The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-01
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
McNeal Denies Story Sent Out
From AtchisOn.
Did Not Have Democratic Com
mittee for Escort.
THEY QUIT?
Senators Who Are Running for
State Office.
They Have Two Years of Term
Yet to Serve.
SHOULD THEY QUIT?

ing upon the Tom McNeal meeting
held in that city last week. declared
that the majority of the members of
the committee forming the escort from
hotel to platform were composed of
Democrats. This sounded bad for a
candidate for Republican congress
sional nomination. Mr.. McNeal today
told the facts of the case and his story
makes the Atchison newspaper reports
read like the poem oe the Three
Black Crows
Mr.. McNeal stated that Judge Hud-
son alone escorted him to the plat
form. After the meeting was over the
judge and M. McNeal left the hall to-
gether and were joined by three or
four other men on the street outside.
One of thees men was a former To-
pekan and Democrat. He walked a
block down the street with McNeal
and talked with him about Topeka af-
fairs and Topeka people they both
knew.
And. of course. a Democratic COM
mittee, "as black as a crow" carried
Tom to the platform to make his
speech. McNeaI sadly shook his head
as he cogitated over the pitfalls and
snares that beset the path of a politi-
clan who is engaged in the task of
saving his country.
If some Atchison Republican will
come over to Topeka and make a po-
litical speech, the reporter assigned to
cover the meeting will be no relation
to nor have anv connection with the
author of "Grimms Fairy Tales" This
is guaranteed.
Several state senators who were elect
ed in 1908 for term of four years are
running for state Office or planning to
enter the race. and one senator has
moved out of his district There has
been considerable speculation over this
matter and it has been decided by GER
tain patriots that these senators ought
to resign before seeking other offices
Then their constituents could nonni-
nate their successors at the August
primary instead of having the state
committee make the nomination for
them.
But the state senators who are can
Gtdates for other offices. if they do not
resign, can in the event they are beaten
for the nomination hold on to their
present jobs for couple of years. They
will have had their fling at a state
office without having to give up their
senatorial togas. If they win in the
primary then they can resign and their |
places filled by a committee instead of
by the primary plan. or their people |
can go to the expense of holding an !
other primary election. If these sena- |
tors decide to hold on to their jobs un-
I'll the election has been held and they !
are dead sure of their new offices, then |
there would have to be a special cleo /
ton to fill their seats in the senate.
They can do these things, if they want /
to. They cannot be compelled to re- |
sgin-to give up their old horse until !
they are safely in the saddle on their |
new nag.
Senator Glenn was elected in the 3Sth /
senatorial district in 1908 for the express
purpose of doing great things for that big
district, and now he is running for the
nomination for lieutenant governor with ,
two years of his senatorial term yet to i
serve. Surely his home folks did not force
him into the
Senator Travis of the Fourteenth sena-
torial district is running for the nomina-
tion of insurance superintendent. Senator
Brewster of the First district has been I
flirting with attorney generals job. Sen
ator Hodges is after the Democratic nom
ination for governor. Senator Porter of
Pittsburg figured for a long time on going
after thelieu tenant governors job and |
may not have yet given up the idea. SEN
ator Ganse of Coffey county has moved
to Lyon county, but he Is still eligible to
serve out his term for the Fifteenth dis
trict. Senator Leidy is slated for the job
of collector of the internal revenue.