The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-24
BRODERlCK'S LETTER.
Makes Formal Announcement of
His Candidacy.

The Holton Recorder today contains
the formal announcement of Judge
Case Broderjck concerning his congress
sional candidacy. 1t is as follows:
ITO the Republicans in the First Con-
gressional District:
The doctrine our fathers have estab-
hshed and recognized from the founda-
ton of the government is that any
citizen has the right to aspire to
public office and to fairly submit such
rlghtfGl ambition, in accordance with
prevailing customs, to the cons1dera-
ton and judgment of his fellow citizens.
Pursuant to this right, and after con-
sultation with many Republicans, I
hereby announce my candidacy for
congress subject to the decision of your
convention. CASE FREDERICK.
"Holton, Eas., Dec. %, 1903"
In commenting editorially upon Mr..
Broderick's candidacy the Recorder
says:
tine announcement of Judge Broder-
lex as a candidate for congress from
this district will be gratifying intelli-
gence to a very large majority of the
voters of Jackson county and especial
ly gratifying to those who have become
very tired of the dictatorial methods of
the crowd which has been running the
political affairs of the county for the
past four or five years. When the man
agement of the politics of this county
is put back into the hands and control
of the voters, where it belongs, the
habit that has been in vogue of going
to lot of Topeka bosses for instruc-
ton and inspiration will be a thing of
the past.
jackson county Republicans are
amply able to manage the affairs of
the party in this county in their own
way, and If we are not greatly mis-
taken in their temper and determine
ton they will assert their right to do it.
Another source of qualification is
that now we have candidate for con-
gress who is a. Jackson county man,
me n ~f7( hoe.
his boyhood, a man who has in every
way helped with his influence and his
money to build our churches, our school
houses and our college and in all ways
TO. advance the ma terial and moral in
terests of the county; a man who has
by honest straightforward methods won
the respect and commentator of every
one who has followed and knows his ca
time
Judge Broderick has held several po-
Slt1onS OF trust and responsibility and
his official course on all lines has been
without flaw or subject to serious
criticism. Is there a man in Jackson
county who ever heard a charge against
him that reflected, either directly or in
directly, upon his official integrity or his
standing as citizen and business man =?
In these days of Doodle Investigations
and loose official morals, is it not a mat
| ter of congratulatiOn to have a candi-
date to support for the high office of
who has the absolute confidence of his
Republican and Democratic neighbors
and acquaintance alike?
Mr.. Broderick for congress is not an
experiment. Few men in the state have
| had more experience in public affairs He
| served IN congress for eight years and III
that time attained to positions of inffu-
ence and Importance and won the respect
and confidence of his fellow members 70
an extent that few Kansas members have
equalled and nOhB3 have exceeded in the
same length of time. He served on the
tJudic1ary cofrfnttree,SOne of the most inn
pOrtant in the house, the entire time and
| for portion of the time on the commit
tees on territories and public printing. He
was chosen on a special committee to IN
vestigate the Homestead riots and Labor
1 troubles and was chairman of the Sub
| terry and managed the bill on the floor
of the house with complete success.
Mr.. BroderickS friends in Jackson and
| other counties in this district have al
ways deplored and resented the methods
| that were resorted to in the Horton con-
the opportunity long waited for to re-
| verse the action of that convention and
in a measure right the wrong.
4'Mr. Curtis, by methods known to the
shrewd politician that he is, has managed
to pose as the friend of the old soldier
four years his opponents had no better
claim than he to their support he has
held many of them in line. Now that
an old comrade is in the race, scores of
in the past will be for Case Frederick,
who served his country in the ranks of
the union army in the time of his c0un-
| try'S needs, and when in congress was
the friend and advocate of every old SOL
dier's legitimate claim