The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10
Evident That the Usage Senator
Must Be Reckoned With.
HE is WELL GROUNDED
Has Even Been a Consistent
Burton Supporter.
Watching Miller Cloud
in Fear and Trembling.
News Of Interest Cleaned Among
the Politicians.

State Senator H B. MiIler's boom for
governor has had the most prolific
growth of any flower in the political
garden, since the rains came and the
drouth was broken. Usage county is
not slow to recognize the fact. The
papers in his home county have put it
squarely up to the county Republican
committee to give Miller their endorse
ment just as quick as they know how,
and go to work for their man.
No great clubbing will be necessary
to accomplish this. If there is any dis
position to hang back at all, it is on
the questionable notion of being long
way from the bridge. County Chair
man L T. Hussey came to Topeka yes
terday afternoon. in company with
Judge Thomson. While the judge was
filing his endorsements for re-appOint-
ment with the governor Hussey had
his ears open around the other offices
and took in some sounds favorable to
the Usage county candidate Hussey
said the county committee would take
hold at the proper time.
More politicians are for Miller than
will say they are There is an under
current of support going over to him
that causes Harry Richter sleepless
nights The way Richter keeps peg
ging away with his aspirations execu-
tive mansionward is expected to bring
proper time in short metre.
Since too much publicity and trouble
in other quarters postponed one pur-
ported conference, the making out of
state slate" has not been actively
pressed by the big political guns in the
Republican party. The intention to get
at this as soon as the federal appoint
ments are out of the way has not been
abandoned. But the federal appoint
ments have had q persistent habit Of
staying in the way The fight on Tracy
added to this obstacle In this pre-
dicament the method has been adopted
Of popping up straw candidates all
over the state to keep interest in the
situation, attention away from the fell
lows who have been told they are to
have the plums, and continue the i'm
preston that everybody viii have a
chance to draw cards from the new
pack Prof kendrick, recently an
nOunced for superintendent of public
instruction is not in real favor with
the s'fixers'' There is nothing solid
about the rumcred candidacy of Reg
lister of Deeds F.. G. Roberts, of Usage,
for state auditor Roberts IS not even
a straw man egged on by tricl<ster
Richter to make a split against Miller
in the district delegation Roberts IS
bolstered up to beat Pottle out of the
a show left for neither when it comes
to making the state ticket.
But how about Mr.. Miller and Sem
ator Burton? Openly the Junior SEN
ator cannot afford to disparage the
candidacy of the Osage statesman.
Miller was for Burton firmly, and if he
is not the next governor, he will be in
the state senate with a vote for Bur
toms future colleague. which is not
pledged to Governor Stanley Richter
has been we'll paid for his allegiance
by the pleasure and profit of presiding
over the honorable senate last winter,
and other favors. He is too valuable a
henchman to drop with a dull thud, but
if the rank and file speak out loud
and his own district should be
wrenched away from him, Richter may
be found to have done all his running
this year. Miller is a strong man per
sonally.
An cid hand at the game was trying
to convince the tyrO in politics that he
ought to suppress his idea of the per-
sona1 fitness of a candidate and work
for the fellow that the bosses picked
out, not so very long ago. The lesson
on how to climb into the band wagon
did not suit the youngster-
Did YOU ever stop to think what a
nor?" inquired the preceptor, with per-
suasive e1oquence- How in after years
you can tell your children and your
children's children of the part you took
in gathering support at his back and
getting the nomination and making
votes to elect the man who stood for
two years or more at the head of the
great state Of Kansas? Wouldn't that
be q thing to be proud of2'
IF he made a good governor I sup
pose it would; but if he didn't I should
be ashamed of it. was the slow reply.
That's right that's right"
But who are we talking abOut2"
Harry Richter"
ssRichter? Well. I don't believe I'd
want to take the chancesp'
The old hand gave UP the job.
Next week some time the supporters
of Sam Kimble, the reformed Democrat
who is a candidate for appointment to
succeed Judge Glass on the bench in
the Twenty first district, will bring in
his endorsements 20 Governor Stanley.
They send word ahead that they have
a stack of them, including the bar of
Riley Clay and Marshall counties. At
any rate they might as well have Mar
shall county, because, strange as it may
county are as scarce as liquor at a Pro
kibition picnic. Authority says there
are only three and an estray who
wandered off into WOman's suffrage.
There is a kick on Kimble from some
dyed-in-t1le-w wool partisans who have
never forgiven the Manhattan man for
uorshipping a t the shrine of Grover
Cleveland and tariff reform when the
stuffed prophet sprang into popularity
and the Democracy had its last great
issue Kimble's friends claim that the
fusionists are really the ones that are
raising the clatter and that their
scheme is to throw dust in the eyes Of
the appOintive power. They know that
Glass with his popularity, will be hard
to beat q year hence, although the dis
trict should be normally Republican by
a thousand majority. They figure that
Kimble would be stronger in a fight for