The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-17
BURROW IN LEAD.
Majority of Candidates Support
Him for Chairman.
His Election Expected at Meet
ing Friday Night.
BURTON'S CANDIDATE.
Selection Means That Senator
VIII Control Committee.
A Step in Rebuilding of the
Burton Machine.

| IL RCCAtAS " Oc Tie general opinion
that j. R. Burrow, secretary of state
and candidate for reelection, will be
elected chairman of the Republican
state central committee when the COM
mittee meets at the National tomorrow
night
| This opinion does not prevail because
| OF any knowledge concerning the choice
| of the committee itself, but because a
majority of the candidates on the state
| ticket have been rounded up for Bur-
row, and the committee usually selects
the choice of the candidates.
Only once in recent years has this
rule been broken over. It was once
when Humphrey was the gubernatorlal
candidate. The committee acted with
! out waiting for the choice of the can
| d1dates. The committee met while the
! candidates were trying to agree on a
man, but there was a difference of
! opinion among the candidates and it
took them long time to agree After
q half hours wait on the part of the
committee, S. S. Benedict of Wilson
| county arose and said that as the re-
1 sponsibility for its officers rested on
| the committee anyway and the mem
| bers were in a hurry to get through
and catch an early train, he moved
! that the committee proceed without
waiting longer on the candidates, and
] Tic OO11ilItlLlcG QlOC06QeQ 10 elect w. j.
Buchan as chairman. After the busi-
ness was all over a committee came
! from the candidates and reported that
| they had agreed on Ben Simpson for
chairman, but they were too late.
1t has happened a time or two that
the candidate for governor has differed
from the majority of the committee in
his choice for chairman, the same con-
dition which prevails at present, but
the majority has given in to the head
of the ticket and the state committee
! has always followed the wishes of the
gubernatorial candidate rather than of
the majority of the candidates. This
! happened once when Governor morrill,
was running for governor. This rule
has been followed on the theory that
4 the gubernatorial candidate has to
bear the brunt of the campaign and
the closest relations should exist be-
state committee who directs the cam
paign.
The situation at present is that Mr..
Hoch, the gubernatorial candidate, diff
fers from a majority of the candidates
on the subject of chairman-at least,
he is supposed to differ. Mr.. Hoch's
choice is supposed to be j. N. Dolley,
the same as that of Mr.. Stubbs. Stubbs
4 has declared for Dolley in a signed
statement. The Burton element, which
is supporting Burrow, may force Hoch
into line for their candidate, but Hoch' s
personal choice is undoubtedly Dolley.
| state AUDITOR w ellis is SIdIlQilS OuI
for r. n. Allen of Chanute. If he can
not swing the rest to Allen, however, it
is probable that his second choice
would be Burrow. because he is not for
Dolley.
IF they want the kind of man they
say they have been looking for they
ought to elect Allen said Mr.. Wells
today. He was one of the men who
were originally in. this new movement,
and he is sincere in it. More than that,
: bo iS capahIe and would make a good
chairman"
Allen will also probably have the sup
port of George w. Wheatley, the other
Third district candidate
The selection of Burrow undoubtedly
means a Burton victory in the organic
! alton of the committee, and If Senator
Burton escapes conviction on the charge
against him in the federal court at St.
louis next week he will be one of the
chief advisers of the committee or
ganization in the coming campaign.
The state Journal has contended
from the beginning that the Hoch
movement would be utilized by the
Burton machine to regain its power
and prestige in Kansas politics. And
, the result has borne out the state
ment. Only the criminal charges
against him kept Senator Burton from
being one of the head bosses at the
recent Wichita convention. AS 1t was
his friends manipulated things. 1t was
the Burton people who forced the re-
-
Walker They saw to it that large
per cent of the new state committee
was made I'D of avowed supporters OF
Senator Burton. and only very few
of its members are known to be op-
nosed TO him. The delegation to the
national convention was made Ut
largely of Burton men, And now the
|, | Burton people have laid their plans to
capture the state organization in
Burton's interest.
Probably the only way in which the
Burton plan can be headed off is for
Mr.. Hoch and Mr. Stubbs to "lay
down" and insist upon the selection OF
DoIley for chairman, but it is not ex-
pected that they will do that. The
burton people expect to run the next
state administration, and if they are not
allowed to do it there will be trouble
If Hoch does not follow their wishes
in making appointments and give the
Burton followers the best of the official
pie distribution they will abuse him
just as they have abused Governor
Bailey.
The Burton people know that they
could not win even now If they Were
to admit that they are working in
Rlrton's interest, so they are contend
present. IF Burton is convicted the
same organization will continue, but
il will, of course have to line up foi
! another candidate for United States
senator, but Senator Burton vii
doubtless continue to be one of the
chief sslokes in the organization
The new state committee is as fol
! lows by judicial districts:
l. D. r. Anthony, jr., Leavenworth.
q w. T. F. Donald. Atchison.
9. D. W Mulvane, Topeka.
A. T. r. Scott, Garnett-
8 w c. Austin, Cottonwood Falls.
g. r. G.. Mendenhall, La Cygne.
z, r. n. Allen, Chanute.
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