The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-07
KANSAS COMMENT
ABOUT JUDGE WALLACE.


Judge William H. Wallace of Kan
sas City, known SIS the reformer-j judge.
ne VINO recently caused all of the
trouble possible for one man to cause
to those connected with the theater
business in Kansas City, has entered
the race for the Democratic nomina-
ton Tor governor of Missouri. His first
declaration is that the restoration and
preservation of the sabbath, the one
thing which Is responsible for Judge
Waliace's reputation, Is the paramount
issue. Before he began his reform along
this line, Judge wallace was as I'M
known generally as is the ordinary
criminal judge in q large city. OF
course there are those who Will say
that Judge Wallace desired only to
paign he has waged against violation
of the Sunday closing law. They will
call him fanatic, and every other
eptthet applied to men who run for
office after demanding reforms will be
applied to him. 1T will be argued that
he should be content to stay on the
bench and enforce the law in Kansas
City, or at least establish the fact that
his course was a legal one by waiting
to break into the gubernatorial race
until after the test case is heard In
the supreme court. On the other hand.
1t can be said for Judge Wallace that
he stands for statewide prohibition,
something the Missourians say is COM
LIS anu - od0 " dIIlsO III LiiC OAoi n
state within short time. He has
waged a fight against Sunday theaters
which has attracted the attention OF
the entire country and whether he be
wrong or right in this, he evidently
thinks he is right and men who fight
as he has fought in this case, believing
they are right, are not a bad kind of
men to have in office. Men who will
fight for the right are attracting con-
siderable attention just now. The en-
l. - Irrry IN
Kansas will be greatly facilitated by
having a dry state on the cost, when
that comes. And it seems that it is to
come. Residents of the great state of
Missouri, those who fmbibe the seduc-
tive brew themselves, state that Mis-
souri, will be dry inside of five years.
This may be rather wild estimate
and may not. But Judge Wallace is
running on a prohibition platform.
more than half of the counties in Mis-
souri, have now gone dry, and the re-
suit Of this falls election will indicate
the real desire Of the people there
Salina Journal
AS TO NATIONAL DELEGATES.
1t would be a very good idea for the
Kansas Republican party this year to
adopt an idea in effect in certain other
states of sending to the Republican ma
tional convention as delegate no federal
officeholder. Some distinction attaches
to national delegateship, and as the
federal off1ceholders have already been
honored naturally, the places first mem
toned should go to some one else, pre-
ferably men who are strongly represent
tative of the party and closely in SYM
pathy with the people. 1t Will be re-
called that the convention which ac-
corded Harrison his second presfden-
tial nomination in 1892 was VIGOROUSLY
packed with federal officeholders, fact
which was seized upon as a weapon
of attack by the opposition and which
doubtless had an effect in accomplish
ing his defeat. So far as Kansas is
it should avoid thus handi-
Gaping the Republican nominee, and
at the same time make a more wide
distribution Of political honors.-Leav-
enworth Times.