The Topeka state journal., 1900-03-09
NOT BE SHELvED.
P0pUlists Resent Railroad Fight
on David Martin.
Ex-Justice Allen Says He VIII
Be Nominated.
PEOPLE WON'T LISTEN.
Excuse Given For DispOsing of
Him Settles 1t.
Voters Won't Let Railroads
Dictate Nomination.

There is already well under way q
revolt among the Populists against the
division Of the offices on the fusion
ticket, as made last week by the triune
committees The cause of the revolt is
because the railroad interests dictated
that Judge David Martin shall not be
the fusion nominee for associate justice
Many Populists who are prominent
in party councils are free to say that
the deal made by the committee can
not be carried out; that the POpulist
state convention will not endorse it.
They say moreover that Judge Martin
is only made the stronger by the at
tack of the railroad interests upon him
1t is also pointed out that It would be
an anomaly of the strangest kind for
Governor Stanley to make an anti
railroad campaign on the Republican
ticket, while the railroads and other
corporations dictate the actions of the
Populists.
There is no doubt but what the rail-
road interests, through Bale Wag-
gener, were back of the demand that
Judge Martin should be sheIved- They
dictated to the Republicans four years
ago that he should not be renominated
for chief justice, although he was ap-
pointed by Governor MorriII upon the
resignation of Judge Horton
There is no telling what a Populist
convention will do said ex-AssOciate
Justice Allen today. a PopuIist con-
vention cannot be bossed or dictated to.
I think the rank and file of the POpu-
list party are more ready to follow
leaders than they were eight or ten
years ago, but they are still independ-
ent and think for themselves, and they
are not to be tied up with anybody's
promises. For this reason don't be-
ieve the division of the offices as made
by the committees will stand The
very fact that Judge Martin is op-
posed by the railroads makes him very
much stronger with the PopuIists. and
I believe he Will be nominated by ac-
clamati0n. I would not attempt to say
what a Populist convention viii do fur
ther than to give my judgment as to
what would suit the majority, but Just
mention railroads and Bale Wag-
gener' in connection with that associ-
ate justiceship to the Populist eonven-
ton and see how quick Judge Martin
is nominated.
I would not be surprised if the Dem
ocratic convention would also nominate
Judge Martin Bale Waggener and the
railroads do not own the Democratic
party, by any means When the Demo-
how things stand, and find out that
the Populists are all for David Martin,
they will also nominate him"
Bob Semple, who IS recognized as one
Of the chief promoters OF the Breiden-
thai movement. talks in the same way.
John BreidenthaI for governor, Da-
vid Martin for associate justice, and
Webb McNau for superintendent OF in
surance, are three nominations that
viii be made by acclamatiOn,' he said
today. Nobody can make an agree
ment that a PopUlist convention will
stay by if it doesn't want to. Bale
Waggener picked on the wrong man
when he tried to rule Judge Martin out
Of the game. The railroads are not
running the PopulIst party, and three
OF four POpuIist committeeman cannot
bind the party to anything"