The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-01

Bailey, a useful. honorable, worthy
man, will be Inundated and turned
down. It is a shame to carry even
dirty politics to this disreputable. I'M
fair and outrageous extent.
In the Hoch meeting at Topeka last
night, Hon. Stubs warned the Re
formers" not to go too far: not to go
to the extent of Furnishing anybody
but Bailey; not to touch Tom Kelly or
]. R. Burton.
The Topeka Capital and Kansas City
Journal nave won, but we should think
they would be ashamed of their
victory.
W. J. Bailey, or Mort Albaugh, or
Cy Leland should not be held respon-
sible for the sentiments of the Globe.
The Globe makes mistakes. but they
are not dictated by the machine, the
anti-machine. or anybody else. The
editor makes them and takes his pun
1shment- We believed two weeks ago
that Bailey was beaten; anything we
say now is not intended to change the
result. Tho Globe Will stand by any
good citizen of Kansas long after he
has been unjustly treated.
KELLY AND BURTON ENDORSED.
Atchison Globe: Governor Bailey
has decided not to ask for a renomina-
ton. we still say he was treated I'M
fairly, and that the victory of the Boss
Busters is a disgraceful one. Having no
political sense, and being proud of it, we
are still for Bailey, and we don't want a
place in the Hoch band wagon.
Among the KanSanS at Washington
are Joseph r. Bristow and J. r. Burton,
one as fourth assistant postmas ter gen
eral, and the other as United States
senator. Bristow has been a credit to
the state: you see his name and picture
in the magazines, in connection with
creditable statements as to his ability,
vigor and character. Burton, on the
other hand, is a disgrace to the state,
I1r,. I/@~ go.
grand jury at St. Louis for fraud. Still,
the Reno Republican county convention.
elected in the interest of the HOch out
fit, passed a resolution endorsing Bur-
ton, and said nothing whatever of Bris-
lows good work in the interest of re-
forming the postoff1ce department. This
is as discreditable to Kansas as Popu-
list administration. 1t is plain stupidity
and dishonesty
During the past six or seven weeks
the Republicans of Kansas have quar-
relied enough to have accomplished a
great deal of reform But nothing has
been accomplished except to humiliate
the most respectable man in the state
house, and endorse and renominate Tom
Kelly, state treasurer, who was convict
ed of forgery by a Republican board of
commissioners in Miami county. Reno
county, which was carried by the hys-
ter1cal reformers, adopted a resolution
in its county convention endorsing J. r.
Burton, who is under indictment for
fraud at St. Louis. Is it any wonder
that such work as this gradually leads
up to a Populist victory?"
THINGS TO THINK ABOUT.
The Kansas City Star, which has not
been particularly friendly to Bailey has
the following sensible editorial under
the heading of Burton and the Hoch
movement" It points out very clearly
that Reno county, which set the Hoch
movement into shape, endorsed dis
credited Burton and refused to endorse
most creditable Victor Murdoch:
In is sincerely hoped and believed
that the Boss Busters who controlled
the Reno county convention this week
are not fair representatives of the
Hoch sentiment in Kansas. That con-
ventiOn adopted a resolution indorsing
Senator J. Ralph Burton and advising
a suspension of judgment until his case
has been tried. At the same time a
resolution indorsing the Seventh dis
trict congressman, Victor Murdoch was
voted down. A movement in the inter-
est of political purity which would per-
init an Endorsement of Senator Burton
would be too ErOteSQue to pass even in
a state where palpable absurdities
sometimes go unquestioned.
LAS far as Buttons case is concerned,
there is no denial of the fact that he
accepted money from get-rich-Quick