Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-03-16

Kansas, with the single eycention .,
ingalls,, made him more than n iocoi
figure. and when the alliance Nova
Hlt"t came upon the state his llacc Was
INtq as ono Of the leaders Of the radi.
''l Neplollcan politics In the West. lie
was q Worlds Fair commissioner in
lo'" ana served with credit to his state.
4 When his friends urged congressional
| nominations and appointments Mr.
! burton refused and said. u gbou he
| United States senator some dav" The
STATE laughed al the presumption In.
| gals and Plumb had been the IDOLS ~
/ ~" people. and they could not consider
/ seriously the ambition Of a young man
/ 70 attain their high station Mr.. BUR.
J ton mad been unfortunate In the boon
/ days. His own town had been one ~
| the most inflated " the prairie cities
/ ana he was induced by the promise OF
/ large returns % invest some OF his sev.
/ lngs in the additions that seemed sure
I TO return fortune Instead he reaped
/ as did thousands Of Others only largo
/ losses, and It made the struggle hard
f1r years.
But he faced the music and sought TO
/ induce Others 10 do So Time and again
| he stood before audiences partly com.
posed Of political opponents and de.
/ clarcd that the only way to meet a had
obligation was to pay It. IF the debt
Is a badly made one the more reason
why sou should meet IT, he declared.
and he advised the farmers to tell their
boys that the only right politics was
honest politics
tie spoke In every campaign. and
when the fall OF 1896 brought its line
up OF the parties on the silver question
he found the Republicans Of Kansas
who had been straddllng the matter In
their platforms, on his side and against
the free silver proposition Since then
he has been acknowledged as the
spokesman for the party on the nation.
al questions In his State, and the ef-
feet OF his speeches has been to solidfy
the party in many ways.
During the campaign Of 1900 he spoke
ia every county In the State, making
nearly 200 addresses. He travelled over
the western praires in stages and across
country In the farmers wagons. He
lost whole nights Of sleep and came out
Of the campaign almost exhausted by
the strain OF his duties-only to enter
MI Burton first serious campa@
for the Senate was In 1895, and after
he had lined up his forces he had al
most majority. Day after day as the
caucus approached the numbers grew,
and when the meeting night came II
seemed sure that he would win the
prize But there were a dozen candl-
dates, and although Burton was far in
the lead h. could not break into any
Of the opposition ranks materially. At
last he received within one Of enough
10 nominate him when there was
motion for adjournment-and through
one Of his supporters misunderstanding
the motion Il was carried. The next
day the opposition agreed on one OF the
caucus members. Lucien Baker. and he
was chosen. Mr. Burton made one of
the best s9eeches of his life In the ratl-
fication that followed.
In 1897 he would have been elected but
the Popullsts had the legislature and he
waited for 1901. He had spoken in every
district and when the members OF the
legislature came to Topeka II was found
that they remembered the man who had
helped them Ii went on for several
days and then Senator Baker who was
a candidate for reelection. withdrew
and went home. Mr.. Burton gained his