The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-24
Faithful Follow the Senator to
Kansas City.
Will Be a Conference at Blossom
House Tonight.
AFRAID FOR MR.. CRUM.
Fear That Fight Will Be Opened
on Him.
How to Prevent Leland's Reap
pointment Another Text.

Senator Burton passed through Tope-
ka on the Union Pacific this afternoon
going to Kansas CITY. There is a big
coterie of Kansas politicians in Kansas
City today to see Cresceus. the world
chan pion racer do a mile, and after
wards have a conference at the Bios
som House.
From Kansas City the whole contin-
gent is coming to Topeka tomorrow at
noon and another wrestling match with
political amenities will be held Friday
and Saturday around the Copeland
whispering gallery.
Pat. .Coney has given it out that he
will be one of the senator's callers in
this city, with Capt. John Seaton, May
or Donald. A. W. Smith and ether Re
publicans who started the chain letter
through Kansas to prevent the appoint
ment of Cyrus Leland as pension agent
The boss busters desire to tell Sena-
tor Burton what progress they have
made in the steps taken to present a
protest to President Roosevelt and VIII
ask him to ignore the compact Presl-
dent Mckinley made with Mr. Leland,
when. the latter permitted his appoint
ment to be deferred until after another
federal appointee had been named, and
to again enter his senatorial protest
against Mr. Leland
There is also expectation that some
opponents of Lit Crum's appointment
as United States marshal may make
their appearance from the Third dis
trict. All the other big federal ap-
pointments will be out of the way when
the time comes to make the new United
States marshal Being last on the list
has its disadvantages on the nervous
tension of the candidate. Crum has had
several uneasy days of late on account
of a mess or two he has been getting
into in his own district
He admits that there is a scent of
trouble in the air. Crum went into the
deal with Ed Greer and others in the
southern border counties to bring out
Seth Wells, of Erie. for state auditor.
Wells was brought out with all the
flourish of Burton friendliness back of
him. 1t was patent at once, to OBJ
servers on the side that George Cole
was blocked from going into the race
for governor, if he 50 desired. should
the Third district get behind Wells and
demand the auditors place in the state
ticket for him.
Crum denies any conspicuous connec-
tion with Wells candidacy, but he is
not playing in the same back yard with
Cole any more.
Ordinarily Crum would not be alarm
ed by a break or two in the Third dis
trict political family, but he has not
landed the United States marshal's
commission yet and he wants TO steer
clear OF protests, If possible. One of
the central counties in the district
causes worriment of this kind, because
it has the paper all drawn up and a
man ready to start out with the circu-
lation of it
The men in the Third district are at
the pitch where they want to talk
state ticket" and it will be difficult
matter to keep them from doing so at
this conference. Senator Burton does
not want to talk state ticket now. His
lieutenants and friends have been go
ing into the slate-making business too
heavily and the exposes that have fol-
lowed each move have brought heavy
blows on their heads with the bludgeon
of criticism They were compelled TO
get out from behind Richter's boom for
governor and to drop the Scott boom
almost as quickly as the schemes were
hatched.