The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-19
His Home Paper BOoms Tom
BOtkin.
More Talk of Third Termers
This Year Than Ever Before.
s NO STATE SLATE.
But Square Deal Is Mixing in
Congressional Fights.
w. A. White BoOms Long for
Minister to China.

The Galena Times has launched a
boom for Tom BotEin for secretarv or
state. Mr.. Botl1in is now assistan. an
the secretarys office and has served
in this capacity for the past three
years. He has lived in Kansas AZ wears
having made his home in four of the
eight congressional districts during tbs.
time. Tom is a good mixer and has
made many friends during his term OF
service in public office
Secretary Denton and Auditor Nation
are about the only state officers who
have finally decided not to run for
third term.
The three railroad commissioners like
their Jobs and will run again for the
is spoken of for third term and
State Treasurer Tu1ley is sure to be
candidate again. State Superintend-
ent Halrchild has also been mentioned
py several newspapers in connection
with continuance in Office
Governor Stubbs. who is serving his
hrst term, Will likely be renominated
without serious opposition. ]. NJ. Ma
made good, also has supporters who
want him to run again.
There has never been a time in the
history OF Kansas politics when so many
third termers have been talked about
in an off year. The primary may be
said to be responsible for this state OF
affairs. Under its provisions there can
be no arrangement of things before
hand and the man who is best known
over the state has the best chance, pro-
viding he has made good.
There seems to be no disposition on
the part OF the square deal leaders to
fix up a slate on state Offices The
only candidate they have advanced so
far is William Allen White for lieuten-
ant governor. and the editor re-
fused to stand for il. But in the matter
of congressional candidates the square
deal has been very active, having start
ed a fight On the tariff stand patters
in six out of the eight districts.
William Allen White. after dragging
the senatorial toga from the shoulders
OF Chester l. Long. should now Danish
China. Mr.. White in a burst OF un-
conscious humor, finds that Senator
Long is better fitted to serve among
the disciples of Confucius than the ad-
herents of square deal Kansas. In a
recent editorial in the Emporia Ga
LONG FOR CHINA.
mo Republican who opposed Sena-
tor Long for the Republican nomina-
ton as United States senator. should
put a straw in the way of his appoint
ment as minister to China by Presi-
dent Taft. For, in the first place,
Senator Long would make good min
lister; he would be credit to the ma
ton in the Orient. During the cam
pdlSn last year LneTe was no 1nIlmdL1On
that Long is not a man of great capac-
ity for hard, effective work. His
ability was not discounted. Neither
was his honesty questioned. He came
out of that campaign without a charge
of any kind against his personal char
ecter nor against his efficiency as a
public man. 1t was charged and
proved, and Senator Long will hardly
deny it, that he does not represent
Kansas in her attitude toward legisla-
ton, as, for instance, Senator Bristow
represents Kansas.
"But that temperament which made
him undesira BILE as United States
senator will not affect his ability to
represent American interests abroad.
His belief in the Importance of the
great financial interests, his under
standing of the weight of commercial
relations, his intimate acquaintance of
great Wall street financiers like Mr.. j.
Pierpont Morgan, who gave Mr.. Long
his Office in 1903, his employment this
featuring interest in the tariff fight. all
give him an acquaintance with affairs
in the higher walks of finance that
makes him an especially well qualified
man for minister to China.
"But it should be borne in mind that
those qualities of mind which make a
man a good minister to China, where
they haven't had a new idea in four
thousand years, and are about to hook
up to Wall street, do not in any way
qualify him to run for an office of hon
or or trust in Kansas"