The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-17
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Reported That j. r. Burton
Has a New Ambition.
He Would Be National Commit
teeman From Kansas.

J.R. Burton and his political mana
gers will deny the charge but never
theless the plans which they are all
working on indicate that Mr.. Burton
himself, If half a chance is presented,
will make an effort to be the national
Republican commi tteeman for Kansas.
The first suspicion of this plan was
raised some months ago when it was
known that Burton would seek the po-
sition of delegate to the national con-
vention from the Fifth district. This
was at the time strenuously denied but
it was worked out just the same.
The Burton managers worked this on
the Manhattan convention as sur
prise. They feared to make the plan
public even in Topeka. believing that
We're it generally known that Burton
had designs on the Philadelphia JOB
they would meet defeat even in the
congressional district in which Mr.Bur-
ton lives. 1t was somewhat strange
for Mr.. Burton went to the convention
four years ago to prevent an indorse-
ment of Mckinley.
One of the Topeka Burton men was
afraid of this result He was in such a
state of anxiety during the day of the
convention fearing that the plans would
miscarry, that he could not stay in his
office. Instead he paced nervously
around on the streets, and through the
expected to be charged with some dark
and awful crime.
But. the plans Of the politicians were
carried out to the very letter, Burton's
name was sprung as a surprise and in
the enthusiasm which followed he was
easily elected.
Now the other phase of this PROPOSE
ton presents itself in the plan to make
Burton national committeeman The
men who denied that Burton wanted to
be a delegate from the Fifth district to
the national convention will deny that
he wants to be national committeeman.
Mr.. Burton is ambitious in the direc-
ton of the United States senate. Mr.
Burton and his friends and political
managers believe confidently that the
year for his election is at hand. In the
event the Republicans carry the IegiS-
lature this winter the Burton people in
sist that the work of his political life
Will have ended in a triumphant cleo
ton to the United States senate.
The Burton people claim they have
the Baker forces demoralized and ex-
| cited. Willing to give up the fight and
concede Burton's election is the way
some of the Burton people express
| their opinion of the present situation.
To further the boom which the Baker
| people say will soon explode before the
| crucial period Mr.. Burton seeks the
| position of committeeman. The work to
land him in this place is being done
| quietly. The friends of the president
the national powers that be in the Re
publican party councils are being Guilt
waited and everything is being done that
can be brought to hand to place Mr..
Burton in the public eye and mind 1t
is the hope of his friends that the COM
plications which have already appeared
in the political horoscope will so adjust
themselves as to make Burton the COM
promise. The Burton people have been
fighting Cyrus LELAND. If they can COM
pass his defeat and catch the fallen
mantle their influence and power to aid
o1C
for Burton for senator will be unsur-
passed.