The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-03
THERE is A LULL.
Senatorial Situation Has APP
parently Quieted.
PriDgle's Friends Think Speak
ership is Settled.
BARKER STILL ACTIVE
Friends Still Working to Land
Their Man.
RumOr of State Senate Organ
izatiOn to Control SenatOrship.

There is a lull in political circles just
now 1t is probably the lull after the
storm. If cider" Smith were a politi-
cal weather prophet he would probably
say that last week was a political storm
center, which has been followed by a
clearing of the political atmosphere: 1t
will probably renntfin SO iunti1-some new
element arises to create another dis
turbance. as the bringing out of ]. T.
Pringle as a candidate for speaker did
two weeks ago.
The fact is that the supporters of Mr..
Pringle for speaker believe that the
speakership question is settled so GER
tainly that they have lost interest in the
contest Now and then some member
of the legislature announces that ne VIII
support Pringle, but so many members
have made similar announcements that
Pringle's election is looked upon as a
foregone conclusion.
A few Barker organs are still worry
ing. considerably over Pringle's candida
cy and the fact that Governor-elect
Bailey says that Pringle is satisfactory
to him, but little attention is paid to
them. One of them a few days ago
published a big heading, "A Protest
from Republican Newspapers of Kan
sas." giving the impression that lot
of Republican papers were setting up a
terrible howl because Governor elect
Bailey joined Governor Stanley in IA
VO1lnR 1IlI12lE ana QlQ not COISull NSuA
it's wishes. Quotations from IS papers
were published but four of them upheld
Bailey and only IA criticised him.
All of the senatorial candidates except
Governor Stanley are IN Topeka and in
terest in the senatorial situation is at a
staudstiH. Members of the LEGISLATURE
are preparing plans for legislation rath-
er than for the election of United States
senator.
The news published in the State Jour
nal Tuesday that majority of the Re
publican state senators have engaged
rooms at the National for the coming
legislative session has revived the ru-
NOR that a cabal has been formed in
the state senate for the purpose of con-
trolling the election Of senator. This
rumor gets into the air periodically, but
nobody will stand sponsor for it, and IL
never gets anywhere.
The supreme court yesterday gave the
state canvassing board official notice
that the restraining order in the Sharp
less case had been dissolved. The board
then canvassed the Atchison county re-
turns as originally made and declared
Peter Mclaughlin. the Democratic cam
didate, duly elected representative.
Chief Clerk Whitmore. of the Secretary
of states office. is now making out the
certificates of election for the iz5 mem
bers Of the legislature. The certificates
are made out in the order that the leg
islative districts are numbered Cyrus
Leland, from the First representative
district, received his certificate first
Bale Waggener came second, and
Mclaughlin third.
Senator Findlay of Rice county will
push a bill in the coming session of the
legislature to establish a whisk broom
factory in the Hutchinson reformatory
for the employment of the reformatory
inmates. The four counties of Rice,
Barton, Stafford and Reno, around
Hutchinson, produce three -fourths of
the straw used for whisk brooms in the
United States, yet there is not a lWhisk
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