The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-05
REWARD IN SIGHT
Kansas Likely to Profit by
Cabinet Changes.
Place in Taft Official Family
Not Far Off.
LOOKS LIKE MIR. SCOTT
Congressman Apparently Slated
for Wilson's Place.
Change Is Expected About First
of Next Year.
LOOKS LIKE MIR. SCOTT

the situation of late that there will be
one change in the cabinet about the
turn of the year, which will take out
4 of that body the veteran, Secretary
Wilson. He has been cabinet mem
Der longer than any other man ever
was in this cOuntry-lOnger, indeed, II
is said, than anybody ever was con-
tinuousIy in a responsible government
position. With his retirement Mr.
Meyer of the navy Will be the only re-
naming representative of the Roose-
welt cabinet.
Early in the career of the new ad-
ministration Secretary Wilson and
! Secretary of the Interior Ballinger had
a sharp disagreement, which at one
! time looked like an impasSe. 1t was
/ suspected that one or the other OF
them would retire. President Tatt
smOOthed over the differences, only to
have them break out at new place,
and now, in this last ENHANCEMENT,
Mr. Ballinger has won his point. 1t
related to the jurisdiction over Tor.
! ests within Indian reservations, and
| Mr.. BaIlinger gets the jurisdiction,
taking it away from the agricultural
| departments bureau of forestry.
! Kansas, it seems more and more APP
parent each day, is to realize in the
near future the recognition that 1t has
| longed to enjoy-a place In the pres1-
dents official family 1t is now posi-
| one man who, while not candidate
himself, is a willing aspirant for the
| Wilson seat have been informed that
there is to be change and that this
! individual would be considered. He is
| Congressman Charles F. Scott of kan
| sas, chairman of the house committee
on agriculture.
With this cue from the president
the friends of Mr.. Scott have set to
work in a most energetic fashion to
organize the necessary support that is
necessary to land the appointment.
There is a certainty that this cabi-
not inh n 81 n a western man, and
Mr.. Scott is today considered the most
available man throughout the entire
country. In fact. there is no other
man so prominently mentioned for the
on the surface. Mr.. Scott is not
paying much attention, if any, to his
boom for a cabinet office, but is busy
laying his wires throughout the Second
Kansas district for the Republican
primaries next year. The fact that he
has made an enviable record in con |
gress and that he is mentioned for a |
cabinet position has tended to put a |
damper on all opposition in his dis |
trict for his reelection.
Aspiring statesmen want his friend |
ship in future political battles in the |
Second district, and therefore will not |
press their claims until after President |
Taft has made a change in the agri- |
cultural portfolio of his cabinet. If |
Mr.. Scott becomes a cabinet officer, he |
will, no doubt, name his successor in |
congress.
1t is perfectly natural that Mr.. Scott |
himself is not actively engaged in press |
1t is not the custom for any man to do |
such a thicg, although it has been done. |
Another thing is, Mr.. Scott is not that
KIND of a man.
Mr.. Scott will land in the Taft cabi- |
ret this winter is the opinion of every |
one who is familiar with the situation. |
The National Tribune of this city, Of
Of Arm of o
Republic, in its recent issue, goes after !
the Rev Arthur Allen of Columbus, !
Kan, in a merry sort of fashion. Be |
cause OF his recent utterances from the
pulpit, the Tribune par3olls the preach |
er as follows: |
TT will be remembered that the Ma
tional Tribune gave an account of an
astonishing McmemoriaI Day sermon
preached by Rev. Arthur Allen. of the |
BAPTIST church of Columbus, Kan The |
Rev. MIR. Allen, who was born and bred
in Dixie. had no use for the G. A. R.,
and df1 not hesitate to say So He |
said a Tot of things against the Union
army, and made some of the usual
cheap southern boasts as to how many |
father had lost by the war. Of course
this was untrue. AS soon as Mr.. Aliens
church could recover from the shock 1t
requested his resignation with great
Unanimity, and he has given it,
Charles Sessions, the Topeka cor
respondent for the Kansas City Jour
nal, and for a short time the Wash
ington representative of that paper,
has many friends here who favor the
idea OF putting him up for secretary
of Kansas next year. Charlie was pop
ular here among Kansans, and it is
believed should be become a candi-
date he would have a clear field for
the race.
After defrauding the government
for eighteen years through the re-
ceipt of a pension to which he was
not entitled, Albert Reece, aged IS,
of Danvers, ILL.,, has been sentenced
to one year in the federal peni-
Tertiary at Fort LeaVenworth. The
story of the old mans swindle is
one. He PROBABLY would |
have been BILE to draw his monthly
but for his greed in trying to have
the original allowance increased. He
will probably not survive his inpris-
onment.
Reece made no defense and dis
PLAYED no emotion when sentenced.
It developed that he was a resident
of Leesburg, O., at the outbreak of
the Civil war, and went to Columbus
to enlist, but was rejected through
& physical infirmity and returned
home. In 1891 he made out a pension
application. but inserted the name of
William H. Reece, who had enlisted
at the same time that the DanVers
man attempted to do so. William
Reece, however, died some years af-
ter the war. This fact was not known
to the pension authorities, and when
Albert Reece filed his papers s Will
liam Reece the records showed his
claim to be authentic and that he I
had served in Company a OF Forty
eighth Ohio infantry.
Reece drew $4,000 from the gov
at the rate of IS per month | I