The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-26
BURTON FOR GOVERNOR
In the Blooming Springtime He
Will Be Brought Out.
All Other 'sBOOms" Then to Be
Pushed Aside.
It is Possible That it VIII be Burton
Pitted Against Hessin.
J. R. Burton for governorl

J. R. Burton for governorI
There is no use TO get excited about
this announcement, for it will do no good.
The friends of Mr.. Burton are laying
the plans right now to make him the Re
publican candidate for governor next
year.
Understand, it is not the plan for the
Burton combination to Spring him on
an unsuspecting people right away-far
from it. The Burton boom is not to
bloom until early next spring, because if
it did it might waste its sweetness on the
desert air. The scheme. as the State
Journal gets it, is to coddIe, fool with and
nurse the booms OF Chester Long, John
Seaton, Jack Harris, Jim Troutman and
John Hessin through the fall and winter
months, and thus wear them out.
While this process of wearing out pro-
ceeds. the star actor is to make his ap-
pearance in Ohio (sharing Kansas honors
with Abe Steinberger) and make a few
speeches of his Ife'' for Mark Hanna.
The opening gun of the Burton campaign
fired at the Marquette club banquet
at Chicago.
It is needless to state that Cy Leland,
Lit Crum, Jim Simpson, Mort Albaugh
and Frank Brown are behind the Burton
boom. The average schooIboy would
guess that as soon he heard of the
proposed candidacy. The morning paper
is, of course, in on the ground floor, and
when the Burton boom gets ripe will,
presumably, announce it to waiting
world. Several newspapers, among them
the Lawrence World, have declared for
Burton, or intimated two or three weeks
ago that he would make a model gov
ernor, but these papers have been dis
ciplined, and upon the Burton candidacy
are as silent as the grave.
There are two or three reasons why the
nd-Simpson-Crum syndicate would
like to have Burton in the governors Of
fee. The principle one is that Burton
is one of them and would deliver goods
as per requisition. During the past three
months Jno. E. Hessin, who lives at Man
haitian, has been nursing a very promis-
ing boom for governor. 1t has caused
no end of fear and trembling among the
members of the Leland syndicate. Sen
ator Hessin is new man in the politics
of Kansas, and as cry for new candi-
dates is going up from White Cloud to
Rich1eId and from Baxter Springs to st.
Francis, he is naturally regarded as
available timber.
The nomination and election of such a
man as Senator Hessin would end the
Leland dynasty. He might not make
any better governor than any of the
others mentioned, but he would surround
himself with a new junta and new ma
chine which, although odious, could not
possibly be worse than the Leland-Simp
son-Crum combination, who would sur
render their eye teeth to get possession
of the state government again.
The truth may well be told now as
later. The Republican party is going to
be divided into two strong factions. Le-
land will be the boss and ringleader of
one, and United States Senator Baker
will be at the head of the other. Such
condition is inevitable. Baker has at
last discovered that if he expects to sue
guard and organize and capture the ma
chinery of the party. This he is seeking
to do, and it is the most natural thing
that he would join in the movement to
nominate Hessin for governor. The SEN
ator's most trusted friends are the prime
movers in the Hessin BOOM Senator
Sterne of this city is chief among them.
The ink on the Copeland hotel register,
where Senator Baker wrote his name last
Friday evening had not dried when Sen
ator Hessin walked in to spend the even
ing.
Things are working for a real lively
state convention next year, when Cy and
Baker viii measure swords over the nom
nation of a state ticket, and the proba-
bility now is that Burton and Hessin,
both of the Fifth district, will be backed
by the two factions for the nomination
for governor.