The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-16

Sixth district. but was defeated by
William Baker, the Populist nominee.
He is an old soldier. having served in
a Wisconsin regiment. Mitchell coun-
ty people claim that if he is nominal
ed and elected he would not have to
go outside his home county to furnish
his bond unless he wants to.
p. H Tracv is a candidate for the
legislature in Pottawatomie county
You remen Der Tracy is the individual
Senator Burton first tried to appoint
United States district attorney. but his
record stood in his way Tracy will
run this time as a boss buster ]. w.
Dunn of Onaga viii be candidate
for denomination.
John w. I.eedv, former governor Of
ancially in Valdez, Alaska, where he
has been located the last three or four
years. This is the report brought by
a. Kansas man who recently saw Leedy
in Seattle. He is interested in mining
investments in the. Copper River coun-
try and IS said to be much sought aft
er by investors who go to that part
Of Alaska Twenty years ago Leedy
had considerable property, but he lost
it all and when he was nominated for
governor by the Populists in 1896 it
is said he had to borrow $3.50 to pay
! his campaign assessment During his
term as governor he got a start in
zinc mining properties near Galena,
and was reported at one time to be
worth $4,000. but the collapse of the
zinc business left him stranded again
He was given a high place in a fra
ternal order and went to Oregon in
its interest, but he did not like the
work. He soon got the Alaska fever
and went north to begin life anew at
| Valdez
| Concerning the dissa tisfaction of
the people with the railroad situation
in Kansas William Allen White says
in the EmDOria Gazette:
Joe Richards, n. H. Loomis and NJ.
A. Low. all gentlemen and men of
personal integrity, personally felt it a
part of their duty as attorneys for the
great railroad corporations to make
4 the interests of civic duty and common
| decency secondary to their interests as
| railroad attorneys. They won.
''The railroads backed I'D Tom Kel-
| ". A few nights before the recent
state convention. a caucus was held to
map out q plan for the state cOnven-
ton. The moving force in that eau
Gus was N H. LOomis, the attorney
/ for the Hartman interests in Kansas
/ Hartman is at the head of the Wall
/ Street cabaI against President ROOse-
velt by the way. At the caucus it was
| decided to renOminate T. T. Kelly, in
| spite of protests. And the railroad in
| fluence carried the day.
AT the state convention the rail-
/ roads were particularly shameless in
| their opposition to certain candidates
| for railroad commissioner, and utter
!
/ and Wheatly. The railroads won.
But at what a cost The net result
of the railroad interference in Kansas
| politics in the three years last past is
\ the growth of a distinctly anti-rail-
road sentiment among the people Of
! Kansas. There is a feeling that Kan
/ gas should have a stronger railroad
\ law. There is a feeling that the rail-
roads are not taxed enough. In half
! a dozen counties the county surveyors
are adding to the taxable mileage of
railroads by actually surveying the
mileaEE.
''The county commissioners who are
near the people are crOwding the rail-
roads in local matters. The people
are mad They don't like the railroad
/ influence and the railroads are going
to suffer
The current number of Harper
Weekly contains the following editor
ial:
Senator Burton of Kansas, the
statesman lately found guilty of con-
duct unbecoming a senator, says in 6
| letter in a friend: If it could all be
told just as it is-the absolute truth
it would appall the world. Some time
it viii all be known Mr.. Thomas w.
! Lawson of Boston, who testified the
other day in the Bay State gas Icase
| that he and a small group Of other
men. made q profit of 46 millions in a
single deal. declared later that he had
understated those profits by 20 mil
| lions. He recalled his own prediction
| that the gas hearing would furnish "a
series Of hash-light pictures to which
the United States ship building fan
/ dango will look like a midnight sill
/ houette.' The appalling facts of which
Senator Burton claims to have know
ledge and the gas pictures which Mr.
| Lawson anticipates with such conf
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