The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-18
UP IN THE AIR.
Politicians Wonder Why Leland
Is in Washington.
Governor Bailey Is Also at the
Capital.
IS AN OLD PLAN.
Visit Arranged When Gen. Wood
Was Here.
Has to Do With Politics in
1904.

which was planned for Governor Bailey
at the time of the visit of General
Leonard Wood to Topeka on Kansas
Day. Since then President Roosevelt
has sent a request that both Governor
Bailey and Mr.. Leland come to Wash
ington.
The visit has set the politicians
guessing both in Washington and Kan
sas. Half a dozen different missions
are given for the trip, but most of
-nem are really Incidental to the main
j purpose of the visit.
The chief reason for this trip is the
one given in the State Journal immed-
lately after General Woods Topeka
visit on Karsas Day. It has to do al
most entirely with national politics for
1904. Incidentally the presidents com
4 ing trip to Kansas, the appointment OF
a new circuit judge on the federal
bencn of the Eighth judicial circuit,
and perhaps the advancement of Joseph
L. Bristow may be discussed.
On January 81. two days after the
Kansas Day banquet and the day after
( General Woods return to Washington,
the State Journal published the follow
ing:
zone of the first men to leave the
banquet table after the Kansas Day
/
Leland But Mr.. Leland did not I'M
mediateIy leave the building. He wait
ed in the ante-room until General
Wood appeared, and the two then
walked up the street together to the
Copeland hotel. 1t was then midnight
i They entered the room used by the Re-
publican state central committee, and
had q conference which had been prev
4 iously arranged Inc conference iaa7teu
until . o'clock.
sIast what happened IN the confer
+ euce and what each OF the parties SAID
/ is not known. It mas been learned.
! however. that as a result OF the confer
/ ence Governor Bailey viii probably g
/ to Washington as soon as the leglsla-
/ ture adjourns and have talk with the
president Cyrus Leland and Governor
1 Bailey viii also lead the movement ia
Kansas for the denomination Of Presi-
+ dent Roosevelt in 1904 1t will not be
surprising, either. If Kansas ieaas tHe
other states in this movement, as I
1896
since then the president has invited
both Mr. Leland and Governor Bailey lc
come to Washington. Away back lasL
spring Morton AlbauGh, chairman OF
I the Reps Blican state central COMMITTEES,
and at that time Mr. Bailey's manager
/ In his gubernatOria1 campaign, sounded
the first note for the nomination o.
/ Roosevelt for the presidency next year
/ by declaring that the Republican state
! convention of 1902 should endorse Presl~
dent Roosevelt and his policies in no un-
T certain terms
Following that up Governor Bailey
and Mr. Leland will today tender Mr.
ReoseV cit their support and their in
/ fluence in Kansas for his nomination
next year which means an enthusiastic
Roosevelt delegation from Kansas to the
+ Republican national convention just
/ why the president sent for Mr.. Leland
and Governor Bailey, and what he has
/ to say to them, is not known
Incidentally the successor judge
/ Caldwell on the circuit bench will be
1 discussed. Judge Hook would, Of course
like to be advanced to the place, but
there are also numerous other canui~
/ dates among them General Solicitor
1 Cochran of the Missouri Pacific, who
lives at St Louis. Mr.. Leland is a
warm friend of Judge Hook, but there
are other influences in Kansas favora Bile
to Cochran. The latter attended the
Republican state convention at Wlch1ta
last spring and had considerable to do
with what was done there. Col J. H
/ Richards. of Fort Scott, general attOr-
ney for the Missouri Pacific for south
ern Kansas and one Of Cochran's right
hand men, reached Washington at the
same time as did Governor Bailey and
Adr Leland. When Judge Hook was ele-
waited to the federal bench Mr.. Leland
lined I'D against the railroads. The rail-
road influences were all for Judge Hor-
ton, but Mr.. Leland insisted on the ap~
pOlntment of Judge Hook, and he Won
1t is quite likely that he viii be for
Hook this time.
Governor Bailey and Mr.. Leland are
being "chaperoned" by Senator Long
while they are in Washington. No such
person as Senator Burton is recognized
in their visit. They will of course. con-
fer with Fourth Assistant Postmaster
General Bristow and may talk with the
president concerning AIr. Bristow's fu-
ture. 1t has been known for some time
that Mr. BristOw would very likely be
advanced to some other position if one
I rnfIi6 he found which yr011Id S7Tif him
The governor and MI Leland are ex-
pected home the latter part of this
week.
That the politicians are very much
up in the air" over the visit of Gov
ernor Bailey and Cyrus Leland to Wash
ington is shown by some of the dispatch
es sent out from Washington on the
subject For instance, a dispatch to a
Kansas City paper this morning con-
tains the following guesses:
Governor W. J. Railey and Cyrus Le-
land, of Kansas, arrived today. They
came in response to a wire from Senator
Long.
Had Ex-Governor Stanley refused the
job on the Dawes commission. Mr.. Le-
land would have been offered the place
by President Roosevelt Once upon a
time President Roosevelt fred Leland
out Of pension agent job at Topeka
Since than. on number Of occasions
he has expressed regret at having acted
SO hastily. That was when he was do
ing away with old-time leaders. such as
Kerens and Leland
But Leland did not die. Losing a job
with a frown from the president, did
not kill him. IN addition to the fact
that Leland did not wither. Mr.. Leland
showed amazing vitality in the political
affairs of Kansas.
Mr.. Roosevelt is not like a man who
does not observe these things. He is
willing 10 be classed with the winners
at all times. This being the case, he