The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-25
OH,MR. PORTER.
Mr. Fuller Says You Fooled the
City Of Girard.
Promised to Not Support Court
Division Bill.
THAT LITTLE HAMMER.
The Girard Man Says At Will Be
Used on Porter.
May Smash His Congressional
Boom While 1t Is Weak.

Senator Porter, of Crawford county,
has had the congressional bee IN his
bonnet since his election In a fusion dis
trict over a strong competitor to the
senate, but the bee has been driven out
by the people who live In Girard- Tt
came about in this way
Cherokee county has been conceded
g. Populist stronghold for the last ten
years; in fact. it has been fusion ever
since there has been such a thing as
fusion, and was a union labor strong
hold before the fusion days. The Re
publicans did not have much hopes Of
carrying the county last fall, but they
put forth an extraordinary effort be-
cause they thought they might need the
vote Of the members in the legislature
to insure a United States senator who
would be a Republican Mr.. Porter was
the man nominated to make the race for
senator and he made splendid race.
There has always been one question in
Crawford county which takes precedence
over any other when a man is a candi-
date for the legislature, and that is
whether he viii vote for or against any
measure that might come up in the leg
islature to move the county seat from
Girard to Pittsburg or in any way favor
a bill that will take the court business
from Girard-
Arthur Fuller, an attorney living in
Girard. is authority for the statement
that Senator Porter promised the people
Of Girard that he would do nothing to
injure their town in the way of support
ing a bill which would divide the court
business and give a part Of it to Pitts
burg. Mr.. Fuller came to Topeka yes
terday to see If the report that Senator
Porter was favoring the bill to divide
the court business was true, and he
found that it was. He not only found
that Mr.. Porter was favoring the meas
hr1f hal 6e ir1r
It. Mr.. Fuller was mad-mad hardly
expresses his condition-he was red hot.
He said:
Porter was elected with the distinct
understanding that he would do nothing
towards supporting the bill to divide the
court business of the county. He prom
ised me faithfully that he would work
against the measure If 1t should come
up and now he has turned US down. It
was the vote of Girard that elected him.
and we are mighty sorry Of it now. but
1t is too late Mr.. Porter drove over to
Girard one night a short time before
assure me that If we in Girard would
support him that he would work for our
interests. It was midnight when he
came and he was very earnest in his
assurances. He told several other of
our citizens the same thing, and so we
did the handsome thing for him at the
polls.
HE is in for four years now, and we
cannot help ourselves, but don't you
think but that we will see that he does
not get the delegation from our county
for the nomination for congress, to
which see by the papers he aspires.'
Mr. Fuller returned to Girard last
night after he was satisfied that he
could do nothing to hinder the passage
Of the bill in the senate. The bill went
through Thursday morning, but it may
have some difficulty in passing the
house
1t is because Of the court business that
the inhabitants Of Girard have their
hatchets out. and that town will not be
a pleasant place for Mr.. Porter to visit
for some time to come.