The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-23
HE LOOMS Up.
Justice Brewer, the Most Con-
Spicuous Man
In Public Life at the Present
Writing.
TTD 4 GrTNO MN RNmrAN
ATTRACTS ATTENTION
And Might Make a Formidable
Candidate for President.
If He Is Flattered He Doesn't
Show 1t.


| From the State Journals Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.--The mention
of the name of Justice Brewer for the
Republican nomination for the presi-
dency has not been without good and
sufficient reason. He is recognized as
perhaps the ablest judge on the supreme
bench aud his ability has been tested in
so many kinds of public service that his
election in case there shoald be no
agreement upon any Of the active candi-
dates would be most fitting and not at all
impro baDle.
4 prominent member of the Kansas
| contingent in Washington speaking of
Judge Brewer and his relation to a
presidential nomination said:
brewer might make one of the best
candidates which could be nominated.
"Here he is probably the foremost man
in the country today. Not only is he a
| justice of tho highest court in the land
but he is also at the head of the commits
sion to determine great international
| question which has been in dispute for
years. The findings of that commission
| might plunge the country into war 1t
was appointed in response to the most
! stirring message which has aroused the
country for decades. The reliability of
! course is that there will be no war nor
| an approach of it but there is the posi-
| bility and as the head of this Venezuelan
| commission Judge Brewer is made the
most prominent figure before the Ameri-
| can people,"
These remarks were occasioned by
| Justice Brewer passing. Tho Kansan
| who did the talking said: 81 wonder how
| Judge Brewer feels-the most conspicu-
| Gus man in public life"
| 1t was suggested that if Justice Brewer
were level headed he probably wasn't
affected by his position.
swell, if he were puffed up," said the
| Kansas mau, "no one could conceal it
better than Brewer"
THERE WILL BE \ SILVER PARTY.
Senator Peffsr Believes It Will Be an En-
tirsly New Organizst alton.
From the State Journals Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON. Jan. 23.-The part
which silver men will play in the coming
| presidential campaign is now one of the
| prominent questions which are being
discussed by politicians of all parties as
well as those Immediately interested in
the cause of silver. Every political
| move of any importance is being ana
| lyzed for silver and an attempt made to
| discover the force and effect of its pres
| ence.
In speaking of the probability of a
silver party Senator PETER said:
There is large number in the
| Populist party who are infatuated with
the idea of com bining with other eIe-
| meuts. They Overestimate the number
| that would be drawn from any other
! party on account of any particular be-
| lief. When the time comes to vote it
usually develops that in spite of their in
dividual convictions the parties have held
| almost all their forces.
What | suspect may happen, is that
the silver men of all parties will wait un-
til after the national conventions and
then, when it is seen nothing has been
done by the old parties in favor of silver,
they will get together in a big meetin g
of silver men from all over the country.
| Prominent silver advocates will be there
to make speeches and stir up the en-
| thusiasm of the convention, some mans
name will be mentioned for the presi-
! dency, it will be greeted with cheers and
the next day he will be nominated and a
ticket put in the field.
these people will count on DRAWN q
largely from the other parties, but their
organization will havs been made so late
and the machinery for carrying on a
campaign will be necessarily SO imper
feet that the movement will not repre-
sent the silver sentiment of the country
and will cut little figure"
Further reasons for this result Senator
PETER said, were that in states which had
the Australian ballot law requiring the
party TO be named or TO show in some
way reasons for its being placed on the
ticket, the silver men would be in some
cases shut out and in others handicapped
by lack of organization.
Then the silver men would vote ac-
cording to their old party predictions
or not at ALL lie believed the silver mon
would be deceived in the member who
would defect from the old parties and
the figure which a free silver party
would make in the presidential contest
would be insignifcanr He didn't seem
to believe, however, that such out
come would hurt the cause of silver
Senator PETER then got in some good
words for Populism by going on to show
that the Populist party had been the
original silver party, and had declared
for it from the time when it started in
the Farmers Alliance.