The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-13
ALBAUGH'S PLAN
To Save J. III. Simpson From
Humiliation and Defeat
Was to Get on the Court of
Visitation and Make
SIMPSON RECEIVER
OF the Cross Bank Business at
EmpOria.
Simpson After Honor and Not
the Salary.
Board of Charities Makes Mrs.
Hanback, Asylum MatrOn.

The various schemes which have been
planned and suggested for several years
in Kansas politics to have politicians
landed in office have been outclasSed by
the one which Morton Albaugh conceiv-
ed to save his friend, Jim Simpson from
the humiliation of defeat in his candi-
dacy for a place on the court of vista
ton.
But all schemes failed, owing to the
governors personal dislike for Simpson.
Stanley hesitated before turning Simp-
son down. His action is explained by
Simpsons friends in the intimation that
the governor feared Simpson would
marshal his friends against a renomina-
ton Of the present incumbent in the
state campaign in two years.
Mr.. Simpson went before the governor
and said among other things: Il have
the best endorsement ever given to an
individual in Kansas. I stand upon
those endorsements, but want to say
that if 1 am turned down, I will not
sulk. I will be a Republican just the
same. The interests of the party will
be best SubServed by unity in the next
campaign in which a national campaign
will be involved and 1 assure you that
1 will be for the ticket under any cir
cumstapceS.''
This declaration on the part of Simp-
son Pleased the governor very 1nQcn and
came near getting the place for Simp
son but series of moves on the political
checker board took Stanley's eyes from
Simpson and placed him in such an at
titude that he was looking with favor
upon a new man. Then came the ap-
pointment and declination of Graves of
EmpOria, Simpson having been put out
of the running by the appointment of A.
J. Wyatt of Wichita as solicitor for the
court.
When the battle was at its height
the indications were that Simpson
would be defeated. Long before the ap-
pOintmentS were expected from the eX-
ecutive office the Simpson fight had
been lost; resurrected and nearly won.
only to be lost again. In the thick of
these complications came Albaugh, the
chairman of the state committee with
his plan to dispose of the controversy
and at the same time land Simpson in
a good job.
AIbaUgh's plan was to have Jim Simp-
son appointed receiver of the Cross
bank at EmpOria and then have the
governor appoint Albaugh on the court
of visitation. This is an appointment
which Mr. Stanley would have made be-
cause it was suggested at a time when
Wichita had not made the demand for
recognition in the organization of the
court.
Mr.. Stanley was obligated to Albaugh
and felt kindly disposed to him and
would have given him almost anything
under the administration The governor
Sald at one TIME IndI A1DauSn cOulQ
have anything he wanted and this
friendliness is presumed to have been
the direct cause of the chairman's effort
to put Simpson in the EmpOria bank.
But Simpson did not want to be re-
ceiver He said when the proposition
was submitted to him:
Il am not after the salary; I don't
have to depend on the money L get out
of this to live. 1t is the honor 1 seek
and because my friends all over the
state have united in requesting the gov
ernor to make me a member of the
court of visitation 1 will accept only
that place. L cannot accept the terms
of this arrangement. If the governor
turns me down, well and good; if he
appoints me so much the better for me.
But, under no circumstances will 1 ac-
cept any other place"
Thus ended the negotiations. Albaugh
was made receiver and Jim Simpson
was sent home to his farm where he
makes more money than any job in the
state pays, but he is Inundated at hav-
ing been turned down with the best
endorsement ever given an individual
in the state of Kansas for a public Of