The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-13
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
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gress in this city for some time. Mr.
Dey represents the radical prohibition
lists and Mr.. Lawrence the other ex-
treme- The peculiar part of the sftua-
ton, however, is that at the time the
biennial election law was under conS1d-
Grafton by the legislature last winter
Senator Simons and Mr.. Lawrence en-
tered into an agreement to support
Emery E. Wilson for the position should
the law pass and be held good, as he
was to be Sumner county's candidate
should an election be held. The present
indications are that Mr.. Lawrence
wants to back into the race himself,
and in order that his agreement may
not be an impeachment and to make his
entrance more effective he has given
out the statement that the governor
has not only rendered him the position
once, but he has went and gone and
done it thrice. The only question is,
will he accept. As it was standing
jest with Jim around Copeland county
last winter when visited by any of his
friends, that Mrs. Stanley controlled in
these matters and that he was opposed
to this law on that account. his friends
are now wondering whether he con-
suited that lady before giving out his
interview and if not whether even this
proposition may not be vetoed. Cowley
county will probably have a candidate
or two, but the fight will probably pe
between Mr.. Lawrence and Mr.. Dey, if
the former succeeds in getting into the
race"
There is sedition fermenting in the
Seventh district since word has gone
out from some of its leading workers
that the political ambitions of its num-
erous candidates are to be squelched
and that the only thing the Seventh
win ask for on the state ticket next
year is one supreme court justice, in the
person of Henry P. Mason. of Garden
City.
Mason is all right" says John E.
Junkin. of Sterling, but who are these
self-cOnstituted leaders who intend to
nip in the bud the booms of Mort Al
baugh Tor governor, R. p. McCullOch
for Attorney general Judge Martin for
congressman at-large, Billy Glenn for
lieutenant governor and other good Re
publicans from various parts of the dis
trict. The Big Seventh was successful
two years ago in landing four places on
the state ticket because the boys out
here stuck together, and can win again
by the same tactics-not by giving the
cold shoulder to two or three good men
in order that one other may win. There
is a liability that this leadership bust
ness may be overdone in the Seventh"
Harry Lusk rises from the depths of
his sanctum in Parsons to jostle the
state printer a friendly rap, thus:
Nv. Y Morgan, the millionaire editor
of the Hutchinson News, is the only
Kansas newspaper man that has so far
visited the Buffalo Exposition
Since Herbert D. Crosby lost out on
the appointment of receiver of the land
office at LawtOn. he has determined to
go to the new country nevertheless. Mr..
Crosby has resigned, or will shortly re-
sign, his position as claims attorney
for the Rock Island. He will go to
Anadarko, county seat of Caddo coun-
ty, to engage in a general law prac-
Almost United States District Attor-
ney B. H. Tracy brought new story
from Kansas City the other day. It
goes like this:
A colored convict at the state peniten-
tiary was observed to wear most I'M
clearly shirt 1t was streaked with to-
bacco juice down the front friend
observed the tobacco juice trail down
the front of the shirt while on q visit
to the prison but said nothing. Some
time afterward the friend met the
negro on the street, his term at Lam
sing having expired. He saw again the
streak of brown discoloration on his
shirt front. This time he asked the man
how he formed such a careless and I'M
slightly habit
s'We1, you see I play pokah play
VIII Mistah Tomlinson, Mistah Thomp-
son, Mistah Bahnes and Mistah Nae
falkland, captin oh de guard That's
how done gone get into de habit
But why didn't you spit over your
shoulder"
Didn't I tell yo' that 1 play pokah
wifi -Mistah Tomlinson, Mis-
tab Thompson, Mistah Bahnes an Cap
tin Macfa0IandZ
Then the friend tumbled and asked
no more questions.
The suit against Senator J. r Bur
ton of Kansas, which was brought in
April Of 1900. by the AIeTrimack River
Savings bank of Manchester. New
Hampshire, to recover S23, $50 on prom
.issory notes given by the defendant in
1883, has been practically settled in the
United States circuit court in Colorado.
A Denver paper says: Senator Bur
ton was served with the papers in the
suit last fall when he was attending a
Republican rally in this city The COM
plant stated that he had given the
notes of the firm Of Crfppen & Law
renee, who subsequently assigned them
to the bank On motion OF Senator Bur
tons attorney the case was transferred
from the district court to the United