The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-23

County Index was elected as the Off
clal county paper The editor of the
rival paper was the member of the
legislature who introduced the special
bill providing for the election, and now
the Index s'rubs it in by printing
card of thanks addressed to the other
man, thanking him for getting the bill
through the legislature
Some of the Republican papers have
joined the Republican lawyers in say
ing nice things about Chief Justice
DoSter, and saying that he ought to be
retained on the bench. But they will
all forget about it when the state con-
vention meets. The Lawrence World,
an outspoken Republican paper, says;
THE lawyers are praising Chief Justice
Doster and regretting that the fortunes
of politics demand his retirement. This
is not necessary. If Doster has made
the judge they say he has, and every
thing indicates that he has made good
one it is the duty of the voters to re-
tain him, no matter upon what platform
he runs. The Judiciary should be above
and free from politics. If the writer of
this is convinced at election time that
Doster is the best man for the place he
will vote for Doster, and the Republi-
canism of this paper or its editor can
not be questioned. Only we do not be-
leve in hidebound partisanship. We
owe something to the country
The Minneapolis Better Way, which
he has one, says that Senator Mcmillan
will probably not be a candidate for
the fusion nomination for congress, pre-
ferring to finish his term in the state
senate first. In case Mcmillan does not
run, it is more than likely that the
southwest corner of the Fifth district
will throw its support to T. l.. Bond.
of Salina. Bond is chairman of the
Populist central committee in Saline
county, is a good mixer, a ready taiker,
and would get a whole lot of strength
behind him in case he should go after
the nomination.
A gubernatoria1 boom which has been
gathering a great deal of force within
the past two weeks and which is worry
ing the other fellows a great deal, is
that of George E. Cole. Cole has a
record to run on. He is now finishing
up his third term as state auditor, and
it is record to be proud Of The three
terms have not come consecutively, but
he has been elected three times to the
office. Mr.. Cole has not stated that he
will be a candidate, but his friends are
pushing his candidacy just the same.
Il have not decided what I will do
about it, he said to a State Journal
reporter recently. Il do not know that
1 want to make the race" But not
withstanding this, support for Coles
boom is springing up all over the state.
Following the announcement of Cyrus
Leland that he is for Cole if Bailey
does not run, Colonel Weldy, of Ga
united support of the entire Third con-
gressional district, and the Ellsworth
Reporter, away out in the Sixth district,
comes out in a strong editorial support
ing Cole. 1t looks as though Mr.. Cole
is running whether he wants to or not,
and he is making a pretty swift race
of it
Ex-State Senator Young, who a few
years ago when the Populist party was
about the whole thing in Kansas, was
one of the most influential members of
the party, makes this statement in his
paper, the Independence Popu1ist: LAS
between Theodore Roosevelt and Ar
thur Pue German candidates for
president, I have not the slightest hesi-
tation in saying would prefer Roose-
velt."
w. A. White, who is recognized as a
great power in Kansas politics because
of his intimate personal relations to
President Roosevelt, ruthlessly snubs
A. W. Smiths gubernatorial boomlet.
Mr.. White says editorially in his paper,
the Emporia Gazette: This is the day
of the thoroughbred in politics; the man
of education, of experience, of intel
ligence and moral courage. Men like
Roosevelt and Low are coming to the
front. The haWhawer, the handShaker,
the fellow who can get out and tell
dirty stories and drink whisky with the
boys, the mixer" the 'hxer," the old
rooster who is "a whole team at SOL
diers' bean dinners, the man who con-
trolls the farmer vote, in fact the type
of the old time politician is passing
away. Men of achievement, of capacity.
who can wear dress suit or pair of
overalls with equal felicity, men who
use correct grammar and think clearly
and act cleanly, these men are ruling
politics today; In view Of this fact the
announcement of A. W. Smith as can
didate for governor sounds like the
dying echo of a horn among the distant
hillsI"