The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-23

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Kansas legislature. but he commends
Thompson's position in refusing to
make any promises or pledges in the
recent campaign.
In his letter to Judge THOMPSON. Gov
ernor Marshall says:
My Dear Judge-Permit me to commend
you for the splendid attitude which you
took during the recent election in IN
qualifiedly refusing to make any promises
or pledges to any person with reference
to any position of honor or trust until
after you should have been elected to -tne
United States senate. [ have felt and
publicly expressed my view that the max
ing of such pledges are more inimical to
good government than the acceptance OF
money from interested persons and 1
glad to know that there IS one other per
son in America who agrees with me.
1 desire to say also to you that as you
were endorsed under the Oregon law for
United States senator and received the
just vote of the state and as you I'M
doubtedly eligible to the position, Justice
and fair dealing demand that you shall
be elected United States senator and if
you are not, in my judgment it would be
States to scrutinize the credentials of the
gentleman who may receive the election
in order to ascertain whether any Interior
motives led to his selection. These are
views which 1 shall freely express to tie
Democratic members of the United States
senate.
Again hoping that there may be no
hitch in your election, believe me to be,
Very sincerely yours;
IT,
w. J. Bryan, in his Commoner last
week, declares that any attempt to
/ deprive Judge Thompson of his seat
after the verdict of the people would
be ''LorimeriSm." Mr.. Bryan SAYS:
There are rumors that an attempt
will be made to prevent the election
of Judge W. H. Thompson, the DEM
ocrat who won the United States sem
atorship in Kansas, but the judge
more Lorimerism' in this country
the disease has run it's course. The
/ senate, as it will be after March 4th,
would not seat a man who would de-
Hberately attempt to cheat the state
out of the senator whom they have
chosen"
Senator Francis c. Price, of Clark
county, declares that he will devote his
time in the coming session of the legiS-
lature in an honest effort to reduce the
present size of the Kansas statutes.
Senator Price, who is an able lawyer
and an excellent judge of law, is of the
opinion that the 1913 legislature can do
tie state no greater service than the
repeal a number of the laws written
by the Kansas legislatures of recent
years.
Two years ago, Senator Price was
chairman of the Judiciary committee in
the senate. In that position, he fought
administration and it was largely
through the efforts of the Clark county
lawyer that more than the ordinary
amount of grief and sorrow was heaped
on the heads of the administration
leaders. Price is a Republican. He is
a firm believer in the traditions of his
party and is slow to follow the new
isms suggested by the Progressives. He
is a born enemy of crank legislation
and his opposition to any measure in
the senate, is always occasion for alarm
among the friends of that particular
, bill.
Il don't think the legislature can per-
form any greater service to the state
than to repeal a number of the crank
laws we already have on the statute
books" declared Senator Price, who
spent Sunday in Topeka 1.-THE DEM
ocrats have a chance to make good at
this session. But as a Republican and
minor;>S' member, my time will lie de-
voted pretty much to an effort to pre-
vent the passage of crank laws and If
POSSIBLE to secure the repeal of some of