The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-04

and was written the following August.
There is no politics in it, but Governor
Anthony explains that he has gone to
Chicago to interview the traffic man
ager of the Santa Fee with regard to the
advancement Of his son, George H,
who was at that time agent for the
Santa F'e at Salina.
There is then a lapse of a year and a
half between the letters. and the next
one was written during the legislative
war of 1898. 1t follows:
Topeka, Kan, Feb. IA, 1898.
MY Dear Sister:
The political conditions
here are a fulhllment of my predictions
of a few years past, sooner realized than
seemed possible when they were made
have recognized from the start a we'll
organized revolution, bent upon the sub
version or overthrow of our government
and have not hesitated to declare the
Populist movement organized treason
For this reason am disliked, perhaps,
more than any other citizen in the
state.
LAS you may see in the paper, we
have an organized contention in this
office may add to what you will read
in the paper a little for your own in
formation.
First. am Disguised with the whirl
Of public life and have determined to
get out of it. Had 7 been elected to
congress the chances are that 1 should
not have qualified and entered upon
its duties. In this case do not want
to retain the Office but adhere to it in
the interests of law and order, purely
unselfish If sustained in my office,
shall not lold it more than one out of
the two years from April next, when
the full term expires. My actions seem
to force the governor and his strikers
to recognize that there is a coordinate
branch of our government known as the
judiciary, which they seem determined
to ignore in their revolutionary ac-
lions.
Sow ~ he inc
anticipated your many wants, as it is
my purpose to do always, but this mud
die has kept me on a mental strain all
the time of late, and for the past ten
days practically a prisoner. To pre-
serve a legal point we have to hold pos
session of this office by actual occu-
pancy until it gets before the court.
Hence, Mitchell or myself are here al
most every hour of the day or night.
We supposed it would come to an end
yesterday, as our successors have been
qualified by bond and oath, and there
is no apparent reason for not demand
ing their places.
"Affectionately your brother,
GEORGE"
The next letter is a very long one and
was the last one of those written by
Governor Anthony. 1t deals principally
with the sisters settlement in life, but
also enters somewhat into the philOs-
ophy of old age. Governor Anthony
says he does not seem to have near as
much anticipation m the future as the
sister seems to have, as he believes he
is living on borrowed time, having lived
his allotted three score years and ten.
The contest over the railroad board
was then pending in the supreme court,
and he refers to it in this characteristic
sentence:
I'VE shall fight it out on the line first
chosen. with fear, favor or compro-
mise as forbidden elements in a conten-
ton which involves a principle and is
pursued by us to maintain a right"
Then follow a large number of let
tiers written by Mrs. Anthony, dating
from the time of her husbands death in
the fall of 1896. They are pathetic in
the extreme, and in them Mrs. Anthony
frequently expresses a longing to fol
low George" as she expresses it.