The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-28
POLITICAL GOSSIP
j. B. Burrow Preparing for a
Spontaneous Uprising.
Sixth District to Back Him for
Governor.
MURDOCH ALARMED.
Discusses Possibility of j. r..
Burton Being Governor.
How the Machine Might Be
Rehabilitated in Kansas.


Spontaneous uprising of the Sixth
congressional district in favor of ]. r.
Burrow for governor. It has not oeen
uprising will take place, but it is ser
tain to come at a time when it will do
the most good. Burrow and his friends
are doing a lot of careful planning and
are fixing so that the uprising, when IL
comes, may bear all the earmarks of
spontaneity.
Elmer Ames of Norton county, Cy An
derson of Rawlins,- Bob McGonigle of
Thomas county and other members of
the old time political crowd in the Sixth
district are the ones who are engineer
ing the spontaneous uprising PROPOSE
ton. Some OF the people who are not
especially friendly to Burrow are being
sought out and interested simply for
the purpose of having the uprising as
sumo a spontaneous character. Bur
row has consulted with all his Sixth dis
triot lieutenants, and they understand
thoroughly that their business is to fix
up all the stage settings for the upris-
ing, and get the red fire ready to touch
off at the proper moment. Backed by
a spontaneous uprising in his own dis
trict, Mr.. Burrow figures that he will
be able to march triumphantly into the
next state convention, and sweep the
delegates into his camp from all other
sections of the Kansas commonwealth.
Dave Mulvane is expected to deliver
to. him the First district. and Tom
Kelly will look after the second. The
Long machine will handle the Seventh,
and this will be enough.
: Burrow has been supposed to be op-
posed to the reelection Of Senator
Long He has stated to several parties
that he would help defeat the Medicine
Lodge senator But recently Mr.. Bur
rows son was given a fine appointment
from Washington, and Senators Long
and Curtis were the ones who got 1t
for him. This is said to fix up the truce
between Burrow and Long, and to mean |
that Burrow will support Long for SEN
ator while Longs friends help BurroW
become governor
OF course there are comparatively few |
people who believe that J. r. Burrow |
could be elected governor, even II noml- |
mated. He is not the kind of a man
who would run well in Kansas at the |
present state of pubic feeling. The |
Democrats would have easy picking |
with Burrow as a candidate, and the |
other state officers, who expect to be
reelected at the next convention, are |
afraid of a weak man at the |
head of the ticket. He might carry the |
Whole thing down into the ditch.
If Burrow is elected to the Office OF
governor it probably means the re-
establishme mt of T. L. Kelly in politics.
Kelly would likely get good appoint
ment under Burrow, and the political |
machine would have things lined up in
fine shape.
1t will be remembered that year
ago Burrow made a peculiar speech at
1ne Of the square deal meetings then
being held. He said that he was going
to break away from his associates, and
Try to have the railroads of the state
assessed at a fair value. II expect tc
5e voted down. he declared, with tear
a protest. In other words, he
expected that his old friend Kelly, and
others would continue to vote for the
same old kind of railroad assessment,
and would stiffe all efforts at re
'orm."
When the time came to assess rail-
-oads, Burrow was given an opportunI-
" to raise the Rock Island valuation.
hat being the road chiefly in his terri
ory, and he failed to do so. Nor was
here any protest recorded from j. X.
3urrow.
T B. Murdock discusses the political
situation as follows in the FL Dorado
Daily Republican:
IA Missouri fellow citizen said to
ne this morning that If the Kansas
machine decided to run j.
Ralph Burton for governor next year
lie would be nominated and possibly
elected. This Missouri fellow citizen
urther remarked that the Kansas ma
O the national convention, which
meets next year to nominate a candi-
late for president, will re-elect Icha-
,od Long to the United States senate,
f it so determines; that Fitzpatrick Of
Peru may be ieutenant-governor,
While Thomas Todd Kelley will be
hairman of the state board of tax
and when I asked him
o explain, he said the good citizen
he loyal patriotic, God-fearing, tax
,aying Kansas fellow citizen will stop
t home will not attend his party pri- |
nary. will take no active interest in
eating the machine in his territory
r ward and by neglecting to perform
lis political duties as d good citizen
hould, the gang, the crowd, the ma
hine, will capture the state in the
anne old way. And, while l disputed
Ii these declarations, 1 felt that some |
f his predictions might come true.
he machine - which never rests, |
ever sleeps-is already at work in
many of the legislative and congress
ional districts in the state fixing
hings. But the people have the votes
nd can control every township and
rard in the state if they will attend
heir party primaries. 1 hope the good
itizen. the loyal. patriotic, God-fear-
ng, home-lcving fellow citizen will be-
in to get ready to think about the
Aviation of his country; begin to get |
eady to go up against the machine
nd smash it. If we are to elect the
cry best man in the state governor, |
nd are to send man to the United
tates senate to succeed Long who is
he good citizen to make up his mind
} do something, do 1t quick. and do it t
ard"
In Burton's speech at Abilene, the s
Ex-senator related some things about {
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