The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-01
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Republican Nominee for Legis-
lature on GridirOn.
Voters Demand to Know Where
He Stands on Senator.
GnTTNTV TG NAD ONO
COUNTY is FOR LONG.
MIR. Eadie, the Candidate, Re-
fuses to Declare Himself.
Governor Hoch's Paper Gives
Henderson Martin a Boost.

dispatch from Tribune Kan,
states that fifty Republicans in Greeley
county have petitioned Robert Eadie,
Republican nominee for the legislature,
to declare whether he expects to vote
for ]. L. Bristow or Chester 1. Long in
the legislature in case of his election.
Greeley county is Long county, and
gave Long a majority, as did about 20
other representative districts of the
state. Some of Longs friends in that
county insist that on this account.
Eadie should support Long in the leg
islature. Mr. Eadie has refused to say
what he intends to do.
The intention of the primary law is
that the candidate for United States
senator who carries majority of the
representative and senatorial districts
shall be the nominee, and that all op-
position shall forthwith disappear from
off the face of the earth. so far as his
own party is concerned. Under this
Interpretation of the law Mr.. Long is
not to be considered as a candidate for
the United States senate before the
next legislature.
On the other hand, there is always
the possibility that members elected
from counties which instructed for
Long will refuse to support the party
| nominee, and will try, by making
| combination with the Democrats, to
defeat Bristow. Longs friends say,
however, that their crowd will stand
| by Bristow, and Senator Long has an
nounced that he expects to support the
Republican ticket in the campaign.
Governor Hoch's paper, the Marion
Record, has this to say about the cleo
| ton of Henderson Martin of that town
as chairman of the Democratic state
central committee:
| Marion people, without regard to
party, are pleased over the selection of
| Henderson Martin as chairman of the
Democratic state central committee.
Mr.. Martin is one of Marion's ablest
and most highly respected citizens and
| the Democratic party could not have
| chosen a better man for the place. He
| is close student of history and of
Literature, has splendid public ability
and is a fine. useful citizen in whose
honoring the town delights. His selec-
ton is assurance that as far as the
high-toned campaign will be con-
! Quoted"
Chairman ]. n. Dolley of the Re
publican state committee replies to
the letter of Chairman Henderson
Martin of the Democratic state COM
mittee by cordial invitation for the
| Democratic managers to come for
ward as "show up the public records
of Stubbs and Bristow. Mr.. Dolley
says:
! ''I notice the statement OF Mr.. Mar
! tin chairman of the Democratic state
central committee, in the public press
| this morning. and wish to say that l
shall consider * a personal favor if
the Democratic state central commit
tee. and their orators. will devote as
much time as possible during this
| campaign to the public record of W.
r. Stubbs, Republican candidate for
| governor, and ]. L. Bristow, candi-
date for the United States senate.
'If a public man in Kansas has ever
advocated as n1any good measures
which have been acted into laws and
are in the interest of all the people
| of this state as w R. Stubbs. I would
| like to know his name and the title
| of the bills.
"If Kansas has ever had repre-
sentative in an important place in our
national government that had acquit-
ted himself with more honor than has
+ L. Bristow. I should be pleased to
know his name and the service he mas
rendered
The wellington Mail comments as
follows on Mr.. Bryan's attack on
| Speaker Cannon:
| bryan has taken 1T on hlmsel1
| several times lately to jump onto
| Uncle Joe Cannon as a car. Uncle
| Joe is ordinarily mild tempered and
| slow TO wrath. However. he has been
! hammered so hard on his record as
| sneaker of the house recently, that he
! begins to show signs of unlimbering
his guns and fighting in his own de-
| fense. He has already taken a few
! preliminary shots at Bryan. He has
| succeeded too, in displacing some of
Bryan's armor and the country now
/ has a chance to see these facts.
| Bran was among the Democratic
members of Congress who in 1890, as
| Speaker Cannon describes it were
present for mischief and absent for
| business Speaker Reed said that
| when a member was in his seat he
was present, and he counted the
Democrats present to make a quorum.
despite the outcries of Bryan with
| the rest.
Bryan was reelected to congress
] in 1892 The Democrats controlled
| the congress- Bryan voted for Crisp
| for speaker. Bryan also voted to
| adopt the Reed rules against which he
had protested two years before. Un-
der the rules in use today the speaker
| of the house has no more authority
than Bryan voted to give a Democrat,
Mr.. Crisp.
s'In fact, Bryan is in much the same
| nositfon as our own Victor Murdock
who has been voting in Washington
| for the rules which he denounces in
| Kansas"
Labor Editors Meet.
| Tv,ica1o Sent 1-Editors from diff