The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-23
AT THE CAPITAL.
Charles Blood Smith and ID. W.
Mulvane at Washington.
They Attract Attention by
Their Faultless Attire.
THRASHER'S DEATH.
A WelI-knOWn Kansas Pioneer
Passes Away.
Impression.


Kansans here. attracted by the contest
over the federal judgeship, who compel
attention whenever they make their APP
pearance at the capitol. These two gem
tlemen are David Mulvane, national
committeeman, and Charles Blood
Smith, who wants to be federal judge.
Debonair, suave, smiling, faultlessly at
tired they are the Beau Brummels of
the Kansas contingent, and in an at
mosphere where animated fashion plates
are the rule, instead Of the exception,
they make a showing second to none.
In their daily pilgrimages through the
corridors of the capitol, they are the OBJ
served of all Observers and divide hon
ors with statuary hall, the whispering
gallery, the senate and house and other
interesting features of the historic build
ing.
Victor Murdock, congressman from the
Seventh district has a lively imagina-
ton. The other day he was walking
through the capitol when he stopped
suddenly shifted the air. and threw
away cigar which he had been smok-
ing. A little later on he came upon
kettle of burning tar which was being
used in some repairs that were being
made in the building. Mr.. Murdock ex-
planned to his companion that he had
detected the odor of the burning tar,
and had once jumped to the conclusion
that he was smoking a very bad cigar
and the idea so fastened itself upon him
that he could not resist the temptation
to throw away the offending weed. AS
matter of fact the cigar was very
good one and Mr. Murdock's fertile
eira Sinnn1V got the better OF MS
judgment.
Not many persons are aware that up
to this week former Senator Plumb, or
Kansas, held the record for the intro
duction of more bills than have ever
been put in the senate In one day Some
years ago, when the Kansas sena tor
was in congress. he Introduced about loo
bills at one time, and nobody has ever
broken his record until this week. one
day this week, however, Senator Money,
of Mississippi, presented 2S3 measures
and will stand the acknowledged cham
pion until some other senator makes
better record.
One of the candidates for the federal
judgeship who is making a most faVor-
able impression here is N. H. Loomis,
attorney for the Union Pacific railway.
Just at this time Mr.. Loom1s' can
didacy is not making much headWay,
because of the interest which centers
!
Pollock but his campaign has been an
exceedingly brisk and breezy one. and
he is a factor to be reckoned with in
the present contest. His attractive.
pleasant personality has made many
friends for him. and it is not difficult
to see how he may come to the front
in q hurry in the event of reaign-
ment of the delegation.
During his stay here he is the guest
of his near relative. Mr.. E. P. Hanna,
formerly of Salina. Mr.. Hanna is
son of B. J. F. Hanna, who IN early
statehood days was a notable political
character in central and western
Kansas. The younger Hanna came to
Washington and went into the depart
ments. While Judge Peters, of New
ton, was in congress, Hanna used to
be of a good deal of clerical assistance
to him. Hanna studied law at one of
the night schools here, and later Sc
cured q legal clerkshiD. He soon was
promoted to solicitor, and finally went
made a creditable record He was
counsel for the navy department in the
/ famous Sch1ey court of inquiry. hand
ling the department, or Sampson, side
of the case. He is one of the bright
KanSanS who came here as a young
man and has risen to a high and re-
sponsible place.
| Among the Kansas contingent in
Washington, says the Washington Post,
/ is Mr.. Hiram Price Dillon, a weIl-known
/ lawyer and influential citizen of Topeka,
who is stopping at the Raleigh. Mr..
Dillon is a grandson of Hon. Hiram
Price, of Iowa, a once noted congress
man from the Hawkeye state, who was
also at one time commissioner of In
dian affairs. He is the son also of
Judge John F. Dillon, of New York,
who has for years been recognized as
one of the ablest lawyers in America,
and who though now in his seventy
third year, still retains his primacy in
the legal profession, and works ten
hours daily as has been his habit for
years Mr.. H. P. Dillon has just re-
turned from a pleasant visit to his
father and will leave for the west to-
morrow.
when was secretary of state of
Kansas in 1878" said Thomas Cava-
naugh, now of Olympia, Wash. at the
National. '.the amendment to the con-
stitution was passed prohibiting the sale
of whisky. I was the only man con-
nected with the administration that
never touched ardent spirits, and yet
I was the only one of them that voted
against prohibition. In this way I be-
came exceedingly unpopular for time;
the whisky men rejected me because L
practiced temperance, and the prohibi-
tionists hated me for refusing to aid
their cause"
Captain L. A Thrasher, who went to
Kansas more than forty years ago.
died at Lynchburg, Va, on Tuesday.
and the remains were brought to Wash
Iington, where they were cremated at
-four o'clock Wednesday. and the in
urned ashes inferred in the national
lcemetery at Arlington Thursday morn
/ ing.
The indirect cause of Captain Thrash
er's death is supposed to be due to the
shock caused by the suicide of his son,
| Lutte Thrasher. a young newspaper man.
who killed himself in San Francisco
about three years ago. This blow shat
tered the health Of the father, who has