The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-19
Effort Is Being Made to Revive
"Machine" Agitation.
Now Reported That Legislature
Is Gin Danger.
BURTON MEN ALARMED
About Time to Again Assess the
JanitOrs.
Mr.. Burton Holds Private Meet-
ings in Topeka.

The nomination of w. Y. Morgan
and ]. W. Jones for the legislature in
Reno county has spurred the Kelly
Burrow organization to get to work
again, and it is announced that they
will shortly open headquarters to
work for the election of their friends
to the legislature. An assessment was
made on the state house janitors and
others for this purpose some time ago.
and the employees were given the I'M
preston that the money was to go to
the state campaign, but When the
State Journal exposed the fact that no
assessment had been made for the
state campaign, it was acknowledged
that the assessment was for the puf-
pose of opposing the election OF ma
chine" members of the legislature,
and only those state employees who are
interested in the fight contributed to
the fund.
Now the Burton crowd is asserting
that the machine" is quietly making
say that fourteen of the nineteen can
didates for the lower house thus TAR
dominated are machine" men. Ihey
are setting up the cry that these men
will be against Mr.. Hoch and his ad-
rninistration. and that the anti-msa-
chine organization must get busy Tor
the support of Hoch.
AS a matter of fact the legislative
nominations are only the logical out
come of the Republican state cOnven-
ton and the disclosures following it
The legislative candidates who are
alleged to be machine men are not
against Mr.. HOch, but they are
against Senator J. r. Burton and his
supporters. They will do everything
they can to uphold Mr.. Hoch and his
administration, unless Mr.. Hoch bows
to the dictation of the Burton crowd
This statement is borne out by the
contest for the organization of the
state committee. That was where the
Burton crowd showed it's hand. 1t
showed that it had been lined up be-
hind Hoch and Stubs merely to get
control of the state organiza ton It
tried to dictate the organization OF the
state committee, and if HOch and
Stubs had not stood soHdly against it
the Burton crowd would have been
successful. 1t was then that the
alleged machine" men lined up to
support Hoch and Stubs.
The same thing will be true in the
next legislature. The Burton crowd is
trying to get control and will try to
run things. They VIII try to dictate
to Hoch and Stubs. If Hoch and
Stubs do not bow to them they will
get the solid support of the machine"
men, and that is what the people of
the state want.
The rank and file of the Republicans
realize now that they were worked by
the Burton crowd prior to the state
convention and the legislative nominal
tions now are the result. The Burton
crowd tried to ride into power on the
strength of HOch'S popularity and
Stubbs anti-machine fight. They turn
ed the state convention over to the
control of the railroads. They will try
to do the same with the legislature.
That is why the people are not nOmi-
mating any more of the Burton crowd
to the legislature now. They do not
want another man like J. r. Burton in
the United States senate. They are
not opposed to Mr.. Hoch or Mr.. Stubs,
but they are opposed to putting the
Burton crowd into power.
Some of Buttons supporters allege
that Burton is no longer an issue, but
a Burton organ alleges that during the
three days that Mr.. Burton was in To-
peka this week he had private meet
ings with no less than so Of his old
friends. Why2
An "anti-machine man." name not
given, is quoted as saying: THE poll