The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-29
AT THE CAPITAL.
Mr. Campbell Managing His
Campaign With Dexterity.
His Clever Handling of the
Statehood Question.
SCOTT IN WASHINGTON.
Congressman Has Made an Ex-
celIent Record.
Some of the Reasons He Has
Been Popular.
SCOTT IN WASHINGTON

washington, March 29."RepreSen-
tatiye Philip P. Campbell is managing
his senatorial campaign, so far as GER
tain events here are concerned, with
considerable dexterity.
Mr.. Campbell believes in the presi-
dent and is a strong adherent OF the
administration. The administration
and the president have been strongly
for joint statehood-statehood for
Oklahoma and Indian Territory, and
statehood for Arizona and New Mex
leo. The president recommended this
brand Of statehood in his message,
and backed up Speaker Cannon in the
preliminary fight in the house of rep
resentatives early in the session.
While the president undoubtedly be-
lives that it is crime not to give
statehood to Oklahoma, he cannot,
for obvious reasons, now urge upon
house members to go back on their
record and his past insistency and ia
Tor statehood for Oklahoma and In
dian Territory alone. And yet he is
not urging mem bers to adhere to the
line laid down by Speaker Cannon. In
other words, he leaves each member,
| so far as he is concerned, alone with
his conscience on the question of state
hood.
. Mr.. Campbell lives on the southern
Kansas line. or within one county Of
+ it. His district runs its greatest dis
r tance along the line of the proposed
state Of Oklahoma His people are
: Oklahoma'S people, and Oklahoma S
l people have been his people in the
past. Yet he is a candidate for SEN
ator; also he is a friend of the presi-
, dent; incidentally he desires to remain
on friendly terms with Speaker Can
non.
But Mr. Campbell made a speech in
| the Conference of Republican mem
= bers of the house the other afternoon
6 which did him credit. He insisted that
: Oklahoma should have statehood. He
was not offensive about it, as Mr.
Babcock of Wisconsin, leader of the
warning insurgents, is said to have
been; but still he made a showing for
tOkIahoma-
Mr. CsmDbefI also has a p1Ilsifc
building bill, and wants IN on the ON
nibus bill "Uncle Joe" has said shall
be allowed by him, and those who are
good boys may get in on. Mr.
Campbell does not want to sacrifice
his building for Pittsburg, either.
But it resolves itself largely into a
/ question as to whether a member from
s Kansas Missouri, or Nebraska wants
s to stand by his section or by the mouse
organization. Mr.. Campbell has allied
himself with his section; but not OBJ
noxiously so to the speaker of the
e house of representatives or the admin
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7.
3 unusual caution and dexterity these
i The Third district representative
VIII 20 home to his congressional con-
vention on April 5. He will leave mere
Q in about ten days or two weeks, ana
remain several days in Kansas 1t Is
{ said that the Third district Repub-
licans will make the Sedan convention
0 a sort of general lovefeast, and start
/ CamDbelI's senatorial boom OF with
burial h Preparations are being made
e TO invite representative Republicans
= from over the state, and all candidates
= for state nominations showing them
every courtesy. and making pleasant
and agreeable time.
Later Mr.. Campbell will return, IN
9 May. to the state convention he Is
a rnaixing preparation to pursue the SEN
e atorial bee with much avidity.
s In cabinet circles, also Charles +,
e Scott recently nominated for con
: eress stands well. Particularly is TINS
9 true with respect to the secretary q
war, the large, able, anq an aIll4o1 az l, Il
rarfv last summer in the Philippine
Islands, and that crowd will never be
forgotten by its membership. Ihe
secretary of war has expressed hlm-
self in the most hearty fashion con-
= cerninz Mr.. Scott but he, too, has nc
voice in saying whether the lola man
or the ottawa man shall be the repre-
sentative of the Second district IN lne
Anotber cabinet oficer who ha.
, reason to be friendly toward Charles
> r Scott and is, Is James wilson sec
n retary Of agriculture. Scott has done
d good work as member of the commit
d tee on agriculture; and has wrought
prodigiously in the great annual bud
!. gets for the continued experiment.
u and broad accomp plfshm ents OF thti
y feature of this paternal government
. than which no other department o.
y section has done more for the people
y of the country. In shaping Legislation
along this line. Scott has thrown al
J. his energy, and 1t has counted a grea
y deal.
strange and characteristic of tht
y man: Scott is not an agriculturist
/ He appreciates. as does every think
: ing man, the vastness and importance
q Of agriculture; but his training ant
. life work have been cast in Other
: lines. But Speaker Henderson, in tht
y Fifty-seventh congress, saw ht to pu
Scott on the committee of agriculture
Q as the successor OF W. J. Bailey, who
= fitly was on the committee in the pre-
9 ceding congress. Scott went to worl
j in earnest and mastered the sciencs
i Of agriculture and what It was mean
3 to do IN relation to government H
z has been an important factor in tn
3 appropriation work along this line, a.
suggested in the preceding paragraph
Scott came near to being placed OF
the committee on ways and means Il
: the F1fty-eighth congress. It was hi
i ambition. When Chester I. Long lef
/. the house to enter the senate. theri
= was his vacancy. and that of Senator
Hopkins. who at the same time. lef
the committee and the house of repre-
sentatives for the higher body. Thi
Kansas house members thought thel
II should continue to hold a nlace on thi
ID greatest congressional committee MI
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