The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-10

senator Long, have not one single I'M
hlno word to say, but I have no re-
| spect Whatever for the political school
IN which they have been trained and
educated. They are associated with
ana represent the same special inter-
| eSts In Kansas that Senators Platt, De-
pew, Aldrich, Foraker. Dick and reac-
tionarles OF that class represent In
| their respective states. Senator Long
mas voted with the Aldrich- Foraker
Platt crowd on almost every important
| measure when he was in the house OF
representatives and later In the United
States senate that has been before con-
! gress during the past. several years.
| The congressional records furnish in
dfsputable evidence of the truthfulness
| of this statement and these records are
| on file in our state library.
Dave Mulvane has been the head
| and shoulders of the most formidable
| corporation and railroad lobby that has
| infested Kansas during the past three
sessions of our state legislature and has
| used his office as national committee
man to further the interests of the cor
porations.
These facts can be established by
| indiSputable testimony if desired. The
old machine crowd is trying to make
| so much noise about Taft and Roose-
welt that their own personal records
| will be obscured and forgotten. They
| are trying to ride back into Office on
Mr.. Taft'S coat tails.
1.-THE stories that are being published
| that Taft will help to re-elect Long to
| the United States senate are as ridicu-
| lous as they are false and I personally
| know them to be utterly false state
| ments. Secretary Taft is too big and
| too honest man to try to run the poll
| tics of Kansas or any other state and
! if Senator Long was as good friend
of Taft's as he claims to be he would
deny these statements as being false
| and without any foundation in fact.
! Lincoln said, You can fool part of
the people all the time and all the peo-
pie part of the time, but you can't fool
all the people all the time and 1 will
predict that the machine politicians in
| Kansas will subscribe to that doctrine
after the August primary election this
year. w. r. STUBBS."
| A change has been made in the
date for the meeting of the Democrat
ic state central committee which was
called for Friday, March 10. 1t will
not be held until Monday, March 16.
The Hotel Throop will be the meeting
place and the hour has been fixed at
4 o'clock in the afternoon.
| "At this meeting" said w. H. Ryan,
| the chairman of the committee who
was in town today, plans will be
talked over for the holding of confer
ences Of Democrats in each of the
| counties Of the state. These confer
| ences will be expected to select repre-
| sentatives' to a general state confer
ence which will be called for time a
| few weeks hence, at which an organi-
4 cation will be perfected which will
seek to solidify the Democrats
/ through the state ana result in get
ting out a set of candidates for the
state offices who will be acceptable as
| standard bearers"
state mass convention is to be held,
/ and while everybody who travels under
the banner of Populism is to be allowed
| to participate, the convention Will ike
| ly be held in the Commercial club as
| sembly hall instead OF the Auditorium.
| The new primary election law will in
| terfere with lot of the deals" and
'tagreements' which have been In ex-
| istence for years in those Judicial repre-
sentative and senatorial districts which
| comprise more than one county. In these
| combination districts, it has been Gus
| tomary, where the two counties were
| about equal in size, to alternate In the
filing of these offices; and generany
| these agreements have been pretty well
| observed. When it came the turn Oh
| one county to name the senator, or the
representative, or the judge. the other
county kept its hands off and let the
county fight it out and bring forward
it's candidate.
| Now however, agreements can not be
made. The offices will go to the candi-
date who can muster the most votes.
The law firm Of Atwood and Hooper
of 7 eayenworth one OF the most widely
| known firms of practitioners in this
| mart of the state, was yesterday dis
| solved by the mutual consent of the
two members, ]. H. Atwood ana w. w.
Hooper It is understood That MI
Hooper will retire from the firm and his
| Mace in the partnership VIII be taken
nv Lee Bond. present county attorney.
Mr.. Hooper will continue the practice
of law in Leavenworth-
washington, March 10.-When
Senator long entered the senate
chamber today after weeks aD-
sence in Kansas, he was taken TO the
seat of the late Senator proctor or
Vermont, which will hereafter pc
his.
many years by the late Senator In
gals of Kansas. Senator Long hled
on it. following the senate custom
three years ago, purely out OF senl-
ment He had succeeded Senator In
calls. being in that line of descent in
Kansas senatorship, and felt he would
like to have 1t. At that time, OF
course, Senator Proctor was In excel
lent health, and apparently had
= MANY wears of usefulness before him.
In this connection, Senator Curtis re-
marked this morning that he would
like some day to have the seat now
occupied by Senator C1app Of Min
nesota, which was formerly occupied
NV Senator Plumb of Kansas, in
whose line of descent senatorially is
} Mr. Curtis.
: Tn consequence of important de-
yelopments in business way wnlcn
will make it impossible for him to
snare the time needed for campaign
fnr the nomination, Henry McGrew
has decided to withdraw from the
tba hands of the Republicans CT the
second Kansas district