The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-12
POLITICAL GOSSIP.


In that convention, it is going to speak
right out and say they were disreputa-
BILE and dishonest. There is no man and
no machine on earth that has muz1te
or a mortgage on this paper, and it
isn't afraid to tell the truth. And the
truth is that the new machine was
guilty Of corruption and dishonesty at
the Wichita convention that would
have shamed the devil himself
Lawrence Gazette: Ed Hoch made
his first mistake when he came into the
Second district and abused a candidate
for congress. His friends told him it
was all right. that is. his friends who
had axes to grind told him that. Lee
land told Bailey the same thing When
Bailey went after Curtis. Bailey COM
mitted political suicide by pursuing
that course. It is to be hoped that FIoch
has learned his lesson. It is not neces-
Eary for him to place his political enc
mics in official places; but II IS heces-
sary for him to refrain from abuse of
them. And he can afford to do that.
One of the episodes leading up to the
recent Republican state convention
which has not been given much prom
inence is the offer of the friends of
Bowersoek to make Judge G. A. Smart
of Ottawa supreme justice, and when
Judge Smart refused they offered to
throw their support to Justice Atkinson
# Atlkinsons friends would stop Henry
Aliens congressional contest against
Bowersock.
1t will be remembered how Mr.. Hoch
complained that the judicial erInine'
had been dragged into various political
fights by the old machine, but nothing
was ever done by the old machine as
rank as this proposition from BoNFef-
socks friends. And they undoubtedly
had the goods to deliver, especially to
Atkinson. The Garrett Eagle contains
the following concerning these PROPOSE
lions:
~At the Wichita convention this week
the BoWersock people offered Henry J.
Allen two propositions, both of which
were made upon the condition that
Allen withdraw his contest in favor OF
Bowersock.
t'The first proposition was that they
would nominate Judge C. a. Smart for
associate justice. The other was that
they would renOminate Judge Atkinson,
of Parsons. to the supreme bench.
Both propositions were rejected, OF
course.
at is not an easy matter to consider
the inconsistency of the boss buster
movement with any great degree of
calmness or evenness of temper But
the people of Kansas will soon drop
onto the bunco which this gang is
handing them and then there will be
something doing.
Last Sunday the mild hammered and
RuiIeless Mr.. Stubs called-up Henry
Allen over the phone at Ottawa and
asked him if he would oppose Judge
NAeeAFCN-NSeN
He said that a few of them had been
talking the matter over and they mad
concluded that they would like to vote
for Smart because he was q good man,
but that Smart hesitated to let his
name be used because of Mr.. Allen
candidacy for congress. Allen replied
that he would not in any way oppose
the nomination of Smart and that the
Franklin county delegation would sup
port Mr. Smart and be glad to do it.
s'Stubbs may have been honest in his
talk Sunday, but it was the opinion OF
Judge Smarts friends that Stubs was
handing Smart a gold brick, and that
later on the price asked would be the
Withdrawal of Aliens contest. Then
when Judge Smart declined to be bum
coed by such q raw deal, they proceed
ed to look for another victim. They
tried Judge Atkinson. Now Atkinson
is a warm friend Of Allen. He was
appointed on the bench to fill the I'M
expired term of Judge Pollock, by Gov
ernor Bailey. For this the boss bust
ers had marked Atkinson for the
slaughter. But they would trade his
position to make a clear track for
BOWerSOck with his bogus nomination.
what a spectaclei A few weeks
ago the people of Garrett heard Ed
Hoch in a speech here talk about two
supreme court judges dragging the
erTnine of the bench into the state
printer fight and opposing him. He
was very indignant about it. But the
boss busters in their reform work can
drag the supreme court to the political
market place and peddle it out to any
body. in order to beat Henry Allen.
who has been nominated for congress
by the voters of this district.
This gang of political confidence
men have promised to support Smith
of Cawker City for the nomination for
associate justice, and on the strength
of that promise Smith has made his
campaign. but that little obligation
cuts no figure with a CroN q like that.
into the Second district. where he
made a spectacle of himself; they split
the party in almost every county in
the district; they divided the ReDub-
licans in their district convention. and
with the public boast that they could
do as they pleased with the contest
board they started Bowersock (who
had been beaten in the primaries) into
the race on a bogus nomination.
Not content with what they have
already done. they now lug into this
party wrecking scheme the entire re-
form organization of which Stubs is
the head. and offer the supreme court
nominations to anybody at the one
price-and that price the defeat of
Allen.
But all honor to Allen and to Aliens
friends. The dispatches state that
both propositions were rejected
The Populist congressional committee
in the Sixth district will meet at Hays
City on next Thursday to fix the time
and place for the Populist congressional
convention.
The Lawrence Gazette publishes the
following: You may say that I positive
" win not become chairman of the state
central committee" said w. r. Stubs
today while in the city on one of his
brief visits I've had my fling at poll
tics but I've had enough of it, and am
out to stay out. neglected things that
should have been attended to while
was at the convention"
Mr.. Stubs announces that he is fol-
J. n. Dolley for state chairman.
Lawrence World: The Douglas coun.
tY DELEGATION to the state cnr,rror,+ ior