The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-14
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Has the Fight on Governor
Bailey Subsided?
Indications Are That Boss Bust
ers Have Given Up.
1T DIDN'T TAKE WELL.
Anti Bailey Movement Did Not
Gather Strength.
Captain John Schilling Writes
Letter About Curtis.
1T DIDN'T TAKE WELL.

Has the fight on Governor Bailey and
s'the machine" abated? The present
indications are that it has. The boss
buster papers that have been trying
20 stir up a muss and that have been
trying to force 2. w. Hoch to become
q candidate against Bailey contrary
to his wishes seem to have largely
subsidized.
A few weeks ago there was a terrific
noise going up over he state about
Governor Bailey and the
that ran him. To be sure, those who
were making the noise were
lively few in number, but like a pack
of coyotes. they made enough noise for
four times their number. Now they
seem TO have quoted down to a great
degree.
IN fact. there seems to have been
nothing back of the anti Bailey move
ment but wind. and it has gone to
Join the boss buster union No. 2 which
was organized several months ago but
never held a meeting after its organi-
cation.
The country that have
been inclined to criticise Governor
Bailey are now coming to his support.
For instance, Del Valehtine's paper
the Clay Center Times, which has been
more or less in sympathy with the
anti-Bailey crowd, p~rophesies that
Governor Bailey will finish his first
term creditably and will be entitled to
another term. The Manhattan Nation
alist publishes an editorial which it
closes with this sentence: I'VE have
no hesitation in repeating that what
we said at the time of Governor
Bailey's announcement of his can
didacy for reelection: that we expect
to see him nominated in the next state
convention without opposition" After
quoting this editorial. Mr.. Valentine
SAYS;
This is the right position for a Re
publican peDer to take and will even
n - ~ 1865
Republican editor in the state upon
sober second thought. It is true that
Governor Bailey is not quite perfect,
but none of US supposed he was when
he became our candidate. We told the
voters, however, that he was all right
n would make a good governor. and
we heartily believe now that at the
close OF his term he will have dis
armed his critics, and they will do him
the justice to admit his claims to a re-
n and a reelection"
Barney Sheridan is able to see a ray
OF hope for the Democrats after gazing
long and thoughtfully at the election re
turns from New York city and SOM
other eastern states this fall. He says
The state of New York is safel!
Democratic for 1904. Maryland is wher,
it was in its prime-Democratic beyond
doubt. Kentucky is held at it's OLE
moorings in the line of Democracy
Rhode Island has chosen a Democratic
governor and Connecticut has reached
a point that makes it a debatable state
Delaware no longer worries the calcu
1atOr who has Jeffersonian hope, an,
New Jersey, tickle since 1896, can b
relied upon to give a plurality for thos
who are opposed to federalism and Re
publicanism. The south is solid
doubly solid by .Roosevelt's course O.
the race problem. Indiana, although
having given a Republican majority 70
the past few years, is naturally a Dem
ocratic state"
J.. Z. Brewer of Abilene will be a can
didate for state senator in the Clay
Dickinson senatorial district next veal
He is nov county chairman of the r
publican county central committee i
Dickinson county.
Captain John Schilling of Hiawath
has written a letter to Arthur Capper
which he tells Mr.. Capper that Cor
gresham Curtis cannot carry Brow
county in The coming First district cor
test. After. speaking his mind abou
Ewing Herbert, Mr.. Curtis Brow
county manager, in a not very compl
mentary maner, Captain SchilIin
says:
My candid opinion IS that Curtis he
but a very slim show to be renominate.
nor does he deserve to be. His publ
mistakes for the past two years ind
cate, to my mind, that he has lost h
head in reaching for honors he can me-
er obtain in this great state of our