The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-07
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Fixers Wondering What Low
VIII Do in Judgeship Contest.
Would Like to DO Something to
Help Walker.
PATHS ARE APART.
Curtis and Burton Must Soon
Part Company.
County Attorney S. z. Mold, of
Nemaha, RenOunces Populism.

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What will NJ. A. Low do in the judge
ship contest? That is question which
the politicians are guessing about as
much as they guessed last winter about
Mr.. Low and the senatorship after it
became evident that Congressman Cur
tbs probably could not win.
All sorts of stories are afioat concern
ing Mr.. Lows position. One is that he
will join the Missouri Pacific in support
ing Justice Pollock if Charles Blood
Smith gets out of the way. One man
says Mr.. Low will take with him Con-
gressman Curtis and that a deal will be
made by Low and Curtis with those who
are pushing Pollock, who are also in
terested in the fight on Curtis. that the
fight on Curtis and A. D. Walker. Mr..
Lows special friend on the board of
railroad commissioners. shall stop. This
would probably suit both Mr.. Curtis
and Mr.. Walker. but it is doubtful if
the enemies of Curtis would make such
a deal. even to land a federal judgeship.
And Curtis friends, too, deny that he
is party to any such a deal
This is only somebody's guess, how
ever, and there is nothing authoritative
that Mr.. Low will support Pollock. An
other story that has the politicians
guessing is that Mr.. Low had a confer
ence with Chief Justice Johnston re-
Gently. 1t has been currently supposed
! that Judge Johnston would be the last
man in the race to be favored by rail-
road support.
A good many people believe that Con-
gresham Curtis will line up behind n.
H. Loomis when the time comes. Mr-
| Curtis, however, is doubtless looking
| ahead three years when he will prob
ably again be a candidate for United
/ States senator, against ]. R. Burton
And right here is where Mr.. Curtis may
| determine that his path lies apart from
/ that of Senator Burton. If one en-
| dorSes Loomis the other may not. Cur
tbs and Burton are quite likely to be
formidable opponents in three years, al
ways supposing that Mr.. Curtis is re-
elected to congress next year. If he is
| not he will, of course, be removed from
the race for senator to succeed Burton.
The exodus of politicians from Kansas
to Washington has commenced. They
may not all be going to take hand in
the judgeShip contest, because the open
| ing of congress is an interesting event
to most politicians, but they will doubt
| less exert whatever influence they can
| in the judgeship fight United States
Marshal w. H. Mackey, who is an en-
! thuSiastic LoomiS supporter, left for
| Washington Friday. Mr.. Low goes
! there today, as does also Hiram P. Dill
lon, who has been supporting Charles
Blood Smith, but who is also close
friend of Mr.. Loomis.
s. P Mold. county attorney of Ne
maha county. who is an old-time Pop
ulist has renounced PoDulism and has
come out for the reelection of Roose-
velt He says he is glad that Bryan
didn't win and that the Populists did
not succeed in defeating the Repub-
licans, because he believes the ReDub-
Iicans have run the government in
better shape than the Populists or
Democrats could have done. He has
written an open letter to the Populists
in the Seneca Tribune setting forth the
reasons for his change. Here are some
extracts from it:
Il was one of the out scouts for the
Peoples party and in its organization
and declaration of principles 1 saw.
what at that time appeared to be. a
solution for social, industrial and pO-
litical disorders. L embraced the Gin
cinnati platform as easily as though it
had been the product of my own pen.
From this distance some of our be-
liefs now seem absurd and we are for
tunate that they were never enacted
into laws. Perhaps the widest was
the sub-treasury scheme Yet the old
time Pops (Of which l am proud to say
was one) were honest and but for
us the state would never have had the
Weakening. and the quaking and the
shaking it got, nor would the voters of
! the nation have been as able as they
are today to cast an independent and
intelligent ballot.
New issues have arisen and will
arise and the question for us is, What
shall we do?'
I'VE went into the Democrat party in
good faith, but not without a struggle.
At that time imperialism, expansion,
the Philippines and the gold standard
were the burning issues.
| I'VE viewed the conditions with alarm
and we were honest in believing that
the only salvation for the country was
the election of w. J. Bryan and a ma
tional congress of the sarle persuasion.
We lost and lost badly.
| Now the country has expanded and
we are retaining the acquired territory.
When Dewey took Manila / knew just
what he should have done next; but he
didn't do it. Events have proven that
the course the administra ton pursued
was the only rational course and I am
thankful that it was William MCKin-
lev and not I that had the RESPONSE
bility of directing the course. 1 verify
believe a different course. or at least
the course advised by many at that
time, would have brought cl world
wide war.
I'VE thought we knew the country
had to have free silver. We believed
that under the gold standard the price
of labor would go down and that it
sheep or corn to pay off the mortgage
on the farm. Calamity after calamity
was to follow the adoption of the gold
standard. yet they have failed to ma
terialize. We ought to acknowledge the
corn and admit that we We're mis-
taken. am satisfied with the gold
standard, and rejoice that the dire
calamities we DroDhesied under it have
not been visited upon the nation
LAS Populists we stood for fearless
officials clean administrations. faith
fulness in Office opposed to trusts, and
felt that general Investigation of all
government deOartmeQtS was due the
public
Theodore Roosevelt is just that
kind of an officer and is giving us an
administration. that would have done