The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-23
WARNS BURTON
Chairman Mort Albaugh Says
That No Senatorial Fight
Must Be introduced In the
Next Campaign.
FOR A UNITED FRONT
Will Be Needed to Meet the
Opposition.
Uses No Names But UndOubted-
ly Refers to Burton.
FOR A UNITED FRONT

Morton AIbaugh, chairman of the Re-
publican state central committee, has
spoken a warning in regard to the com
ing fight for the United States SENATOR
ship. He says the candidate who VIII
take his fight into the next Republican
campaign will do so to his own detri-
ment.
Mr.. Albaugh passed through Topeka
yesterday afternoon on his way to EN-
poria, where he is now stationed as re-
ceiVer of the First National bank. In
discussing the election of United
States senator at the next session of the
legislature he said:
THE Republicans of Kansas. irrespec-
tive of what their aspirations may be
in a political way, must remember that
we will have a state ticket to elect IN
1900. There is no doubt in my mind
that the Republican ticket will be elect
ed but political conditions are not the
same in Kansas now that they were
several years ago, and we will have to
make a fight to elect the ticket Thers
must be no divided interests, and to
drag the contest for the United States
Senatorship into the campaign would be
injurious, and it is my opinion such con-
duct would prove boomerang to the
man who was guilty of it.
Il have no one in mind in particular
in saying this" continued Mr.. Albaugh-
Il simply mean it in reference to any
one. The election of a United States
senator is the business of the legis-
lature, and the question should not be
handled in the campaign at all. / am
firmly convinced that if the fight is
taken into the campaign, it will prove
detrimental to the interests of the man
who takes it there"
Changing the subject the Republican
chairman said:
"'AH of Stanley's appointments have
been from a new crowd of fellows Not
one of the men he has appointed really
belongs to the old crowd of political
workers, and still none of his appoint
ments have been displeasing to the
men who have worked for the success
of the Republican party in Kansas for
years. That's where he has shown
shrewdness in making his selections
1t isn't every man who can distribute
his favorS to an entirely new set or
fellows, and still not make an appoint-
ment offensive to the old guard"
In speaking of the Stuart Falcon
contest, now on before the senate, Chair
man Albaugh expressed great regret
that Stuart should have been brought
into the Doniphan county fight 1T is
simply fight on Leland he remarked.
land Stuart, who has worked himself
up by his own ability, is made the VIC
tim
The mention of Leland's name caused
Mr.. Albaugh to switch to a defense OF
the Republican boss Leland is
greatly misunderstood he said. He IS
not a. party dictator, as the majority OF
people suppose, but he is a fighter. IF
he thinks a thing should be a certain
way he says so without hesitation, and
when he goes into a fight he goes into
it to win. But the day when one man
could dictate Kansas politics is over.
This was never better illustrated than
at the Hutchinson convention. Leland
and his men were backing Major Hood
and the enemies of Leland were behind
John Hessin. A few thinking men got
behind Stanley between the two fac
tions, and the result was Stanley's nom
nation"
And the strangest part of this, Mr..
Albaugh might have added. is that Gov
Stanley, since elected, comes pretty
near doing everything that Cyrus Le-
land asks him to do.