The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-14


CIark-Not represented.
Clay-U. E. Need.
Cloud-W. w. Caldwell.
Coffey-Not represented.
Comanche-NOt represented.
Cowley-Not represented.
Decatur-Not represented.
DickinSon-S. S. Smith.
Doniphan-Not represented.
When Doniphan was reached some
one called out ICY Leland" rs the
gentleman PRESENT." asked Chairman
Stubs? and the crowd laughed.
Douglas-Col. o. E. Learnard.
Edwards-Not represented.
Elk-Not represented.
Ellis-NOt represented.
E,llsWOrth-Not represented.
Finney-Not represented.
Ford-Not represented.
Franklin-Not represented.
Geary-W. S. Roark.
GoVe-Not represented.
C4raham-Not represented.
Grant-Not represented.
Gray-Not represented.
Greeley-Not represented
ACKNOWLEDGING E. Tucker.
Hamilton-Not represented.
Harper-Not represented.
Harvey-Not represented.
Haskell-Not represented.
Hodgeman-Not represented.
Jackson-Not represented.
At this point the roll call seemed
rather discoura ging. and it was aban-
doned It is likely that some of the
counties which did not respond had
representatives in the meeting-in fact.
some of them We're known to have-but
they evidently did not want to go on
record as being participants in the
movement
DICK BLUE SPEAKS.
After the roll call was abandoned the
political purist, Col. r. w. Blue, COM
monty known as Dick Blue, was first
called out" AS is we'll known. Colonel
Blue has always sacrificed his own DO
litical aspirations and has never asked
for Office-at least not Oftener than the
conventions met. unless it may have
been a federal Job. When he suddenly
announced in beginning his speech that
he is not a candidate for Office it rather
took the breath away from the old
timers who had known him for many
years.
Colonel Blue characterized the meet
ing as "a rebellion of the people OF the
state against oppression and wrong
doing" He referred to Governor Bailey
as "a misfit in Kansas politics and IN
worthy of the support of the people"
Colonel Blues friends once ran him for
ngressman-at-large against Bailey,
and when the votes were counted in the
convention it seemed that the Rlue
men were greatly in the minority.
Colonel Blue has not had a very high
opinion of Bailey since. He spoke of
DdlAGJ DIS the little SON0IuOI he Q6-
nounced him for organizing the legisla-
ture Ito uphold his policv.' If he has
policy, continued Colonel Blue, 'he
ought to let the people know what it is.
| There is suspicion that it is graft. F"
Then he denounced the lower house for
its army of employees and for giving
away its property.
FARMER SMITH HEARD.
Blue was followed by Farmer A.
W. Smith, Colonel Thomas Benton
! MUrdOck DIR RIIIrnr17ar of Atchison NJ
J. Reitz of Wyandotte, w. S .Roark of
! Geary, Conner Davies of Concordia, and
/ Carr w. Taylor of Hutchinson. Reitz,
Roark and Taylor belong to the young
er crowd, and their speeches were mild
as to the personality of their oppon-
ents- They declared that they are not
so much after individuals as they are
after the machine" itself. The older
/ speakers referred more to individuals.
Conner Davies said he felt a hesitan-
cy about addressing Republican
meeting inasmuch as he had been a
Populist. Il left the Republican party
on the silver craze he said, ..then l
/ returned. and now I have been read
out of. it again by Mr.. Albaugh. I
/ guess though. I have about as good a
standing in the party as he has. Any
| way l wouldn't trade places with him.
/ I guess most of you Republicans won't
say anything about the silver business
either, for my recollection is that there
were a good many of US in the same
boat. The Populists may have been
pretty bad. but nothing they ever did
disgraced the state as much as the
last legislature, and I, for one, will
not defend it.
1T is an insult to ask men who have
done as I have done to worship at the
shrine of the machine. I am sure that
I am speaking the sentiment of the
men who followed their convictions in
the free silver matter to follow the
leadership of Morton Albaugh. They
will do it, dong applause), where he
ought to be- We left the party at the
dictates Of conscience and We came
back for conscience sake. It is an in
suit that the friends of Mr.. Albaugt