The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-15
BENSON WANTS ALLEN.
Asks Republicans to Send Ottawa
Editor to state Senate.

Senator A. w. Benson has gone be-
fore the Republican senatorial commit
tee of the Fifteenth district. and asked
the committee to place ii nomination
for the state senatorship to succeed
Horace J. Smith. Henry J. Allen, shc
editor Of the Ottawa Evening Herald
1t is believed that the committee will
comply with Senator Benson's wish,
and that Henry Allen Will be in the
next legislature, leading the Benson
forces in the senatorial fight.
Mr.. Allen discusses the matter as
follows in the Wednesday, evening is
sue Of his paper:
THE editor of the Herald is gratifad
of course, by Senator Benson's action
yesterday in going before the Repub-
lican senatorial committee and express
ing his personal wish. that the editor
OF the Herald be placed IN nomination
Senator Smith.
Senator Benson based his wish upon
the ground that he believes it would
further his candidacy for the United
States senate for the editor of the
Herald to have a seat in the next leg
tslature which passes upon Mr.. Ben
sons candidacy, and also upon the
statement that he was expressing Sen
of the latter's successor. There ar a
number Of Republicans in Ottawa and
Franklin county who are sincerely in
favor of Senator Benson Sut who co
go to the state senate. They want the
editor of the Herald to remain at home.
They have heretofore shown their anxi-
ETY. for us to stay at home, but this is
the first time the editor of the Herald
has been in sympathy with them on
this point. A few OF these are now
saying that they will raise row II the
editor of the Herald tries to go to the
state senate. We are making this per-
sonal mention to calm any unnecessary
agitation upon this subject at this hour.
The editor of the Herald does not want
to GO to the state senate, is not
candidate for the senatorial nOnina-
tion and will not be. Any of the in
surgent gentlemen will find him at the
between now and the nominating con-
ventiOn. engaged in the peaceful tasks
cf writing receipts for subscriptions
swapping papers for country butter ana
doing the thousand and one useful
things which one may do around a
neWEpa per Office. He will not be run
ming for the sena toTia1 mamma tior. and
is willing to secure, this pledge by siv-
ing an indemnifying bond that he will
not mention directly or indirectly, the
state sena torship to any Individual We
earnestly desire to help Mr.. Benson
and we are for peace at any cost. We
are pledged to do whatever Senator
Benson believes will further his can-
didacy, and in the fulf1llment of that
pledge we are willing to support for
the state senate any individual whom
the Insurgents viii unite upon and
whom Mr. Benson desires.
I'VE believe that this is no time for
men to be petty or spiteful- FRANKLIN
county has a splendid opportunity n
Mr.. Benson'ss candidacy. It does not
matter SO much who goes to the state
senate; the important thing is that we
should all pull together for the COM
mon interest which we have in Sena-
tor Benson, and that we should not
make this vacant state senatorship an
occasion for revivlng faetioral spirit, or
satisfying personal grudges."