The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-01
AT THE CAPITAL.
RumOr About Ex-senator Long
for Governor.
May BE Candidate to Succeed
w. r. Stubs.
BREAKS THE RECORD.
Curtis Introduces Sixty-One
Pension Ellis in Day.
(harles Harris Appointed Aid
by G. A. r.. Commander.

Washington, D. c., April Con
siderable interest is attached to the
rumor here among Kansas politicians
that Chester 1. Long is to be in the
race for the governorship against w.
r. Stubs next year in the Republican
primaries. Much attention was at
tracted to the subject by an interview
published in the Washington Post.
which follows:
Robert R. Thorp. of Kansas City.
who is at the National, discussing
Kansas politics, said last night that
the latest in rumor among the Re
publicans in Kansas was to the effect
that Senator Long was to run against
Gov. Stubs next year in the Re-
publican primaries. Gov. Stubs
says he has heard such a rumor fire.
quently of late, but he has no definite
information on the subject. 1 heard
the story right here this morning.
Senator Long, it is said, had two
good positions quietly offered him by
Thorp. .one was secretary of com
merce and labor in the Taft cabinet
and the other was ambassador to
Mexico. He declined both offers for
financial reasons. He said he was not
financially able to 'trot the gait re-
quired of a cabinet officer or an am
bassador'
1t is generally believed in Washing
ton that Mr.. Stubs will not be a can
/ $500
present term, and that he will COM
mence to build his fences for the
United States senate before the end of
two years.
Senator Curtis has broken the Kan
sas record for introducing bills. In
one day he presented sixty-one pri-
vate measures for the increase of PEN
sions of Kansas veterans and widows.
The beneficiaries of these bills are
Samuel Radcliff, Ira T. Belden, Farley
McCracken, Henry Mott, William H.
Jones, Joshua B. Shumate, Young S.
Slater, Solomon Ktndt, George d.
Anderson, J. C. Milton, Charles H.
Golden Harrison l.. McGinness, Ed
ward J. O'Donnen, John w. Nc
tin, Annie E. Shout. Henry c. Suess,
Calvin Gibbons, U. N. Mace. Armstead
Fletcher, Eli Lewis, Eloi j. Hotton,
Hiram D. Brown, Jonathan Emert,
Josiah c. Try F. M. Ricards.
den. William E. Puett, Harry E.
Wagner, Catherine Madden. Lyman
Aldrich, John L. Langdon, Mrs. John
S. Brannan, A G. Constant H. Clay
Hartman, Purdis Ludington, BENJAMIN
McElroy, George E. Ray, Eliza r Tag,
CART, Alexander R. Banks, Richard
burnside, Richard H. Bartlett, Nancy
l.. Flew, F. B. Fritz. Charles ,Dreyer
Josiah Wilcox Thomas S. White,
Charles Williams, Norman A. Rupe,
A. F. Wade, John w Rife, James M.
STANLEY George w. James. Nat G. Bus
ter, Emile J. Raft. John Brannan,
Almon Sparkling, Alfred Remnant, and
Jesse F. Snow.
Similar bills were also presented by
Congressman Dan R. Anthony as fol-
lows: Franklin Barbour, William II.
Scheer, James Helme. Lewis Skaggs,
Edward Condor and Henry M. Reed.
Mr.. Anthony also presented in the
house a petition of Altoona business
men, against proposed increased duty
on zinc ore.
The president has nominated Rob-
ert H Montgomery to be postmaster
at Oswego, Kan, to succeed Jared G.
Richcreek. The incumbent's COM
mission expired last December IA.
The senate has confirmed the ap-
pointment of Charles K. Ware for the
postmastership at Downs, Kan.
The postmaster general has ap-
pointed James W. McLain postmaster
at Point Rocks. Morton county, Kan,
in the place of A. I. Streeter, resigned.
He also named Rollie D. Merritt for
the office at Shannon, Atchison county,
vice Al. A. Peckham, resigned.
Kansas postmasters commissioned:
Barnet L. Phillips at Drywood; James
W. Harp at Mullinville.
The commander-ln -cnlef or the ma
tional grand army organization has
appointed Charles Hurts of Emporia,
one of the special aids-at-large for
the national encampment at Salt Lake
city in August. Other Kansas veter-
ans named as aids-de-camp on the
staff of the commander-in-chief are:
|C M Stockman, post 1; Lewis Mayo,
post 6; william H. Lemon, post ~:
w. H. Mitchell, post IT; ]. B. Ross,
post %; D. L. Sweeney, post 25;
Charles E. Null, post Is; T. o. Gould.