The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-25
IT'S NOT FOR US.
Kansas Will Not Land the u. s.
Pension Commissioner.
Col. Vespasian Warner Will
Keep the Position.
MILLER HAS NEW BILL
Would Regulate Sale OF Liquor
at National Capital.
This One Has No High License
Feature.

w dSHlnSIOn, March 20.-kanSaS
need cherish no further hope of land
ing the appointment of commissioner
of pensions at the hands of the Taft
administration. The Kansas delega-
tion in congress has had its eve on
this Office and intended to push a can
dldate for the place should a change
De made; but there will be no change
colonel VeSpaSian Warner, the pres
enr commissioner of pensions, is the
recipient of an unusual tribute A
petition is to be presented to Presid ent
Taft, asking the retention of Col.
warner, which is signed by nearly
every member of congress, regardless
of political affliation. 1t originated
in the New York delegation, although
Mr. Warner is a legal resident of and
was appointed from the state of
Illinois. He resigned his seat in the
Eugene F. Ware of Kansas resigned.
The petition is the voluntary action
of its signers.
1t is declared that Colonel Warner,
in the administration of the affairs of
office exceedingly difficult to fill
and which has perplexed and at times
proved onerous and thankless to many
an able commissioner of pensions, has
so acquitted himself as to earn
commendation.
What personal qualities are neces-
sary for success in politics % was
asked Joseph L. Bristow, the new
senator from Kansas.
principally common sense,'' re-
piled the senator. "a man in politics
should know what he can do and
what he cannot do. We see many
ludicrous as well as mournful at
tempts to achieve inpossibilities
"One should also have a talent for
public matters and keep informed
with respect to questions that are of
concern to the people" ccrtirre -
Bristow. "a large proportion of the
personal calamities in politics can be
attributed to a lack of integrity or to
an oversupply of vanity and egotism.
ut is a common vice for a politician
to believe that he is shrewder than
his constituents. His fall, If he so
wrong, is inevitable. If a community,
a state, or nation thinks that a pub
lie officer is honest and brave, he is
not likely to meet with permanent
disabilities, provided he is sensible,
intelligent, and assiduous in his bust
ness
Many senators have a motley collec-
ton of nicknames and sobriquets. The
newspaper men here already refer to
Mr.. Bristow as "Salina joe
Mr.. Bristow, is living in a modest
way in Washington. He is keeping
batch" in an apartment house. mo
hotel life for me- says the senator.
"I want to live where 1 will have
plenty of room and quietly Mrs.
Bristow and children are at Salina,
and do not expect to come to Wash
ington to reside until next winter,
when the senator will take a house
and "set up housekeeping.
Congressman James NJ. Miller, of
Kansas, acting in behalf of the Anti
Saloon league of Washington, has in
the issuance of liquor licenses in the
national capital. Unlike other bills
dealing with the same subject, the
Miller bill omits the high license fee,
prohibitionists in Washington having
reached the conclusion that an in
creased tax on the privilege of selling
liquor is not consistent with their
attitude or calculated to stop the
traffic
The most important feature of the
Miller bill is that section which re-
quires the applicant for a license to
obtain the consent of the residents
and real estate owners IN the entire
block in which the saloon is to be
fronting the same, instead of simply
on the side of the block where located
and the confronting side of the
opposite block as at present.
William ]. Dow, private secretary to
the public printer. is former Kansan.
While very young his parents removed
from Missouri to Kansas, and it was
in his fathers Office, while still boy,
that Mr.. Dow secured his early train
ing in the art preservative of arts. At
one time he was associated with his
father in publishing a newspaper in
Kansas. He entered the governm ent
printing office in 1897 as a compositor
and has since held a number of chief
ships which led up to his present
position of preferment.
Albert Z. Patty has been commits
stoned postmaster at Benedict, Kan