The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-18
BOWERSOCK SATISFIED
Has Taken a Look Over Second
District.
Case of Mr.. Taft Is Still in the
Balance.

report has been publlShed IN Kansas.
Mr.. Murdoch says that Mr.. Cushman
is trying to arrange his affairs to at
tend the banquet and deliver speech,
as he promised to do. There are some
circumstances, however, which may
arise and make it necessary for him to
cancel his engagement. These have to
do principally with the political situa-
ton in his state. which may demand
his presence during the week of Janu-
airy 29. AS has been stated. however.
he is trying to arrange to avoid trip
to Washington just at this time, ana
if he is successful he will deliver an
address at Topeka on Kansas Day, as
announced. He has promised to adj |
wise Representative Murdoch definitely |
by January 20, ana if it should develop
that he cannot be in Kansas on KAN
sas Day, Representative Murdoch will
busy himself securing another speaker
for the occasion.
D. R. Anthony, jr., mayor of Leav- /
enworth, who with his wife has been
spending a vacation in Cuba spent
several days in Washington this week
Mr. Anthony. in company with Senator |
Long, called on the president and dis
cussed the Kansas situation quite fully |
with Mr.. Roosevelt. OF course he told /
him, as all his callers from Kansas do, |
that the whole state is for him. The |
president has a high opinion of Mr. |
Anthony. and always extends especial
courtesies to him when he is here.
Mr.. Anthony has made it a custom to |
spend some time in Cuba every year.
he finds 1t a most delightful winter re- |
sort, and as he is quite conversant with |
the Spanish tongue, has made many
friends on the island, SO that a soiourn
there is doubly agreeable. He spent
most of his time this winter in Ha-
vana. Mr. and Mrs. Anthony have re-
turned to 1eavenworth.
The quartermaster general of the
army is authority for the statement that
$4,000 worth of road machinery has
been sent to Fort Leavenworth, and this
is taken to mean that extensive i'm
pFoVenlents are planned for the Fort
Ieavenworth reservation. 1t is a we'll
known fact that for a number of years
the roads leading to the reservation
have been in depIorable condition. D.
R. Anthony, jr., called at the war de-
partment this week to look into the
matter, and was advised of the action
that had already been taken. It is
planned to sbuiid a number of roads
through thesFeservatt ton, and it is prob
able that more machinery will be sent
to the fort for this purpose later on.
Representative Bowersock has re-
turned to : Washington after spending
several weeks in Kansas. During his
stay in the state he spent some time
in the Second district, and says the po-
| litfcal situation there is satisfactory to
him. He says he realizes that the fight
/ will be a three cOrnered affair, but he
| thinks he will win it. He says he is
willing to go to the people on his record
for attending to the public business and
the wants of his constituents. He be-
lieves that is the most important asset
for a public man.
The senate committee on postoffice
and postroads has not as yet taken any
action in the Parsons pOstOffice matter
1t is understood that the committee is
now waiting for further charges against
Mr. Taft, which Senator Burton has
been advised are on the way. It is not
i known what the charges are, whether
they are new charges or a mere repetf-
ton of the old ones. but it is probable
they are the latter. Mr. Taft has al
ready been accused of practically every
crime in the calendar, SO that it is hard
ly possible to make any new allegations
1t is likely the additional papers will be
here within a few days, when the case
doubtless will be taken up and disposed
of without unnecessary delay.
| Bernard Kelly, of Topeka, member
of the pension committee of the G. A.
Z r., has been here for several days at
tending a meeting of the committee.
The chief work of the committee has
been the preparation of a service pen
sion bill, which has the endorsement
of the G. A. R., and which it is intend
: ed to be substitute for all service pen
The bill is now completed, and will be
introduced in the house by Representa-
: tive Calderhead, and in the senate by
Senator Dolliver. 1t provides for a ser
} vice pension of $12 per month for all
: soldiers who served 80 days and who
have reached the age of 81 years. It
: also proposes to pension the widows of
1 such soldiers at So per month.
Representative Scott has introduced
j a joint resolution providing for The
] printing of 100000 additional copies of
the annual report of thebureau of ami
, NAL industry. The author of this work
: is George F. Thompson, former Kan
san. The demand for it among the
/ farmers has been so great that it has
been thought advisable to increase the
[ quota of each congressman and Sena-
tor. hence the resolution calling for the
additional 100000 copies.
1t is the general belief here now that
the vacancy on the board of managers
I of National Soldiers homes will go to
Major Warner, of Missouri, and it is
ractically conceded that Captain Sea-
r ton who was endorsed y the Kansas
delegation, has no show to land the
S place. In fact, those who are in a
S position to know say that the matter
i is already decided, and it simply re-
d mains for the committee to take formal
: action in the matter. Major Warner
: has had a long lead from the begin
y ming. In the first place he was one OF
s the most eminent men suggested for
the place, by experience is peculiarly
: qualified for the discharge of its du-
Il tets, but what is more important, he
5 is a former member of congress and is
# personally acquainted with the mem
e bers of the committee on military af-
Il fairs of the house. who make the selec-
II ton, and who, almost to a man, are
IS friendly to his candidacy.
O The publication of the w H Macke.
# letter in the State Journal, showins
is Mr.. Mackey's activity in offensive par
i tisan politics, created great deal of in
: terest among the members of the Kan
sas delegation here. It is freely pre-