The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-31

| orator. lie IS Ine son OF y. BECK
man, who represented Cowley county
a number of years ago, and who was
one of the most eloquent public speak
ers in Kansas. The elder Beekman died
/ four or five years ago. Tne lower dis
trict was represented last winter by
s. D. Pollock, who is charged with
having embezzled postoffice funds
while he was assistant postmaster of
Arkansas City. These charges came
out after he served in the legislature
and he resigned his seat before the
June special session. In the Winfield
district John w. Skinner was the can
dide te last year but he was unexpected
| ly defeated.
Ex-Governor Morrill, was in Kansas
! City day or two ago, and when asked
something about politics in Kansas he
said:
"Tve a hundred and fifty head of
steers I am feeding to get ready for the
market and that is about as near as L
come getting into politics. My age has
exempted me from working out my poll
tax any longer, and I think it should
exempt me from doing any public ser
vice in political way"
When asked who he thought would be
the next nominee for governor of KAN
sas he replied that he had not supposed
there was any question but that Gov
ernor Bailey would be renominated
The Fort Scott Tribune says that
/ PTO1. Gnd0 LanSQOn may pun Jul u
the race for state senator down IN
Bourbon county after all. Lansdon IS
/ the Burton candidate, but he is opposed
| by Major Martin, the present clerk OF
the district court, who is exceedingly
| popular. The Tribune, which is Dem
ocratic paper, refers to Lansdon as tine
New Jerusalem candidate" in view OF
the fact that he represents Senator
Burton.
! We ,ahaffa POIIntV
Republicans are behind two booms:
One for DR.. George D. Boone OF Chetopa
for delegate to the Republican natlonaI
| convention, and the other for w. D.
! Atkinson Of Parsons for Justice Pol
locks place on the supreme bench IN
case the latter is advanced to the fed
eral bench.
Bent Murdoch makes this comment In
the Ell Dorado Republican:
Governor Willis Joshua Bailey has
enough and wants to quit. Wants 10
serve his first term and go back to his
| farm He says the thing to do is to
announce that he will not be candl-
date for a second term. He is satisfied
he will be beaten; that the machine VIII
be smashed and all that; but Leland
and Albaugh won't have it that way.
They are not so sure about being licked
And this is just what caused the row
between Bailey and the machine last
week. They had row. and it was a
! D1S OHG, OQl II ID PdlChC0 AP A
! time at least
Just where Mr.. Murdoch got his in
formation as to Governor Bailey'S
wishes he does not say.
/ yApropos Bent Murdock and his attack
upon Governor Bailey, 1.-The machine,
and the legislature. the Walnut Valley
Times publishes this parody on Long
fellows "Hiawatha":
| Gitche Manito the Mighty
| Father of Life, on earth descending,
! Call the tribes of men together.
Beckon to the politicians,
Have the people all assemble,
All attend and all applaud him.
| Listen to the roar of Murdock,
To the mighty roar of Murdoch.
Like bison in the mountains.
Like mad bull in the barn yard
Like a bull denied his fodder,
! Paving up the terra firma,
Shaking all the earth about him,
Filling the sky full of echoes,
AS he bellows in his madness.
| Mighty is the wrath of Murdock,
| Mighty is he in his madness.
When his fodder is denied him.
| When his pie is not forthcoming.
When no job is given to him,
| And his taxes are made heavy
BY shameless legisla ture
| Pilfng taxes high upon him,
! Till he Groans beneath the burden
| G1tche Manito, the Mighty
| Smile upon the wrath of Murdock,
| Fill his belly full of east wind
Fill his paunch with mighty roaring.
Sharpen up his hoofs with vengeance,
! Redden up his eye with madness,
Crook his tail high in the Heavens.
Turn him loose among the bosses,
Turn him loose with raging fury,
Ride upon him like whirlwind
Gitche Manito the Mighty,
Ride old Murdock like a whirlwind
Ride him hell Bent like a cyclone
Straight into the camp of bosses;
Let him gore the he-boss Leland,
| Hook the bones of Morton Albaugh
Mangle UP his flesh and tear him
Into thin and shredded ribbons;
| GOuge the liver out of Bailey,
! Till his horns gore-dipped and blood
stained
Clot with quivering flesh and entrails,
Are signal to the people,
OF the victory he has gained them
Over boodlers, grafters, bosses,
OF the victory gained the people,
| Over darkness and the Devil
And if hell should still be running,
| Gitche Manito, the Mighty,
Turn old Murdoch loose upon it,
Turn him loose among the devils,
Forked tailed and spouting brin-
stone
Let him hook hell out of business.
Cleanse his horns in blue-flamed
sulphur,
Hook and roar and paw up brirn-
stone,
Till the floor of hell is Uttered.
With the ribboned shreds of Devils,
Like a carpenters workshop,
That his wrath may have appease-
ment,
And his anger find it's easement,
This great leader of the people,
This refoTmer. purist, statesman,
Who in paying debts and taxes,
Is a model of the people,
Is an adept and an expert,
A sweet-scented meadow daisy
! A fair-decked and tinseled dandy,
| And a SDOrtiVe-DiumaQ Qed birdie
When it comes to debts and taxes.
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