The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-20

meeting becomes an event OF some
considerable Importance in political
| circles.
In his recent appointments of Grant
! Harrington of Kansas City as private
| secretary and S. T. Seaton of Olathe
! ent that Governor-elect George II.
| Hodges proposes to surround himself
with men who know people and can
handle the public business in man
! per that will make the ordinary visitor
feel at home. Both Harrington and
| Seaton are regarded as good men for
the places to which they have recent
J ~ been named.
| When Governor Hodges takes hold
| il, January, his Office will be one of the
| popular headquarters in the state
| house. He has named a private secre-
tary and executive clerk who know
| how to make people feel at home
| when they drop in to see the governor.
| Grant w. Harrington, the new pri-
newspaper circles as any man in the
state. His name is naturally assO
ciated with Hiawatha, where he lived
and published the Democrat for many
years. He now is the editor of the
Wyandotte Chief at Kansas City, Kan,
and is chairman of the Wyandotte
county Democratic committee. The
big vote Governor Hodges received in
that county is due to the personal
work and efforts of Grant Harrington
and the live committee that backed
him.
Mr.. Harrington's appointment as
private secretary made it necessary
for the board of directors of the Chief
to select a new editor for the paper,
and Miss Flora Harrington, the nine
teen-year-old daughter, was named.
Miss Harrington started with the first
issue of the Chief last July as writer
and rapidly advanced until she now
has full editorial charge
one of the treasured mementos in the
a picture
Harrington made when she was six weeks
old. Her father carried her to a photo
graphers gallery at Hiawatha and had
her picture taken with her head thrust
through the front page of the Democrat.
mis- young woman has proved her abil-
lily as a writer. and she is Just popular
with her set as is her father whose circle
of friends extends into every county Of
the state
Judge s. T. Seaton of Olathe. the new
executive clerk, also is a newspaper man,
well known in eastern Kansas. Judge
Sea ton has for years been the editor of
the Olathe Register. and is probably Gov
ernor Hodges closest personal friend in
ago was the Democratic candidate for
district Judge in the Johnson Miami dis
trict. He was defeated by a very close
vote
Judge Seaton's title will be assistant
private secretary, executive clerk and
pardon clerk but the real job is conf
Dental adviser to the governor. Il want
you in the office with me as confidential
adviser, Governor Hodges told JudSc
lie
of election. The duties of the position os
executive clerk have doubled many times
during the past twenty years. but Judge
Seaton will have plenty of help in the
clerical work From the start Seaton viii
have his hands full, for he intends to
keep track of legislation, watch for jokerS
nd advise the chief executive, AMI those
who familiar with the close relations
between the new governor and JudSe
Seaton know that Governor Hodges viii
give some weight to the things his con
fidentiaI adviser tells him.
Harry c. Bowman. chairman of the |
board of control finds little comfort and |
peace in his job since the recent shakeup |
in political alignments. Bowman is re |
garded as g. high grade man on the board |
but from a political standpoint his job 10 |
probably in jeopardy as soon as his pres |
ent commission expires.
Everyone is after me- sorrowfully re- |
marked Bowman as he reviewed the pres |
ent political situation in Kansas. The |
Progressives want me fired because most |
OF them are going to leave the state house |
generaI The Regular Republicans hope l
will lose out because they say / have |
leaned a bit toward the Progressives. |
And as for the Democrats, they all want !
now I don't think L have a politica !
friend in the state.
Thomas r. Pope chief rate clerk in the |
freight claims department of the Santd |
Fe, is being urged as a candidate to sue |
coed E. H. Hogueland rate clerk to the |
utilities commission. The job pays $4,o0J /
a year, provided of course the membels |
much The law enables them to secure i
rate clerk for less money if they can Sc
cure one.
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