar
YER"
If the above is true, it means that there
are Republicans in Kansas who do not
want a non-partisan judiciary. They
want partisan bench The fact that he
decided the Breidenthal case according
to the law instead of according to the
views of Republican bosses and party
managers, has filed them with alarm.
An upright honest judge is not the sort
that these people want They desire one
who is tool of the party bosses Well,
David Martin will never be that tool.
and the attempt of pot house politicians
to turn him down will not be endorsed by
the reputable element of the Republican
party, which comprises fully nineteen
twentieths of the party.