The Topeka state journal., 1899-07-14
Dispenser of Patronage is Like
a Sheep Among Wolves.
Now Trying to Rend Senator
Baker Limb From Limb.
HIS FRIGHTFUL ERROR
Allowed Senator Harris to Sc
cure a Few Appointments.
Permitted Outside Statesmen to
Impose Upon Him.


have retired more public men to private
life than any other one thing in politics
in Kansas and the same subject is the
basis for the opposition of many men to
the reelection of United States Senator
Lucien Baker.
One of the things which has caused
the politicians to laugh and point the
finger of scorn at Senator Baker is Of
very recent incident, being the fact that
Senator Harris, the fusion representa-
tive of the state in the upper house of
friends three appointments in the army
service, while the recommendations OF
Senator Baker, if he made any, failed to
accomplish anything.
The appointments which were recon-
4nended by Senator Harris which have
been made are as follows:
Charles Phillips, HOltOn, of the Twen-
ty-second Kansas to be a captain in the
new regiment organized in the Philip
pines.
Twenty Kansas, to a similar po-
sition.
Thomas r. Hayson, Burlingame,
Twenty-frst Kansas, to a similar posi-
ton
The Republican politicians in hotel
corridors and on street corners have
been criticising Senator Baker for per-
mttting his associate of opposite pOliti-
cal faith to steal this march on him. No
one seems to understand the situation
and the politicians claim that this is
Republican war and that the Repubh-
cans only should be given the positions.
An unfeeling politician suggests that if
this be true the PopuIists and Demo
Gratis had better be mustered out and
the Republicans permitted to complete
the job which the national administra-
tiOn has undertaken.
The friends of J. r. Burton and other
Republicans who are not in sympa Thy
with the idea. of re-electing Mr.. Baker
hslxr Tf7c inc
the patronage which they claim Mr..
Baker controlled and should have dis
pensed had he not permitted some of his
political friends to impose upon him.
An example of this is brought forward
in the case of T. B. Cunningham who
WaS imported from Nebraska for the
work of examining national banks in
this state. Cunningham had strong pO
litical influences but there was no place
for him in Nebraska, so the politicians
claim, he was unlOaded on Kansas and
charged to this state in the patronage
list when in reality he belongs to Ne
braska and in coming to this state kept
a Kansas man out of a job.
Then the politicians claim again that
Senator Baker was buncoed in the ap-
pOintment of r. MandelSdOrf as a stamp
counter in the Hall Lithographing Of
flee, representing the internal revenue
department in this city. This appoint
ment was made for a period of one year
at the urgent solicitation of Congress-
man Cannon of Illinois. At the expira-
alton of a year it was to terminate at
which time a Kansas man was to get
the job. While the Kansas politicians
were trying to get together on some
one Mandelsdorf was re-appointed and
the place has gone to an Illinois man
much to the disgust of the Kansas
workers.
The one appointment which paraIyzed
the politicians came in the designation
of Major r. w. McClaughrey of Illinois
as warden of the federal penitentiary
at Leavenworth.
The Kansas crowd was working early
and late to land this place and had Sc
lected Jim Simpson of Mcpherson for it,
They were in Washington but before
they reached the president delegation
of Illinois men slipped in and got the
place for McClaughrey.
The announcement of the appoint
ment of this man was 4 great shock to
the politicians. They believed a Kan
sas man entitled to the place and some
of them also criticised Mr.. Baker for
permitting the transfer of an eastern
| man to the position of governor of the
soldiers home at LeaVenWOrth
A well known Republican said today:
pleased the office seekers and since the
| that purpose we must have a man who
can get everything in sight for his con-
| stituents."
Another said: ''These are some of the
things Mr.. Baker has failed to do We
| hope to get man in the senate who
| can, while in touch with the national
administration, prevent the POpulist
senator from getting away with some
| of the good jobs