Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-07
KANSAS 100000 SENATORS.
Several Men Have Declined to Rep
 resent the State at Washington.

Washington, July For the past
 twenty-five or thirty years the state of Kansas has had sort of hoo
 doc" seat in the United States sen ate. the occupants of which have
 gone through some rather strange experiences and at last made a fall. ure of life. This "hoodoo" started with the suicide of James H. Lane near the close of his six-year term as senator from Kansas. and without a single exception every man who has followed after Lane in repre- senting Kansas has been unfortunate in the achievement of senatorial honors. Kansans speak of Lane as
 the immortal Jim Lane," who, they say. was almost true copy of the famous John Brown. This peculiar situation in Kansas politics has been called the Lane fatal succession" but many men have risked to "suc- ceed" to Lanes seat only to be sadly disappointed.
 Kansas politics are indeed fickle. any length of time was John J. In- gals, who was sent to the senate for three terms, total of eighteen years. Almost every other senator from Kansas has only served out one term of six years. When Lane died Edmund D. Ross was appointed by the governor of Kansas to succeed him and it was his vote that pulled President Johnson clear of the i'm peachment proceedings. His people took offense at his vote and Mir Ross was only permitted to fill out Lanes unexpired term. Preston B. Plumb was Ross's successor and died before completing his second term. Bishop W. Perkins was appointed to fill the vacancy, but he only served out Plumb's term. as the populists came into power and sent John Martin, a lawyer. to the senate. At the end of his term populism got a knockout blow by the republicans. who sent Lucien Baker to the senate. Baker did not please his people in the mat ter of appointments to office and he was retired at the end of his six year term. Joseph R. Burton taking his place. Burton has now been forced to resign. This completes the list of those in the fatal Lane sue cession." and in view of the disas- trous consequences which befell these senators. the course of Sena- tor Burton's successor. Mir Benson, will be watched with interest.
 The other line of senators from Kansas has also been tainted to a more or less extent. The first of this set was a MT Pomeroy. who retired under charges of bribery at the close of his first term. He was succeeded by Senator Caldwell. who also re- tired at the end of his first term with suspicion of scandal attaching to his name. John ]. Ingalls, then came to the senate from Kansas and was brilliant and popular figure in that body for eighteen years He vas re tired at that time and "Whiskers Pefer was sent to the senate only to be shelved by the populfsts at the end of his first term. that party elect ing W. A Harris to the senate Har- ris is nov making vigorous cam pafgn for the Eoyernorship of Kan sss. Near the close of Hsrris's term the republicans again came into power and the present senator. Ches- ter I. Long. was elected Up to date Mr Long has made an ideal senator and bids fair to gain another cleo ton.
 The deeIfnation of r. D. Coburn. at present state ssriculturfzt of Kan szs. to accept the senztorship made vacant hy Burton's resignation. re- calls the fact that when Senator Plumb died the governor offered the seat to Geores R Peek then general holicftor of the Atchiron- Topekn0nd Banta Fe rcd nov Do1of1I cDunoo1