The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-09
POLITICAL GOSSIP.

1t is alleged that the Democratic ma
| tional committee has been compelled to
call in as far as possible and suppress
a pamphlet of which it recently had an
edition of 100, 900 published. The pamph-
let is said to have reflected on the
| Bryan wing of the Democratic party
and it had to be suppressed to save the
votes of the Bryanites for Parker.
J. G. Johnson, of Kansas. who had
much to do with running the Bryan
| campaigns and who is now at the Dem
ocratic headquarters in New York help
| ing to run the Parker campaign, seems
| to be mixed up I'm the suppression OF
York Evening Mall publishes the fol-
lowing about it:
| I'm a statement made at Democrats
national headquarters today by j. u.
Johnson, of Kansas, who was chairman
of the executive committee during the
two Bryan campaigns and who tried to
swing his delegation to the st. Louis
convention to William Randolph Hearst,
told why he is occupying a desk at
headquarters.
There has been a great row over the
printing and distribution of 100000
copies of a 20-page pamphlet, which
contained what indignant Bryan sup
porters denounced as deliberate insults
to millions of Democratic voters. This
document has been Withdrawn from
circulation and more than $4,000 copies
have been ordered to the junk heap.
THE paragraph to which the Bryan
men took the most indignant exception
was as follows:
Democrats who resented the steal
ing of the party standard by men who
advocated reputation Of debts under
the guise of free coinage of 5O-cent dol
lars will renew their allegiance, now
that they have a candidate who adhercs
to the gold standard, and who stands
for a peaceful and constitutional ad-
ministration of the government as OPP
posed to the imperialistic methods OF
Mr.. Roosevelt
'.Mr. johnson was still smarting Un-
der this official denunciation of BY
ans friends thieves when he said 10
reporter, in answer to a question:
- am at my desk here because we
believe in party regularity. There was
no one here who knew anything about
the details of campaign work, and so
when Chairman Taggart sent for me
came to give him the benefit of my ex-
perience. We asked the other wing OF
the party to support our candidate. and
now it is no more than fair that we
should be regular and support Judge
Parker
DO you think that four years hence
the conservative element will support a
candidate of the Bryan-Hearst type"
he was asked.
for such nomination four years from
now,' said Mr.. johnson. If Judge Par
ker should win the election, the party
machinery would be in the hands OF his
his class would undoubtedly secure the
nomination in 1908.
Cottonwood Falls, Kas., Sept. o.
Dr. J. NJ. Hamme who is the Repub-
lican candidate for senator from this
senatorial district will be one of the
best educated men in the next state
senate. His education covers not only
the field of medicine but social science
and economics as well.
DR.. Hamme was born in York, Pa.
in 1865 He graduated from the York
Collegiate institute in 1883 and was
salutatorian of his class. He then at
tended La Fayette college, Easton, Pa,
and received the B. S. degree in 1885
and the NJ. s. degree from the same
college in 1887. He attended the med
ical department of the University OF
Pennsylvania and received the NJ d.
in 1888.
He located in Cottonwood Falls in
1890 and has been in the active prac-
tice of his profession ever since, and
has for the past thirteen years been
Santa Fe surgeon at this place. He
has also been a member of the board
of pension examiners, county health
officer and coroner, and was appointed
by Governor Stanley a member of the
state board of medical examiners.
He is a member of several lodges
and fraternal organizations and stands
high in all of them. He is also rec
ognized as a strong man in hts pro-
fession, in which he has been emil
nently successful.
DR.. Hamme has been chairman of
the county central committee for the
past four years.
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