The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-31

a long while for senator with the peo-
pie for him and never get the Office
While in Topeka the other day Judge
Barker explained how he came to get
such a good trio out of the house of
representatives on the state tax revis-
ion commission There's John Francis,
an experienced legislator, who is a sue
cessful farmer and through his many
years in politics knows state business
from one end to the other. Grosser has
been the head of the house taxation
committee for two sessions and has
made a study of taxation during this
time so that he has it down thoroughly
to his finger tips. And Biddle-Biddle-
Wen, he's a friend of mine"
Speaker Barker said he would proba-
bly, not ask to be returned to the house
of representative 1t could not be told
from the manner of his speech whether
he is content with the honors that are
already his or whether he really ex-
poets that rumored Oklahoma Judge
ship.
The latest convert to the mckinley
face is Senator J. R. Burton The
transformation took place somewhere
City this week. The senator has been
SO long absent from Topeka, that, per-
haps. he has deemed it wise to appear
here next week in disguise Publications
viii have to hack the moustache off
their stock cuts if they want to keep up
with the procession.
Labor day will take several well
known campaign spellbinders out over
the state at various places for address
es al the various celebrat tlOnS. A brief
and partial list is IS follows: Senator
Burton, Atchison; John Atwood, Leav-
enWOrth and AtchiSOn; J. G. Waters,
Pittsburg: Mrs. Annie Diggs, Kansas
City; G. c. Clemens, Clinton, Mo. State
T 10 49, I'll
Atchison, Kansas City. kan. and Kan
sas City, Mo-; Assistant State Labor
Commissioner B. P. Scott, Scranton; J.
H. Stavely, Scranton.
Lit Crum is found out at last He is
a philosopher. And it is not because Lit
is waiting so patiently for his commits
sion as United States marshal to come
along. A Topeka student of human
nature has discovered that a philoso-
pher closes one eye when he talks.
That's all
The first postmaster that Clyde, Re
public county, ever had was a Pennsyl-
vania German for long familiarly
known as Uncle Moses Heller He was
said to have been the first settler of
Clyde. The first postoffice was in
crude log cabin which stood where the
Egg Park now stands. Heller carried
the mail from Fort Riley on horseback.
He was proba bly, the most accommO-
dating postmaster that Clyde has ever
had and his like would beat all the
aSpirantS to place in the favor of inn
patient maiI-getters nowadays Uncle
Moses didn't have any 4OckboxeS or de-
livery window in his log cabin post
Office. AS soon as he would arrive the
simple German would empty the con-
tents of the mailsack on the floor and
tell the few settlers who were anxiously
waiting to help themselves" As
tribute to his melnorzza people Of
Clyde have subscribed money to pro-
cure life-sized portrait of the popular
pioneer postmaster have it framed and
hung in the postoffice.
Jerry Botkin, once Populist congress-
man at large from Kansas, now
Methodist minister has been heard
from again in a particularly forceful
way. Winfield is in the throes of a
temperance revival and recently Bot
kin made a breezy speech at one of the
meetings in which he hung the hides of
the jointist fraternity and their SYM
pathizers on the fence to dry. This an
gered the crowd and Jerry was waylaid
on his way home by a crowd of toughs
who began abusing him. Jerry cleared
for action and proposed to make it in
teresting for the crowd and they hush
ed up. Then jerry published a card in
the local paper reiteratfng what he had
said in his speech. and wound up by
saying:
in conclusion wish to say to these
cowardly whelps that If they will meet
me like men with their grievances,
either day or night, and not. like the
towards they are deny having offered
me the indignities they have, I will
guarantee them all the trouble they are
looking for
A. Gibson, land clerk in the state
auditors Office is a Carpenter man
first. last and ali time, for congress in |
the Third district He never misses a !
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