The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-18

president of the Kansas State League
of Republican clubs, which was made
up largely of the younger members of
the party. He was a brilliant orator
and his services as a speaker were in
great demand in all political cam
paigns. He acted as delegate to state
and district conventions and was an
untiring worker for the success of the
Republican party. He served several
i times as member of the Ford county
central committee and was a member
of the Seventh district congressional
| committee.
Mr.. Madison was active member of
the Sons of Veterans in Kansas. He
served as division commander in 1894
ana the order thrived under his lead
ersh1p- He was a descendant of a line
OF lighters which dates back to the
Revolution His great grandfather
! Maolson was an Englishman who
served with distinction in the first
great war Another ancestor saw Te-
| cumseh fall during the war of 1912.
His great grandmother was the daugh-
ter of General Andrew Lewis of Revo-
lutlOnary tame. His father, James W.
Madison, fought at Fort Donelson
and Shiloh.
Born in Illinois, December Is, 1865,
Mr.. Madison had only the advantages
of a common school education. At the
age of II years he began teaching
school. Coming to Kansas in 1885, he
began the study of law at Wichita in
the Office of G. w. c. Jones, who was
then county attorney of Sedgwick
county.
In November of that year he married
Miss Lille Vance Of Wichita. Five
children We're born to them. Mrs.
Madison died IN Topeka in 1899.
In 1887 Mr. Madison moved to Dodge
City. He was admitted to the bar the
next year and elected county attorney
of Ford county. In 1892 he was a can
a he Gf to 70 hrrt n
flated along with other Republicans by
the Populist wave which carried every
thing before it. In 1897 he became d
member of the law firm of Sutton &
Madison. He was appointed judge of
the Thirty-fifth judicial district by
Governor Stanley in 1899.
Known as PeacennaI1er.
Congressman Ed Madison undoubt-
edly held the record among modern
Kansas politicians as a peacemaker
and a friendmaker. In his party he
was considered as man, rather than
as a member of any faction. When
the legislature redistricted the west
half of the state, and Victor Murdock
was placed in the new Eighth district,
the big Republican leaders at once set
upon Judge Ed Madison as the logical
candidate for the Big Seventh. Among
those named as possibilities, when the
Republican leaders looked over the
situation in June, 1905, we're such men
Judge Hutchison of Dodge City, Chas.
Starr. Charles Lobdeu and Judge
Francis Price. Judge Madison was the
choice; Dumont Smith, one of the
most powerful Republicans of the dis
trict at that time, refused to be con-
sidered for the position, and boosted
Judge Madison from the first. refusing
q state office in the same year because
he thought his candidacy might en-
barrass Madison. 1t was Dumont
Smith who came to Topeka during the
last session of the legislature and
started a quiet boom for Madison as
the compromise candidate for COVER
nor Madison refused to stand for this
boom, and it is generally understood
among the leading politicians that he
intended to go after Bristow's job as
United States senator at the next cleo
ton Judge Francis Price of Ashland,
and state senator, was a warm admirer
of Madison. although Price was known
as a ''standpatter'' in the state senate,
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