The Topeka state journal., 1903-05-16
Situation Is Daily Growing More
Strained.
EDWIN TAYLOR'S FLOP
Populist Ex-State Senator De-
clares for Roosevelt.
Thinks Kansas Will Give Presi.
dent 1oo,O 600 Majority.

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seem to have been accepted all over the
state. The anti-machine papers this
week are very bitter against the ma
chine" while the Leland element is just
as severe with the alleged machine
league.
Smith county, for instance, seems to be
entering upon factional fight of good
sized proportions-at least It would
seem so from a perusal of the Smith
County Pioneer. the anti-machine or
gan. 1t is said that Secretary of State
Burrow has purchased the interest of
w H. Nelson in the Pioneer, although
Mr.. Nelson's name still appears on the
editorial page of the paper. The ground
for the Pioneers outbreak is the con-
solidation of the Lebanon Criterion and
Journal by L. NJ. Linton, who represent
ed Smith county in the legislature last
winter The Pioneer says that Linton
.nisrepresented" the county and it al
leges that his recent newspaper invest
ment is for the purpose of promuIgating
the machine" in the Sixth district In
reality Mr.. Linton purchased the prop
erty for his son. who has an ambition
to become a newspaper man and who
has been doing some work of this char
acter. He is now attending school at
Lawrence and will take charge of his
fathers newspaper property as soon as
he is through.
Usage county may also be the scene
OF 4 severe fight next year. Sena tor H
3. Miller is one of the chief promoters
of the anti-machine and he is afraid
that Speaker J. T. Pringle may want
to go to congress from the Fourth dis
trict next year. Miller is personally a
good man. So is Pringle. But Pringle
has become a powerful rival of Senator
Miller in the last year, and Miller is
afraid Pringle may wrest the control
Of Usage county away from him. Al
ready Senator Miller is organizing his
friends in the county to be ready to
fight Pringle at home in case he wants
to run for congress against Congress
man J. NJ Miller. In other words, Sen
ator Miller is running local machine
in Usage county along the very lines
that he condemns in Cyrus Leland in
state politics.
Senator Fred Dumont Smith has en-
tirely Withdrawn from the anti-machine
movement He claims to be the au-
thor of Senator Longs harmony policy
but it is suspected that his retirement
from the boss busters faction came
with the birth of his ambition to be one
of the attorneys for Kansas in the
Kansas Colorado litigation in the Unit
ed States supreme court
That President Roosevelt is making
powerful friends among the Repubh-
can. opposition is shown by the fact that
ex- Senator Edwin Taylor of Wyan-
dotte county, one of the most lnfuentlal
Populists in the state and an extreme
" level headed man, has declared un-
qualifiedly for Roosevelt next year, and
he saws that many other Populists VIII
do the same thing. He gives up none
of his old-time POpulist principles, Du1
he believes Roosevelt is the man VINO
will curb the trusts. He says the Pop-
ulists will not pose as Republicans.
"A good many will call themselves
Roosevelt Republicans, Mr. IayiOi
said. There's heap OF dlHerehce pe-
tween the two. I hear good MANY
Brvan. Democrats say Roosevelt is gooe
enough for them. The New Ork our
4vae right when it said in effect thai
Roosevelt is starring IN Bryan play 4.
With US the plays the thing. And w
/ don't care so much whether it is calico
Brvanism. Rooseveltism. or Popullsm
But when it comes to preference pc
tween the rival actors. While we admire
1 Mr. Bryan for his sterling qualities as
I a man and endorse much of his pubic
policy. Just now we are applaudine
/ Roosevelt For one thing, he's got th'
STAGE
Mr. Tavlor predicts that Kansas vii
give Roosevelt 100000 majority, bu
/ thinks he will have hard time belns
elected, because the trusts viii conuo
the east against him and combine 1
with the south for Cleveland or som'
4 other Democrat. In speaking of some o
the things President Roosevelt has ac
comolished. he said that the new dc
partment of commerce practically put
! the combines in a class by themselves t
be treated as monsters, although not 81
named.
IN a few years at the present rat'
Of progress" said Mr.. Taylor, thes'
! monsters. instead of cavorting at large
nessed to the public wagon and dolni
the public's drudgery. The railroad
are fast coming to merger that VII
/ spell public ownership When the da1
/ comes, as it viii come, there viii be n
more faVoritism shown at the ticket OF
fee and the freight Office than there
now at the postofice, and when IN
profits are eliminated from the one a
they now are from the other, then IN,
servant will be ready to depart in peace
The clock was put forward toward ina
event by years instead of weeks al
winding when we got president WI
would accept no orders from the cor
porations and who in the anthraclt
imbroglio. brought about arbitration IN
stead of suppressing the miners wit
the regular army ana locking Mltche
in the cell that DebS with less reaso
once occupied, as Cleveland would haV
done"
The Seventh district Republican pa
pers are publishing supplements devote
to Victor Murdock. Republican cand
date for congress. The election for cor
gresham comes week from ne1
Tuesday.
= DR.. J. H. Briefly of Glasco is al
nounced as candidate for the Republ
can nomination for state senator in Il
Cloud-Republic district.
: Among the ti-Leland-AIbaugh ps
l pers which deal with Kansas polite
T none is more vigorous than the Kans'
T City Journal It is against the ne
! boss busters league. however. In r
cent editorial replying to a criticism
a correspondent il. says.
THE complaint against the Kansi
machine is that it is an organizatit
= within the organization Of the state r
5 publican party. 1t has machinery Sc
n arate from the machinery OF the part
s It uses this machinery, not for the be
Y eft Of the party, but for the benefit
b a faction of the narty. It is the pr
It posal of the ant-machine league
build up still another set Of machine