The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-15
Judge David Martin Will Prob
ably Be Nominated.
DEMOCRATS THREATEN
Would Not Endorse the NOmi
nation Of Martin.
Insist Upon Agreement Being
Carried Out to Letter.
Mrs. DiggS Very Much Excited
Over the Prospect.

Lie luulCdClQnS are ln1iI the FUSION
conventions called for Fort Scott July |
"A will be the most sensational in the !
history of that political alliance in
Kansas, and the wise men are figuring |
that there will be a split and a prob
able bolt, verifying Mack Loves pre-
diction that unless the Populists abide |
by the fusion agreement made in To-
peka there will be three tickets in the |
field
This prospect of trouble is all due
to the proposal from the Populists to |
nominate Judge David Martin of Atch- |
ison for associate justice Of the su-
preTne court.
BY the terms of the Hotel Throop
agreement the place of associate jus
t1ce is TO go to the Democrats. but /
there is a DISPOSITION on the part of
Populists to abrogate this agreement
and rebuke the handful of men who
made the deal
Mrs Anniel L. Diggs, state librarian,
is the special champion of Judge Mar
tin. J. w. Orr, the Missouri Pacific
attorney, is the Democratic leader who
is organizing the state for the purpose
of defeating the nomination of Judge
Martin. THE place must go to a DEM
ocrat," said Mr.. Orr, land we will not
submit to the nomination of a Populist
or silver Republican for associate JUS
tice."
1t seems that Mr.. Breidenthal, who
is to be the fusion nominee for gov
ernor. is not now in favor of Martin.
It was Mr.. Martins decision in the SUI
preme court which saved Mr.. Breiden-
thai his job as bank commissioner in
the time of Governor Morrill,
Mr. Breidenthafs friends are for
John G. Cannon, the W1emOcrat from
Linn county. and the Breidenthal forces
have the following slate made for the
| fusion convention:
| Associate justice, John C. Cannon,
n Inn
Congressman at large. Rev. J. D.
Botkin, Populist, Cowley.
Governor John Breidenthal, Popu-
/ list, Shawnee.
/ Lieutenant governor, A NJ. Harvey,
| Populist, Shawnee.
Attorney general. Glen Fairchild.
| Populist, Kingman-
treasurer Conway Marshall. Demo-
Auditor, H N. Boyd, Populist, Re-
| public.
Superintendent of public instruction.
J. NJ. Tadlock, Populist, Phillips.
| Secretary of state, Abe Frakes, DEM
| ocrat Trego.
Superintendent of insurance. Webb
McNau silver Republican, Smith.
Mrs. Annie L. Diggs, state librarian
said upon this subject today:
Little by little, more and more, year
by year, the Democrats increase their
| demands upon PODulists. This year
| they will have q Democrat in the Third
! district in place of Mr.. Ridgley. The
prospect now promises both the Sixth
| and Seventh-certainly one or the other
to Democrats. The nominee of the
Fourth will probably be Democrat
| We will have one lone, lorn man, Vim
| cent of the Fifth, to proclaim to the
world that we are national party
| Then we must yield on our state ticket
| secretary OF state, treasurer anu dSSo-
ciate justice.
$50 kind of them to leave us any
thing. Next time the governor and con-
gresham at large must be Democrats
| This year they will trade all the Ropu-
lists on our state ticket for members or
legislature, so that they can get the
United States senator. Then, having
successfully played the constructor
in Kansas, the McLeans, the Hills, the
Germans, the Clevelands, the Benedlcts
and all other eminent patriots of that
stripe will get control of the grand old
Democratic party 1t is on this one lit
tie point of associate justice that we
must refuse to yield to the cumulative
Entertainments of Democrats and take
our stand and make our fight for the
| life of the Peoples party.
1T is all very fine" continued Mrs.
Digs, 'for them to say now that the
agreement was only suggestive but We
all know that the Democrats viii de-
mand that the agreement be lived up
to-
1.-The Throop agreement is directly OPP
posed to the initiative and referendum
and I don't believe the PopulIsts at Fort
Mrs. Diggs states that she is opposed
to the nomination of Mr.. Cannon for
associate justice because the nomlna-
ton of a nominal Democrat would be
carrying out the Throop agreement It
. is not the custom for the Peoples party
: to be farmed out that way. And, 1t is a
hit inpudent for a few men to get to-
eether and deliberately apportion the
Offices between the Populists and Demo-
Gratis"
There never has been a time in the
, | history of fusion politics that the pros
poets were so promising of trouble in
| the convention. When the state COM
mittees of the two parties were having
an all night seance fixing UP the fusion
deal in this city a half dozen mem beTS
, | of the Populist and Democratic COM
mittees told Journal reporter in the
+ / corridors at the Throop that the Demo-
: justice to head OFF, David Martin
7 / One of the men high in the councils
of the party said:
+ Jim Orr is leading the fight in the
! ! committee against Martin. Orr says the
! / railroads of Kansas will spend $50, 600 or
more to defeat Martin"
Martin and Orr live in the same town
: The statement embarrassed Orr and he
q issued a card denying having made the
! statement. simultaneously J. Mack
: Love, the chairman of the committee
4 made public a statement exOnOrating
Orr and fathering himself the $50 0OG
q statement. This let Orr out of q bad
= hole and Love shouldered the response
5 bility while Orr proceeded with his Or
4 ganizatfon to down Mr.. Martin.
: Mr.. Love further stated a few days
s ago: If the Populists insist upon
f nominating Martin for associate justice
and do not give the place to the Demo
d Gratis in accordance with the agreement
e we viii name a straight Democratic
It ticket There will then be three tickets
v in the field
The old fashioned Populist believe.
: with Mrs. Diggs that the Populist party
which casts a larger vote in the state