The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-04

ana give 1t salary of about 1000
year, along with the state offices which
require more attention of the incum-
bent, but pay less to the holder?
If Mr.. Hoch would advocate the saw
ing of SO, 900 a year In the ONCE OF
state printer this would go long way
in providing for all the superintendent
of ventilation and other supernumer-
aries that were put on the pay roll by
the machine with which Mr.. Hoch, Mr..
Burton, Mr.. Stubs, Mr., Curtis Mr.. Lee
land, Mr.. Bailey and Mr.. Long are re-
| spectively allied.
While Mr.. Hoch was in conference
here last night and this morning with
D. w. Mulvane, District Attorney Dean,
and others, all friendly with Senator
Burton, it is no doubt tue that some Of
these people threw cold water upon Mr..
Hoch's ambitions. 1t may be taken as
a foregone conclusion that il he gets
into the race Hoch will promote a Bit
| ter factional fight in the Republican
party, while posing just now as a man
who is not allied with any faction, but
| is a Republican Republican, not a Le-
| land Republican, nor a Burton Repub
lican, to quote one of his favorite ex-
preSsionS. 1t also may be taken that
should Mr.. Hoch be persuaded to run,
against his own judgment, that Senator
Long, Mr.. Leland, Mr.. Albaugh, and the
many who are in the so-called machine
will line up solidly in the determination
| to resent the insult implied in the OPP
position to the denomination of the gov
ernor a denomination which has gen.
orally been conceded to a governor who
has been fairly sincere and successful
| in the administration of his office, and
an impartial analysis of Governor Bal
| ley's services would certainly put him
| in line for the further confidence Of his
party and the people of Kansas
There has been some well deserved
criticism of the last legislature. but
Bailey is certainly not to blame for all
that body did or did not do. We really
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ton of the governors office is just as
honest, efficient and praiseworthy as
Stanley's first term. The masses of
the Republicans are not greatly
office and is pleased, and a score of
other Office seekers fail to '1and" and
are Sore disgruntleds and picking
| flaws. If it were not for the Hoch
microscopes and telescopes and metro
styles that are seeing these strange
visions and playing these tunes. it
would look as if Bailey were quite a
creditable man in the executive Office
without much friction or wear and tear
on the states real machinery. Bailey
hasn't stolen anything or swindled any
| body or gotten into any scandals so
far as the Journals staff of astute re-
porters has been able to ascertain.
The masses of the people are not par
ticularly interested in the fortunes of
Mr.. Hoch or even Governor Bailey. If
they believe Governor Bailey has been
| fairly successful and honest and sincere
! in conducting the affairs of state, they
will concede that he may like to con-
suit his friends, rather than his enc
mics and may desire to give offices at
his disposal to those who have been
good to him, especially provided that he
| finds there are just as capable people
for the offices within the breastworks
as without them. Governor Bailey is no
god. He is merely human, but not
/ 1ad Of a
kinder to Hoch, than Hoch to him. The
| governors recent appointment of Judge
Dickerson, Hoch's warm friend and
brother-in-law and a splendid man evil
IDENTIFY, was one of the incest, broadcast
pieces of political action that can come
from any party in power. 1t alone
should life Governor Bailey above petty
criticism. 1t showed that he is a gen.
| tleman and as governor above rank
| factionalism.
The writer Of this article and the
paper itself are friendly to Mr.. Hoch
on the broad principle that he is a
decent man, butA it must be admitted
from personal view, and both. are
man of Just as high character as Mr..
Hoch. Both are subject more or less
to the frailties to which all human
flesh is heir. We think the best thing
that Mr.. Hoch has said, applying to the
present situation. is his remark pub
lished above. that the Marion Record
office is quite good enough for me-"
| The Marion Record is a mighty good
paper, well conducted. and must afford
the owner and his family a good and
comfortable living, and gives him
substantial and worthy position in his
own community. The Record is a good
full share in his paper for the good
of the party. without counting the ex-
| ira service which he has given in cam
paigning up and down the Arkansas
valley.
About these two hundred or more
letters which Mr.. Hoch has on his
desk. urging him to neglect his news
paper business for the good of the
state. it should be borne in mind that
two letters from each county in Kan
sas would bring to Marion more than
two hundred. and so small number
as ten from each county would bring
him a thousand letters. Perhaps Cow
ernor Bailey has an average of ten en-
enies in each county who might write
to Mr.. Hoch and urge him to wrap
about himself the gubernatorial toga.
Governor Bailey's big majority in Kan
sas shows that he had a great many
more than ten active friends and voters
in each county. and the probabilities
are that not all of them have deserted
him as yet. This would be indicated
as true. even If Mr. Hoch had on his
Marion county editorial desk several
hundred letters he is unable to an
swer. and has conferred with a more
OF less numerous crowd in Topeka
during the last two DAYS.
! The fact must be evident to the UNI
pre1udlced observer that if Mr. Hoch
goes into this race however reluctant
they may be, the forces lined up for
him will be Mr.. Burton's forces A few
of the Burton officehoIders and contfn-
| gent would not line up for Hoch openly
Tor fear OF jeopardizing their own in
terests, needing everybody they can get.
But the Burton crowd is against the
hn T2oi
Mr.. Long and it also means, as shown
| by recent developments, Roosevelt
Senator Burton has no standing with
the national administration He Is a
dead politician, so far as the White
House is concerned. This is no secret,
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