The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-23
Talk of Making Him Chairman
of National Committee.
Rumor Comes from Seventh
District Friends.
NO MORE THAN GOSSIP.
Not Likely That Mr.. Long
Wants the Place.
Believed That Congressman
Curtis Will Be Promoted.

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/ A boom has been started for Senator
Chester /. Long to succeed Marcus A.
Hanna as chairman of the Republican
national committee. The Wichita Star
is RESPONSIBLE for it, but it prob
ably done without Mr.. Longs knowl-
edge. The Star says:
Senator Chester 1. Long of Kansas
is the very man to put at the head of
the Republican national committee
1T is not likely that Hanna will care
to serve again. He twice piIoted the
party to victory with Mckinley as cap
tain of the great ship.
Quay could not have the place with
out costing the party many votes. The
demand is for younger man to take
the place, and Senator Long has all
the qualifications.
He is free from all entanglements.
He represents the party principles and
would be eminently satisfactory to
Roosevelt. He has demonstrated time
and again marvellous faculty for or
ganizing. 1t was Long on the ways and
means committee that saved the day for
Cuba
I'VE in Kansas know something of the
marvellous achievements of this man
Long, when it comes to organizing. No
man in the state has ever been his equal.
The national party would be wise indeed
to take advantage of his talent
While there is no doubt of Senator
Longs remarkable ability for organic
alton and the grasping of detail, to
put upon him the work of national
chairman might prove disastrous to him
personally. Mr.. Long is just now try
ing to recover his health which he lost
while making the fight in the house for
Cuban reciprocity, and which was made
worse during his senatorial campaign.
The duties of his senatorial office will
doubtless require all the strength which
Mr.. Long has to spare during the next
year or two. and to put upon him the
strenuous duties and great response
bilities of national campaign might
still further aggravate his trouble. The
last report from the senator week
ago was that he had begun to improve,
but he is still at Geuda Springs.
A rumor comes from Washington
that Congressman Curtis may succeed
to the Craftsmanship of the committee
on Indian affairs next winter. He is
now the ranking member of the COM
mittee, and only Sherman of New York,
chairman of the committee. stands
above him.
The report is that Sherman will be
transferred to the craftsmanship of the
committee on postoffices and post roads,
thereby leaving the Craftsmanship of
the Indian committee, Vacant. and Mr..
Curtis will be advanced to I'LL this va
cancv-
Loud of California has been chair
man of the committee on postoffices
and post roads, but he went down in
defeat last fall and is no longer a mem
Der of congress. Besides, both Loud
and Sibley of Pennsylvania, the rank
ing member of the committee, have
been somewhat implicated in the post
office scandals. This will keep Sibley
from being advanced to the chairman
ship of the committee.
Kansas Journal hi MOI inc
says; Governor William J. Bailey of
Kansas was in the city for a few min
utes last night. He went to the Blossom
house and inquired of the clerk if there
was any mail for him. He was inform
ed that there was not and he imme-
diately walked across the street to the
union depot and took his train for To-
peka.''
Governor willis ]. Bailey was really
on a trip up to his home in Nemaha
county.
Two Wyandotte couny delegations
were in Topeka Monday afternoon
both of them to interview the governor
with reference to judicial appointments
One wanted two judges appointed and
the other wanted one. One delegation
composed of A. L. Berger, o. L. Miller
and o. J. Peterson came to urge the ap-
pointment of McCabe Moore as district
| judge of Wyan6otte county to succeed
Judge Fischer. 1t is generally under
stood that this appointment will be
made. The same delegation also urged
the appointment of Judge w. G. Holt
to succeed himself on the bench of the
court of common pleas. ~
The other delegation which was made
up of Mayor Gilbert and Chief or Police
Murray of Kansas City, Kan, Nat
Barnes and County Commissioners
| Marshman and Kilmer, urged the ap-
pointment of William Mechanism. former
police Judge to succeed Judge Holt.
| This was only incidental, however. The
| real business of this delegation was to
| interest the state school fund commits
sioners in purchasing the bridge bonds
| to be issued to the amount of $50. 900 to
replace the bridges which were Destroy
ed by the floods.
! Congressman-at-Lar Charles F.
Scott makes the following comment on
one phase of the fight on Governor
! Bailey, in the lola Register:
| ut is not likely that many old SOL
| dierS will allow themselves to be drawn
into the eght that has been organized
| by Democrats against Governor Bailey
for his appointment of a Democrat and
an ex-confederate as justice of the
peace at Manhattan. 1t is true that
union soldier was a candidate for the
place. But it is also true that this
man was a candidate for the Office at
| the last election and was defeated and
it is alleged, thus far without denial.
| that he is under Indictment by the fed
prosecution of a pension claim. 1t is
also true that the man who was ap-
pointed was recommended by all the
most prominent Republicans of Man
haitian. who stated that while he was
a Democrat he was the only man quail
lied for the place who would ACCEPT
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"Hunky" Hines Loses an Eve.
Rockford, Ill. Sept 23-Henry .'Hunkv''