The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-23
BRYAN'S HAND.
1t Is Felt in the Senatorial
Fight at Lincoln.
He Is Working to Maintain the
Existing Deadlock.
WANTED TO GO HOME.
Wished to Spend Sun
day With Their Families.
At His Urgent Request They
Promise to Remain.

Lincoln. Neb.. March 2s.-Editor
Rosewater made a third attempt last
night to secure the caucus nomination
for the North Platte senatorship, but
| failed as completely as in every other
caucus that has been held. He received
but "a votes after 30 ballots had been
cast, and 45 are necessary to a choice
MeikIeJohn's IA men stood by him. and
Currie received votes. D. f. Thomp-
son secured his nomination through the
assistance of RoseWater, who is still
waiting for the Burlington candidate to
i reclprocate. Thompson promised to Eelp
/ the Omaha editor, but it is nov charged
| that Thompson has failed to make good
/ Thompson will make another effort to
1 be elected when the fiftieth ballot in
| joint session is taken at noon today,
! but Rosewater said that he feared that
/ there will be no quorum. This means
| that RoseWater is frightened at the fail
ure of Thompson to carry promises into
effect and THE distrustfuI editor will en-
deavor to keep Thompson from being
elected until a new caucus is called
An effort is being made to call new
caucus solely for the purpose of naming
a North Platte candidate. The ten in
surgents are willing to join in such
caucus providing a South Platte nominal
| ton is barred RoseWater is Of the
| opinion that he can be named in a
caucus called solely to name a North
Platte man.
There will be no more caucuses until
Monday and many legislators are pre-
pairing to go home to spend Sunday.
Thompson wants several Pops to go
home. If nine ten do so, as Mr..
Thompson desires, there can be an cleo
ton. unless the Rosewater men desert or
hlibuster all day.
William ]. Bryan took hand in the
fight when he pleaded with twelve fu-
sicnistS who want to go home. Mr..
Bryan begged them to remain, SO that
the deadlock will continue. The thirteen
fusionists said they would remain in
Lincoln in order to comply with Esryan's
request.
Chairman Hanna sent kilograms to D.
z. Thompson and to National Commit
teen1an Schneider, but refused 10 an
sWer the def of the ten insurgents.
Although D. E. Thompson received 50
votes in joint session yesterday, the
highest number that has yet been cast
for any candidate, there were six votes
needed to elect a United States senator.
The total number voting was 129 and So
were necessary to elect. The additional
vote for Thompson came from Sena tor
Lorenzo Crounse, himself a candidate
for the North Platte nomination. The
sudden change of CrOunse's vote was I'M
expected, and when it was cast the gal
leries applauded for the first time in
many days. In explaining his vote,
CrOUnse said.
I'VE are now taking the forty-ninth
ballot. as understand it We have
arrive at result Yesterdays vote dis
closed the fact that there is one man at
least who is a possibility. The contest
has narrowed down now to a few men,
with a few days left in which to elect
There is a great responsibility resting
upon the shoulders Of each Of US. and
am not inclined to shoulder any part of
It should we adjourn without doing our
full duty. When I leave these halls I
want to take with me the consciousness
of having done my duty to my constitu-
ents The man for whom I shall vote
is not my candidate, as my votes from
dav to day have shown, but he stands |
with 5S members behind him. His Repub-
licanism, standing and ability have the
Endorsement of that number. His fell |
low citizens here at home have given !
him a handsome Endorsement. I, for one, !
shall not set up my judgment against +.
that of the majority and, therefore, vote |
for d. E. Thompson and F. M. Currie-,' |
1t was plain from the faces OF the |
Thompson men that they were not ex- |
evident that the anti-ThoHnpson men weresi
also upset. Several of them heard the |
announcement with blanched faces re- /
alizing that it was a boost for Thompson !
much stronger than any he has yet had. |
Crounse's vote would cause stampede
for Thompson but the tnsurgents and /
son is practically as far away from the |
coveted goal as ever
pense of Meiklejohn, receiving 81 votes to |
Neikleiohn.s %; One insurgent made up /
The fusionists have finally agreed to at /
tend to their own knitting and are anx-
ious to prevent the election of two sena- !
tors by getting everybody out. A whip /
has been appointed to get every member i
in his seat They dragged Representative 4
T3eaiI out Of his sick bed at the Sanitarf- /
to raise the number necessary /
to nominate They also ordered the peir 1
between Hanks and Marshall broken and 1
substituted Watson. one of their sick men,
SO that Mr.. Hanks could vote
There are three sick men. one Repub- /
lican and two fusionists, which leaves the /
number necessary TO elect sixty-f1ve-
Editor Rosewater has authorized the |
following caustic statement concerning /
Meiklejohn- his rival FOR the North Platte /
nomination:
TT is plain that Meiklejohn's chance OF
nomination in caucus is hopeless. and that 4
he is being kept IN the lists only by the \
Representatives of certain railroad corpor- |
ations bent upon preventing the election /
ment being practically set. these people /
are working to prolong the deadlock till /
forcing the legislature to adjourn. leaving 4
both senatorships vacant What IS left
Of Meiklejohn's following IS being care
fully nursed TO erect py indlrecfion what
these political schemers dare not openly
advocate To keep him alive they are
resOrtfng to desperate methods. taking a
certain mum Der of members and tying
them up in hocks. in order to leave him /
with only 1ifty-four to fifty-six in caucus
Tying up dozen men in this way
pletely blocks action By making the
continued ballotiHg in caucus fruitless.
the object is to disgust participants and
break up the new caucus as they did the
old one It is certain no other caucus nor
any plan can be secured during the pres
ent session.
Were it no1 for the outside interfer-
ence. together with the ques tfonabl char
acter Of the campaign that has been car
ried on in the interest of Mr.. Meiklejohn
Nebraska would have had two Republic
fact that for twelve weeks a smooth
Washington lobbyist, styling himself as