The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-05
POLITICAL GOSSIP
IL. T.. Kelly Finds an Old Enemy
Oh His Track.
Maj. j. B. Remington to Enter
Race For Treasurer.
In SECOND DISTRICT.
He Will Contest For Honors on
kelly's Stamping Ground.
Governor Stanley as Baseball
Umpire.

a fresh alarm has developed on the
quiet in the camp of the s1ate-makers
around the Copeland. Word has just
reached here that Major jeremiah B.
Remington, OF Osawatomie, has designs
on the state treasurership. The news is
not calculated TO reassure T. T. Kelly,
the present deputy treasurer. He has
had smooth sailing up to date, and has
been making fast run unheaded be-
fore the breeze.
II Major Remington squares his sails
and goes after Kelly, it will make a
very pretty contest in the Second dis
trict Remington and Kelly locked
horns as recently as last year in their
home county. While the major just
managed to scratch through with only
one vote to the good, it was one too
many for Kelly. Viewed from a bust
ness standpoint, Bennington is one of
the ''solid' men of southeastern Kan
saS. He lives on his farm in Osawa
tonne township and has a big lumber
business in Osawatomie. When fac
tional lines are laid down he is one of
the strong Republicans in the state.
The 1900 fight that mixed up Kelly
and Remington was on BurtOn-Baker
lines. Kelly came so near wrestling
Miami county away from Baker that
| he has since been rOoSting as high i'll
the Burton coop as the fellows who
really managed to deliver the goods.
With one eye OH the breaks the junior
senator has been drifting into and stay
ing close at home with his finger on the
pulse of the people, who have horror
of states, Remington has some war
rant to believe that he can break in and
prevent Kelly from walking off with
the Second district in his vest pocket
An assertion has gone along with the
rumor, however, that Remington is a
candidate on bona fide aspirations and
with all past animus buried The
major has served five terms on the floor
of the house of representatives. He
was temporary clerk during the 1egis-
1ative war and speaker pro tenn. in 1895
and 1899, and it is not surprising that
he should rise up after long service In
the ranks and ask for hunk of pie
more like a mouthful than a toothful.
j. j. Mccarthy has not yet loomed up
on the trail of the state treasurer nom
nation though the Burton men have
all along anticipated that the Oska-
loosa man will be after it again. 1t
will not help matters any If he does
come out of the woodpile now.
Governor Stanley, besides being ora
tor of the day at the celebration at Wa
Keeney, acted as umpire of the game
of baseball there, last week. Tt has
been popularly supposed that the gov
err1or could not tell a baseball from a
dirigible flying machine, but this fond
dream, too, is now ruthlessly shattered.
1t is said that he has a& eye like Con-
ME Mack for balls and strikes and that
the fairness of his decisions were never
questioned. When he made the an
nouncement tout on first the COVER
nor of the great state of Kansas had
spokeni There was no appeal. And,
furthermore. it is to be recorded that
no red-shirted ruffian raised his bat on
the umpire nor threatened to call in the
supreme court. They knew when the
governor applied for the position of
umpire it was not because he loved
Cove City less nor Wa-Keeney more,
but because of his patriotic love for the
great national game. Frank Grimes
says that the next time the state house
bail-tossers get up courage enough to
play the newspaper nine, Stanley will
have to umpire the game. The state
treasurer may be reckoning without his
host. Grimes would never score a run.
If Stanley had the chance he would de-
clare the Wichita county wonder "out
at first every time he came to bat and
dance a horn-pipe on his objections.
The Kansas board of railroad COM
missioners, in accommodating the
small railroad towns in the state with
their little grievances, is making a trav-
cling court of itself. Tt goes about, as
one Copeland county sage puts it, like
a bicycle tire, to pick up a. tack Some
times the farthest way round is the