The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-26
BURTON AND BAILEY.

attention to the many irregularities of
Senator ]. R. Burton and setting forth
from time to time reasons why he was
not entitled to the respect ordinarily
due those holding the high office to
which he was chosen. Saturday a
climax came and Burton has been in
dicted for being in the employ of a dis
reputable concern The newspapers of
Kansas which have been ridiculing the
State Journal for denouncing Mr.. Bur
toms methods, and have cried ma
chine" a stop thief expletive, are now
hedging and saying perhaps there is
something wrong with our senator
Well, there is and this paper does not
hesitate to say that it believes that the
exposures which have come to light are
but trivial in amounts to those which
will come forth later
The men who have been attacking and
abusing Bailey are the men who nave
been most closely associated with Bur
ton in his various political, legal and
New Jerusalem affairs They have de-
ceived a few real reformers which lend
responsibility to the attacks on Bailey
The men who are fighting Bailey.
fought Bristow, fought Senator Long
and their associates.
The efforts to shake Burton from the
Hoch movement are pitiable. They say
Mr.. Burton called off Mackey. Well
WHY shouldn't he? Mackey is a United
State Federal officer and even Burton
saw that he had no business mixing IN
TO the Eoch business, offering to send
masses to those who would attend Hoch
meetings. etc.
The Chicago Tribune of Monday
prints an editorial on Burton under
the head of whats the Matter With
Kansas?" and it ought to make the
heads of Kansans hang with shame
when they read it and remember that
{ the Topeka Capital, and the Kansas
! CITY Journal, which have been the bene-
hciaries of one of the gratis, when
| Burton has supported-the fast mail
subsidy for those two papers-haVe
heen the defenders and champions OF
Burton.
The men who are running the HocH
boora-Frank Grimes. and the man VINO
has the Shawnee county machine IN
his control, Dave MuIvane, a bright
young man. in bad political companF-
are the men who are hghtlng baiieS
hardest here. and who of all Shawnee
county politicians are closest to burton
How long are the people OF Topeka
to be deceived by this cry against
BAILEY
Governor Bailey is honest and honor
able, has made good governor Is
above the tricks of his enemies. and
the things charged against him are lhs
errors of other people. of the very
members of the legislature decrying
him. When we get a governor IKE
/ f0 oil a
at two terms
Here is what the Wichita Eagle, a
fair naper to the governor. says:
/ governor Bailey is an honest man.
i His enemies dare not assert to the con-
trarv He is above trickery and truck
ling of whatever character. Nobody dis
n,,tes that. He has been faithful in the
discharge of every duty as he under
stood the riehtful demands of such duty.
He is a conscientious man who IN SUCK
ing nv his friends does not curse ms
enemies. He has been more than friend
" to the interests of the very man VINO
has consented to become the tool III the
ATTEMPT to crowd him out and thus
deny him the vindication to which ne
fs entitled. In short the vindictive fight
being made upon him is persistent
Inconsistency, consisting Of individual
disaupointments in part and Of personal
ambitions to land something in the
shape of soft snaps"
And this is what the Chicago Tribune
SAYS:
perhaps our friend William Allen
White, of Emporia, win again enlighten
his American fellow citizens on this
+ fruitful theme-'What Is the Matter
with Kansas?
How does it happen that state IN
ferior TO none of it's sister common
, | weaIths. inhabited by God fearing and
! Intelligent people who have been faith
full on trying occasions to the highest
ideals of liberty and of political respon-
sibfIity. should be represented in the
senate bv a man of the stamp of San
ator Burton? How is it that Kansas
which has lived down the reputation
created for it by Subsidy Pomeroy ane
Jim Lane has fallen into pit deeper
than that dug by either of them fol
it's reputation
THE Tribune is not prejudging the
case against Senator Burton lately de-
veloped at ST Louis. While it is true
, that a reasonable presumption of wrong
, doing must have existed before a United
States grand jury would indict a sena
tor of the United States 1t is not be
coming to draw any differences as t.
guilt or innocence until the evidenc'
+ shall be presented
THE case against Senator Burton does
not consist solely of the indictmen
which has been presented in st. Louis
e Unfortunately the senator has failed al
s most from the time of his election t.
Il command the full confidence and respec
of his associates in the senate chamber
He is one of the few senators of whom
i people speak with a significant drop
ping of the eyelid. or a thrusting of tn
! tongue into the cheek.
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