The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-12
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
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| fight on the proposed constitutional
amendment to make the state printer
elective by the peoples His reason for
SO doing is that if it carries it will take
away the Opportunity to give the office
to E. W. Hoeh two years hence.
Royce was one OF Hochs most en-
thuSiastic supporters for state printer
last winter He does not want Hoch TO
have to wait until 1907 before Getting
the job. His plan is to defeat the con-
stitutiona1 amendment next year, have
the legislature give Hoch TWO years as
state printer. and then run him as
candidate for governor to succeed Bailey
in 1906
Bale Waggener who, with Senator
Fred Dumont Smith and Representative
Peck of Cloud, was on the sub-commit-
tee in the last legislature to get the tax
bill as prepared by the joint committee,
into shape for passage, has written a
letter to Senator Smith in which it is
said he takes Smith to task for his
statements concerning the Francis
amendment which Smith suppressed IN
the report without consulting the other
two members. He has asked Smith to
publish the letter. and it will be due the
coming week.
William Stryker, who was state sup
erintendeEt of public instruction during
the Leedy administration. wants the
Populists to await the action of the
next Democratic national convention
politically. He thinks the Bryan wing
of the Democratic party will still con-
troll, and if SO, he advises the Populfsts
to go into the Democratic party. Stry-
ker prints a long editorial in the Well
ington Voice along this line.
And now it is said that A w Smith,
/ department commander of the G. A. r..
| is getting anxious to run for governor
| again. His platform is the fact that he
once polled more votes than any other
Republican candidate for governor ever
polled. and he would have been COVER
nor if Lewelling had not polled few
more votes than he did.
J. w Robson, the Ell Dorado stock
man, is not at all averse to running for
| railroad commissioner. His boom is
now well underway and it is quite
likely that he will be formidable can
didate for the place. Robson once serv-
ed as state senator in Illinois.
Congressman Curtis has returned
from his tour of the First district and
reiterates the statement that he Will
carry six of the eight counties in the
district Mr. Curtis now goes to the
Indian Territory to make his personal
investigation of the Indian scandals.
Here is the way the Downs Times
regards the machine question in KAN
sas politics:
In thinking OF the DOnIlGdl MD
chimes in Kansas we are reminded OF
/ an entertainment furnished by the
state fair association of Iowa seven or
eight years ago. Two old railroad loco
motives which had out-stayed their
usefulness were put on a TEMPORARY
4 track and steamed up, headed for each
other and started up with a full head
of steam on. The result was a head
end collision that demolished both of
them. Now our idea is that the Ma
chine machine and the Anti-Mac chine
machine should be taken to some Sc
Guided spot. steamed uo to their great
est capacity, and with wide-open valves
be compelled to bunt each other into
that pool of brine referred to- by poets
as oblivion. The people outside of the
First district are getting, most infer
nished by certain papers in Topeka
that should not be permitted to circu-
late outside that district of brotherly
love-. aF
William Allen White has made an
open confession. He does it prelinai-
nary to giving some advice to E. W.
Ifoch. 1t is concerning the fight the
Emporia Gazette made on Congressman
Miller two years ago. Here is what
; he saws:
: Being an admirer of Ed Hoch, and
neighbor and supporter of his am
bitlon to become state printer, the Ga
zette desires to give him a little friend
ly advice out of the depths of a bitter
! experience. ME-. Hoch will remember
/ some eighteen months ago, the Gazette
: was printing mean pieces about J. M.
l Miller. The Gazette was mad; thought
: it hadn't been treated fairly by Miller,
2 and said some things which seemed to
be pretty true at the time; just as
Hoch is saying things of Governor
? Bailey. Hoch has the same acute
visceral Indigestion that afflicted the
Gazette. Ed Hoch has written that
Bailey ought to be defeated for the
good of the party. Everybody re-
spects and bonors Ed Hoch because he
is clean. honest, brave and intelligent.
And year from now, when Ed Hoeh
: is doing all he can for the entire Repub-
lican ticket, from top to bottom, and
hoping hard IS he can that the old
majority will roll up and save the state
: from the danger of a wild-eyed Popu-
list regime, return to Leedyism and