The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-21
KAM.SA.S COMAEN7'
CHE JUSTICE JoHNsToN.


Inc oHlclal count shows that Justice
Johnst ton Of the supreme court led
the ticket in Kansas. No other man on
me paliot was so justly entitled to this
emphatic mark of approval.
Justice Johnston has been one of the
pest public officials the state of Kansas
mas ever had. Probably he has done
more for the state than any other Off
claI ever did, but you don't hear much
ABOUT MIN because he is a modest man
ana doesn't toot his own horn. Nearly
forty years ago he was elected attorney
general He was then a young man
tie served two terms with great credit,
ana Is remarkable as the only attorney
general who gave such satisfaction to
everybody that he did not forthwith
drop out of sight politically. He step
ped from the attorney generals office
to the supreme bench and in the course
Of years became chief justice, a posi-
ton which he will doubtless hold for
the remainder of his life unless he goes
to the federal bench or resigns.
Justice Johnston survived Populisn
without turning his coat or being GUST
ed from office-something no other Re
publican official succeeded in doing.
He was one of the three justices of the
supreme court when the old court OF
appeals was organized, and he was still
on the highest bench In the state when
that court was dissolved and the SUI
preme bench increased to seven JUS
tees. He has seen the court of vista
ton and any number of other state
courts of one description or another
come and go at the beck and nod OF
the Legislature, and he has witnessed
all sorts of political changes, but
through them all no one has ever been
able to tear him down with the people.
In private practice Judge Johnston
co Id have made q considerable fortune.
He would have been of less real service
to humanity, but he would have been
far better Off financially. He has seen
fit to stay on the bench at $2,5vo, then
at So, 600 a year when his associates
have resigned to take up general prac-
tice or to become corporation lawyers
at incomes double the salary a niggard-
~ state pays for legal brains He has
only a comfortable competence. But
he has the consciousness of having
done much good. And he has the ap-
prevail of the people, repeatedly ex-
pressed at the ballot box, their latest
expression being a vote by which he
leads his ticket.-Lawrence World
BILL WHITE, DEMOCRAT.
Bill White .devotes a column of his
Gazette to a solemn statement of what
the Republican party of Kansas ought
to do to deserve and win the confidence
of the people. And strange to say, the
things White recommends are the
things which the Democratic party OF
this state openly advocates. The truth
of the matter is that Bill White has
become a Democrat and either doesn't
know it or Is too stubborn to admit 1t.
Ottawa Republic.
WHO DID IT.
ssHoch by Scratch is the title of
leading editorial in this mornings Kan
sas City Times. And the Republicans
Of K-nsas did the scratching.-Parsons
Sun.
GETTING WISE.
Senator Cullon is going to push
tariff revision in the next session of
congress. Senator Cullon knows what
has got to be done If the Republican
party is going to remain in power
Lawrence World.
R3 IF.
I The nesot surprise that is coming to /
Kansas wflIsibe the vote on the prulli- 1
bition law if It is submitted to the
people.-Parsons SUM-
WILL 1T?
Will Kansas send man to the United
States senate who will vote with Plat.
Depew, Aldrich, Foraker and the other
corporation senators to sustain the
trusts in their extortionate7 prices? P
HcltOn Recorder.