The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-09
The Emporia Gazette says:


1.-THE Seventh district Republican
congressional committee met at Hutch
inSon yesterday and issued the call for
the convention to be held at Wichita
on March s, the day before the Repub
lican state convention meets. The COM
mittee enthusiastically Endorsed Con-
gresham Victor Murdoch for renom-
ination and there is no question of his
succeeding himself, as there is no 9TH
er Republican aSpirant. The commit
tee also went on record as favoring the
nomination of Theodore Roosevelt for
president and declared it to be the
sense of the committee that the Republic
cans of the Seventh district favored the
Endorsement of Governor Bailey's adj
ministration by his denomination and
election. This sentiment was expressed
in resolution by w. ]. Fitzgerald, of
Dodge City which was unanimously.
adopted.
There is 10 doubt but that the reso-
lutions of this committee express with
reasonable accuracy the sentiment of
a majority of the Republicans of Kan
sas. Bailey is personally clean and
honest. He has given the state
good average Republican administra-
ton. The faults of the legislature are
not his faults nor his friends faults,
because he and his friends were op-
posed in every measure they believed
in by the state senate, which was or
ganized as Burton machine. The
faults of the legislature were those of
the TWO 1dcCIOnS, ana Governor Bailey
had nothing to do with them. The
average Republican is tired of the
rowing and caterwauling. He wants
peace. He is tired of the abuse that has
been heaped upon Governor Bailey.
1.-The Seventh district Republican
committee would hardly have gone on
record for Bailey if the people of the
district had been seriously divided
against him. The Seventh district, the
First district, the Third district and the
Fifth district will line up pretty solidly
for Bailey Bailey will get the big end
of the Sixth district and will get his
About the only thing the Busters can do
is to whoop it up in the Fourth district
and go down to Wichita growing like a
bear with a sore head. But what's the
uSe?"
State Chairman Albaugh has this to
say of the Hanna presidential boom,
in the Kingman Leader-Courier:
"All Mr.. Hanna's Ohio friends say he
is a receptive candidate for the preSi-
dency and in the absence of any de-
NAL from Mr.. Hanna himself it must
be accepted as fact As the Leader
Courier stated two weeks ago there is
no open opposition anywhere in Kansas
to President Roosevelt, but there is
quite a little secret opposition to him.
1t is the opposition of men in high
places who have not been able to get
along with him, whose actions the
and privately.
1.-The political fortunes of these men
would be greatly favored if Roosevelt
were turned down in the convention. 1t
will be their plan to secure delegates
from Kansas who are extensively for
Roosevelt and to make no objection to
their being instructed for him. but
who. at the convention. will act with
his enemies on everything leading up
to the actual balloting, and even then,
should their votes be needed, they will
be wanting. 1t will be remembered
that in 1884 Kansas delegates, instruct
ed for Blaine, voted for Arthur
"A repetition of what happened then
must not occur this year and the way
to prevent it is to send known Roosevelt
men to the national convention and to
emphasize this by positive instructions
for him. There are plenty of such men
in Kansas and there is no reason to take
chances
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