The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-25
Senator Burton LoUks Forward
to His Reelection.
Victories of His Lieutenants
Give Him Courage.
I'LL BE A CANDIDATE.
Makes an Informal Announce
ment in Kansas City.
Expects to Be Vindicated in the
Higher Court.

Joseph Ralph Burton believes that he
viii eventually go free from the charge
OF bribery. If this happens he proposes
to be a candidate for reelection to the
United States senate. He says he VIII
be reelected.
When Senator Burton is in Topeka
he viii not talk about his case to news
paper men, but it seems that he is noE
so particular when he Is out in the
state. An interview with the senator
was published in the Galena Times =
| few days ago in which he asserts that
he VIII be vindicated before the people.
that he win again be a candidate for
senator, and that he win be returned
to the senate.
And If, by any turn of the wheel OF
chance, Burton's conviction in tI= fed
/ eraI courts should not stand, there is
no doubt that a certain element i'm
Kansas politics would rally to his sup
port for reelection. Some politicians
assert that Burton can have no posi-
| BILE support, no matter what happens
| but this Is not true There are polite
ians who are so closely allied with Sem
atOr Burton that they compelled 10
stand by him. Their disposition is sucn
/ that they can see no wrong In what he
has done They believe that in acting
| as he did for the Rialto Grain and Sc.
curitfes company he was only securing
lieye that he had the same right 10 Sc
cure these perquisites that the state
treasurer has to secure certain per
uuisites" for himself, although IN direct
/ violation of law
( This element in Kansas politics has
been endeaVoring to secure the nominal
tion of Burton men to the legislature
and early in the boss buster moVenenE
they were highly successful Since IL
became apparent that the Burton croWd
was behind the movement they have
Senator Burton was in Galena re-
Gently looking after some mining
properties in which he is interested
and the Galena Times published the
~. Ralph Burton. of Abilene. Kas.s
senior United States senator from
Kansas was in the city a few hours
Saturday evening The senator IS vice
president of the Palmetto Mining
company, and was here investigating
the operation of the plant and oLher
mining business of the company The
senator was quite well satisfied with
the condition of affairs OF the com
pany and expressed himsen as Deing
we'll pleased with the prospects Tor
the future.
Kirk of officialdom in Kansas was
dressed as nattily as usual, but his
style was nevertheless somewhat lack
ing He plainly shows the severe
strain to which he has been put re-
I Gently in the trial at St LOUIS NO.
I'm which he was convicted OF being
fraudulently connected with the
Rfalto Securities and Trust company
a get rich quick scheme. which went
TO the wall through the courts.
81 I am feeling Well said the SEN
ator to a Times reporter in the lobby
| of the Century hotel, as he spoke be
| tween puffs of a tobacco leaf in the
I same tones of old, which seem to roll
up from his boot heels, though the
strain under which I recently went IN
| St. Louis has had It's erect upon me.
wrong
wrong, and I am confident that time
Will vindicate me before the Kansas
people. Ny connection with the COM
pauy was in good faith and taken up
legally, as any attorney would have
2 done. I will be a candidate again be-
) fore the people for reelection and
= will again be placed in the senate. Z
am still a Republican. sir, still a Re
publican and the senator concluded
, his talk with an emphasis on the Re
publican
"And those who have known SEN
! ator Burton are aware of the fact that
: he is a Republican and always viii be
a Republican, no matter what adver-
/ stiles may betide him. Away back in
! the early days of his career the SEN
: ator left the faith of his staunch old
Democratic father IN Indiana and be-
came a Republican He has remained
! so since, and was not carried away by
: the Populistic craze Of the early nine
ties, nor hfnched before the fight for
free silver Though he may have
failed in other ways, Senator Burton
has never failed his party"
One of the methods employed by tha
Burton people to get control of the stata
senate is shown by the following from
the Independence Tribune. The EFFORT
of the Burton crowd to control the next
state senator IS much in evidence The
strategy bOard'-Burton and his ap-
9 pOintees-are fighting for almost every
. senatorial district The senator himself
, has been ostensibly looking after oil
! leases in several counties and seeing the
{ appointees upon whom he could rely. Last
= week Burton's henchmen approached a.
, senatorial candidate in this county. de-
! : manding that ne must sign document
! agreeing to support Charley Curtis for
! senator, or he could not have the delega-
i ton from his home town BurtOu's trus-
2 ties are working TO tie up enough state
senators so Burton can carry out his
threat to make Roosevelt the most un-
popular president It strikes us that
Kansas has had enough OF Burton and
Burton's methods. From the very start
he has been bringing the party into trou-
BILE, building up factions, making some
S disgra ceful appointments ana getting into
- every scheme Of the get-rich-Quick order.
r / His support Of Charley Curtis two years
: I ago injured Curtis. The Republicans of
Montgomery county want no more 70 do
: | with Burton OF BurtOns s factiOnai policy.
I | They do not want its senator tied to
= Charley Curtis or to any other senatorial
l. / candidate whom Burton can control. Dell
] / egates viii do well to be on the watch for
= ! the Burton grafters in the next county
: | convention. Better have a united party
: and loyal Republicans, than any ring or
: faction noted for trying to disrupt the
a party.
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