The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-19
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Sixth District POpulists Talk
of a Candidate
John MOllison, of Smith County,
May Oppose Reeder.
BELOIT HOCH CLUB.
Gazette, of That City, Says 1t
Doesn't Exist.
Items of Interest Concerning
the Politicians
BELOIT HOCH CLUB.

It seems likely that the Populists will
put up a candidate for congress in the
Sixth district John AIollison, an old
time Populist of Smith county, is an
nounced as a candidate for the Populist
nomination and the Smith County Pho
neer, a Republican paper, gives him the
following notice:
This paper has claimed the Pop par
" was dead, but when a man like John
Mollison consents to lead that party in
the race for congress, it is not so dead
as it looks. John can't be a Democrat.
He has been a third party man for the
past tWenty-seven years and don't know
how to be anything else. Furthermore,
he has the respect and esteem of not
only all his own party but of the people
of all parties who know him and he is
honest and true. Everybody knows we
have no love for Johns kind of politics,
and we are 'agin' him, but as a citizen,
there is none better.
1--WE cannot support Mr.. Mollison for
congress. We are for the Republican
congressman, w. A. Reeder, but we pro-
pose to see that the Populists have
hearing and fair play until they get
newspaper of their own"
It has been heralded over the state
that a Neutrality-suspicious. club with
one hundred members has been organ
ized at BeIoit. The Beloit Gazette has
Inc following 10 say DIS 10 the lIulh
of the report:
mo 'Hoch-for-gover or any other
kind of a HOch club. has been organ
ICED at Beloit. Mr.. Hoch is we'll known
as a campaign talker in Beloit and
Mitchell county, and has lots Of friends
here. Two or three weeks ago a paper
was circulated, we are informed, urg-
ing him to run for governor, and re-
ceived many signatures, as is always
the case with papers of this character,
where it doesn't cost anything to sign,
and pleases the other fellow if you do
sign. But the canvass was surely not
very efficient, as there are four Repub-
lican voters in the Gazette office who
were not invited to join the boom,
and knew nothing of the great political
upheaVal until they saw the fake dis
patch in the Topeka and the Kansas
City dailies. We try to give the news,
but we generally try to give it straight
No Beloit paper announced the forma-
ton of a Hoch club, because none has
been formed here"
Morton Albaugh, in the Kingman
Leader-Courier: THE evening before
the opening of the Wichita convention
Mr.. Ed Hoch himself took a poll of the
Marion county delegation on the gov
ernOrship question. Eleven of the four
teen delegates declared Bailey as their
choice for governor, and yet Mr.. Hoch
urged that the delegation vote solidly
against the Bailey organization in that
convention and against Bailey himself.
They did as Mr. Hoch urged, and still
Mr.. Hoch contends that he Is not a
factionalist. Such action upon the part
OF Mr.. HOch may not be machine
politics, but it is a mighty sight worse.
If there is anything more degrading in
politics than voting men against their
wishes to serve some ones personal
end, some one should speak out in
meeting and tell what it isl
Reports from Washington state that
Senator Burton has been to the White
House just once since he went to
Washington in November. The average
Democratic senator goes far oftener
than this. This is taken to indicate
Senator Burtons standing with Presi-
dent Roosevelt. The dismissal of Bur
toms appointee as postmaster in the
Parsons postoffiee this week is simply
another indication of the same thing.
1t shows that the president will not
tolerate any Pete F'oleyism in Kansas
If he knows it, and Burton stands for
Foleyism in Washington. 1t was stated
months ago that Senator Burton no
longer had any standing at the White
House, and every Washington occur
renee affecting Kansas seems to bear
out this statement.
Atchison Globe: There is some talk of
impeaching Postmaster Jim Chisham,
because his record on the silver ques-
ton is not straight. He has good deal
Of company in this. The year McKin-
ley was first nominated, the Republican
convention of Atchison county adopted
a red hot free silver resolution, with
out waiting for anybody"
The Fort Scott Republican is "going
after" Congressman Bowersock for in
Producing a great mass of private pen
sion bills, when he knows he cannot
succeed in getting more than four or
five passed. 1t argues that this is only
deceiVing the old veterans in whose
behalf the bills are introduced, making
them believe that they have some
chance of getting a pension through a
special bill, and also making them
think the congressman is putting forth
great efforts in their behalf.
Macarthur Incident Closed.