The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-27
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Eskridge Rally Ground of Poll
tiefans This Week.
Senator Curtis, Governor Stubs
and Speaker Dolley There.
INGALLS, HEARD FROM
Makes Strong Bid for the Atchi-
son PostOffice.
Henderson Martin Doomed for
National Committeeman.

| The guaranty battle has been left
undecided and can take care of itself
while the square deal chieftains move
on to Eskridge in Wabaunsee county
to make war on another enemy. Esk-
ridge is only a little hamlet but it is
] In the public eye this week. They are
holding reunion and picnic there and
Senator Curtis. Governor Stubs and
Bank Commissioner Dolley were all on
hand to address the people.
| Such a gathering of great leaders in
such a small place to make war has
not been witnessed since Napoleon and
the emperors of Russia and Austria as
sembled at Austerlitz. Wabaunsee
countys only prior bid for fame lay in
the fact that it had been chosen as a
land locked haven by Dolley. the mighty
sailor, to spend his declining days far
away from the fishing grounds off
Nantucket. The fact that Dolley lives
there makes 1t strange that the -quare
dealers should find it necessary to move
In force upon the county simply be-
cause Senator Curtis was billed to
speak there. Surely Wabaunsee is safe
for the cause.
Sheffield Ingalls, of Atchison, men
toned as a candidate for congress for
the First district. has also been spoken
of for the place of postmaster in his
native town. And the Atchison Cham
pion prints the following pungent para
graph on politics in general and post
rnasterships in particular:
1t has been given out pretty straight
that the next postmaster of Atchison
will be Republican. No trickster who
has advanced his personal political for
tunes by collision and chicanery and
double dealing and combinations that
were vain and unholy under the ban
ner of Republicanism will be made
postmaster Of Atchison if the Repub-
Hcans of Atchison county are listened
to by Congressman Anthony and they
will be. The position of postmaster of
AfPhiSnn ia of the iTnn0rfanf offices
in the county and the man who fills 1t
should be somebody of a representative
character and not merely political
place hunter. 1t is too conspicuous
politician who has no personal strength
except that which he has acquired by
long and continuous sucking of the
public teat'' Anthony has too high
munity to appoint as postmaster any
man who does not enjoy the confidence
of this community citizen standing
for something beside politics"
The Minneapolis Better Way booms
Henderson Martin for national Demo-
cratic committeeman in the following
language:
'The Democrats of Ottawa county
are for Henderson Martin for national
committeeman If he wants the place.
be for j. G. johnson or w. F. sapp."
Mr.. Martin is chairman of the
Democratic state committee and one
of the big men of his party in this
state.
The Florence Bulletin wants to see
State Superintendent FairchiId elected
for a third term. The Bulletin does
not believe 1t will be an easy task for
the party to find a man as broad and
capable all Superintendent Fairchild
who will take the same interest in
school work. :.
Senator Bristow needs a press agent
Little or nothing has been heard of
him since his reception on the occasion
of his return to Sa1ina. 1t is possible
that the senator has been lost in the
wiIds of Iowa where he was supposed
to have gone in the interest of some
lyceum bureau. This is a bad state of
affairs. Curtis, Stubs and Dolley are
at Eskridge. Why is not Senator
poria. Where is Bristow? Miller is
at Honolulu, but Bristow is not there.
Ball game, picnics, lawsuits, reunions,
chautauquas, all are mentioned by the
Kansas press, and the names of her
favorite sons always appear in con-
junction but nowhere does the name
of Bristow adorn these articles. Bris-
tow the man who voted against the
AIdrich tariff bill, and thereby earned,
or should have earned, the lively adj
miration of all Kansans. is unhonored
and unsung these piping summer days.
Where is Bristow and what Is he
doing?
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