The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-26
TIME TO Think.
Railroad Commissioner Election
i Postponed.
No Vote Is Taken on the Cues
tiOn.
WILL TRY ON APRIL s.
New Law Provides Election
Must Be After April 1.
Minor Officers in the State
House Chosen.
WILL TRY ON APRIL s.

The candidates in the race for rail-
road commissioner can still have the
fun Of running another two weeks. The
executive council has postponed the
election of a commissioner until April g..
This viii allow eight or ten new can
didates to get into the race. too. The
principal effect Will be that there will
be just that many more politicians who
Will be mad at the members of the
council who do not support them.
AS stated in the State Journal yester-
day it was discovered that the new
law, instead of compelling the election
of a railroad commissioner before April
I. prevents thu, election until after April
1. AS soon as the matter of railroad
commissioner came up before the ex-
ecuuve council late yesterday Attorney
General Coleman gave an opinion that
the new law prevented an election at
that time. He said he had not had an
opportunity to examine the new law
until the day before, but after careful
examination he was convinced that the
executive council is authorized only to
appoint some suitable person" when
a vacancy occurs on the board that
there can be no vacancy until after the
expiration of the term of J. n. F'ike
the present Democratic commissioner
on April 1, and as the law fixing the
limit of his term had been repealed, his
term would continue until the executive
council should declare the office vacant
Then an election could be legally held
Acting upon this opinion the council
postponed the election of a commissions
er until April s. Superintendent Day
hoff Treasurer Kelly and perhaps some
Of the other members of the council
want to go to the Great Bend conven-
ton the latter part of next week, so the
election could not be held then. Some
of the members of the council are US
ually away on Monday, SO it could not
be held on April g. and April is cleo
ton day in cities of the second class
and most of the members of the coun-
ell want to go home to take part in
their municipal elections, so it was nee
essary to postpone the election until
April 8.
The Capital was again chosen as the
official state paper for another year 1t
received every vote but fOne, Treasurer
KelIy's- NO Mr.. Kelly did not vote for
the state Journal The State Journal
was not candidate
Colonel Veale as custodian, and A L.
Mooney as state house engineer, viii
not be disturbed at present and perhaps
not at all Their work seems to be per
fectly satisfactory. and while they were
not reelected it was agreed that no one
should be elected to succeed them. They
are allowed to remain in their jobs in
definitely
W. H. Fisher was elected elevator
conductor to succeed Clarence Grimes
This has been the Job that there has
been such a factlonal fight about, and IT
was finally settled by Governor Bailey
appointing two of Secretary Burrow' &
sIiends TO be regents of state institu-
lions. and in return Burrow voted for
Fisher for elevator boy" to please Gov
ernor Bailey. OF course the governor
would have appointed Burrows friends
anyway, but he landed Fisher by doing
it. The contest over elevator boy in this
administration should go down in Kan
sas history side by side with the famous
Ricbey-Brower row over the site o.
Quivera.
The fremen and janitors were par
celed out among the various members
of the council. Governor Bailey and
Treasurer Kelly We're each allowed to
name an assistant engineer. They rep
rese Mt the extremes of the two Repub-
Hcan factions. Each of the other four
members Of the council are allowed to
name a fireman A force of eighteen
janitors is employed to look after the
state house Only part of them have
been appointed. Each member of the
council is allowed to name three.