The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-04
HOCH is SERENE.
Reads Bent Murdoch sPaper and
Smiles GaiIy.
Says That It Is Always Very In
teresting.
KEEPS 1T A MOVING.
ElDOradO Editor Says He
Doesn't Want Job.
Wouldn't Know One IF He Met
1t in the Road.
KEEPS 1T A MOVING.

nut Na4Iey. Ihe governors copy OF the
paper is invariably folded with the edi-
torial page out. It is sometimes a
marked copy and generally bears
evidence of having been read carefully.
First the secretary to the governor
reads it. He smiles some, fumes a lit
tie and then makes some caustic re-
marks. When Governor Hoch comes
out of his private office he seizes the
EI Dorado paper, adjusts his eye
glasses and. with that characteristic
twinkle in his eye, makes comments
mere and there for the benefit Of those
sitting around.
Bent always did get up a mighty
1ntereSt1n' paper" says the governor.
1t always looks nice geographically
and like to see a paper that way.
Then when Bent tries he can write stuff
that always gets read. Bent knows how
to say things. You may not always
agree with what he says, but you gen
orally like to read it, just the same. I
have been reading Bent's paper for thir-
~ years, and nearly always find some
thing interesting in it.
Here are some of the recent editorial
comments Of Editor Murdock:
1t seems there Is but one way to
4 nave political peace in Kansas and
that way is to elect our governors for
one term only Hoch has been in office
less than three months, and yet the
state appears to be in an uproar about
him. No sooner is a governor elected
/ than he is supposed to begin to set
/ things up for a second term, or for
/ United States senator, or both: and
/ then the row begins Kansas is nerv-
Gus, hyster1cal, sentimental and is al
1 ways ready to do the unexpected, the
! unusual thing. The next legislature will
! elect a senator to succeed Burton and
a half dozen statesmen are already fig
! urfnS to get into the race, while CheS-
/ ter /. Long, whose term is out in four
1 years, is doubtless anxious to form a
combine with a view of making his
reelection a certainty. Possibly 800
men have already Informed Hoch that
I he is the Iogical'7they all use that
that particular word-candidate for the
senate; that he must get into the race,
and all that; and right here is where
/ the trouble begins. If the rule is es-
| tablished that one term is enough for
any man to serve as governor, the state
/ will have political peace. Hoch will do
4 well enough for one term if let alone,
/ but the newspap pers and the politicians
will devil the life out Of him before
! he has served one year, largely because
| he is not only supposed to be a candi-
date for a second term, but because he
may think he is in the running for Uni
| ted States senator.
For Heavens sake let up. We
never had a job in our life and besides
don't want one We wouldn't know a
/ lob if we met one in the road and
would not know what to do with one
4 if we had it. We have always imag-
/ ined that a job, paying 5000 a month
and nothing to do, would be old per-
| simmons; but imagination is one thing
and job another. Jobs are out of our
reach, besides they are sour and set
1 bad on ones stomach A job has got
/ ten many a man into trouble; also into
the penitentiary; and occasionally into
the poor house. We do not want Il
! job and would not have one-that we
could possibly get. Fifty Kansas news
/ papers, have cracked down on Hoch
/ this week because he did not hand us
out an appointment; while the states
man from Marion has told fifty diff
ferent stories why he didn't offer us
one. Cut out the job and let US talk
about the weather, the late tornado,
justification by faith, free salvation.
| the watermelon crop, or death and
taxation. The memory of yesterday
does not make today the failure that it
is-toz US. It's the shadow of tomor-
row that upsets our gizzard and makes
us feel like going down and jumping
/ in the creek. Shoot the jobs. We will
have none of them
In the Walnut Valley Times of Mon
day, the paper which is the business
| opponent of Colonel Murdock in El Do
scoring Murdoch for his attacks OF
Governor Hoch. The Times says that
Governor Hoch is simply doing what
Governor Bailey was condemned for not
dong.
| the principles on which he was nomina-
ted for governor-that is, that he does
not make a test of factional align
| ments previous to the state convention
in making his appointments. Among
4 other things the Times says:
Governor Bailey was branded by
Murdock as a machine man because he
set up what was known as the 'W1chita
convention test Bailey refused to con-
slider the application of any man for q
position who had not supported him IT
/ the Wichita convention. This was the
) machine policy FOR whlcn Balley Was
condemned by the Republicans OF Kan
sas and E ". Hoch was nominated
for governor on the broader policy ad-
yocated by Murdock and others that al
Republicans should have equal conSiQ-
4 Grafton at the hands of the adminfstra-
ton, and that support of the party
nominees at the polls and not support
of individuals in the primaries and con
veutiOns should be the test and stand
ard E w Hoch did not want to be
governor and this paper did not want
| to see him nominated. He refused &c
run and then was drafted to run on the
| broader platform and promised the Re-
publicans of Kansas in his speech OF
i acceptance at Wichita that the broadeI
= policy should be inaugurated and estab-
Iished If he was elected governor; anc
= that the fact that a man had been
! AGAINST him in the nominating conven-
81 tion would not bar him from prefer
: ment. Murdock lauded E. ". Hoch foI
making this promise.
st4e now attacks him because he IS
making that promise good to the Re
publicans Of Kansas
ssrT'he great mistake which Murdock
attributes to Hoch is the appointment
of John O. Royce as bank commissioner
THE real mistake that Hoch made OF
course was in not putting Murdoch on