The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-19
IT is ALL OVER.
Senator Harris Announces That
POpuliSt Party Is Dead.
Changes His Politics in the Con.
gressional Directory.
MAY GET A PLACE.
Many Friends Urge Him for
Canal Commissioner.
More Silly Talk About Cover.
nor Elect Bailey.

Onlled states senator w. A. Harris,
for several years the idol of the Pop
ulist party, has officially pronounced the
Populist party dead Ever since he has
been in the United States senate SEN
ator Harris has announced himself as A
Populist. He has served through sew
eral sessions of congress. and in each
congressional directory the word Pop
ulist" has appeared after his name. Now
at the beginning of his last session Sen
ator Harris has ordered it changed to
Democrat" in the directory which will
be published December l.
"PoDulism is dead" said Senator
Harris in ordering the change
Senator Harris has the backing of
number of the most prominent eastern
Democrats for the place on the isthmian
canal commission which will go to their
party Senator Morgan of Ala bama, one
of the prominent figures in the canal
legislation. is urging his appointment
1t would be eminently fitting now for
a II parties in Kansas to combine in ask
ing President Roosevelt to name SEN
ator Harris He is not only recognized
as one of the ablest men the Sunfiower
state has ever produced, but he is also
emlnently fitted for a place the canal
commission by reason of his personal
knowledge of the matter.
he comments OIL the newspapers Oh
the nation because of w. J. Bailey's al
legged Discrimination to become a mar
ried man are getting worse The latest
one is southern comment, from the
Atlanta Constitution. These comments
would be laughable were it not for the
pathetic feature of Mr.. Baileys position.
OF course such stories would not go"
/ in the west, but almost any sort of a
story about Kansas is believed east of
the Mississippi river, and the more
ridiculous it is the more ready eastern
people believe it. Here is the editorial
! in the Atlantt Constitution, which
shows how absurd the Bailey story has
become:
There is nothing the matter of Kan
sas when it comes to picturesquely ad-
vertising the Sunf1ower state In the
press of the land without cent to pay.
/ When some original, not to say cranky,
Kansan, is not doing something outre to
increase his states notoriety the Jay
/ hawker body polite Is perturbed over
something outre, and so the advertising
/ is perennial.
This time the body polite is involved,
and it happened this way. The state of
/ Kansas has lately completed palatial
mansion in Topeka for It's chief execu-
tive, at a cost of $40 900. Since POpuhSm
has vanished from the crop burdeneo
prairies like the late John ]. Ingalls,
'iridescent dream the Republican nomi-
nee for governor was cocksure of cleo
ton, and in selecting the man for that
honor it was of primary essentially
that he be the humble husband of a
/ delectable dame fitted to shine socially
/ as the hostess of the new executive
mansion. Now, IL fell out that the man
who had a lead pipe cinch on the Re
/ publican gubernatorial nomination was
a case hardened bachelor who regarded
lovely woman as an utter superfiuity in
the scheme of the cosmos. This self sat
isfied male monster, yclept W. J. Bailey,
nation weakened before the cyclone of III
al his party's nOminatin convention,
but enough of them to defeat his nomi-
nation Weaked before the cyclone of in
| dignation, largely feminine, resultant
from the fact that the prospective gu
bernatorial nominee would not afford
the commonwealth first lady in its
new executive mansion. The women OF
Kansas were in dead e&Snest about this
matter, and when a Kansas woman
breaks out of the domestic reservation
over a public question, something is go
ing to be hatCheted. 1t was up tC
Bailey to put away the civic crown OIL
take up the matrimonial yoke. He hesi-
tated, expostulated. His recalcitrant
delegates, in the hypnotic glare of theil
wives. who went along with them were
obdurate.
Bailey must either marry or his DO
litical hopes bury. AS a sagacious poii
tician. he bowed to popular clamor, an.
the trembling wretch was led upon thl
multitude. literally sprinkled with rib
bons, feathers and stuffed birds, h
vowed by the god of the sunfiower t
lead a blushing daughter of the prairie
to Hymen's sacrificial altar ere inaugu
ration day rolled around. and have he
ready to do the honors in the new gov
ernor's new house. This solemn pleds
nominated Bailey on great tidal wav
of enthusiasm, and until election day h
Travelled over the state reiterating TIL
pledge, with applause-provoking embel
Iishments. All other issues were lost Il
this one, and the idea of having a brid
in the Topeka palace quite swept tn
{ pOpulace off it's feet. Bailey was elected
2 of course. but-oh perffdy of man an
! politicianl-no sooner had the Kansa
F. people turned to a new diversion thai
, the governor-elec began to show sign
= of crawfishing. In reportorial inter
/ girl who guessed why he had neve
married would have him. This wa
mysterious and depressing Femal
curiosity was Diqued, and ever
woman in Kansas went to guessing
audibly. The more their tongues wag
, ged, the more Bailey's chances of get
ting matrimonial proposals diminished
The latest is that Kansas governor
elect has declared no lady in the sta t
will mate with him. The indignation @
the Kansans knows no bounds. The
charge Bailey with treachery, an
worse, swearing he shall never set foe
in the new governors house until he re
deems his ante-election pledge. They d
l not limit him to a Kansas selection. bU
will let him try elsewhere for a brid,
even in Missouri, and if pushed to i
, will open a special matrimonial burea
Y for his benefit in Topeka. The Kansa
I people are very insistent. but there
reason to fear that the governor to b
is fast assuming what-are-y going
{ to-do-about-it attitude
c. O. Hugos, of Republic count.
called on Governor Stanley vesterda
afternon. Mr.. Hugos is the represer
Y tative-elect from Republic county, an
Z is an enthusiastic Stanley supporte