The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-19
Purpose Of Leland Bailey Visit
Is Yelled.
Report It Was on Account of
Hook a Blind.
THEY GO TO NEW YORK
Kansas Politicians Leave for
the Metropolis.
Auditor Wells Causes Excite
ment by a Joke.

lunched" with President Roosevelt yes
terday and had their conference with
him. After it was over it was given
out to the Washington correspondents
that they recommended Judge Hook for
Judge Caldwell's place on the bench of
/ the Eighth federal circuit whenever
Judge Caldwell retires, and that they
i also talked over the coming visit Of the
4 president to Kansas.
These matters were undoubtedly dis
eussed but they do not explain why this
trip was planned for Governor Bailey
two months ago In a conference between
Mr.. Leland and General Wood in a mid
night conference at the Copeland nor
4 why Mr.. Leland has since received an
Invitation also to come to Washington
to see the president.
Governor Bailey and Mr. Leland left
/ Washington Tor New York late last
night in company with Fourth Assist
ant Postmaster General Bristow
William Allen White has just return
ed from Washington He is probably
closer to President Roosevelt personally
than any other kansan. He it was who
{ brought General Leonard Wood to KAN
sas as the reDdesestative of Presidest
4 Roosevelt at the Kansas Day banquet.
Mr.. White having come so recently from
+ Washington proba bly, knows some Of the
why's and wherefores of the visit of MIR
4lCldH4 anu NTONGIHDI Bailey 10 w 1Slt-
ington, and he prints the following
about it in the EmDoria Gazette.
The real facts about Governor Bailey
and Leland being in Washington. are
prOb9 bly, that the president sent for
them; that he knows Bailey will be re-
nominated and that the convention
nominating Bailey in 1904 will prObably
/ choose the delegates to the national con-
/ vention. It IS likely that the president
will want to have a thorough under
standing with Mr. Bailey and the men
I on the state ticket about the time the
4 convention shall be called. and the aC~
ton they may take on the presidential
question in 1904. There is prOba bly, liz
tie talk about patronage at the White
/ House today between the president and
the Kansas people Leland is not fool
Ish enough to talk trade, and Roosevelt
would not listen to that kind of a talk.
If any one should try to spring it. Very
! likely the drift of the remarks will be
along the lines Of RoOseVelt's nominal
tion in 1904 and what he may expect
from a convention dominated by Mr..
Bailey's friends. and a state COMMITTEES
dominated by Mr.. Bailey's friends. This
Hook business IS merely an incident of
q meeting that was planned before the
death of William Mckinley Charles
Curtis has told some of his intimate
friends that the president has expressed
his regrets that he followed Burton
advice in the matter of turning Leland
down. Whatever there may be in this
there is no doubt but that the relations
ilOW between Leland ana the HlGSlQGIt
are very cordial. General Wood re-
neWed the invitation last January to
Leland to come to Washington. with
Governor Bailey, which had been ten
dered to him from another source 4
year and half ago. This simple state
Of fact, will probably cause the Topeka
papers and the Kansas City journal
who hate anyone who is decentiy polite
to Leland to so from one spasm to an
other over a plain and altogether proper
fact of politics; it viii be funny to
watch them sneer at Roosevelt covertiy
from now on
A Washington dispatch to a Kansas
City paper says that Judge J. S. West
of the governors office is to be one of
the attorneys in the Kansas Colora do
litigation in the United States supreme
court but Judge West denies the state
ment-
There is no foundation for such re-
port whatever" said Judge West today.
In the first place I wouldn't take the
job and in the second it wouldn't be
proper for me to do it anyway if
wanted to-.
The dispatch referred to stated that
Governor Bailey called on Pension Com
missioner Ware, who has been one OF
the attorneys in the case heretofore. and
then continued This was for the DUR
pose of consultation on the Kansas
Colorado law suit over the Arkansas
water rights. for the prosecution OF
which the late legislature appropriated
$1,000. Mr.. Ware was an attorney for
/ Kansas in this case. The governor has
! turned the case over to Judge J. S
, West, former assistant attorney genera
under GODDARD. who helped to prepare
the case and is now an executive ano
law clerk in the governors office His
associate viii be ex-Speaker Pringle
Now that Mr.. Ware has Withdrawn
from the case. the governor desired tC
get what information he could with ref
erence to the further trial of the issue
before the supreme court"
State Auditor Wells started things
late Wednesday afternoon by suggesting
that Lieutenant Governor Hanna as
sumo the Office of governor while Gov,
ernor Bailey is out of the state an5
that a meeting of the executive counci
be called to elect railroad commission
er. The suggestion was, of course, onll
a Joke but it could have been easill
carried out in some states, though no
in Kansas The laws of some state
specify that if the governor leaves tn
state for "a hours the lieutenant COVER
nor becomes acting governor
Back in 1898 Governor Lewelling Ief
the state and went down into Arkansa
: for few days. While he was gon
{ Lieutenant Governor Percy Daniel
came to Topeka, declared himself COVER
nor, and announced his intention of call
ing a special session of the Legislature
for some reason or other He was hel,
for d few days, however, and Governo
I.ewelling was brought hastily home b.
telegram.
There Will doubtless be a lively con
test for the Republican nomind ton 70
Judge in the new Thirty seventh judi
cia1 district composed of Woodson an
Allen county. Allen county already ha
two candidates announced. Major Osca
F'oust and Capt H a. Ewing. WOodSol
= county will be heard from later
The election viii be held on May
=; but the date for the Republican pri
: maries and convention have not ye
been set