The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-03
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
Senator Reed Gives Out Stand
pat Interview.
Smith Center Man Still Strong
in the Faith.
LIKE THE POPULISTS.
Says That Old Parties in Kansas
Have Joined EN-.
Plans Underway to Reduce State
Boards in Kansas.
LIKE THE POPULISTS.

Senator j. F. Reed of Smith county
who is visiting in California this
month, gave out an interview to a San
Diego paper which indicates that he
J is as strong q Standpatter as he was
| before the primary last August. Sen
ator Reed calls the present reform
movement in Kansas an uprising in
which his party is marching under the
old Populist banner. The San Diego
paper says:
The insurgent movement. said
Senator ]. F. Reed of Kansas, who is
stopping at the q. S. Grant hotel, is
still at high tide in our state Sena-
tor Reed is one of a party of three
prominent Kansans who are taking a
short sight seeing trip OF the Pacific
coast.
THE party is composed of Mr.. Reed,
who is one of the leading criminal
lawyers of Kansas and prominent
member of the Kansas state senate;
E P Sample. prosecuting attorney
of Osborne county, and B. P. Walker
, of the Osborne County Farmer.
asked for an expression on the po-
litical situation in Kansas, Senator
Reed said:
cal upheaval. All of our platforms
have declared alike. They all want the
initiative and referendum. That was
the basic principle of the old Popullst
party in 1890 The Utopia of the Popu-
list party was that they could make ev-
cry poor man a capitalist and reduce
every rich man to q position OF penury
and want. The Populist party died on
the rocks of avarice. The Popullst
party of the present day is TOO wise
to get out on the political ocean alone,
but has elected to sail under the Re-
publican banner. Our party in Kan
sas has been rent asunder, and notice
that the same thing has happened IN
California. The rant against Joe Can
non and Senator Aldrich is merely
cloak In my state the farmers were
never in so prosperous condition.
They are selling their hogs cattle,
wheat and corn at top notch prices,
but they are dissatisfied. They nave
been wrought up and excited by the po
Iitical reformer-the political soldier OF
fortune, who hopes to ride into once
while the minds of the people are IN
a turmoil. If these disciples OF Popuo
lism are right now, they were rlght ~
years ago. Time repudiated them then
and 7 am confident that they VIII De
shown the error of their way now.
This California is a marvellous coun-
try My country of Kansas is now COW
cred with coat of from four TO e1ght
inches of snow. The mercury Is play
ing about zero, but all Kansans warm
themselves in the glow of hope. Many
of them are here now ana rear many
more are on the way.
Bank Commissioner j. N. Dolley mas
written to the governors OF Nebraska
and Oklahoma to ask them to AID IN
running down the bank robbers VINO
have headquarters in those states ana
from those points of vantage make
raids on Kansas banks
CONGRESSMAN Reeder has disposed OF
most of his Kansas holdings and viii
invest in property in Oregon After
quarter of a century of active endeavor
in the business and political life of the
Sixth district the congressman who was
defeated for nomination last summer
by 1. D. Young of Beloit will leave
Kansas to spend the remainder OF his
life in the Pacific coast state.
A. Newman, formerly assistant post
master at Topeka who has been con-
nected with the Reeder bank at Logan
for some time. has bought the Reeder
stock in this bank.
Some of the members of the next
legislature have gone on record as faV-
oring one board for all the state penal
institutions and thus reducing expenses
and increasing efficiency. In connec-
ton with this there is plan talked OF
to place all the state penal institutions
under the charge of the board of con-
troll and save money and improve the
institutions at the same time. No less
authority on state matters than Audi
tor ]. M. Nation is said to favor this
plan.
It is argued by George T. McDermott
of Topeka that a good bill has to be
defeated once in the legislature in or
der to bring it properly before the pub
lie From this basis he predicts that
the public utilities bill, which was
killed last session, will pass the next
session after a great fight. Kansas
people connected with the gas mains
will naturally favor the bill. They now
pay for gas and get cold air through
their meters. A utilities commission
would first be called upon to separate
the sheep from the goats, which is to
say, the gas from the air and subtract
the latter from the hill for the former