The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-13
p. 2. Elder Says he Will Live Long
Enough to Put it Therein
Bushes Way

The enmity between p P. Elder and
E. H. Snow, ex-state printer, is still in
tense, though Snow has lost his money
and with it the power to fight Elder.
Mr.. Elder is more willing to discuss
the trouble now than he ever has been.
He said to a Journal reporter:
My paper is prospecting and I have
more subscribers now in Franklin
county than Snow ever had 1 have
no fears that Snow will start a paper in
Ottawa that will hurt me. I shall live
long enough to be able to put my heel
on Shows neck in a business way.
Few people know what I have done
for Snow and what he did for me. 1t
was in "a that the reform movement
started in Franklin county. I was with
the Repu blicans then, but Snow went
into it, So did Charles Robinson and
Riggs of Douglas county, and that year
they won in Douglas and came pretty
near winning in Franklin. Snow was
induced to buy paper in Lawrence and
consolidate it with the Journal He
did so, and lost everything.
Some time after Shows failure /
was nominated for congress by the
Greenbackers at FIT. Scott. Snow was
then running a little paper called the
Triumph and he champiOned the cause
of one faction of the Republicans, for
there was a split in their party then
went to Snow and told him that I
could not accept the nomination with
out an organ, and 1 gave him 800 and
he started the Journal once more. From
that time on it was $50 or 500 now and
then until he was married, and his wife
had some property, and 1 took her as
security when I let him have money
after that.
when we won in 1890 Snow came to
me and suggested that 1 should be a
candidate for United States senator.
thought about the matter a little, and
concluded that 1 was as good material
as there was in sight and agreed to
enter the field. I went to Snow one
i H. - a. \
and see some of our fellows in my in
terest. I told him I would pay his ex-
penses. He went and while he was
gone I heard from travelling man that
he was booming himself for state print
Cruising my money to boom himself
when he knew that both of US could not
be elected.
Before 1 came to Topeka I saw
Snow and asked him what he intended
to do. 1 said if he insisted on being a
candidate for state printer, 1 would
withdraw and not spend any money
He said he would not stand in my way.
That was on Thursday and 1 came to
Topeka and opened headquarters. By
Saturday night Snow had his men on
the ground working for his nomination
for state printer.
after he had been selected by the
caucus, I left the speakers chair and
went down on the floor and placed him
in nomination. Things might have been
all right even then, but felt that the
state printers office was being run to
rob the state, and I offered an amend
ment to the state printers bill when it
came up providing for a board of SUI
pervisors. Snow and his whole crowd
fought that amendment as hard as
they could and came near defeating it,
but it is in force now and the treasury
is protected somewhat against the
raids of the state printer, but Snow
never forgave me for that.
THAT is all over now. Snow has
been state printer and am still alive.
;af Of ST0n
treachery, and others besides L have
suffered from it"