The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-07
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Senator 1. D. Young Issues a
Statement.
No Deal Made With w. B. Ham,
He Says.
REPLY TO MR.. HAWKES.
Says Details of Conference Given
Are UnimpOrtant.
BelOit Statesman Says He Is in
Race to Stay.
REPLY TO MIR. HAWKES.

S. n. Hawkes. of Stockton. Rocks
county, has written a letter which has
been published in several papers in
the Sixth district giving his version Of
what w. B. Ham, candidate for con-
gress against Reeder last summer,
said, or might not have said, in re-
gard to that race, in which Hawkes.
claims that Ham did not agree with
Young not to run again if Young
would withdraw at that time from the
race. The attention of I. D. Young.
who Is a candidate against Reeder at
this time. being called to the publica-
ton of Hams alleged position, Mr..
Young gave out the following inter
view:
''The writing of the letter of Mr..
Hawkes. as appears in the Downs News
giving unimportant details of the
meeting of the conference at the time
of my withdrawal from the congress
sional race last summer, seems en-
tirely gratuitous, for no one. so far as
am aware, and certainly not with my
consent, has ever claimed that there
vas any agreement of any kind made
by or at that conference, for as mat
ter of fact there was none.
q "I have heretofore made that state
ment in press interviews, together
with the fact that Mr.. Ham did say
to me at different times, prior to the
conference, that. If I would give him
a clear field, If he did not beat Mr..
Reeder at the primary, he would new
er be candidate for congress again,
which statements now repeat.
ST did give him a clear field and my
support. He failed. am in the race
will now, as did Mr.. Ham and his |
friends then appreciate, what Mr.. !
Hawkes. says was a self sacrificing
act on my part and for which they |
were then thankful
Here is another jolt for Mr.. Ham
from the Smith County Pioneer:
The startling information comes
from Stockton that w. B. Ham who
congress was counted out. The
Stockton Record, printed in the home
town of Mr.. Ham, says this is a fact
and Mr.. Ham really won by thousands
of votes. Seeing that Mr.. Ham is
again a candidate, what assurance
has that gentleman and his managers
that he won't be counted out again.
II it was such an easy matter to count
him out once it will no doubt be Just |
as easy to do it again. The fact is
that the primary election was con-
Quoted fairly and Mr. Ham was not
counted out at all. He is one of those
kind of men who cannot gracefully |
take defeat, and we claim that a man
who cannot take defeat had better
stay out of the game. We have seen
men defeated in conventions in Smith
Center who could not take their medi-
cine and went off whining about it.
They claimed they were traded Off
and probably they were traded Off
but at the same time they were doing Z
their level best to trade off the other
fellow We have nothing against Mr..
Ham who is an honorable gentleman. |
but we don't like this talk his home
papers are putting up about his being
counted out. In Smith Center
where we personally observed what
was going on, the Democrats who
UP and called for a Repub-
lean ballot, voted for Mr.. Ham to a |
man. The other candidates did not !
whine about this. If Mr.. Ham was ,
smart enough to get the Democratic | !
votes, let him get them. And even ;
with that vote in his favor he was
licked. And licked fair. Let him take
{ like man."
The board of treasury examiners at
is meeting decided to open !
he bids for the new state repositories
sept 1. The advertisement for bids :
s now being published. There are :
low thirty state repositories and they :
bay an average interest of 2.SS per :
sent for the use of this money. {