The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-19
HASNO EASYROAD
y T. Dickerson Will Have OPP
~nsition Next Year.
e. Baxter Says He Won't Get
Marion Delegation.
MR.. KING is ACTIVE.
Makes Copies of Vouchers
Drawn by DickersOn.
They Talk of Mr.. HOch Laying
Down."
MIR. KING is ACTIVE.

]. T. Dickerson, of Marion, who was
recently appointed judge of the Eighth
judicial district by Governor Bailey, evil
IDENTIFY will not secure the nomination
next year without fight. In fact, he
will have opposition in getting the dele
cation from his own county. Whether
the opposition will be strong enough to
defeat him remains to be seen. but it is
already laying its plans to do so.
That is why r. L. King, county at
torney of Marion county, was in Topeka
yesterday securing copies of vouchers
drawn by Mr.. Dickerson as Senator
Battey's clerk during the legislature of
1899. Just what use will be made of
these vouchers is unknown, but Mr..
King secured certified copies of them.
King was a candidate for appoint
ment as judge himself. He refused to
tell why he was securing the documents
relating to Dickerson, nor would he talk
about Dickerson's appointment.
'I do not think it would be proper for
me to express myself nor be interviewed
along that line he said
E. Baxter, another Marion man who
accompanied King, was more willing to
talk. He alleged that it is openly
charged by Marion county people that
E. w. Hoch sold OUT to get Dieker-
son, VINO IS MS DIOlnSI-lH-idW, dpPOAl1l-
ed judge. This has been charged by
some of the enemies of Governor Bailey,
but it will be hard to make the friends
of either Mr.. Hoch or Governor Bailey
believe it.
criticising the state administration any
more since Dickerson was appointed,
said Mr. Baxter. TT is very evident
that he has laid down because his
brother-in-law got the judgeship. 1t
l. he a fa
ernor just to get himself or one of his
relatives a job. Now he has landed
Dickerson you don't hear him saying
any more that Bailey ought to be de-
feated for the good of the party. He
doesn't say word"
viii Dickerson have opposition for
the judicial nomination next year?''
Mr. Baxter was asked.
si..Well, I should think so,' he replied.
HE won't even get the delegation in
Marion county. The people don't like
the way things have been running, and
they are getting tired of Eoch and
his relatiVeS.'
After County Attorney King secured
copies of what records he wanted in
the auditors office, including the
vouchers of Mr.. Dickerson as Senator
Battey's clerk in the legislature of
1899, and those of D. w. Wheeler in
the last legislature as clerk of the en-
rolling committee. he went to Gov
ernor Bailey's office and asked to see
the endorsements fled by the various
candidates for judge. He made some
memoranda from them.
1t will still be difficult to make the
friends of Mr.. Hoch believe that he
sold out" in the appointment of Mr..
Dickerson as Judge, even though Dick
erson is his brother-in-law. They will
not believe that either Mr.. Hoch or
Governor Bailey considered next years
gubernatorial nomination in the ap
pointment of Dickerson.
Washington Post: Senator Longs
little home of Medicine Lodge has al
ready thousand inhabitants, but he
need not feel lonesome at any time for
lack of congenial company in Wash
ingten familiar with home surround
ings. If he tracks back to the house,
where he saw several years service,
he will find Representative Overstreet,
of Indiana, soon to be chairman of the
big committee on posroffices and post
roads, according to common report.
Mr. Overstreet knows Medicine Lodge
almost as well as Senator Long does
The Indianan was making his initial as
sault upon the cold, cold world in the
later '8O's, after having been admitted
to the bar, and sought to improve his
fortunes in this western Kansas town.
He tarried quite period before return
ing again to Hoosierdon, where he has
attained political eminence.
Probably no other town in the coun-
try has afforded such a large percent
age of national celebrities as Medicine
Lodge. Careful calculations demon
strate that at least one resident out of
every 250 become known in nearly every
household between the two oceans. Jerry
Simpson rose there, to become a Popu-
listic idol in congress, although he later
migrated to New Mexico, where he has
attained aff1uence. 1t is likewise the
home of Mrs. Carrie Nation, of hatchet
fame as we'll as of numerous other peo-
pie who are ready to rise out of OBJ
scurity whenever the fates decree.