The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-06-18
His Assistant q. 8. Attorneyship
Not JeOpardized.
Those Who Know Say He Can
Not Lose.
A QUEER SITUATION.
Burton's Advisors Are at Wide
Variance.
Low and Case Want Barker,
MulTane and Grimes, Tracy.

The rumor that George J. Barker
will be appointed United States dis
trict attorney. which started the
tongues of the gossips a-wagging last
week. has started another train of
thought, and that is. If Barker is ap
pointed. viii E D. AIcKeever. of To
peka lose the position of assistant
which has been conceded to him?
1t has been admitted that Mr.. Nc
Keever viii have this position, and
there have been no other candidates,
but now the knowing ones whisper that
NIcKeever may lose in the event tGat
Barker is appointed. This statement IS
based upon the fact that Barker was
speaker Of the last house and Mckee
Yer was speaker pro tenn and is jus
titled by the assumption that Burton
would not select both the speaker and
speaker pro tenn to the same relative
positions in the district attorneys Of
fee
The gossips have it figured out that
in the event H. B. Tracy loses he may
be offered the place of assistant as a
salve for his disappointed hopes, puu
even were Mr.. Burton disposed to IA
vor him in this way, it is doubtful if he
would accept the place.
But the fact is that the selection Of
Mr. Barker would make no difference
in the appointment Of Mr. McKeever.
Like the position of United States mar
shal, that position is as good as filed,
and the man who viii fill it is Mr.. Nc
Keever.
Some Of Mr.. Burton's friends still in
Sist that Tracy viii get the first place,
and Mr.. Tracy himself appears to be
perfectly confident of his own success
IN securing the position 1t is a strange
fact that all the candidates for United
States district attorney have had assur-
ances that they viii be appointed rfon
intimate friends OF Mr.. Burton
Mr.. Lambert's friends have by no
m cans given up the quest They have
1au assurances that Mr.. Lambert
would be named, and his successful
conduct of the Office for the past four
years would Justify Mr. Burton in Sc
lecting him outside Of any political OBJ
MgatiOn The men who pretend to
stand close to Burton say however,
that Mr. Lambert has no chance of ap-
pOintment, but the knowing ones have
been fooled before.
In Mr. BurtOn's immediate cOterie Of
confidential advisers there is a wide
division D. W. Mulvane and Frank
Grimes insist on the appointment of H
B Tracy, and they both say that ne
VIII get the place. NJ A Low and J.
3. Case insist that George J. Barker
must have the place. Mr.. Low made
barker speaker, and unless he recedes
from his demands 1t is likely that he
Will win. Mr.. Burton knows that Mr.
Low is the most potent force in Kan
saS politics Just now, and it is unlikely
that he would refuse to follow his rec
concentrations, even though D. w
Mulvane Is national committeeman and
wants some one else to have the place
George Clark, secretary of state is
no longer admitted to the inner coun-
cils- He insisted that Burton should
stand by his promise to make George
Findlay revenue collector, and conse-
quently he is in disfavor with the gen
tlemen who are known as Mr.. Burtons
confidential friends.
The dispatches from Washington in
dicate that the appointments will be
announced sooner than anticipated
and It may be that the United States
and United States attorney
viii be appointed early in July Mean
while the politicians will continue to
guess and speculate