The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-28
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Successor to Justice Pollock
Now the Important Question.
Third District Candidates Evil
IDENTIFY Expect the Place.
TROUTMAN WEAKENS.
Says His Charges May Not Be
True After All.
Senate Adjourns Without Con-
firming Pollock appointment.


over till Tuesday without confirming
Judge Pollock as United States district
judge. AS Judge Pollock doubtless will
not resign until he is confirmed. any
action by Governor Bailey towards fill
ing Pollock's place on the supreme
bench is delayed just SO much longer.
A Washington dispatch to the Kan
sas City Star says that James A.
Troutman has left Washington for To-
peka and that he thinks perhaps the
charges against Pollock are not true
after all. The dispatch says:
James A. Troutman left for Topeka
this morning. Before his departure he
said to a half dozen persons that he
would not present his charges to the
senate in an effort to defeat Judge Pol
lock for confirmation. He had also
thought it over, he said, and had come
] to the conclusion that maybe the
charges were not really so.'
Meanwhile the entries in the race for
Judge Pollocks place are continuing.
Following c. D. Walker, Of Atchison,
who called On Governor Bailey Friday
morning and filed his claim for the
place, W. H Sproul, of Sedan. arrived
in Topeka late Friday afternoon and
presented his candidacy to the gov
ernor. He was accompanied by F. H.
Chamberlain member of the live
stock sanitary board.
Sprouts candidacy was something of
a surprise. His candidacy will still
more split up the Third district, which
already had three candidates mentioned.
| w. D. Atkinson of Parsons has been
the most active of these Third district
candidates, but Sproul will not let any
grass grow under his feet. The other
two who are expected to be in the race
are A. s. Wilson of Galena and Judge
Buckman of Winfield.
Sproul was a candidate for the Re
publican nomination for congress be-
fore the Winfield convention last year
he defeated Senator w. S. Fitzpatrick
out of the Chautauqua county delega-
ton, which brought him to the front a aS
a factor in Third district politics. He
will doubtless develop considerable
strength in this race. Atkinson will also
nave considerable strength, and the
other two candidates will probably have
tne endorsement of their own counties
at least. Crawford county. the largest
in the district will be largely for Judge
West, who was formerly judge of the
district court in that county.
The reason why there are so MANY
Third district candidates is that many
Third district politicians believe that
district has claim on the job, because
Judge Pollock came from the Third dis
trlct, and they think the Third is en-
titled to fill the vacancy. Strong pres
sure will be brought on Governor Bailey
along this line. Others argue that there
is nothing in this claim, and that the
First and Sixth districts which have no
supreme judges, and the Fourth, which
has nothing in the way of state offices
except single justice, are just as much
entitled TO the place as is the Third
Il don't think that we have any great
claim to it." admitted a Third district
man today. We have more than we
had before. Pollock has been advanced
to the federal bench, and that is Ger
tainly better than having him on the
supreme bench. OF course, if we could
get the place on the supreme bench
again we would be just a federal Judge
ahead
Governor Bailey has been informed thai
Clark Smith, of Cawker City, Mitchell
county, will be a candidate for the ap-
pointment. He was a candidate before
the Republican state committee a year
ago for Judge Ellis place on the state
ticket when Judge Ellis died, but was
beat by Justice Burch. If he is a can
didate he will get considerable Sixth
district support. L. H Thompson of
Norton has also been mentioned as a
Sixth district candidate
Some of Governor Bailey's enemies are
urging that he will use the vacancy on
the supreme bench to aid in the defeat
of Congressman Curtis and that he will
give the appointment to a close county
in the First district to secure votes
against Curtis in the congressional con-
Vention. The governor could doubtless
do this very effectively. but others are
urging that he will hesitate about car
rying any fight he may have on Curtis
to that extent, but that he will give 1t
to the candidate who seems to be
strongest with the public in general.
In the meantime Governor Bailey will
give no sign as to what he has in mind.
He laughs and jokes with the candi-
dates who call upon him, but when they
leave they know little of how their can
didacy has been received.
The New York World of Thursday
morning publishes the story of Judge
Pollock's appointment, saying that the
letter from little Miss Lucille Pollock to
her father was what won the place for
her father The story, however, as
printed by the World is somewhat diff
ferent from the version which reached
Kansas. The World says that Cyrus
Leland showed the letter to the presi-
dent. but that Mr.. Leland was not sup
porting Judge Pollock. The World also
says that while Judge PolIock's nomi-
nation was being sent to the senate, the
Kansas delegation agreed on Judge
Johnston for the place
Atchison Globe: John schilling and
Ewing Herbert are engaged in a
vicious quarrel in the Hiawatha news
papers. 1t began over Mr.. Herbert's
desire to carry Brown county for
Charley Curtis congressional candi-
dacy but has grown into a personal
Quarrel. in which the men charge each
other with positive crimes. A vigilance
committee should be organized in Hia-
watfa. and Cap. Schilling and Ewing
Herbert notified that they must put a
stoo to foolish quarrel that finally
may involve half the men in Hiawatha-
People tamely submit to many similar
quarrals A vigilance committee would
be n good thing in more than half the
communities in Kansas. Such COM
mittee is not needed in Atchison: the
people here learned long ago the folly