The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-18

L have told all applicants who have ap-
preached me that their cause will be
prejudiced by pushing their claims at
this time. No man who wants Office Will
lose anything by waiting awhile After L
get my message and inaugural address
out of the way then l propose to take up
the patronage matter and dispose of 1t
rapidly. Applicants for different jobs will
not be kept in suspense long L think
that it is better to let man know early
in the game whether he is or Is not going
to land No use TO delay the thing and
keep him chasing to Topeka frequently
on big expense. AS to my message, it is
going to be brief and to the point. When
1 go to the farm I tell the boys what
want them to plant on this forty, on
that eighty and the like. My message
will be built along the same lines. l
will simply call the attention of the leg
islature to what the state needs, in my
Judgment, and ask it to enact the neces-
sary laws"
Editor Charles Finch has apologized for
abusing Congressman Long for coming
home and saying nothing about Curtis
and now he adds: Congressman Curtis
has now landed in Topeka to stay until
the senatorial election takes place. Con-
gressman Long has been there about
week now, and he, too, will stay to the
end. Perhaps nobody in Kansas save the
partisans of these two men endorse this
action on their part They are paid
SdidIy 10 stay III w dSuli1S iOA anu AOOh
after the business of the state. They are
drawing the salary. and attending to
their private political business. 1t is
poor politics, and certainly not good busi-
ness.
J. H. Staveley of Usage county wants
to get law through the legislature this
winter providing that the vacancy
clause in insurance policies shall have
no force nor effect unless the destruction
laxr fro SI, ,oI1 xrrI7i "a
absolutely vacant and unoccupied.
J. l. Caldwell. the Democratic senator
from Bourbon county wants to separate
members of the legislature from tempt
alton in the form of railroad passes and
will introduce a bill to provide that the
state furnish annual transportation to
all members of the legislature. Under
present conditions as soon as man is
elected to the legislature the railroads
send him q pass and it is Senator Cald-
wells belief that this puts him under
an obligation to the railroads which is
inimical to the interests of uncorrupr
legislation.
The Populist theory that
United States senators should be elected
by direct vote of the people has a Re-
publican apostle in the person Of Repre-
sentative ]. o. Whistler. who will sup
port a measure and probably introduce
the bill in the next session of the leg
islature to bring this change about.
Representative P. G. Gale of McPher-
son wants to make it a misdemeanor
for notaries public to neglect to keep a
record of transactions done by them and
to require them to furnish a certified
copy of each transaction.
It is noticeable that a good many men
who are figuring prominently in the
senatorial fight and taking an active in
terest in the campaigns of different can
didates, come to Topeka without the
backing of a member of the legislature
from their own counties.
Go Ternor Stanley has established
headquarters in parlor sB at the Cope
land with I. E. Lambert and r. B.
Iewett in rooms next door.
Major Ben F. Simpson. of Paola, will
be in Topeka in a few days to look az
ter the affairs of J. D. Bowersock's sen
atorial campaign.
c. H. Luling, of Wichita. the next
superintendent of insurance. is in To-
today