The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-18
MR.. ALBAUGH'S VIEWS.
Makes a Few Remarks or. Republican
Situation.

| Populists to the Republicans, publishes
the following comments on the recent
/ state convention in his paper, the
Kingman Courier-Leader:
Republicans everywhere should line
up for e. w. Hoch for governor and
/ give him a cordial and earnest support
| In his canvass for the nomination he
made mistakes, serious ones, but it is
more than likely that he was forced
into them by his fool friends. If left
to himself it is doubtful if he would
have gone into the Second district and
| taken hand in the congressional fight
/ there, openly attacking one of the
| brightest and cleaneSt young men OF
1 the state. 1t is also doubtful whether
| he would have attended and spoken at
the rump convention held in Miami
| county, and thus given countenance to
an open party bolt had he not been
over urged by those who claimed that
he was under particular obligations to
| them.
Mr. Hoch is a clean, capable Repub-
lican. He deserves the partys earnest
support Not because he is better
than other Republicans, for he isn't:
| not because he will give the state any
better administration than his Repub-
| lican predecessors, for he WON'T; not
| because he will handle patronage diff
ferently- from his predecessors. for he
will utilize it Just as they have and
just as he should. in assisting his
friends.
but he should be supported because
he is a clean man and is at the head
of the ticket of the only party that in
either the state or the nation stands
for things and does things.
1T is unfortunate that this ticket
was nominaed in a convention COM
pletely dominated by the railroads,
but Mr.. Hoch is not to blame for this
and should not be held responsible
for it.
cit is particularly unfortunate that
| he has upon the ticket with him
thief, an embezzler and a forger.
man who would now probably be IN
| the penitentiary except for the fact
that the statute of Limitations had run
before his crimes were discovered but
who did pay back to Miami county
over thirteen hundred dollars of adj
mitted thefts.
THE high handed way in which the
railroads dominated the recent Repub-
lican state convention was disgraceful
in the extreme and without precedent in
| the history of Kansas conventions
| Transportation was furnished the dele
gates. That has often been done in the
past; but in addition unlimited quanti-
! ties were furnished to outsiders who
were willing to help consummate the
| things the railroads wanted. A railroad
! contractor was made temporary chair
man of the convention; likewise, perma-
nent chairman. Of the six delegates to
the national convention two are general
| attorneys for Kansas roadS-M. A. Low
| for the Rock Island and ]. H. Richards
for the Missouri Pacific. One other-W.
| S. F'itzpatrick-is attorney for the Mis-
souri, Pacific with more than a local
| jurisdiction.
"Of the committee of seven on creden-
/ tials three were railroad attorneys and
by their arbitrary action seated dele
cations never elected, sufficient to nom
mate railroad commissioners desired by
the railroads. They also made good in
the denomination of the officers COM
posing the board of railroad assessors
and the board of equalization, which by
their manipulations, saved to the rail-
roads in taxes the past year over $780,.
000
'1t was railroad convention
throughout and the Republicans will
have to face the fact in the coming
| campaign"
Joke by the Lawrence Gazette: 1T
looks as though the lily white reform
ers are about to lock horns over the
election of a state chairman. Stubs
and HOch want DOlley, and the rest of
the bunch want Burrow. The Gazette
| is always for Harmony, with the larg
est H in the case, and therefore sug-
gests as a compromise candidate the
Hon. Morton Albaugh, of Kingman."
J. H. Curran, secretary of the Popu
list state central committee, says that
the PopuliSt state convention to be
held in Topeka on April IL will be a
surprise party in the way of attend
ance and enthusiasm. He also pre-
diets that a fusion arrangement with
the Democrats will be brought about.
Some time ago the old time PopuliStS
were set against fusion, but since the
dissatisfaction in the Republican ranks
| has become so pronounced there is more
talking that the Democrats and Popu-
lists will get together as they did two
years ago.
The Yates Center News which is the
/ Republican organ of Woodson county,
comments as follows: THE new ma
ioF,4 &c firr1I -,r1xy IF
Kelly. Probably on the theory that
birds of feather, etc.
After publishing the prophecy of the
/ Clay Center Times that Senator Burton
| will not be convicted at st. Louis next
! week. and that in two years the PEN
dulum will be extended to its full
i length in the other direction. Presi-
! dent Roosevelt will have learned by
that time that Kansas has two Repub
| lican United States senator's" Mr.. AL
| baugh remarks:
/ And this is the end to which the
new Kansas machine has been used.
It has been a Burton move from the
! start, and it is the senator's ambition
to humiliate the president by showing
! him that regardless of his want of
4 character. regardless of the fact that
/ he has been indicted for selling his
'Official influence, regardless of the fact
that he has repeatedly and perSistently
lied to and deceived the chief execu-
4 tive of the nation, yet that Kansas, his
home. viii stand by him in all these
/ things"
/ Lawrence Gazette: In attempting to
answer the charge that it knows the
4 Wyandotte and Miami delegations that
were seated had no rights in the con-
vention, the Topeka Capital haltingly
and lamely excuses the outrage by say
ing that it is willing to take the word
of Chairman Roark, of the credentials
committee, that neither of the Wyan-
lott da1n
hands, Well, we should guess not
The Wyandotte Indians haven't had