The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-10
BAKER MAY Get IN
Expected That He Will Enter
the Senatorial Race.
He Would Start in the Receptive
Glass.
AN ANTI-CURTIS MAN.
Friends Think Candidacy Might
Weaken Topeka Candidate.
Republican Senators Planning q
Colorado Outing.

A dispatch from Leavenworth states
that there is a possibility that ex-
United States Senator Lucien Baker
may be pushed into the senatorial race
by his friends. 1t is stated that Senator
Baker does not wish to become an open
candidate. but he may enter the re
ceptive" class to the extent that Leav-
enworth county candidates for the leg
islature may be elected for him. The
dispatch says:
THE men who are fighting Charles
race, Curtis support, especially in the
First district, would be materially
weakened, and strong pressure will be
brought to bear upon the ex-senator to
induce him to shy his castor into the
ring. 1t is doubtful if ex-senator Baker
could be induced to become an open
candidate for United States senator,
but there are many who regard his
chances as good. They argue that the
legislature will be so evenly divided as
to Curtis, Long and Stanley, that Baker
would stand an excellent show as re-
ceptive candidate If Baker should be-
come an open candidate, he would have
no trouble securing the election of rep
resentatives in Leavenworth county
favorable to him. On this account the
men who are fighting Curtis SO bitterly
would like to see Baker in the race
Without him in the race, they fear that
Curtis will secure at least two votes in
this county. Ex-senator Baker is
strongly allied with the anti-Curtis
est he may prevent the election of Cur
tbs representatives in this county"
The same dispatch states that num-
Der of the Republican members of the
state senate will go to Colorado together
some time in August and will caucus
on the senatorial question while in the
mountains near Colorado Springs. Sen
ator Wulfekuhler, of Leavenworth, is
working up the outing, and those who
have promised him to go are Senators
F.. Dumont Smith of Edwards county,
J. K. Cubbison, Wyandotte; E. f. Por-
ter, Crawford; James Allen, Doniphan;
j. K. Kennedy, Coffey; Fitzpatrick,
Chautauqua; Morehouse, Morris; and
Rranine, Harvey.
| The Douglas county district court has
| decided against ]. L. Brady in his suit
| to compel the contest board to recount
! the votes on representative in the Re-
publican primary in the First ward OF
Lawrence, which Mr.. Brady claimed
| would give him the nomination instead
| of ex-Speaker Barker.
| A boom for the fusion nomination for
| congress in the First district has been
| sprung for John H. Atwood of Leaven~
! worth, who is sometimes known as 1.-The
| silver-tongued orator Of Kansas" 1t Is
| believed that Atwood would make a
| stronger race against Congressman
Curtis than any other man who could
be named.
The managers of the Lincoln Park
| Chautauqua assembly near Cawkei
| City expect to have a big political day
! during their assembly, Champ Clark
| of Missouri and Congressman Lands OF
| Indiana will engage in a political de-
| bate, and it is announced that Bailey
and Craddock opposition candidates
| for governor, and Reeder and Cole op-
| position candidates for congress, will
| be present.
James F. Legate, the old time Repub-
| lican politician, is again reported as
| working on an autobiography in which
he will tell some political secrets which
may make other old time Kansas poll
| ticians squirm. They had begun to rest
! easy when it was reported that Mr.
| Legate had been stricken with paraly-
sis. but it seems he has recovered.