The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-05
the people of Jackson county. Kansas,
for the special purpose following:
ssPT a ATFORM

the people of jackson county. Kansas,
for the special purpose following:
platform.
The advocacy and establishment of
An act providing for the nomination
of candidates for all offices by direct
vote of the qualified electors, and pro-
hibiting caucuses and delegate con-
ventions.'
Il will attend any meeting of citi-
zens in the First congressional district
of this state, at any time and place
convenient, for the purpose of explain
ing the provisions of such an act, and
securing the nomination, election and
assistance of other representatives
having in view the adoption Of such
an act. JOHN S. HOPKINS,
Dated February 2, 1904
"Holton, Kansas"
Mr.. Hopkins has been studying this
subject for a number of years, and he
believes he has a plan for primaries
which will be just and equitable to all
concerned and which will record the
will of the people.
John H. Curran, who has been secre-
tary of the Populist state central COM
mittee for number of years. is men
toned for the Populist nomination for
secretary of state.
Governor Bailey believes that he
has been treated unjustly in the fight
which has been made on him, but he is
taking his medicine and does not intend
to put up any contesting delegations in
the state convention.
When the idea was suggested to the
governor that the state committee
which is Overwhelmingly for him, might
do in the state convention what Mr.,
Curtis and his committee did in the
Holton convention, and whether he
would sanction such a thing, Governor
Bailey said:
mot for a minute I believe that
such a course is wrong and unfair.
have no doubt but what the state com
mittee, following the precedent estab-
lished by the congressional committee
at Holton. could nominate anybody il
pleased, but it would not be right.
Il feel that L have been treated un-
my administration has been worked uE
through Misrepresentation, but 1 am
not blue nor unhappy.
LAS a man gets along in years and
experience, the vaudeville stage of poll
ties loses its attractiveness,' the gov
ernor continued. Il now see the paint
and padding on the players, know
where the false nose joins the real
thing, and am able to tell the wig from
the natural hair. I can now leave the
theater in the middle of an act without
regret.
Some years ago a defeat like the
one have just experienced would have
hurt. Charley Curtis hurt me when
Ae pSAL ire 1OT tHe ITSl ulSIr1cI nOI1l-
nation in 1900. 1 felt that defeat keen
ly. But I didn't know so much about
the vaudeville as do now.
My wife, believe, is glad it happen
ed as it did. There isn't much in poll
tics for the politicians better half. Mrs.
Bailey and I will be at the executive
home to welcome Governor Hoch and
Mrs. Hoch, and then we will go to our
home in Baileyville. where peace and
contentment await us.
I'm the future, my political activity
will be for the Republican party and
for my friends. / shall never desire nor
ask for office again. But shall never
cease to defend my administration
when it is attacked and l believe that
in time the people will say that they
were 'misled in 1908, and that I should
have been given a second term"