The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-06-15

Uncle Storms has gracious bit of
pleasantly seWed up in his vest pocket
that viii play a part after while. When
the legislature was IN session the de-
feated Dalton warmed up to Uncle
Storms and asked him to get him a pass
to Oklahoma. Dalton said he wanted
to go down TO see q sick sister who
hOvered at the point of death. Uncle
Storms in the fullness of his heart set
out in person to get the little piece OF
paper. He found the pass maker out
OF the city and to be gone four or five
days. He wrote to Dalton explaining
his lack of success and the reason for
it. Then he passed it over till the pass
maker came back to town. The morn
ing of the last event Uncle Storms got
out his writing pad and his best hand
to send a note after the pass. He had
by this time learned the use of the
hard-worked messenger who did the
trotting back and forth to the railroad
offices. Just as he handed the note to
the messenger he picked up his morn
ing's mail from the desk and caught
sight of familiar handwriting
Wait a minutes, Mr. Messenger"
commanded Uncle Storms, thinking
possibly the sister was dead and Dali
ton would not want the pass. He open
ed the letter and read something like
this:
George H. Storms.
Dear Sir:-Some excuse is better than
a poor one. Your excuse is the poorest
I ever saw. You sit up there and think
you are the only great man in the state.
There are a few others left out here in
the short grass and don't you forget it.
Yours J. T. DALTON.
Uncle Storms took back his note from
the messengers hand and tore it into
little bits. The feud has been on ever
since.
Lawrence is highly pleased at the
prospect of the United States district
attorneyship going to that town.
Charles Finch has the following in the
Lawrence Journal:
There seems to be reason for the be-
lief that Judge George J. Barker, pres
ent speaker of the house, stands a very
good chance to become United States
district attorney for Kansas. 1t is we'll
known that Senator Burton holds him
in high esteem personally, and that no
other man has been mentioned for
whose appointment good and Suff1-
cient reason could be given. Should the
senator see fit to recommend Judge
Barker for the place, his action would
be heartily endorsed by the people OF
Kansas. There is perhaps no man
prom fnently before the people of the
state today who has more friends and
fewer enemies than Judge Barker. His
unanimous election as speaker OF the
lower house last winter was a high
honor, and he showed his apprecia ton
of it by his work during the session.
Never in the history of the state was
there less Ir1CllOn IN TIE mouse lutiu
there was last winter. Not a dispute
arose that was not easily quieted by
the diplomatic and kindly hand of Mr..
Barker, and political enemy as we'll as
friend came to have the highest regard
for him. No appeal was ever taken
from his decision, and old mem bers and
politicians declared that the house of
representatives never had a speaker
who could handle the house as Speaker
Barker handled It. Judge Barker was
we'll known throughout the state before
his election as speaker. but the state
at large did not know. until he exhib-
tied them in the house, of his powers,
diplomacy, his resourcefulness his tact
and his executive ability. So far as
Lawrence and Douglas county are con-
cerned, Judge Barker will be endorsed
for the place regardless of party lines.
His neighbors recognize his superior
ability and peculiar fitness for the Of
fee, and Senator Burton could not
please them better than to ask his ap-
Dointrneut from President Mckinley.