The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-10
State Well Represented In Sem
ate and House.
Both Indiana Senators Are
'sFormerly OF Kansas.
ANOTHER ON THE WAY
Classmate OF w. A. White May
Be Sent to Senate.
Now Attorney General in State
of Idaho.

Washington, Dec. 1o.-Kansas has
contributed two senators to Indiana,
one to Idaho, members to Missouri,
New Jersey, New York, and other
states; and 1t is probable that a cam
paign just now starting in Idaho may
send yet another formerly of Kan
sas man" to the United States senate.
w. E. Borah is at present attorney
general of the state of Idaho. He was
elected two years ago, and reelected
this year. He is one of the prominent
Republicans of the mountain state.
He is one of the leaders out there.
Not so many years ago Mr. Borah
was a Kansan. His education was
acquired at the University of Kansas,
where he was a classmate of w. A.
White, of Emporia. Mr.. White and he
are very friendly still, and no doubt
the Emporia editor is anxiously await
ing the contamination of his old
friends ambitions.
Mr.. Borah is still a young man.
Soon after he completed his education
in Kansas he went to the then terri
tory of Idaho. and prospered in law
and in politics as well. Two years
ago he was a candidate for election
to the senate to succeed Henry Heit-
field. The Republicans controlled the
legislature, and the contest was ex-
tremely close. Finally W. B. Hepburn,
a leading attorney, was elected. Sem
ator Hepburn is now one of the strong
men in the senate, among the later
arrivals in that body.
Idaho's other senator is Frederick
T. Dubois, formerly a Republican,
then a silver Republican, then a Popu-
list and later a Democrat 1t is he
upon whom the story is told as fol-
-earN<f ion rf
1904, after Judge Parker had been
nominated, and the gold forces of the
Democracy had triumphed, some one
asked Senator Dubois if he intended to
bolt. "Bolt!" said the senator; what
good would that do me? Eight years
ago, in this same city. was sitting in
a Republican national convention, as
I am now in a Democratic convention,
as a delegate. The gold standard
platform adopted did not suit me. 1
walked out, with Teller, and the rest.
Now I find myself in Democratic
convention which has adopted the gold
am to bolt again? What good would
it do?"
Senator Dubois is a man of high at
tainments, but he is a Democrat, and
Idaho has become a Republican state.
The Dubois term will expire in 1907.
Two years from now legislature will
be elected to choose his successor.
This time Borah the Kansan, hopes
to be successful.
Borah and his late successful rival.
Hepburn, are good friends and work
together in harmony in the party. In
the late campaign in their state, the
Mormon issue was a strong one. Sem
ator Dubois had secured the adoption
of a plank in the st. Louis Democratic
convention against polygamy. 1t was
he who has stirred I'D much of the
anti-Smoot campaign. Dubois set out
in Idaho to rOut the MOrmons and all
who were allied in any way with them.
He sought to make Mormon batting a
political issue in the Idaho state cam
paign. Idaho is almost as great a
Mormon state as Utah. and of course
campaign of this kind took" to
some extent. Republicans generally
took the ground that there We're other
issues more to be contested than Nor
monism and polygamy- Chief among
the Republicans taking this stand, and
assuming leadership, were Senator
Hepburn and Mr.. Borah. Henry Heit-
field, former Populist senator, whom
Hepburn succeeded, was the fusion
candidate for governor.
Definite charges against a score of
Mormons were made by Q. NJ. Owen,
Smoot fight. Owen challenged Attor-
ney General Borah to proceed against
these Mormons. To this challenge,
Borah is alleged to have replied: ct
am not after the snipe of the valley;
am after the tiger of jungle-Fred-
erick T. Dubois
The Republicans, under the leader
ship of Hepburn and Borah, won. They
put up a great fight against Dubois, |
Heitfeld. the Democrats, Populists.
Mormon-baiters, etc. They were
abundantly successful. The majority
in the state was about 10000. So when
Dubois came back here for the OPEN
ing of the session, he was greeted with
inquiries as to how 1.-THE tiger of the
jungle" was.
Heitfeld, the late senator, was also a |
Kansan. He lived in the northwest part |
of the state for several years He is
still we'll remembered there.
Attention was called in these columns |
recently to the fact that after next |
March both Indiana senator's will be |
formerly Of Kansas men" Both Mr. |
Beverage and the man who will be his |
colleague, James A. Hemenway, served |
apprenticeship in their young and OBJ !
scure days in Kansas.
The representative from President |
ROoSeveltS district in New York owns
much land in Wabaunsee county, and |
has just come from a visit there, and |
at Topeka.
Representative Fowler of New Jersey. |
one of the authorities in congress on |
financial legislation and questions for |
merly practiced law at Beloit, and was |
a partner of the late Justice A. H. Ell |
lis OF the Kansas supreme court
Kansas City, Mo, district, who was
elected to congress under the manage
ment of G. s. Jobes a former Kansan |
was a brother of the late Justice Ellis, |
and formerly lived in Kansas.
Thus it is that the Sunflower state |
distributes its sons all about the coun- |
try. and they all get into politics. soon |
err or later. And many of them come |
eventually to congress.
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