The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-09
DISCUSS HOCH BOOM.
Mankato Monitor Credits It to Disap-
poin ted Politicians.

| The true inwardness of the Hoch
gubernatorial boom is shown by the
sentiment in Jewell county, which Is
probably as friendly to Mr.. Hoch per-
w. Bennington, representative from
Jewell county, who was Mr.. Hoch'S
strongest supporter in the legislature
| last winter outside of his own, Marion
county, member, in an interview in the
State Journal a few days ago. deplored
the HOch movement and said if Mr..
Hoch runs for governor it will produce
dissension in every part of the state,
and that he is being doomed only as the
tool OF Republicans who do not like
Governor Bailey. The same view is
taken by John Q. Royce. editor of the
Phillipsburg Dispatch, who was one of
Mr.. Hoch's managers last winter
| Now comes the Mankato Monitor with
an editorial along the same line, and
| the statement is vouched for by other
| prominent Jewell county Republicans
that this is the sentiment of majority
of the Republicans of that locality. The
Monitor says:
1t now appears that E. W. Hoch VIII
| become a candidate for governor This
| decision of Mr.. Hoch's means that the
Republican party in this state will be
disrupted and that it will not recover
nearly every county in the state. 1t
means that bitter factionalism is to take
the place of peace and harmony even in
our own home county of Jewell.
NOlu1IiS COQlQ De IlOIC 111-d0NAoC0 eAl
this time than Mr.. Hoch's candidacy.
Himself a defeated candidate for state
/ printer (the acknowledged great graft
of the state) and his chief hacker (Mr
Arthur Capper) also defeated candi-
| date for the same office of state printer.
| Mr.. Conner T. Davies, another booster,
| a late recruit from the Populist party
| as well as a CRATER of no means order
Gf all reports are true) Gen. ]. K.
| Hudson (the Carrie Nation of g. Topeka
| an0rN Ta1~1rco10f77 Rats Burton (OJIr
get rich-quick senator), are the chief
| hackers and pushers of the piouS Mr..
E5och for the high office of governor of
Kansas. ftt
TT is not E. w. Hoch that Arthur
Capper is working for; it is to aid his
Topeka gang of Troutman and Curtis
rooters and to punish Cy Leland.
1T is not E. w. Hoch that Conner I.
Davies is working for; it is to punish
George A. Clark (who owns Concor-
dia newspaper and it is to punish Mort
Albaugh and Cy Leland because those
individuals Gf all reports are true) re-
fused to pay Mr.. Conner T. Davies 81
600 for his recent flop from Populis1n
to Republicanis1n.
''It is not Mr.. E. w. Hoch that Gen.
]. K. Hudson loves so dearly, but rain
er it is because Bailey defeated a To-
peka man, James A. Troutman, for gov
ernor, and further because ]. r. Bur
ton is back of the Hoch movement
in his own interest and in the interest
of Charles Curtis who are each paving
the way to succeed themselves.
This is the outfit that is backing the
Hocn movement: they shed crocodile
tears for the poor taxpayers. SO far as
every one of them is concerned. the
taxpayer can be condemned; its office
they are after and nothing more.
"The Republicans of this county can
not afford to line up on the side of the
Hoch movement. Ed Hoch will not be
nominated for governor of Kansas as
against Bailey, Bailey beat a whole
field of candidates before. with all the
Topeka push. with Burton. with Curtis
and half the congressman against him
Bailey with the claim for second
term) can easily defeat one man. There
is in the candidacy of Hoch nothing
but spite. revenge. hatred. Cut loose
from it, get above it, and support the
administration as every Republican
should do 81
''If two years from now Hoch desires
the nomination (Which he says he does
not), then is the time for him to make
the race, after Mr.. Bailey has served
his allotted two, terms