The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-27

to let Kansas know that there IS one
tribunal in the state TO which all men
court should be serenely above partisan
or factiOnal influence The row in the
Second district should be rebuked- 1t
should be renanded back to the people
with a stern admOnition that fraud can
not stand in the supreme court Of Kan
sas, no matter whose name Is attached
to It:
precedent for this stand: just as there
is law and precedent for any other
stand which the court may take. But
there is more than law-there Is
moral issue back of a stand for clean
nominations, which the people always
will support. Kansas is essentially
state that is moved by a moral issue.
And the Lord knows that in Kansas
politics. it is time that moral issues
had some consideration in this CAM
paign. Mr.. Lows decision in the con-
test board has merely recorded his al
ready perfected title to that organlza-
ton. 1t is time that the business in
terests in Kansas find that there is
check to their further encroachments.
Judge W. A. Johnston seems to have
some good friends down at Emporia
state generally The Gazette OF Tues
1T IS odd that in all the long list If
available candidates to succeed Burton
Johnston does not like-that of Abou
Ben Adam, lead all the rest For IN
many respects Chief Justice johnston
is the one man who could unite All
factions of the Republican party, VINO
could represent the state with ability
and whose name would be pledge 70
people at home and abroad that Kan
sas had chosen as her senator man
of the highest personal and ponticat
integrity, and real ability and worth
A man like Judge Johnston would i'm
medfately rank well up among the
leaders of the senate He has those
qualities which men instinctively rec
ognize in their leaders
Judge Johnston is a man of ripened
experience and judgment. He mas nv
ed in the state as a citizen and pup
lie official for a generation He knows
the people of Kansas, ana their pecu-
| liar wants, their good traits and their
bad traits. He would represent all
that is fine and laudable in the KAN
sas character, and would know Wnel
to ignore half-baked public sentiment
He is courageous, with being cantank-
erous and is at peace with all his rsl-
! low Republicans. He would unite the
party in Kansas, and his character is
such that he would at once command
1 the confidence and respect of the na-
| tionaI administration And above eY-
/ erything he is a man OF heart- he
would appreciate the sentimental side
/ of politics. He would not play politics
as a game He would keep mis- word
not merely in the letter but in the
| spirit There would be no double deal
/ ing and funny-business in his part Of
/ Kansas politics.
ct is well for the people of Kansas
4 to bear Judge JOhnston's candidacy 10
/ mind He will not get out and hustle
for the office. He viii not be an
1 nounced as a candidate probably But
/ the example of Burton, who made the
i office the reward of hustling and hand
/ shaaung and dickering should be fresh
enough in the minds of the people tc
make that sort of candidacy abhorrent
/ 1t is time the pendulum should swing
the other way. And it could swing gr
/ further toward decency than to touch
as fine a man as Judge W. A Johns
/ tom