The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-07

: M may also be sprung as candi-
| date Webb made the race for congress
was on the Republican ticket away
! back in 1880, the first year the Popu-
lists captured the congressional dele
| CATION Webb was showed under by
! William Baker, the first Populist the
Sixth district sent to congress.
Congressman-at-Large Scott. who is
! new on the Kansas congressional dele
| cation, writes interestingly of the man
| ner in which President Roosevelt gets
through with lot of congressman who
! Washington is of much less Importance
| than he is at home There are 50
| many congressman here writes Mr..
| Scott, land they are chasing around
| all over town hunting places to live
| like college students when the term
| opens One bumps up against them
| neutrality-suspicious. if he happens
| TO be in the same business, and there
| fore naturally drifts to the same places
| they do There We're a dozen or more
| at the White House the other day when
| | went to pay my respects to the presi-
| dent 1t didn't take the president long
! to dispose of them, and yet he was not
rude. or even brusque. He began with
! the man nearest him, took him by the
| hand, maybe both hands, told him he
! was delighted to see him, maybe told
him SO twice, thanked him for calling.
asked him to come again, shook his
| hand the second time and turned to the
next man. 1t is really interesting to
| see how little time it takes him to
| empty big rOon-and he doesn't send
anybody away either
James NJ. Chisham. the postmaster at
| Atchison. will have a bill introduced at
J the present session of congress to re-
imburse him for over $500 of govern
ment money which he had on deposit
| in the AtchiSOn National bank when it
| failed, and which he had to make good
] to the government. A similar bill was
introduced in the last session and was
favorably reported, but congress ad-
Journed before it was reached on the
calendar. 1t is customary to reimburse
| a postmaster in an instance of this
kind When w. H. L. Pepperill secre-
tary of the Democratic state committee,
was postmaster at Concordia, thieves
stole about $500 of government funds
from the postoffice, but after some time
had passed congress reimbursed Mr..
Pepperill for the loss.
The possibility of a fight over prohi-
bition in the Republican state conVen-
tion is already bringing out number
of expressio ions the subject w. M.
Beck, of the Holton Recorder, is against
a prohibition plank in the latfOrm,
not he SAYS because we do not ia
vor prohibition, but because we do. We
have prohibition in the constitution and
in the statutes. 1t has been there for
20 years, and is there to stay. If there
is any issue that is settled it is that of
prohibition in Kansas, and every con-
test that has resulted in favor of the
publican votes. Everybody knows
where the Republican party stands on
this question, and there would be just
as much sense and prOpriety in putting
in the platform plank against human
slavery or one in favor of public schools
and the homestead law al this one pro-
posed" 1t is nevertheless a fact that
there is a strong element in the Repub-
lican party which is in favor of repudi-
ating prohibition
The Olathe News-Hera1d is mad al |
Congressman Bowersock for appointing !
Charles Sprs que as postmaster at Ola |
the. 1t says that Mr.. Bowersock migh- |
have prevented much bitterness if ne |
had named MIR. Sprague before the con- |
test began If, as his friends claim. Mr.. |
BOwerSOck had no intention of appoint |
ing anybody but Sprague at any time. |
Here is comment by Morton AL |
baugh who is both state bank commits |
sioner and also chairman of the Repub- |
lican state committee: about two |
years ago it was claimed that a man |
from Oklahoma went to Washington !
hunting for a federal job. He tried to |
enlist a Washington friend who asked |
him relative to his home endorsements |
With a look of scorn and disgust. he |
replied: Endorsements, HI; down there !
its a question of affidavits.' Kansas al |
Washington is rapidly getting in this !
same predicament. And it's not all the |
fault of the people doing the kicking |
always named there would be no occa- !
sion for such affidavits. and protests
against appointees or proposed ap- |
pofntees, would be rare thing"
The candidacy Of r. B. Welch for as
sociate justice recently received little |
push from the Osborne Farmer. After !
saying some nice things about Mr.. |
Welch the Farmer concludes: Located |
as he is, in the First congressional dis |
trict, he thinks the present distribution
of members of the court will be favor
able to his aspirations. there being two |
members of the court now residing III |
the Fourth district, and one in each Of |
the others excepting the First, which
has none"
Considerable interest is developing in
the contest over the attorney general
ship. The principal candidates men
toned thus far are Judge ]. s. West, of
Wyandotte county; Harry Bone, OF
Clark; w w. Caldwell, of Cloud and
r. w. Blue, of Cherokee Judge West
is Attorney General Godard's chief as
sistant. He viii probably have the
Second district solid for him, and prob
ably considerable support on the out
side. His home now is in Kansas City,
kaS-, but he formerly lived in Linn
county, and served on the district bench
down there, making an excellent record.
Harry Bone is the retiring assistant
United States district attorney, whom
E. d. McKeever will shortly succeed.
Mr.. Bone will receive the support of the
southwest He represented Clark
county in the legislature before his ap-
pointment as assistant United States
district attorney, and in his four years
term in his federal position he has
made an enviable reputation as a
lawyer And to add to this his personal
popularity extends from one end of the
state to the other w. w Caldwell is
one of the leading attorneys of the |
Fifth district, and is chairman of the
Cloud county Republican central COM
m1ttee- Ex-COngresSman r. w. Blue
IS not an avowed candidate for the
place, but his friends are pushing him
forward. Blue himself is looking for