The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-01
NO ONE IN SIGHT.
Opponents Of Congressman Mil
Ter Have No Candidate.
May Result in His Nomination
by Acclamation.
PRINGLE STILL SILENT
Probability Is That He Won't
Enter the Race.
PRINGLE STILL SILENT
Marsh Murdock Comes to Sup
port of Bailey.

| There IS peculiar situation in the
Fourth congressional district. Con-
gresham Miller will probably be re-
nominated by acclamation-not so
much because the people of the district
are anxious that he should be their
congressman as because those who are
opposed to him cannot agree on any
body else, and as the district has the
job coming to it, it will be given to
Miller by common consent.
| Both factions in the Fourth district
seem to be against Miller, or at least
parts of both factions. 1t is a we'll
known fact that the Leland crowd has
little sympathy with the Council Grove
statesman for Miller usually trains
with Senator Burton. For instance, he
| joined Burton in ousting Leland from
the pension agency. Last year a fight
was started on Miller but it was impos-
sible to agree on any one candidate
against him and all of the local candi-
dates dropped out one by one.
| And yet many of those who train
with Mr.. Leland are passiveIy for Mil
ler. Down in Butler county ]. w. Ad-
ans is supporting him for reelection,
while s. H. Brandon. Bent Murdoch
and the boss buster crowdS are fighting
| MN. ADAMS WdIllS ~ 81 ~ NCAA7 ~e7S
himself some time and he thinks 1t
best to keep Miller in the Fourth dis
trict seat until he gets ready to make
the race.
Similar conditions exist in other
] counties. In Lyon, William Allen
White and the rest of the ant1-Bur ton
element is supporting Miller, not be-
cause they like Miller so much as be-
cause there is no candidate against him
on which the opposition can unite TINS
year. There has been considerable talk
about ]. T. Pringle. of Usage county.
being a candidate, but Pringle will
neither affirm nor deny whether he viii
or not. and the probabilities are that ne
will not run this time.
Immediately following the attack of
Thomas Benton Murdock ON Governor
Bailey in the El Dorado Republican. his
/ brother, Colonel Marsh Murdock, nf tse
| Wichita Eagle, comes out in the gov
ernor'S defense. In an editorial entitled
Unfair to. Governor Bailey he says.
There seems to be scrap on be-
tween q number of the Republican par
| ty leaders, its managers and BOSSES
| And then, there is the old anti-boss
busters fight. fight of the defeated
and discontented, who in not being IN
have it in for those who kept them out
While these contentious bOde no good
| for the Republican party of the state,
they cannot defeat the party in the ma
tional campaign of next year, as some
seem to think. These rows are purely
personal arising from disappo1nIments
and individual grievances Naturally
these antagonisms involve many who
have neither sore heads nor VINO have
been guilty of any wrong doing. In SO
far they are to be regretted
From our viewpoint we estimate that
Governor Bailey is being made a victim
by the attempt to hold him and his ad-
ministration responsible for whatever
shortcomings there may have been On
the part of the last legislature and re-
SponSible for the mistakes of party lead
ers and bosses and the delinquencieS of
| friends who are neither of the machine
nor in Office. In short, lot of fellows
including editors, political aspirants and
| local ma gna teS. are whipping each other
over the governors shoulders. This
charging up of individual woes. flood af-
hictions and congressional and district
rows to Bailey or to his administration
is the baldest buncombe and the people
cannot be ajoled or persuaded into
holding him responsible for them.
| governor Bailey is an honorable
man ard an honest executive, whose
aim and desire is to do the right thing
at all times. and to serve his state and
it's people faithfully, economically. eff
GENTLY and acceDtably. The effort to
make him responsible, therefore. for
| the rows of the machine or for the
mistakes of any one not directly under
the control of his administration. will.
in all good time. peter out at the little
| end of the horn.
THE opening of the next state and
national campaign is months away. In
the meantime many sore spots will be
| healed rough bumps Smoothed over.
MISUNDERSTANDING patched up. and the
state will go Republican by the usual
majority with Willis ]. Bailey holding
aloft the party banner. on which will
be inscribed the plain device En-
dorSed. "
Whether Senator John W. Kennedy
| comes hack to the legislature next year
from the Franklin-C -Coffey district de-
pends largely upon Franklin county
mo, I shall not ask for a renomina-
tion,'' said Senator Kennedy when asked
| about it. My district knows my record
and how I have represented 1t, and il
| the Republicans want me to come Dack
again l guess they will say SO. 1t will
! be Franklin county's turn to nave the
senatorship next year. but I have heard
that some of the Franklin county Re
publicans are talking about returning
me. / am very grateful for the kind
way in which they have treated me in
the past, and ! will not ask them TO re-
| turn me. but if they want me to repre-
sent them again l guess won't refuse. y
Congressman Victor Murdoch, who
is incidentally president of the Kansas
Day club. has called meeting of the
executive committee of the club at the
Copeland tomorrow evening to arrange
the programme for the club banquet
next January.
These old settler reunions are mighty
good things said Governor Bailey as
| he was getting ready to leave for Hays
City and Lincoln last night He is lay
ing the corner stone of the Hays City
normal building today and tomorrow
will speak at old settlers reunion at
Lincoln.
They are good things" the governor
repea ted They bring the people to-
| gether in social way and form a sort
| Of clearing house for their opinions and