The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-22
POLITICAL GOSSIP
''Dick" Wilson, Chief Clerk of
House, to Desert.
Decides to Move to Oklahoma
at Once.
SIMPSON is FOR TAFT.
SIMPSON is FOR TAFT.
Revenue Collector Greatly I'm
pressed at Ottawa.
Part of Governors Party Back
From East.

"Dick" Wilson of Belleville, Re-
| public county, chief clerk of the last
house of representatives. and for a
number of years identified with state
political affairs in various offices, and
as a candidate for various other Of
fees, is going to leave Kansas and take
up his residence on a farm at Chat
| tanooga, Oklahoma, 80 miles south of
Lawton, and only IL miles from the
Texas line.
Mr.. Wilson drew a coed farm in the
land lottery of the big pasture, and is
going to Oklahoma to take posses
sion, and prove up his claim. He will
put in no crop this year, but will get
a house and barns built, a we'll sunk,
and a large portion of the land
broken.
Il am sorry to leave Kansas. and
possibly 1 may come back here some
time, if I don't like it down there. NO,
1 don't expect to engage In polltlcs-
am going to community Where l
suppose about nine out of ten settlers
are Texas Democrats. They will
probably see to it that don't engage
in politics, even if was foolish
enough to have any desire in that d.
rectiOn.
while 1 have been here in Kansas,
have seen a good deal of political
life, and have never lodged hght-
And yet 1 am free to confess that now
is not a bad time for politicians TO
leave Kansas. think that within the
next two years there are going to be
some startling changes in the Kan
sas political map, and the men VINO
are now on the ground dabbling in
politics are likely to get hurt
don't attempt to predict what is going
to take place, but the air is charged
with political electricity, and some
thing is going to break loose. People
who happen to get off wrong in pol1t1-
cal matters are likely to go under the
waves.
Il think 1 can make some money
in Oklahoma, and I may decide that
it is a good plan to stay down there
1 expect to return to Topeka in about
a month to- finish up my work on the
journal of the house of representa-
tives, and then I will move my family
to Chattanooga
revenue collector for Kansas, came
hack from Ottawa booming enthus-
iastically for Taft.
Taft is a great man" said Mr. S1mp-
son, great both physically and intel
lectually. 1t would not at all surprise
me if some day he We're nominated for
president. He isn't going to quit the
race. That is all hot air.
isn't If likely that Roosevelt may
be nominated in spite of his refusal?"
was asked.
After all Roosevelt has said" replied
Mr. Simpson, Il don't see how he can
be nominated. Roosevelt is for Taft,
and Rooseve1t's influence is going to go
long ways toward helping Taft land
the nomination"
These are straight tips from the man
who has the reputation of being the
luekiest man in Kansas. 1t makes no
difference how much of a shaking up
the political dice box gets, Simpson has
the reputation of being able to predict |
the throw 1t is said that down in |
Mcpherson county, many farmers have
grown rich by simply planting the same
things at the same time with Jim Simp- |
son. They also tell a story about Simp- |
sons encounter with man who had |
"hogged' simpsons berth in a sleeping |
car. The man refused to get out, and |
raise h if anybody tried to put him
out. Simpson is peaceable man, and
agreed to take an upper berth at the
end of the car over the trucks. In the [
middle of the night, another train ran
into the car at a railroad crossing, and
the remains of the man who had stolen
berth were scraped up in lit
tie pieces. Simpson was uninjured.
The Kansas silver service party,
minus several of the members who
started with it, arrived in Topeka Fri
lay evening. Secretary of State Den
ton and Mrs. Denton stopped off in
party were left in the east. Governor
and Mrs. Hoch, Mr. and Mrs. Nation,
Mr.. and Mrs. Jackson, Mr.. and Mrs
Tulley and Mr.. and Mrs. Hughes, all
They say that the story
about the spiked punch is news to
hem. General Hughes denies that he
spiked any punch.
w. r. Stubs had an interview with
State Chairman ]. T. Moore at Otta-
va last Thursday. and tried to find out
whether Mr.. Moore was in favor of
Ealing a state primary next year. Mr..
stubbs didn't succeed in getting much
lefinite information it is said. Mr..
Moore was unwilling to commit him
elf
Bale P. Waggener of Atchison dis
,usses the closing of the Atchison sa-
oons, in accordance with the teIe-
graphic instructions from New York
ent by Governor Hoch and Attorney
wish to be misquoted or misunder-
food on the temperance question:.
I'M now, and have always been, in IA
-or of any movement that will curtail
he evils of intemperance. I believe
hat more good can be accomplished
he churches are the great instrument
alities which appeal to the finer SEN
Utilities of every human being. Any
nan who advocates temperance be-
ause he believes it is right, and op-
,oses intemperance because he be-
ieves 1t is wrong, should receive not
My the recognition of the churches,
very good citizen. I do not believe
he churches should give their en-
orsement to any creature who does
lot believe in the divinity of Christ
nd denies the existence of a God as
:. w Trickett does. simply because I
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