The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-30
THEIR BIG WEEK.
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train side-traeked at some other point
than Sharon Springs The same dis
patch says.
The president told some callers this
morning that in taking the Union Pa
cific- route through Kansas he would
visit about the only part of the state
he has not seen. He recalled the fact
that in 1900, when he was a candidate
for president. he went through Kansas
over the Rock Island and the Missouri
Pacific, as well as over branches of the
Santa Fe. and stated that one OF his
reasons for selecting the Union Pacific
route this time was that it would take
him through another section of the
state. When the president has made a
trip over that road he viii have been
in majority Of the counties in Kan
sas and viii have seen more of the state
than many of its inhabitants"
Senator Burton reached Topeka Sat-
urday night from Washington. This IS
the first time he has been back to KAN
sas since the election Of Mr.. Long to the
senate He has rented a house IN Abb
lene and win spend the summer there
Senator Burton has joined in the
movement Tor an early convention Ia
Kansas next spring to declare for
for Roosevelt nov.
TT viii be Roosevelt by reclamation
! In the next national convention he
said. And in the election President
Roosevelt will carry every state in the
west with the possible exception of
Nevada.
1t viii be unnecessary to hold early
conventions and start the movement III
the west, it has been started. However.
want to say that I think the idea OF
noldlng an early convention in Kansas
is a good one
When President Roosevelt is renoni-
naleG ne VIII break the record By going
from the vice presidency to the presidency
He has always broken all records that he
has gone against He is a very great pol
/ ltician, using that word in it's best sense
where it blends into craftsmanship. He is
able to trace public thought and feeling
and keep in harmony with it. He is such
a politician as was Lincoln and, like Linz
tatorial, like organized wealth. He saves
done something nobody else could do; he
has CONQUERED Roosevelt and that is say
ing good deal. Senator Long and 1 win
accompany him through the state
The Sumner county Populists viii
send no delegation to the Populist con
gressional convention at Hutchinson
next Saturday, but viii probably join
in the Democratic convention instead.
They will simply ignore the Populist
call
The Wellington Voice. William Stry-
ker's paper and the Ponuhst organ of
D
the call for the PoDulist congressional
convention at Hutchinson just before GO
ing to press last week. Then it adds:
After consulting with Chairman Will
son and as many other Populists as
could be found in the few hours left be
fore going to press, it was unanimously
agreed to ignore this call and to hold
no county convention and to send no
delegates to Hutchinson During the
week other PoDuhsts and members of
( no Cd nc
fast as possible and all aporove of the
action taken.
THE reasons are, first. W E. Wood,
/ the Democratic Chairman of this dis
asking for conference and united ac-
ton in selecting a candidate. Not re-
4 ceiving a reply he, in connection with
his committee agreed upon time and
place for holding convention; the call
/ for which comes regularly and in time
for making necessary arrangements APP
pears on this page.
Second, The call IS irregular and the
time too short. Most papers in the dis
trict did not get notice until this week.
The committee should have been con-
suited and a different invitation extend
ed A convention thus called will place
Populists in a false position and at
disadvantage.
/ Should the nominee at Dodge City
on ApriI 9 be acceptable. and should
the Kansas city platform be affirmed
both Of which we expeet-that candi-
date will receive the support of this pa
per, and this in face of the fact that
i the editor is a Populist and holds him
self in readiness and certainly Will
break entirely with Democracy in 1904.
+ if it stands for candidates less radical
! than Bryan on platform less pro-
gressive than the one adopted at Kan
sas City"
4 Washington note: Senator Har-
ris viii not permit his name to go be-
I fore the Kansas Democratic convention
for governor. IF the office We're ten
dered him he would not take it. Sen
ator Harris has written to several
friends making clear his position. The
ridiculously low salary paid the COVER
nor of Kansas. if no other reason could
be advanced. would preclude Senator
Harris from holding the office The