The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-11
OUT ON A WAGON
Joseph L. BristOw Investigate
ing Rural Route Service.
Begins by Taking Passage With
Mail Carrier.
HE WILL FIND OUT.
Now Has Charge Of That Branch
of Service.
Mr.. Ware Will Soon Retire from
Pension Office.
WILL FIND OUT.

Joseph L. Bristow, fourth assistant
postmaster general, is home from
Washington. His coming was IN
heralded. and the first thing he did when
he reached Kansas City Monday morn
ing was to go out to Westport and en-
gage passage with rural mail carrier
to accompany the carrier over his route.
and the fourth assistant postmaster
general put in the day in that way.
This is the beginning of a, personal
investigation of the needs and work.
ings of the rural free delivery system
which Mr.. Bristow proposes to make.
The system is now under his direction
and he wishes to understand it and its
workings by q personal investigation,
and he will spend now until the first of
June in the west and south on this and
other departmental matters.
Mr.. Bristow believes that while the
rural free delivery of the mails has al
ready reached great proportions it is
still in its infancy. The system is ex-
tremely popular, particularly in the
Mississippi valley, and there is a great
demand for its extension. 1t calls fer
the outlay of a great amount of mon
ey, and for that reason Mr.. Bristow
proposes to make a personal study of
the system in its infancy. He is today
at his home in Ottawa, but he viii
visit Salina, Topeka and other points
in Kansas before going south.
Pension Commissioner Ware is also
on his way home to Kansas. He left
Washington last night for Topeka ana
will therefore be home shortly. 1t is
said that he will spend a week in Kan
sas.
A dispatch from Washington says
that the dinner which was given Mr..
Ware a few days ago by some of the
higher officials of the pension bureau is
oil
ner, and in closing his after-dinner
speech Mr.. Ware is quoted as saying:
Tt is not probable that shall re-
main in the position of pension COM
missioner much longer; in fact, 1 ex-
pect to retire in the next few months
In reply to inquiries afterwards as to
the date Of his intended retirement, Mr..
Ware was non-committal, but it is I'M
derstood that he expects to resign inn
mediately after election.
R. W. Blue, commonly known as
''Dick," has been in Washington for
number of days. and it is currently re
ported that he is trying to get in line
for Mr.. Wares job. If it were left to
the Republicans of Kansas there would
probably be a larger protest against
Blues appointment than petition in
favor of it. Colonel Blue himself de-
MES, of course, that he is trying to get
anything from the administration.
Word comes from Hiawatha that
some OF the I11enQS OF NuSenL propose
to contest the nomination of A. L. Gil
bert for state senator. They had moth
ing to do with the nomination of Gil
bert, so they do not like it. They re-
fused to participate in the senatorial
convention, and when the Brown coun-
ty delegates who were in the cOnven-
ton failed to agree on a candidate and
one of them voted for Gilbert, the Doni-
phan county delegation Joined in voting
for Gilbert and nominated him. 1t is
difficult to see where there is any
ground for a contest.
The Prohibitionists in their state
convention at Emporia nominated
Rev. James Kerr of Beloit for COVER
nor late Tuesday afternoon. Rev. Mr..
Kerr is a Methodist minister. He
plan of enforcing the prohibitory law
at Scandal three or four years ago.
The rest of the Prohibition ticket is as
follows:
Lieutenant Governors. P. Gould,
of Arkansas City.
Attorney General. NJ. Martin. of
Medicine Lodge.
Secretary of State-T. D. Talmage,
Auditor@C. A. Smith, of wellsville.
State TREASURER. A. Fogle, of
Williamsburg.
superintendent of Insurance-Jesse
Evans, of lola.
SUPERINTENDENT of Instruction-N.
J. Hanley, of McPh ersOn-
COngreSSnan-a Duncan
McFarlane, of Leroy.
Railroad Commissioners - L. B.
Dubbs, n. N. Woods and A. o. Ken
nedy.
Judge of the Supreme Court-M. v
B. Bennett, of Columbus.
Twenty delegates were also elected
to the national Prohibition conven-
ton, as follows:
NJ Blum, T. D. Talmadge, w. L. De-
lano, A. J. Adams, Robert Wallace
Earl Delay, Jesse Evans Mr.. and Mrs
Mont Williams. Mr.. and Mrs. T. M
Stoves, Mrs. f. r. Delay, Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Holsinger, w. B. Moffett
J. n. Woods, S. P. Gould, John Cum
ningham, w. G. Fogle and W. B. Hull
The delegates were not instructed for
presidential candidate.
The resolutions were anti-whisky