The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-04-12

have spent a dozen years as members q
the lawmasing body at Washington
After Judge Brown retired without
his own consent. Tom Ryan OF Topeka
carried OF the nomination. He was
member Of the Arm OF Peck. RYAN s
/ Johnson. and at that time Peck and the
Santa Re railroad did most Of the poltti-
| cal business in Kansas Ryan repre-
scented an the territory that IS now en-
braced IN the Seventh district until ISA
when the apportionmenf giving Kansas
seven instead OF three members OF con-
of lSs2 there were four members 70 o.
selected at large from Kansas. because
| the state had not been redistrtctrd. Judge
sam Peters. who had lei, the Kansas
senate TO take the j1dgeship 81 the Sirta
/ judicial district. which place he had besn
holding for eight or nine years. was a
candidate for one Of the PLACES Down
| In the same locality were Judge Henry
c. Sluss. BIN Hackney and Captain Her
~ Booth. who all wanted TO so. The
| fight Ia the state convention was lively.
but Peters had the greater part Of the
political push behind him and was nosa-
! mated as one % the Big Foaf. Gov
ernor Morrill, Bishop W. Perkins ard
Louis Hanback, being the other three-
For eigh, years Judge Peters continued
| to serve In congress. once as congTess-
man-at-larEe and three terms az repre-
sentative from the Seventh district
| Then q strange thing happenesi-an
unheard-of thing In Kansas politics.
| Two congressman announced that they
| would not be candidates for nomination.
/ One Of the two was Sam II. Peters AMI
I the other was r. ~ Morrill,
Peters could have had another nom
ination In 1890 for the asking. but he
stated that he was poor. that he hal
not been able 10 save cent ana he was
getting up toward the hair century mark
and mus; build up a business fdr him
self The result seemed 20 prove thar
Judge Peters was one Of the most astuse
politicians In Kansas. lie was elected
] in iSSs b. a plurality OF more than II.
| 600 He had carried every county IN bis
district and to n casual observer u look
| ed as II the man who got tne Republican
nomination in that district had cineh.
But in 1859 there were some Indications
Of the coming storm. In speech which
/ he made In congress in that year JudEe
/ Peters dropped few sentences that IN
/ dicated that he had his ear tolershiy
close 10 the prairie and could hear the
faint rumhiings OF the approaching tenn
pest lie hadn't saved any money IN
! congress. and In addition 60 that. Il &C.
CURED 10 him IL might be mighty good
| time TO let 10.
But n Judge Peters had figured taat
! there was danger Il was evident thss
there were plenty Of Republican poll
ticians there Who were willing 90 Fisk u
/ still.
when Il was announced that Peters
would not be a candidate. tho prairies
/ began To swarm with fellows who want q
10 make the race. but when the conven-
ton me, at Dodge City. Colonel Jim Hat
lowell OF Wichita was an easy leader -
/ the bunch and was nominated without
a great struggle. There was so aoatt
| expressed among the members Of that
convention about his election. but cia~e
observer might have seen from that caa-
vention itself that the district was bad
~ infected with new and Wild political
doctrine The members Of the coEven-
ton unconsc.ousIy perhaps acknewiedssl
the fact by formulating a platform The
like OF which never before. never
has been since and probably never viii
be again promulgated by any political
party on earth. IL declared for free All
unlimited coinsge. government ownership
and about everything else that any
I greenbacksr. union laborlfc or farmers
alliance man had ever advocated PA
! ally the platform wound up BY abFolviss
/ the candidate from any obligation 20 act
with the Republican caucus IN conGraas
after his election. which amounted -
saying that he could BE- entirely relieved
| from any party Obligation.
III the trainers - the platform sup
/ posed that such platform would gather
/ In many votes subsequent events showed
/ how badly they were mistaken. Jsffv
simpson ridleuied TIE Dodge city plat
form al through the campaign asi be-
I fore election II would have been hard -
/ md a man who wossid have been wiiiarx
o. Acknowledge that he had anything 20
/ do with itp making
I Colonel Ifaliousll the Hepshlicsa
nominee. had been gallant soiaisf' lie
I had a ane presence and 8 Eresf voice for
| the platform lie had been counted q
I great eampaiznsr when the Rspublicsns
/ tha. wac necessary was 60 wave fhe dsg
and can on me voters q rally once sFnin.
! tu, he had n@ver beer a sfr6~nf - sss-
Monies. In fact he bad sssver ben much
% a student u snv,hing Tr~u be was
1 harnpered ~ the THE ~ 'Prines Hai'
That was a poor year fvr princes in fhas
I part II Kansas. good wbiie before
I the election Il s~csBe svifeus that sAs
/ sise vas rsgnulnz hard against fhs kssF'Sfs-
T Iieans Do, hardly ssytso-'y iookssi fsT 90
/ election of Jerry Himpson ~ a rnsfnftfy
I II more than sss IN ftsrtes shsf Bad
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