The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29
POLITICAL NOTES.

Senator c. F. Hurrel, who is supposed
to be slated in the judgeship in the
Jackson Jefferson district by the grace
of Governor Bailey. but who is some
Crane has recently applied for the same
job, was down from Holton and called
on Governor Bailey Friday afternoon.
Il came down to look up some mat.
tiers in the state library" he explained?
"and of course I went in to pay my
respects to the governor"
John Wagner denies the story that he
has any laundering to run for congress
again on the fusion ticket in the First
district. He says he has had enough of
politics. He has sold his possessions in
Leavenworth county and about the mid
die of October will become the cashier
of a new bank at Paola to be organized
by John w. Breidenthal.
The Atchison Globe states POSI-
lively that A. J. White of that
county, is an anti-Curtis candidate for
congress and is not running in the in
terest of Mr.. Curtis.
Former Chief Justice Doster, who is
now general attorney for the Missouri
Pacific has refused the request of the
coal operators and miners in Southeast
ern Kansas to act as arbiter in settling
their differences on the ground that he
has not the time to study the conditions
as would be necessary for a satisfactory
adjudication of the trouble. Judge Dos
ter arbitrated some differences for the
same parties a year ago and they re-
quested him to do so again this year.
In an interview in Kansas City yes
terday Judge Doster says he is no longer
posted in politics. Il am not in poll
tics any more and am not posted on po-
litical matters" he said IF the Pop
uIists have a party in Kansas will
probably be in it. M .s*f,
Il do not look for continued prosper
ity," he continued. I'm fact, it will not
last long. The present alleged good
times are due to what the PopuIists al
ways declared for-expansion of the cur
rency. The good times will pass and
the people viii be confronted with some
rre LENS that will not be held down.
In fact, the best that is now uppermost
In the thoughts of the statesmen is TAX
en- from the creed of the Populist party
as enunciated in Kansas in the days
when Kansas was going Populist. They
are principles that will prevail after the
others have been tried to the regret of
the people"
A dispatch from vinita. 1 T., con-
tains the following about the connection
of Pliny Soper, United States district
attorney, formerly of Topeka, with the
alleged Indian land frauds in the terri
tory:
from Attorney General Knox a state
ment of the charge filed against him by
S. N. Brosius, special agent of the Indian
Rights association. When Brosius was
here he failed to meet Soper, although
Soper alleges that he was ready and will
ling to give Brosius any information
in his possession and believes that he
could have saved BrosiuS much unnec-
essary work upon the theory that the
Tribal Land and Investment company
is dealing in Choctaw and Chickasaw
lands. Sopers friends are unable to see
why he should be criticised with any
more reason than if the lands were in
Ohio. They contend that as a districe
attorney in the Cherokee nation he had
no official connection with the Choctaw-
Chickasaw district. Tt is alleged that
Soper owned only $50 worth of stock in
that company Friends advised him to
withdraw from the company. which he
did about August 6. lSoper feels that
man is not always lucky in having an
uncle. He is the nephew of Cyrus Lee
land of Kansas and believes that much
of the 'roastinf he has received in GER
tain newspapers having a circulation in
Kansas is due to an attempt to cripple
Leland in Washington and elsewhere by
showing their kinship and leaving the
impression that Leland is sponsor for
his nephew. Soper declares that neither
his appointment as assistant United
States district attorney in Kansas nor
as district attorney in Indian Territory
was caused by Leland"