Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-01-19
BOTKIN SEES STARS.
Advises His Republican Brethren to
Accept the Inevitable.

Accept the inevitable.
Judge Theo. Botkin is dyed -in-the-
wool Republican. When he talks pol
itics he talks from Republican point
of view, and what he says has always
been, and is now, accepted as simon
pure Republican sentiments.
A short time ago, in the presence of
representative of the Troy Times,
and in conversation with one or two
other Republicans, Mr.. Botkin ex-
pressed himself in very plain and un-
mistakab1e terms as to the present
situation, and delivered himself of
few caustic remarks with reference to
Republican political methods in Kan
sas. Mr.. Botkin said, "If the bosses
would go out on the prairie and get
their ears down on the grass they
would hear something; that the party
has the fight of its life on its hands;
that it has to meet the best admins
tration the state ever had; and with
all its failings, the record of a 1egis-
lature that has passed more good,
wholesome laws than any of its prede-
cessors. These are facts and the peo-
pie know it. In conversation with
Cy Leland short time ago advised
that the Republican party put no
ticket in the field next fall; that it
was doomed to defeat; that the people
would no longer submit to him and
Jim Simpson, and few others, get
ting together at the Blossom House in
Kansas City, or at the Normandy
Hotel in Wash ngton, and negotiating
another state ticket, and having every
candidate for congress going to them
for their endorsement. And to my
certain knowledge that is what has
actually been done with reference to
the coming campaign; Cy Leland has
the whole thing ready and he knows
who will be a candidate for every
state Office, and from every congress
siona1 district in the state"
Sometime ago." Mr.. Botkin con-
tinued, "Chester Long went to Leland,
asking that he be permitted to run for
governor, and Cy replied No. we
have arranged it otherwise, and you
will be the Republican candidate for
congress in the Seventh district; mot
withstanding the fact" continued the
Judge, "Long assured Leland that
there was no possible show of defeat
ing Simpson,
Mr.. Botkin next paid his respects to
Jim Simpson. "Who is Jim Simpson
anyway he asked. ''I'11 tell you who
he is. He is the man who, when his
brother was running for district Judge
in our district last fall, told him, al
though he was his brother, to go down
on his farm and stay there; that he
didn't want his mixing in his affairs.
'He has no executive ability, but he
knows how to handle committee funds;
and 1 would like if someone would
tell me in this connection what be-
came of the two patches of committee
funds that reached Hutchinson last
fa1l?''
The judge then reverted to the Sew
enth Congressional district question
again, and asked, eff Simpson defeat
ed Long last year, when Long had all
the money he needed at his command,
would like to know how he can be
expected to win in the coming cam
paign, facing the record of the present
PODuliSt adrniniStra tiou Ruf oor
might be sacrificed to crafty the am
bitions of Leland and his gang in
+other directions. It is all fixed and
every nomination is already made