The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-10

D fixed and determined opinion from read
: ing newspapers that he is absolutel.
e disqualified from serving, so it will no
r do to pass law declaring that juro
= with an opinion simply formed from
r reading newspaper articles is eligible
5 for jury service. The remedy, as stated
: before, is in letting the trial judge bt
the sole person to determine his eligibil.
r ity.
r OF course I realize that lawyers may
differ upon this proposition, some be
lieving, and earnestly so. that such ac-
ton might infringe the constitutional
| provisions of the litigant ETC., but some
plan should be adopted to expedite
} trials and reduce court costs and the
one have suggested strikes me as the
least Objectionable of any proposed.
Gov. Bailey's Defeat.
Senator Long, at the Marion open
ing rally says:
/ Governor Bailey has made a rec
ord as chief executive of the state so
clean and so pure that even his most
| bitter opponents have found nothing
| in it to criticise. No charge of hood
| ling or grating has ever been laid at
| or near his door. His record as gov
ernor will, in the future, receive the
merited Endorsement from the people
| of Kansas which it so richly deserves -
| What, then, was the reason for the
| defeat of Governor Bailey by the boss
busters? 1t is an established tradi-
i ton of the Republican party that a
man who has made such an honorable
record is entitled to denomination at
| least. Governor Bailey was held up
to public ridicule and scorn, and the
| sins of the last legislature and the OBJ
noxious acts of the other state Off
GERS were loaded upon his shoulders
by the boss busters. He was denounced
from the house tops by them and
| through their organs as unworthy of
continued support. Rump conven-
lions were organized, county delega-
tons were thrown out of state and
congressional conventions to assist the
boss busters in carrying out their
| schemes. Governor Bailey's friends
and advisors were also bounded and
| denounced even after the announce
ment of the governors withdrawal.
And while he was humiliatingly de-
| feated, all other state officers were re-
nominated. The people now believe.
| with Senator Long, that his record
| was clean and of the best, and that
the hue and cry raised by the boss
| busters was upcalled for and unjusti-
| fable, and that their control of the
| party machinery was obtained through
| Charles of this action? Are the people
/ willing to indorse such conduct at the
polls?
Hoch and Prohibition.
| Mr.. Hoch says regarding prohibi-
| ton, that he does not propose to re-
nounce his lifetime views on prohibit
| ton, and then says the cases are rare
and extraordinary when it becomes the
| duty of the governor, or within his
| power, to act. Now in view of his re-
peated statements in his paper as to
| the duty of the governor, it will strike
| the average individual that Editor
| Hoch and Candidate Hoch have views
not at all in harmony. Editor Hoch,
upon request of the Sedan Illness Star,
| announces his views as to the duty of
a governor very distinctly and en-
phatically in his paper of April IT,
| 1896, as follows:
| Hoch and George Martin, the two
editors who wanted to be nominated
for governor instead of Morrill,. that
his policy regarding prohibition is
weak. wavering, vacillating and con-
Trajectory. Now will either or both
of these gentlemen inform an anxious
world what they would have done
about prohibition had they been in
| Governor MorrilFs place ?"-Sedan
Times-Star.
Certainly. Of course we will. If
we had bargained to give Wichita a
whisky commission for the delegation
from Sedgwick, and in consideration
of the support of the Wichita Eagle,
we would have done just as he did, APP
point whisky men, but we would
have food to it. If we had given Mr..
Dough erty a commission to close the
Joints in Kansas City, Kan, we would
prohibitionists all our life, when we
came into power we would have done
something for prohibition. Ask US
something hard. Confound these pat
riots who talk. talk and when re-
sponsibility comes, then squat.''-Kan-
sas City Gazette, George Martin editor.
"And if we had been handicapped
by a Leavenworth deal, we would have
even for a month a policy that made
man an outlaw in Wichita and all
right in Leavenworth. But we would
not have been handicapped. No. we
would have enforced the law in Wich-
T l. fo1,f 20,
sas City, if we had been compelled to
call out the militia to do it. or convene
the legislature in special session to
make possible the supremacy of law
over lawlessness in this state
Editor Hoch would even call out the
militia or convened the legislature in
special session if necessary to bring
Wichita, Leavenworth, Atchison and
Kansas City to time. But it now APP
pears that Candidate Hoch, in the Ian
those patriots "Who talk, talk, and
when responsibility comes then Squat
If elected governor will Editor Hoch'S
lifetime views, or Candidate Hoch's
two months campaign views prevail?
Senatorial Vacancies.
Senator Long, at the Marion open
ing also wants to know, if L am elect
ed governor, what 1 would do in case
a senatorial vacancy occurred during
my administration. This borrowing
trouble over remote possibilities re-
minds me of the troubles of a young
couple, which developed in divorce
proceedings in my court. One morn
ing divorce case was called, the de-
PENDANT had waived the usual service
of summons, answer, etc, and the
plaintiff a young colored woman, was
placed upon the stand to give her tes-
timony. She stated they had been
married about a year, and that about
two weeks after they were married
inc