The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-07
MlJLvANE IN EAST
Kansas Member Will Attend
Meeting of National Committee
Thinks Convention Should Be
Held in Chicago.
Is NOT FAR AWAY.
Campaign of 1904 Only 80
Days Off.
Is NOT FAR AWAY.
Certain to Be a Contest Over
the Kansas Delegation.

the Republican national committee,
which will meet on Friday to name the
place and the date for holding the Re
publican national convention. Mr..
Mulvane thinks the convention should
be held in Chicago, and he believes it
will be about the middle of June.
This calls to mind the fact that the
campaign of 1904 in Kansas is almost
here. Within ninety days the primar-
les which will decide the battles be-
tween Kansas Republicans this year
will have been held. Shortly afterwards
the state convention will name the Re
publican state ticket and elect the del
egates to the Republican national con-
vention.
The state convention will be held
about the middle of March, according
to present expectations. 1t will be
held early in order that Kansas may
lead off in declaring for the nominal
ton of Roosevelt. This is only a little
more than ninety days in the future.
Some of the primaries will doubtless
be held several weeks in advance of
that.
Of course both sides are already
playing for position, for there will be
a big fight over the control of the dele
cation to the national convention, even
if there should be no contest on gov
ernor. At present the indications are
favorable to a fight for the gubernator-
ial nomination, and if that comes there
will doubtless be a fight all down the
line. E. W. Hoch may possibly con-
clude not to oppose the denomination
of Governor Bailey, but he now seems
to be in a frame of mind to go into
the contest.
The Republican state committee will
probably meet in Topeka on Kansas
Day, January 29. and issue the call for
the Republican state convention. This
will leave only about six weeks in which
to prepare for the state convention, but
in many counties the leaders will prob
ably be all ready to call the county con-
ventions and the primaries during the
first part of February.
The Kansas Day banquet will be
big affair again this year. A congress
man, Victor Murdoch, is now president
of the club, and he will probably secure
some big man from the east as the out
side speaker, some one who is close to
President Roosevelt, as William Allen
White did last year. Then as this is
presidential year and as both factions
are extremely anxious to control the
state convention which will meet six
weeks later, the attendance at the ban
quet will doubtless be exceedingly large.
Judge E. L. Fischer of the Wyandotte
county district court, refuses to give up
his Office to J. McCabe Moore, Governor
Bailey'S appointee. He alleges that the
CONSTITUTIONAL dnl0HQLIl0nl QdSSGQ ldSt
year abrogates the provisions of the BIZ
ennial election law, passed by the legis-
lature of 1901, which provide for the APP
pointment of district judges by the gov
ernor to fill vacancies.
The legislature specified the districts
in which the terms of the judges ex-
pired last January and provided that
the governor should appoint judges to
fill the interim between the expiration
of the terms of the judges and the cleo
ton next year. 1t also specified the dis
tricts in which the terms of the judges
expire next January, and made similar
provisions regarding those districts.
Governor Bailey made his appointments
for these districts few weeks ago.
This law was tested last year by
number of judges whom Governor
ment. but it was upheld by the SUI
preme court. Now Judge Fischer con-
tends that the biennial election consti-
tutional amendment does away with
the legislative enactment. The amend
ment reads:
"AI officers whose successors would.
under the law as it existed at the time
of their election. be elected in an odd
numbered year. shall hold office for an
additional year. and until their success
ors are qualified"
Judge Fischer has notified j. McCabe
Moore who is to succeed him, that he
proposes to hold on to the office until
the question is passed upon by the SUI
preme court. and he suggests that
Moore bring quo warranto suit to
GUST him.
If Fischer should win his point it
would also allow Judge o. L. Moore to
hold on another year in the district
composed of Dickinson. Marion. Morris
and Geary counties, in which J. T.
Diekerson, E. w. Hoch's brother-in-
law was appointed to succeed Judge
Moore. Judge Gephart of Oskaloosa
and Judge Dale of Wichita are affect
ed the same way. G. F. Hurrel of Hol-
ton was appointed to succeed Gephart,
and T. c. Wilson was appointed to
succeed Judge Dale.
Governor Bailey is in favor of going
after the packing house trust under
the Kansas antitrust law, if the Unit
ed States supreme court upholds the
law. The question of the validity of
| the law is now pending before the
but it is not known when a decision
will be reached. Governor Bailey SAYS
he is convinced that there is a pack
ers combination. for while the price of
cattle is low the price of beef stays
high. He says he knows it is a hard
proposition to find out about, for he has
had experience, both as a cattle shipper
and as a member of various commit
tees in congress. but he thinks the
Kansas law is sufficient for the prose-
cution of the members of the trust If
the United States supreme court up
holds it.
The Atchison Globe publishes the fol-
| lowing concerning the Hoch guberna-
torial boom: One of the most prom
inent men in Kansas writes The Globe:
Il have nothing whatever against Ed
Hoch, except the manner in which he
| is being doomed for governor. The
notion that this great state must be
saved by Ed Hoch is so impudent that
| it will afford me poSitive pleasure to
work against him, and vote against
him The assumption of his friends
that Ed Hoch is the only honest man
/ in Kansas, also makes me mad.
sas but they are not eternally asking
credit for it. and pointing to the fact.
/ have heard so much about Ed IIoch,S
honesty that 1 am beginning to doubt
that any man who works for Burton,