The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-26
BURROWS HOPE.
Told w. P. Hackney 1t Was in
tPoIiticaI Revolution.
His Reason for Not Endorsing
Judge Pollock.
STAND BY FRIENDS.
Said That Those Left Were
Said That Those Left Were
Against Judge.
All Friends of Burton and HOch
Try to Drop Senator.

The only hone 1 have of getting into
power again is a political revolution
out in Kansas.-Senator J. R. Burton's
statement to w. P. Hackney.
1t seems quite probable that Senator
Burton a few weaks ago did not favor
an open fight on Governor Bailey for
denomination. as Burtons friends are
now claiming. Burton was doubtless
much afraid of the effect such a fight
would have upon his friend, T. T. Kelly
and the latter's occupancy of the state
treasury. Neither is it probable that
Mr. Burton is giving the contest in
Kansas any considerable thought Just
at present He is busy with other mat
ters-at st. Louis. Senator Burton is
smart enough to realize. too, that his
open approval of anything in Kansas
would be sufficient to bring cOndemna-
tion u9on it from the majority of the
people of the state.
But it cannot be denied that Senator
Burton who in the long run be the
chief beneficiary of the present fight on
Governor Bailey in Kansas politics.
The only hope Burton has in Kansas
is a political revolution. He has moth
ing to lose and everything to gain.
And the Hoch movement is his chance.
To be sure, his personality is so odious
that even his appointees and those who
have been lined up with him hereto
AOlC dlG nroNOA4AA5 ~ SCI away AAOlll
him, but it is nevertheless true and
it cannot be denied, that what is known
as the Burton faction in Kansas is all
on the side of the Hoch movement.
While some of them may have been
afraid of a fight a few weeks ago, now
that the fight has been started every
friend of Burton is anxious to see it
win and is helping with all his might
and main. And wherever there is a
contest between the factions over the
tr11 f0,T1 Of q or a a for tan n
didate of Burton will be found lined
up with the Hoch movement and will
receive the votes of those who are
fighting Bailey. That is why Burton
will be the beneficiary of the Hoch
movement. It is hoped to get Burton
men nominated for state senators on
the strength of Mr.. Hoch's personal
popularity. ese
That Burton himself realizes that his
only hope in Kansas politics Is in a
political revolution is shown by state
ments which he made to w. P. Hack
ney of Winfield during the contest for
the federal judgeship in Washington.
Hackney told of the conversation to
Cyrus Leland and others. and Mr.. Le-
land today obtained Mr.. Hackney's con-
sent by wire to repeat it publicly.
Before he went to Washington, ="
said Mr. Leland Mr. Hackney went
Judge Pollock for federal Judge, and
got partial promise from him to do so
later. Afterwards he got a positive
promise from Burton to support Pol
lock. When the contest had reached
a crisis in washington and just p few
dsHS before the appointment in Wash
tngton, Hackney went to Burton and
asked him to declare for Pollock as he
had promised to do.
BILL said Burton, I can't dt- it.
My friends in Kansas object to it, and
1 can't afford to go against them. You
know I don't stand very well at the
White House, and you know I haven t
much prestige in Kansas. The only hope
have of getting back into power again
is to have political revolution out in
Kansas, and I can't afford to go against
the few friends I have left in this
judgeship matter "
q A recent dispatch from Washington
states that the president once said he
did not want to appoint a man recon-
mended by Burton, so it would seem to
have been a fortunate circumstance for
Pollock that Burton refused to endorse
him.