The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-06-08
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Congressman A. NJ. Jackson Has
a Way Out.
Thinks PopuIists Should Go
Into Democratic Camp.
TELLS A GOOD STORY.
A Case of Hog That Climbed a
Tree.
News About the Politicians and
Their Movements.

congressman A. M. JackSOnS way
OUT for the fusionists of Kansas is for
the Populists to come into the Demo-
cratic fold He has not the slightest
doubt, he says. but that there will be a
pooling of forces when it gets down to
bed rock
"Supposing the Populists refuse to
come into the fold.'' was suggested to the
congressman.
"It'n be another case of the mans
hog that climbed a tree when the time
comes. me- Never heard the story
"A man-no matter when. no matter
where-was telling his neighbor how ms
said the neighbor. Hog couldn't climb
a tree. This hog did, insisted the man.
Couldn't insisted the doubter, tain
the nature of the derned cr1tter- My
hog didn't stop to philosophize over the
nature Of anything; he just climbed the
tree, tell you. He had a good reason
to and he did it, What was his reasonE
That's the way out for uniting the
Populists and the Democrats, contln-
ued the spared monument Of Gods
mercy When we must we must and
it Will come out that way in the end"
No matter what comes of the biennial
election the Republicans of the Twenty
first judicial district have a way of de-
claring their preference for a judge to
succeed Judge Glass, the Democrat
Clay, Riley and Geary counties. Il. w.
StackpOle, of Clay Center, has just an
nounced his candidacy, subject to the
Republican judicial convention stack
pole is the first candidate in the field
There Is Just a little hitch in the con-
ventton this year owing to the uncer-
tainty as to what the supreme court VIII
do concerning the law passed by the last
1egisla ture,'' Del Valentine says in ex-
PLANTATION of the way they are doing
things
the three counties of the judicial district
to hold convention the 1st of July
and if the election is held as hitherto the
nominee viii be ready for the race II
the supreme court decides that the gov
ernor is to appoint, the governor VIII
have an expression from the district as
to their choice, and will know just whom
to appoint
Phillips county Republicans are the
same way for Judge w. H. Pratt, OF
PhilIipsburg for Judge of the Seventeenth
judicial district to succeed Judge Gelger
by appointment this fall or election in
1902, whichever way comes out after The
supreme court has done wrestling with
the biennial law Judge Pratt was the
first judge ever elected in that district
Some of the short grass statesmen
are ready with a boom for governor for
j. a. Bucklin, member of the legislature
from Thomas county A leading Pop
ulist editor UP in the northwest corner
looks at it that Bucxlin is the man who
will stand nearest to the farmers In 1S0z
for governor. This gentle boomer opines
that Buoklin's election as president of
the Cooperative Grain and stock
Growers association of Kansas will
make him strong and popular with the
farmers of the state, providing the or
said before he started in with his
scheme to form the association that 1t
was not to become political factor
Still it isn't possible to have an organl-
zation of farmers in Kansas that hasn't |
some aspirations to cut ice in politics. |
Bucklin is not a handsome man, Out
beauty isn't a requisite. Even II 1t
was the Populists could go further and
do worse.
The Sixth district is chock full Of re-
ceptive candidates Tor congress. me me
idea is becoming more and more firmly
rooted that Resder is to be turned
down for a sure thing. The way the !
favorite sons are being trotted out by |
the several counties up there in the /
northwest IS enough to make anyone |
dizzy. A peculiar thing about the Sixth |
district crowd is that every man that |
has ever been a delegate to county !
convention is as firmly convinced that |
he is good congressional timber as Steve |
Cave is that the experts are thunderin' |
slow about clearing the prairie dogs Que |
of the short grass country So many |
hands are going up that Reeder's |
chances of succeeding himself get bet |
ter every day. One man with an or |
RaDlZallOu Ol SOIlC hAAu Dt11Alu MN Cel4k
walk away with a whole field full of |
fellows that are swapping and snarling |
at each other. There is great proba- |
bility that Mitchell county will 60 to |
the next congressional convention with |
a candidate of it's own. MitchelPs |
'.home man would be either A G. |
Mead. the present member of the legis- |
lature or I. D. Young. It IS also said /
bv the friends of ex-State Senator R. l
r Hays that Osborne county will elect /
a delegation favorable to him
The Sixth has an idea that it has good 1
tirnber-for the United States senator /
also There is talk of grooming Sta tie /
Senator E " Peterson, who so eff |
ciently represented the district of T
Smith Phillips and Norton counties 1
last winter
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