The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-25

1.-The people have a right to demand a
sacrifice" said Burton, land you, Gov
ernor Roosevelt, must yield The
Kansas instinct for getting into the
band wagon had led Burton in the
right direction. Roosevelt yielded.
BETRAYS ROOSEVELT ON CUBAN
RECIPROCITY.
With the beginning of the Roosevelt
administration Burton again became
active in his opposition to Bristow. But,
coupled with his opposition to Bristow,
was the attempt TO secure appointment
for his own friends. The president in
vestigated. He refused to make the ap-
pointments and insisted upon the sena-
tor naming new men. The president
began to distrust Burton from this
hour He made it known that he would
not remove Bristow except for cause.
The fight for reciprocity with Cuba
came on. Kansas was for Roosevelt
and demanded that his policies be car
ried out. Burton was mad because he
couldn't have everything his own way
about appointments. Roosevelt was
carrying out the pledges he had made
in a cabinet meeting at Buffalo when
he took the oath of office at the time
of McKinley's funeral Roosevelt be-
Tfeved IN reciprocal relations with Cuba.
Moreover, his promise was a sacred
compact.
Burton chose to join a senate cabal
which sought to embarrass the admin
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senators from beet sugar states Bur
toms purpose was to force concessions.
IF he could not do that he would iden-
tify himself with cabal which gave
some promise of running the nation in
the event of Roosevelt's political col
lapse. The history of Buttons man
euvers at this time will never be fully
told. On one occasion he called at the
White House by request and in CONVEX
sation with the president said:
II will not f1V the COOD.s' The express
sion became a well known phrase in
Kansas. Not once or twice, but four or
five times Burton gave the president
to understand that he would stand by
solemn compact which this government
made to Cuba.
AT dinner in which three or four
senators were assembled, the president
one night unbosomed himself regarding
Burton The president is a man who
drives directly at the mark. He gave
the guests to understand that he would
believe nothing which emanated from
Buttons lips. Burton was discredited,
but still had a senator's White House
privilege of access to the executive.
Roosevelt, who is almost as quick to
forgive as he is to believe, thought he
would give Burton another chance.
When the president visited Kansas,
Burton accompanied him on the train.
Burton had pet project which prom
ised to make millions for him.
THE NEW JERUSALEM AFFAIR.
It was reproduction at the St. Louis
Worlds fair of Jerusalem at the time
of the Savior's birth. Burton told the
president all about it. What did the
president think of the scheme? Roose-
welt was enthusiastic Would the
president write him a letter of indorse-
ment to help him in perfecting the de-
tail? Certainly he would Roosevelt
did it. In defiance of all the traditions
which hedge the chief executive about,
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caused a facsimile to be published as
a centerpiece of a flaming advertise
ment. The presidents indignation
knew no bounds. He had never been
in his incumbency of office. Buttons
usefulness as a factor in the affairs of
his state wherever they touched the
White House was over.
1t might as well be said here as it
has never appeared before in print, that
from this date the nomination of Charles
Blood Smith, Burton's candidate for
federal judge to- succeed Judge Hook,
was impossible. The president even
went SO far as to say to a certain
member of congress that he wanted
to appoint a given candidate and for
that reason did not want him to get
the Endorsement of Burton. The people
of Kansas would not credit these
things. They thought they had a sem
ator who was acceptable to the presi-
dent and the newspaper stories were
exaggerations. There are innumerable
little things which make spectacular
and grotesque Senator Burton's sena-
torial career Most of them. are indis-
cretions due to egotism and utter lack
of tact.
There is his determined attempt to ar
range a senatorial junket to Hawaii and
subsequent championship of L4iliuokalanis
claim for damages against the government
of the United States; his objection to
clerks visiting him at his home and his
patronizing observation about treating
were on terms of equality. The sum OF
it all was by that time he soon was as
much in disfavor in the senate as at the
White House, with numerous newspaper
charges to confront about questionable
money transactions.
FOLK AND KNOX INTERESTED
This was the situation with regard to
Senator Burton when Joseph w. Folk
came to Washington. The district attor-
ney from st. Louis came here to secure a
modification of extraditlOn treaties, but
he had another case in mind AT the time
Judge Adams dismissed the proceedings
in the federal court in St. Louis, which
involved certain officials of the Ria1tO
Grain and Securities company, he rem
dered an oral opinion pronounc1ng the
scheme an Infamous one to mulct a gulll-
BILE public and declared the state authori-
ties should take it up. Folk plunged into
which has resulted in setting Missouri
| on fire When Buttons connection with
| this concern was reached Folk discovered
| that his offense could be prosecuted with
over to the federal authorities He talked
with the president, and the president
passed the case over to Attorney General
| Knox.
THE RIALTO CO.