The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-11
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Mr.. HOch Explains About an
Endorsement of Burton.
Was Chairman of the Commit
tee on Resolutions.
HE DIDN'T WRITE 1T.
HE DIDN'T WRITE 1T.
He Kept Silent and Let 1t Go
Through.
Takes Occasion, However, to
Criticise Burton's Opponents.

that endorsement of Burton for United
States senator by the Marion county
Republican convention of 1900 in which
Mr. Hoch was chairman of the resolu-
! tions committee. Mr.. Hoch says he was
not responsible for the resolution-he
simply allowed it to go through without
opposing it.
The charge has been repeatedly made
during the past few months that Mr..
Hoch. as chairman of the committee on
resolutions in that committee, intro
duced the resolution endorsing Burton.
Some of his friends did not believe it,
but as Mr.. Hoch had never denied the
statement, and as he has never said a
word in his paper against Burton 50
far is is known, W. F.ThraH, editor of
the Mound Valley Herald. wrote ask
ing Kim if the statement is true. Mr..
HOch's reply is as follows:
Marion, Kan, May 20, 1904.
Mr.. w F. Thrall, Mound Valley, Kan
My Dear Sir:-AH my life I have
tried to refrain as far as possible from
personal discussion and am especially
reluctant now to discuss in public
prints my past and present relations to
Mr. J. r. Burton. He is down; he is Il
fellow human being, and in his distress
his case appeals to the sympath1es OF
every one who has a heart instead of a
gizzard, regardless of what they may
or may not have thought of him in the
past. 1 have no patience whatever
with those who have used his downfall
to advance their own political fame or
fortune, or to parade their own super
Tor virtues. But the fact is that Mr..
Burton and I have never had anything
in common. 1 did not introduce into a
Marion county convention a resolution
endorsing him. Up to that time I had
always opposed him, but for local and
reighborly relations and in Difference
to some of his personal friends here,
who were also friends of mine, l Simp-
~ kept silent and allowed the endorse
ment to go through without my opposi-
ton. This was the sum of my relation
to the matter.
Despite his faults Mr. Burton has
many good qualities; he has always
been brave in the defense of Republican
principles and sound as to what those
principles were. and when he entered
the United States senate, in common
with other Republicans, 1 wished for
him a brilliant and honorable career.
Il do not wish to revive unpleasant
memories of the state printer contest.
That is thing of the past, but if Mr.
Burton supported me in the contest 4
am not aware of it, and the fact is
that nearly all of his influential sup
porters were against me, whatever may
have been his personal attitude in the
matter. The assumption, therefore, that
the words of sorrow which have free
ly uttered recently concerning him had
for me is simply ridiculous. l would
say the same thing of any human being
on earth under similar circumstances.
Very cordially yours,
The statement that Mr.. Hoch intro
duced that Burton endorsement into
that Marion convention was based on
the report of the convention as pub
iished in Mr. Hoch's paper, the Marion
Record, of June 15, 1860. In that re-
port it says:
THE following committees were ap-
pointed:
Morgan, c. G. Krause, r. B. Craw, T.
S. Uric"
The committee on resolutions sub
mitted the following report:
I'VE endorse the candidacy of our
neighbor and brilliant fellow RepubH-
can Hon. J. R Burton, for the United
The The first row of stars indicate the
balance of the committees appointed,
and the second row indicates the reso-
lutions reported which preceded the
This report shows that Mr.. Hoch was
chairman of the resolutions committee,
and as the Burton resolution was part
of the committee report, the inference
Is that Mr. Hoch read it in the conven-
ton.
An eastern newspaper has been Sc
curing from delegates to the Demo-
cTatic national convention an ex-
preston of their views as to what the
chief issues to be promulgated in the
Democratic national platform should
David Overmyer, who is chairman
of the delegation, expresses his views
Should not declare any issue para
mount to any other. 1t is a mistake
to disparage one issue by comparison
with another Trusts tariff, imperial
ism, finance, are all great issues. Evil
aspect of each exemplified and inten-
sified by Rocsevelt's character and de-
signs
one of the delegates is
quoted this way:
THE Democratic issues should be
reduction and regulation of the tariff,
enforcement of the antitrust laws,
honest, economical and constitutional
government, with a promise of ulti-
mate independence to the Philip
A. S. Kemper, delegate from the
Fourth district and who lives at
WeStmOTeland, said:
"Revision of the tariff and regula-
ton of trusts. Grover Cleveland for
president"
4 A Roth. delegate from the Sew
enth district. whose home is at Rus
sell, is quoted:
Tariff revision, sound money and
antitrust legislation
9. S. Oswald, of Hutchinson, dele
gate from the Seventh district. says:
THE regulation of trusts and labor
combinations. 1 am for Hearst first
James w. orr. of Atchison. dele
gate from the First district:
THE paramount issues in this cam
paign should be regulation of the