The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-01
LIKES ALLISON.
Ex-Governor Osborn who Is Now
in Washington
Speaks Warmly Of Allison for
President.
REED A GREAT MAN
Says Gov. Osborn, and Mckinley
a Popular One.
Comment on What the Kansas
Delegation May Do.

From the State Journals Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Jan. l. Ex- Governor
| Thomas A. Osborn, of Kansas, is again
at the Shoreham after having been over
to New York to attend q meeting of the
Santa Fe directors. He expects to be in
Washington the greater part of January
attending to private business which he
has here.
Gov. Osborn has not yet called on
| Speaker Reed with whom he has an &C.
quaintance. although they are staying at
the same hotel. He says he will |, how
ever, as soon as the busy season with
the speaker is partially over. He also
expects to call on Senator Allison whom
! he has met. If Governor Mckinley were
here Governor Osborn would also call
on him. So it will be seen that he is
perfectly impartial in the respects which
he would pay the aspirants for the Re-
| publican nomination.
| Governor Osborn was asked who his
choice was for president. but he was not
inclined to disclose il. He said, however
strong his own like might be he would
not allow it to interfere with his express
ing the sentiment Of the state. sThat is
not my kind of politics." he said.
81 do not think the delegation will be
! instructed he continued. alt will be
cSosen without Instructions and will be
expected fairly to reflect the sentiment
of the state. JGsS-, what that is it is now
not easy to say"
"What is being done in Kansas re
garding the convention?"
swell, the machine politicians are al
ready at work getting things fixed for
their delegates. 1t is pretty early 1
should think to begin that sort of thing .
us this fixing being done in behalf of
McKinlev?"
sit is said that some of the state CEN
trail committee are working in that di-
rection and using the party machinery
to help them" replied Mr.. Osborn,
"Do you think there is a deal by which
certain persons are to be rewarded
should Mckinley be successful?" was
asked
sit is very natural to suppose of
course" said the governor. shat there is
some sort of an understanding between
those who are furthering McKinIey's
interests, and Mckinley. Mckinley
C; m out to Kansas to help in the cam
paIgn and / suppose there is an obliga-
ton of some sort on certain ones of the
state central committee, but whether
that is actual or implied l of course do
not know"
The story that Cy Leland was to get
something good for supporting NcKin-
ley was referred to and Gov. Osborn said
he knew nothing as to the truth of the
report but supposed if is were true SIT
was not thing a man would tell about
on the street corners"
The question of preference for presi-
dent being again brought up the COVER
nor still refused to declare his individual
choice. He said: "Now, If I were
elected to the convention l would take
great pleasure in voting for Allison. He
is very near to US there and l should be
pleased to vote for him. On the other
hand it would also give me great pleas
ure to vote for Reed. He is a great
man.
Governor Osborn did just as well by
Mckinley as the others, and said it would
cause the same ec5tatic thrill to vote for
him as the others. 1t was said with hard
ly as much warmth as the other declara-
tions, but it may have been because he
was mentioned last, and enthusiasm is a
hard thing to sustain. So Governor o.
boru is sure to be pleased.
He said he did not believe there would
be any bitterness in the state deleg alton,
even if divided, and it would be easy TO
unite on some one so as to reflect the SEN
timent of the state.
1t was suggested that the passing of
bond bill by the house would hurt Reed
in Kansas. Governor Osborn said alt
loading up the government with interest
bearing obligations, but it is hard to tell
just how much effect it would have
against Reed. There is much to be said
in excuse for the bond bill II was passed
to meet an emergency, and really
limits the presidents power. 1t is not
like giving the president power TO issue
bonds. The law giving power to issue
bonds already exists, and this bill is a
Limitation of it,"
Gov. Osborn said there was no likeli-
hood at all, and never was, of his being
named as one of the Venezuelan COM
mission. "The president seems disposed
to strengthen the British sentiment on
it, he said.
If the commission were formed by the
president with a strict view to arbitra-
tion and the examination of facts, Gov
Osborn thinks there would have been
little doubt of his selection. He said
his experience in the settlement of
boundaries in previous arbitrations
would have then made his selection as
one of the commissioners more than
likely.
Gov. Osborn has called on almost all
of the Kansas congressional delegation
here. M. F. M.
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