The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-26
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
Glenn's ReappOrtiOnment Plan
Creates Excitement.
Third District Papers Do Not
Approve 1T.
MAKE A NEW JUDGE.
Four Candidates for Vacancy
in Court of Topeka.
Inheritance. Tax Law Will Have
Hard Shedding.

Tom Cordry of the Parsons Sun
takes shot at Senator Glenn of Trib-
une and his senatorial reapportion-
ment plans as follows:
Senator Glenn, who lives out in
the short grass country, where it takes
a hundred counties or more to make
senatorial district, wants to rob the
Third district Of a state senator, so
the jack rabbits and the prairie dogs
out his way can secure better repre-
sentation."
Then comes Clyde Knox of the Sc
dan Times and Jumps on the rnang1ed
remains of the Tribune senator in the
following fashion:
Senator w. NJ. Glenn of Greeley
county has announced the plan of q
bill he will introduce in the coming
legislature providing for a rearraage-
ment of senatorial districts His de-
sire is to give more senators to the
counties in southwest Kansas and still
keep within the constitutional limit
of forty districts To save one district
he proposes to dissolve the Cha0tau-
qua-Elk district by adding Chautau-
qua to Cowley and Elk to Butler. In
that event these two small counties
could never, under the present pr1-
mary law, hope to have state sena-
tor, for Butler would always outvote
Elk and Cowley would always outvote
Chautauqua. AS it now stands Elk
and Chautauqua alternate the sena-
torship by reason of their equality or
voting strength. Senator Glenn had
better arrange to get his extra dis
trict somewhere else than out of Chau-
tauuua and Elk counties"
The Salina Journal has the following
brief biography of M. NJ. Sherman of
Ellsworth county, the newly appointed
member Of the board Of regents of the
State A Agricultural college:
IN, M Sherman is well known in
Salina, having lived here for some time
while his children were in the city
schools. He is a progressive man III
every particular; highly educated, and
takes an interest in everything Of d
public nature. The most of his life has
been spent in farming, and his studies
and disclosures of the results have
done much to advance the farming in
dustry of the state.
Mr.. Sherman now operates what is
said to be the largest farm under one
continuous fence in the United States,
if not the world. There are 49, 900 acres
in the farm and the Sherman ranch is
a name known to nearly everybody in
central Kansas. He gives this farm
his personal attention and with assist
ance of his general foreman, D. H
Thomas, oversees the entire farm AMI
the 200 or 300 workmen. He raises
wheat corn, alfalfa and kaffir corn by
the thousands of acres and hogs by the
tens of thousands and cattle by the
hundreds.
"Mr. Sherman is one of the best
known farmers in the state, and prob
ably no other farmer has a more ex-
tensive acquaintance that he. His
studious nature is so well known at
the Manhattan college that his advice
in many matters has been sought on
different occasions and the school is to
be congratulated on his appointment -
1t is expected that Governor Stubs
will this week appoint successor to
Judge Simon of the city court of To-
peka Judge Simon is county attor-
ney-elect and will resign his place
January to assume his new duties.
There are six candidates for his place,
as follows: Robert Carver. Frank
Lindsay, Philip Wilson, Hugh McFar-
land and Frank Foster. all Topeka
lawyers, and Judge S. f. Urmy of the
city police court.
A good many members of the next
| legislature have gone on record as OPP
posed to the four-year term for state
| officers. No one pretends to advance a
reason for his hostility toward this
reform.
That the inheritance tax law will
| be amended, if not repealed, goes
without saying. Nearly all the leg1s-
! lators-elect are jumping on this law,
| and vet it is in force in many states
and is distinctly in the interest of the
masses, being tax on wealth IN
| trouble with the Kansas law was that
| if made the rate of exemption too low.
Had it included only estates of $4,000
WILL