The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-28
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After the street car got to running
in Salina the hackmen got together
and raised their prices.
There were seven trains in Burden
den is beginning to feel quite metro
politan.
Council Grove reports the butter
anime as worse than the coal famine.
How about our old friend, the q egg
famine?
Governor swettenham. of Jamai-
ca" remarks Homer Hoch. would
better watch out or the British gov
eminent Will be Swattenhim."
AImira Todd: Most women imagine
a mans judgment is good until he has
shown a preference for the, other wo-
man. When a boy begins
washing his face regularly and taking
especial care of his hands it's a pretty
sure sign there's a miniature princess
waiting for him up under the big elm.
A man in a Neodesha hotel, says the
Fall River News, was heard to groan
SO frightfully that the proprietor took
pity on him and gave him a drink out
ter?" asked the giver. 81 do" said he
who had groaned. What allied your
Called me?" Yes. what made you
groan so?" "Groan! great land of
freedom. 1 was singing
Frank Barker Bristow. son of Jo-
dent of Baker university, was one
among eight of those taking the ex-
animation for the Rhodes scholarship,
held a t Lawrence, recently. The ques-
lions for examinations from Oxford,
England, and the answers will be sent
back in a sealed envelope. From the
eight, two will be chosen to represent
Kansas at Oxford. The successful
candidates will get $1,000 a year for
expenses during their course at OK
ford.
Commenting on Charles F. SCOTS
story about Judge Walter L. Simon.
who is still one of the active district
judges of Kansas, being beaten for
United States senator once because of
his apparent physical weakness, al
though he has long outlived all those
who were candidates against him,
Governor Riddle, of Minneapolis, tells
the following: Congressman Scott
might have told of another famous
political contest in which Judge Sim
ons was engaged and in which he was
defeated for the Republican nomina-
ton, to some extent, on account of his
apparent lack of physical vigor. The
occasion antedated his race for sena-
tor a couple of years. In 1876 the ola
Third District Republican Congress
sionai convention met at FIT. Scott. The
aspirants for the nomination were
Walter L. Simons, then OF Neosho
county. Bishop w. Perkins. of Labette
county, Col. j. w. Cook, of Wyandotte
county and Dudley c. Haskell of
Douglas county. 1t was spirited con-
test and took several ballots, and an
adjournment between times, to settle
the matter. The relative strength OF
the four candidates. as we recall, was
25 for Simons, 81 for Haskell, 19 for
Perkins and 5 for Cook. Haskell was
the final winner, which was the begin
ming of a career that made him fa-
nous in the few brief years he served
in congress- He was reelected in
1873, again IN. 1880. and a few
weeks following his reelection again
in 1882, after a very brief illness, died
at Washington. Judge Perkins SUBJ
sequently or in 1882, was one of the
big Four nominees at large for con-
gress and was elected. Was re-elect-
ed in 1884, and again in 1886 and 1888
but went down to defeat for re-elec-
the death of Senator Preston B.
Plumb he was appointed to fill the va
cancy in the United States senate UNI
til the legislature convened to elect a
successor, which was about a year
from the date of his appointment
Shortly following his retirement from
the senate he died at Washington
where he had opened an office for the
practice of law. Colonel Cook never
figured to any great extent in political
affairs following the TT. Scott conven-
ton. He has been dead a great many
years. But Judge Simons, the frafI-
est of the quartet in that famous con-
test for congressional honors in the
FIT. Scott convention of thirty-one
years ago, lives on, active in public,
and apparently more vigorous than in
the now far off days when he thought
he was fitted for congressional life