The Topeka state journal., 1902-11-26
TO FIND A BIG MAN.
Continued from Page IL

turned the other cheek for the last time
| When Curtis violated the Horton agree
ment, Bailey turned the only other
cheek he had. When Curtis a senate
rial candidate, and a congressman elect
ed as the result of a broken pledge,
came back from Washington he got into
the governor fight and fought Bailey
tooth and tOenail. 1t is babyish for him
to expect mercy now, and what's more
he won't get it. For Bailey to stand
idly by and let Curtis be elected United
States senator would be an unmanly
thing to DO Politics is war and war is
hell, and Mr.. Curtis is going to catch
| it from now on, and there's no use or
sense in being mealy-mouthed about it.
The Gazette has nothing against Curtis
He didn't violate any Horton agreement
down here. But Bailey, knowing what
sort Curtis is, believes it is his duty TO
keep that kind of a man out of the
wrong in Bailey as governor fighting
Curtis than there was for Curtis as
FIRST district congressman fighting
Bailey in the First district
The Gazette trusts that the peri and
the seraph who are editing the Law
ence Journal and the Topeka Capital
viii be able to witness this strenuous
spectacle of Bailey busting the trousers
of the violater of the Horton agreement
without having their pure white souls
curl up at the edges like a German
| pancake!"
chairman of the house judiciary COM
mittee in the coming legislature al
/ though he is Democrat He alleges
that there is precedent for giving him
| the place, and lawyers, you know, are
/ long on precedent. He says that Thos.
P. Fenlon, staunch Democrat, was once
given this same Craftsmanship in Re
publican legislature. Fenlon was also
speaker pro tenn once.
E. S. Knight, commission clerk in the
office of the secretary of state, would
like to keep his present job under the in
coming administration. There is no
special reason why he should not do so.
as he has thoroughly learned the busi-
ness and his part of the Sixth district
will doubtless endorse his reappoint-
ment. His home is in Sherman county
"Bill" Fisher of Holton dropped into
Copeland county last night with his $50
pounds avOirdupois. He had just come
in from Colorado and in getting off the
train had torn rent in his trousers.
One of the first men he met was w Y.
Morgan who is just about one-fourth
Fishers size.
I've torn my pants, Billy" said Fish
er- Il wish you would loan me pair
of yours
I haven't any can spare just now"
replied Morgan but 1 might loan you
my overcoat for a patch
There may be an effort in. the coming
| legislature to increase the salaries of the
| justices of the supreme court from So, 900
to 5000 1t will be pointed out that most
| of the lawyers who go on the supreme
! bench do so at a financial loss. but they
do it because of the honor and prestige
attached to the office Judge DosterS sal
airy off the bench will probably be three
! times as great as it is at present. There
may also be effort to raise tie salary
| of the governor, on the ground that the
! present salary will not pay a governor s
expenses. and the majority Of. governors
are poorer when they retire from Office
| than when they enter it. The legislature
will also be urged to make the salary OF
! tion equal to that of other state officers
of a similar grade. The salary Of that Of
4 flee is only 5000, while other officers are
paid s., 500 If the salaries Of the supreme
not do Mason. Pollock and Greene any
good for six years, or until after the expi-
ration of their present terms
Senator Sporadic has refused the posi-
ton of assistant state treasurer under T.
T. Kelly. ! 1t is probable that the place
Kelly Mr.. Ritchie has been chief clerk
in the office for the past four years ana
/ thoroughly understands all the details OF
the office and ne is first class account
win be offered Mr.. Ritchies present place.
p F. Pocock. Republican candidate for
the legislature in one of the WyandStte
county districts who was defeated by
/ only nine votes on the face of the returns
has filed notice that he will contest the
election of his opponent. Harry Broadbent
He claims that if the ballots had been
/ correctly counted he would have 123 ma
icIity. and he expects the Republican leg
islature to seat him. = D. Miller. Repu1-
I z. Books fusionist. in Lincoln. If these
I contests keep on. there wAn't be enough
fusionists left in the house 20 constitute a
/ majority.