The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-28
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Representative Elect Davis a
Foot Race Victim.
Receivers Five Thousand Dollars
Which He Lost.
REWARD FOR FISHER.
Credited With Stopping SIAM
pede of Negroes.
Will Receive Important Clerk
ship Under Administration.
FOR FISHER.

into a good deal of notoriety recently
by his success in recovering $4,000
which he lost through the manipula-
tiops of the famous "Buckfoot'' gang
OF foot race .swindlers.
The decision of the United States
court, which was rendered a few days
ago by Judge Hook in favor of Mr.
Davis, settles a long fought case, and
gives Davis a claim for his $4,000
against the Exchange bank of webb
City in which the foot race takers
had their money deposited.
Davis loaned his $4,000 to the
promoters of the foot race, which
proved to be a fake. and Davis could
not get possession OF his money. He
$4,000 in the Exchange bank, and
went after that money before they
could withdraw it from the bank. In
dications are now that Davis will get
most, if not all, of his $1,000 back.
Mr.. Davis Is Democrat, and will
represent the Twenty-second repre-
sentative district. 1t will not be Davis
first term in the legislature. however.
years ago, and made a very satisfac-
tory record, as his reelection to the
office at the present time indicates.
w w. Fisher. who for a time was a
m essenger in the office of Governor E.
W Hoch, is slated for a good clerk
ship under the new administration 1t
was Mr.. Fisher, more than anyone
else, who helped to stop the STAN
pede of the negro voters to the Demo-
cratic ticket Fisher went out into
the fight and talked for the admins
tration with all his ability Being
himself a negro. his influence with the
other negroes was of great value to
the Republican party, and the Repub-
lican politicians have agreed that
Fisher must be taken care of with
netting better than the job of mes
senger in the governors office He
will probably be give a place In the
Office Of the state auditor, or in the
office of the secretary of state. Fisher
is a competent man for any of the
c1erkships. He is the man who was
appointed by President Roosevelt as
postmaster of a town in South Caro-
ina, and had to pull up stakes and
leave in hurry to save his life, when
the South Carolina whites heard what
had happened. He came to Kansas,
and has been mixed up in politics
Nick ChIles' Plaindealer endorses
Fisher as follows:
The campaign is over. The entire
Republican state ticket is elected to
which result, it is the unanimous opin-
ion of ALL that no one contributed more
than did w. w. Fisher. He took the
stump early in the summer while yet
most of the party leaders and orators
were at watering places. and thus
through summers heat and autumn's
blast did he fight, In the face of strong
opposition, for the success of his
party"
Ike S. Lewis is to be assistant to
Charles Barnes in the Office Of state
superintendent of insurance, when the
new administration takes charge of
chief clerk in the Office during Mr..
Lnling's administration. and is very
popular with all who know him. He
came to Topeka from Stafford county,
and has been in his present position for
six years.
The trouble at the Hutchinson re-
formatory is taking on quite political
aspect, and if A. c.. Gates, the deposed
chaplain, keeps up his fight, he may
force the governor and the board of
managers to take some action, or run
the risk of having an investigation or
dered b ythe coming session of the leg
islature.
Chaplain Gates says that he proposes
to keep hammering away until he
brings about an improved state of af-
fairs at Hutchinson. L don't doubt,
he said today that anyone might visit
the Hutchinson reformatory. and be
greatly pleased with what they saw
Everything Is fine on the surface. That
is what / thought about 1t when / first
went there. The bad conditions are
there, however, but 1t takes time and
intimate association. to find out about
them. 1 am convinced that certain
members of the board of managers will
never do anything to change present
conditions. One of the members is a
beer guzzler and man of the wrong
character entirely to place in charge of
such an institution"
The Hutchinson Ministerial Union is
standing behind Gates in this contro-
versy. and has enacted the following
resolution expressing its confidence in
him:
ITO Whom It May Concern:
The Ministerial association of Hutch
inson, Kan, of which Mr. A. G. Gates
is a member, wish to express their ap-
probation of his character and work as
chaplain of the Kansas State Industrial
reformatory located here.
1.-The members of this association,
having frequently preached at the re-
formatory and brought into contact
with the work done by the chaplain, be-
lieve that the results manifested among
it's inmates in their changed lives, give
them reason for thinking that Chaplain
Gates is pre- eminently qualified for the
position he occupies, aside from his
personal Christian character which is
unquestioned.
I'VE believe that his methods are cor
rect.=in accord with psychological
facts. He is qualified for this particu-
lar work, because Of former special
training, love for human souls, temper
ameat, and disposition
I'VE believe that the results achieved
in his department have justified his ap-
pointment for that position
signed for the association.
'W. r. GRAY, President.
FRANK S. DELO, Sec'y."
J. K. Codding, attorney for the Kan
sas state Temperance union called at
the state house yesterday to confer with
Attorney General Coleman and Cover
nor Hoch. Mr.. Codding was unable to
see the governor during the time he
was in the building.
Later in the day Attorney General