The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-20
BAKERIN HARNESS
Senator Assumes Personal Su
pervisiOn of His Campaign.
Chairman Albaugh Keeping Out
of the Fight.

The absence of Senator Lucien Baker
in Washington during the session OF
congress gave his opponents in the sen
atoriaI contest some advantage in the
organization of their forces but the time
that has thus been lost by the Baker
forces will be more than made up in the
activity with which the campaign on
the part of Mr.. Baker will be conducted
from this time on.
One of the incidents in this campaign
on the part of Mr.. Baker and MI Bur
ton is the frequency with which they
call upon their friends to work first Tor
the success of the party; that being par
amount to the success Of the individual
However, much as the two leading can
didates for the place aspire to the crea-
ton of a sentiment of this character, the
senatorial contest is being made the
most important fight of the campaign
Senator Baker is reported this week
to be out on a trip looking after some
of his fences in various parts of the
state, the purpose of the senator being
to get his workers into line and to dis
cuss the plans for the campaign.
The first meeting Of this character
was held at Leavenworth the first of the
week, I. e. Lambert, Frank Brown,
Judge w. C Hook, and other friends of
the senator being present. The plan OF
campaign was discussed and the pre-
liminary movements were arranged so
that the friends Of the senator could go
TO WOrh. FROM now until the election
Mr.. Baker will have active supervision
of his own campaign and he is now
working with confidence in the result.
Mr.. Baker and his friends feel sure OF
his reelection in the event the legisla-
ture is elected by the Republicans.
1t has been charged that Chairman
Albaugh of the state Republican COM
mittee had Joined the Burton forces and
would be against Mr.. Baker This ru-
NOR lacks confirmation and there are
no indications that Albaugh viii take
any part in the senatorial contest.
The politicians say that Chairman Al
baugh will attend strictly to the man
agement of the affairs of the state COM
mittee and will be impartial on every
/ proposition, so far as it is possible for a
man to be- The friends of Albaugh do
not claim for him infallibility but they
/ are persistent in the assertion that he
/ is a fair minded man and that he will
not jeopardize his own interests as
| chairman of the state committee by be-
coming entangled in the contest which
1 might enbarrass him.
/ The Baker and Burton forces are still
i claiming that each was responsible for
| the election of Mr.. Albaugh to the posi-
| ton of chairman but this question will
! be eliminated later on and if the chair
/ man takes no part in the contest the
actual facts concerning the election viii
probably never reach the public.
/ The Burton folks have intimated that
| in making Albaugh chairman they did
| not bind him to support Burton for the
| senate but they do claim that Mr. Al
! baugh was compelled to promise to
| keep out of the fight, not helping either
| candidate.
There is one thing certain about the
| state chairman He thinks the state
| ticket and the legislature should be first
elected before so much energy is ex-
pended on the senatorial fight but he
will not suggest to the prospective SEN
ators what they should do but will on
the contrary warm the campaign up as
much as he can in the interests of sue
cess for the party.