The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-06
CUT AND DRIED.
Congressman Longs Convention
Moved Like ClOckwOrk.
Only One Departure From the
Regular Programme.
s. II. PETERS DID 1T.
Bunched Resolutions and Had
Evans Scored.
How Changes We're Made Before
People Knew 1t.
s. r. PETERS DID 1,

The Seventh district congressional
convention at Hutchinson Wednesday
afternoon was largely the same cut
and-dried sort of an affair as the First
district convention which renominated
Curtis at Holton last week. 1t was not
quite so much so, because the Holton
convention did little else than to boom
Curtis, both for reelection as congress-
man and also for United States senator.
A. K. Rodgers, Curtis manager, devo-
ted his entire time to seeing that every
detail was properly arranged at Holton,
while at Hutchinson yesterday Bailey's
boom for governor received as much at
tention as did the denomination of
Long. Longs managers were also
booming Bailey, and Bailey was really
the star" of the performance.
To be sure the preliminary organiza-
ton was all arranged beforehand and
Sam Jones, the temporary chairman,
spent several hours in getting up his
eXtemporaneous" speech; the Sc mem
berS of the committees had been picked
out beforehand by Frank Harlow, chair
man of the congressional committee,
and a draft of what ought to be EN-
bodied in the resolutions had been pre-
pared for the guidance of the resolu-
tons committee. But the arrangements
were not planned with so much detail as
were those of the Holton convention.
The original draft of the resolutions
contained only three paragraphs, the
first referring to the death of President
Mckinley, the second eulogizing Long,
and the third endorsing his reciprocity
proposition. But Judge S. R. PIERS.
who was appointed as chairman of the
resolutions committee, punched the Soc
ond and third paragraphs into one
eliminated the only part that could lie
taken as an endorsement of Long for
senator, and tackled on to the reSolu-
lions pension paragraph which was
meant as a slap at H. Clay Evans, and
which was twice as long as the endorse
ment of Long. Peters is a candidate
for Evans place as commissioner of
pensions.
The para graphs. in the original draft
of the resolutions endorsing Long were
as follows:
I'VE believe we are voicing the senti-
ments of the people of this district.
without regard to party affiliations,
when we say that we are proud of the
active, influential and respected posi-
ton attained in the legislative halls OF
our country by our congressman, CheS-
ter I Long. We believe that he is equal
to the great opportunity which has
come to him. We know his industry,
his ability, his integrity. We realize as
he wins prestige and promotlon Tor
himself he is making reputation and
gaining honor for his constituents and
for the state of Kansas.
without the slightest hesitation or
the least qualification we favor recip-
endorse the position in favor of this
policy taken by Congressman Long and
trust that he will win the fight
The convention did not know that the
resolutions were changed, and If Longs
managers who prepared the original
draft noticed it they made no sign, for
when Judge Peters read the report of
the committee it was promptly adopted
by reclamation. The resolutions as re-
ported were as follows:
''We the Republicans of the Seventh
Congressional district of Kansas, in
convention assembled, desire to express
our feeling of the great loss which the
nation has suffered, since last we met,
in the death of our beloved President
William Mckinley, and also to record
our confidence in his successor Theo-
dore Roosevelt.
THAT we especially recognize in our
members of congress, Chester 1. Long,
a peer of the foremost and ableSt leg1S-
lators of the land. We are proud of his
devotion to the interest of the people
of this district and state, and his able
craftsmanship on national and inter-
national questions of policy We indorse
his proposed measure of reciprocity
with Cuba and also his patriotic stand
on the policy of the administration in
the government of our colonial and pro-
Vincial possessions.
THAT we favor all measures tending
to secure to the veteran soldiers of the
civil war. the soldiers of the Spanish
and Philippine war, their widows and
orphans, adequate and generous PEN
sions.
THAT we commend the sentiment and
adopt the language of President Roose-
Welt in his message to congress, namely:
No other citizens deserve so well of the
republic as the veterans the survivors
of those who saved the Union. They
did the one deed which if left undone
would have meant that all else in his
tory went for nothing. But for their
prowess in the greatest crisis of our his
tory all our annals would be meaning
less and our great experiment in popu-
lar freedom and self government a
gloomy failure"
AS soon there was a. 1ul1 in the pro-
ceedings there We're calls for Bailey, and
the Seventh districts candidate for gov
ernor-for Bailey is really the candidate