The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-26
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Glimpse at the Candidates on
State Tickets.
John 7. Little, Of olAthe, liz the
Senior.
ON THE SAME BASIS.
Little Difference in Ages Of
Hoch and Dale.
FusI0nists Have Trouble to
Furnish Headquarters.

The age of the opposing candidates
on the Republican and the Fusion
tickets is about the same and both
tickets are well represented by the
younger crowd in the three parties.
John T. Little, fusion candidate for
the supreme court against w. r. Smith,
is the Oldest. s. H. Allen, fusion can
didate for supreme judge, is also a lit
tie olde rthan mis- Republican opponent,
Judge Cunningham. NJ. B. Nicholson,
fusionist, and Clark Smith, Republican,
who both want the same seat on the
supreme bench, are about the same age.
Francis NJ. Brady. fusion candidate for
congressman-at-large, is about ten
years younger than Charles F. Scott,
the Republican candidate. Judge Dale
and Ed Hoch are about the same age.
NJ. A. Householder. the fusion candi-
date for lieutenant governor, is older
than mis- opponent. Dave Hanna. John
H. Curran fusion candidate for secre-
tary of state, is younger than J. r. Bur
row. w. H. Mcdonald, fusion candi-
date for state auditor, is about the same
age as Seth G.. Wells. Thomas NJ.
Dolan, fusion candidate for state treas
urer. is older than T. T. Kelly. n. w.
Wells, fusion candidate for attorney
general, is older than c. c. Coleman
John StowelI, fusion candidate and G.
H. Luling, Republican, who both want
to be insurance commissioner. are
about the same age. When the election
is over it may be that some of the
younger men may feel older and some
of tine older men may feel younger.
The fusionists' state headquarters
have been furnished in the old billiard
room of the Throop hotel and the last
furnishings were two second hand
framed pictures and three second hand
office chairs
Billy Pepperill, secretary of the
Democratic committee. made n journey
to a second hand junk shop and gave
his order for three office chairs and the
best collection of pictures, suitable for
Democratic headquarters, that the sec
Ond hand man mad in stock.
In an hour the second hand dealer
delivered the chair and an old style
framed picture of George Washington
and also very antique picture OF
Grover Cleveland and Mrs Cleveland.
Grover does not happen to be an ideal
of Kansas Democrats and thattogether
with the fact that his face was adorned
with mustache, was too mucn for
Pepperill THAT picture of George
Washington will do ne said to the
second hand man. but put that other
picture in that other room"
William Allen White takes one view
and the fusionist leaders at the state
headquarters take another. Editor
White says, editorially in the Emporia
Gazette:
"A number of the newspapers are
trying to write Hoch's speech on prohi-
bition for him. This is unnecessary
Hoch's whole life in Kansas is his
speech on prohibition. Nothing that he
can say or preach now can change it.
If Hoch had been a wobbler; if he had
been trimmer. if he had been a weak
character personally, what he might
say would perhaps indicate what he
will do But no one who has watched
his career in Kansas can doubt for a
minute.
First. That Hoch will not butt into
any trouble on the prohibition question,
and
Second, That if under the laws be-
fore him he can strengthen the en-
forcement of the prohibitory law by
moral suasion or by legal steps he will
do it, and keep doing it with all his
heart though all the brewers in the
state get up and boo at him to scare
him.
ED Hoch is a sane. sensible, courage
outside of the law to help the law; and
you can't bulldoze him out of his duty
inside the law. And that's all there is
to it,
At the fusion headquarters the lead
erS say that although Hoch is a Ger
ton will lose him the votes of Ger
mans and especially of Turner and
Arion society members. The fusionists
say that the German voters think that
for any German candidate to be pro-
hibitionist means that there is some |
thing radically wrong.
Ed Hoch will begin his speaking tour
with the opening of the Republican |
at Marion September l. From |