The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-05-09
PETERS QUEER.
Why Does He Intimate He VIII
Accept
The. GOvernOrsnip After His
Former Statements 2
MORRILL, is SEREN e
Or Pretends to Be-Apparently
Hopeful.
MORRILL is SERENE
Jim TrOutman's Popularity
Dwelt on by Mike Sutton.

The Wichita interview with Judge
Sam Peters has again sent Peters
gubernatorial stock up. and set the poll
ticians to talking The interview is re-
garced here as a sort of a half way
backdown on Peters position as defin-
ed in this city over week ago when
he gave out his statement to the news
papers. Governor Morrill, said today
to a State Journal reporter:
There has been nothing done. nor do
I believe there will happen anything
that viii affect me as a candidate.
still stand as I have all along in rela-
ton to my candidacy. L feel as though
my administration were worthy OF
second term, and upon this, and with
/ the constant assurance of my friends.
/ I viii stay in the race"
The governor was asked if he had
seen the Wichita interview with Judge
/ Peters. He replied.
Il have not seen it, but I am not
alarmed 1 know Judge Peters as well
4 as any one, and know I can rely upon
/ the statements he has made to me that
he viii not be a candidate at all.
You may rest assured that what
! Judge Peters said here in Topeka last
week with regard to his candidacy,
means now just what it meant then,
that he is not in the race as long as
am, and I shall be a candidate before
that convention, and that settles all
talk Of Judge Peters candidacy
Are you satisfied with the assurance
you are getting that the public senti-
ment is with yOu2"
Yes. Furthermore, think my
chances for the nomination are better
| every day. I receive by every mail as
surances Of support and prominent Re
pubHcans all over the state are telling
daily in interviews and otherwise that
they feel my nomination certain and
that they are for me"
When the reporter asked Governor
/ Morrill, about the fate of the compli-
mentary resolutions at the Lawrence
convention. he refused to say anything
about the matter. Il do not care to
discuss that matter" said he
An effort was made in the convention
before it adjourned yesterday to again
bring up the resolutions either in their
original state, or some new ones, but
the convention almost unanimously ig-
nored the matter. There is no question
that the governor feels sighted regard
ing the action of the convention in
turning down the resolutions commit
tee report although he viii not talk
about it.
Mike Sutton, the leader of the short
grass" country. is in Topeka today.
4
a supporter of Jim Troutman for gov
ernOr- He said to a Journal reporter:
I consider that TrOutman is gaining
strength all the time in the short
grass" region, and that he viii secure
support from all the twenty-eight cOun~
ties in that country. The chances for
him are five to one in his favor.
There is one thing that Troutman
does not want to do, though, and that
is talk of a constitutional convention.
Troutman's fame comes from his en-
nifty to the liquor question and from
his ability to stand firm upon that uues-
tiOn as well as others. The people in
the short grass district admire man
of nerve and of backbone, and they be-
lieve that if Jim Troutman We're elected
/ he would enforce the laws, prOhibftorv
and all, to the letter. Therefore. let
TrOutman stand upon his fame as a.
friend to the law and insist that if
elected he will enforce it andau others.
and it viii be the best thing in theworld
for him He cannot get the resubmis-
sion vote, anyway, and there is no use
trying to get it. All the constitutional
talk in the world would avail him moth
ing"
Il would advise aspiring agriculture
ist statesmen said Sutton, that if
they are hunting popularity in the
short grass country, they had better
come out there and mix up with the
boys. That is what TrOutman has
done. and that is one reason for his
o. popularity"
Mr. sutton was asked concerning the
belief that Judge Peters would be in
the race for governor. and he said he
thought he would. but would not say in
what way or through what machina-
tiOns he thought Peters entrance into
the field would come about.
Speaking of the Wichita situation,
Mike Sutton said. Il should like to be
governor for one month I would 20
down to Wichita and take a sledge
hammer and axe and make things live
ly for the ViolatOrs of the law. Tt is
not a question of prohibition or resub-
mission. The law is on the statute
books and it ought to be enforced.
That is why the western Kansas pao-
pie are for Jim Troutman- They have
! | con1aence IN him and bis ahiIitX.,