The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-13
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and education he is a Missourian. but
has lived at Larned for some five OF
six years. He and Mr.. Murdoch are
| well acquainted and are good friends.
Cline, is quite an orator. and Will
make a speech making campaign. He
is lawyer by profession and is in the
enjoyment of good practice at
| Larned.
The Republicans of Usage county in
the county convention the other day
| congratulated their party on having
vice president. The committee on
resolutions didn't know his name is
Fairbanks
Toliver Bird, the janitor for the
| supreme court, says that counting his
brothers, nephews and brothers-in-law
| there are nineteen votes in his family
| and they are all for Roosevelt. He
wants to know if any Republican can
come up with a better story.
The Miami County Republican
speaks up as follows: y. r. Burrow,
! secretary of state, has charge of the
publication of the constitutional
amendments to be voted upon this
fall, and, characteristic of profession
al reformers of his class, is paying his
political obligations at public expense
by placing them with newspapers, Re
publican, Democratic, PopuliSt, mon
grel and nondescript, that are friend
ly to him and his kind of political BAN
dts, and Withholding them from GER
tain Republican papers that have the
courage to oppose the thief in poll
tics. Mr.. Burrow may be all knaye,
but he is not all fool. He has sense
enough to recognize the fact that he
does not owe this newspaper any
thing, hence he sent in no order for
i g.
Fortunately the Republican does not
depend for its existence upon political
holdup men like ]. R. Burrow.''
]. M. Mickey, editor of the Usage
City Free Press, who was Senator
Miller's clerk in the last legislature,
and who was one of those who spent
nearly all of their time at home while
drawing three dollars a day from the
state for services never rendered, de-
tends his action by saying that he was
at home attending to his private bust
ness, which was doing better than some
others did. This is. of course, a valid
defense.
Governor Crawford has contributed
800 check to Chairman Stubs cam.
paign fund.
All the parties have their troubles.
Senator Young of the, Independence
Times, vino was formerly one of the
Populist leaders in the senate, is now
going after Watson, the Populist
presidential nominee. Here is one of
Senator Youngs utterances:
I'm our news column will be found a
report of the proceedings of the Demo-
cratic and Populist state convention at
Topeka this week The two parties
ticket, which will go on the ballot unoer
the Democratic head Eacn of them
nominating non, an eIeGtora4 tlGke H. va Az
vote for under the cottage emblem this
year will be Watson and Tibbles-and
we have no use in the world for Mr..
Watson. The Democratic ticket, on
which will appear the names of the
candidates nominated for state offices
by the Populist state convention, as
we'll as one of the Republican candi-
dates for railroad commissioner, will
have the hearty support of the Times"
The Hiawatha World says it is the
only Republican paper in Brown coun-
ty' that is flying the entire Republican
ticket at its head. This is the way har
mony is roosting up in Brown And
even the World has been fighting the
Republican candidate for state sena-
tor.
Barber County Index: The Democrat
ic state convention last week did very
wise and sensible thing when it en-
dorsed ]. w. Robson, the only man on
the Republican ticket who is in SYM
pathy with the farmers, shippers and
merchants, lot RAILROAD COMMISSIONER
AS a result of this action there will be
only two instead of three candidates on
the Democratic ticket. The Democrats
and Populists have decided that Robi-
son is a man of the people and that he
will serve the state we'll on the railroad
commission regardless of what his
views on national politics may be. Now,
if the people of the state will elect w.
F. Ferguson and F. II. Chase, the two
fusion candidates who, with Mr. Robi- |
son have been endorsed by the business
mems federation, they will have a board
which the railroads can not control In
rising above partisan bias in this in
stance, the Democrats and PopulistS of
Kansas have set a precedent which can
not fail to be commendable. They have
demonstrated that they are here to do
something and that party supremacy is
made secondary to the states welfare.
Topeka Market.