The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-06
JOuett ShOuSe, New Senator
From KinsIey.
Young Democrat Represents
Eighteen Counties.
WILL LIKELY BE HEARD FROM
Romance of KentuckIian Who
Married Short Grass Girl.
Legislators Will Bring Wives
to Topeka This Winter.

Jouett Shouse. of Kinsley, is one of
the men quite likely to attract some at
tention in Kansas political circles be-
fore he completes his four-year term as
! senator from the Thirty-eighth district.
Shouse has been resident of Kansas
less than two years. And yet in those
few brief months that he has been in
the short grass country, he has made a
record in Seventh district politics
There is a romance connected with
the coming of Shouse to Kansas. and a
rather interesting story as to how this
young mamie will be 80 years old next
week-won an election over one of the
strongest Republicans in the western
part of the state.
Ten years ago Shouse was student
in Missouri university. There he met
Miss Edwards whose father is a banker
pretty little love story might be told
of that letter courtship. But Shouse
had left school early. He worked few
months on the widely known Mexico
(MoO Herald, and when he left college
be bought an interest in the Lexington
(Ky.) Herald. For Shouse is native
Kentuckian, and after his college days
returned to the state of his birth. He
spent 10 years in the newspaper game
in Lexington, and he learned many
things about politics as it is played in
the Colonel state. Once they offered
Shouse the Democratic mayoralty
nomination in Lexington, but the young
newspaper man declined. He stayed
right with his paper. But all the time
he was receiving letters from the little
girl on the western Kansas plains. And
that was how Shouse happened to come
to Kansas. He was married 18 months
ago.
A year ago Shouse took chips in the
congressional contest in the Seventh
district when George A. Neeley was
elected to congress by the Democrats to
succeed the late Ed Madison. Again
last spring Shouse mixed in the po
litical affairs of his new state. And
there is another story. ---
The house of Jouett Shouse, ST., and /
the house of Champ Clark, speaker of
the national house. have for years been
on the most friendly and intimate
terms That friendship is surrounded
by tender sentiments that have always |
been respected.
So, when Clark became a presidential
possibility, Shouse, jr., took up the
burden of the ''houn' dog'' candidate in |
the Seventh district. He helped in the |
organiza ton that saved Clark the Kan |
sas delegation to the Baltimore con-
vention. And another sentiment was
added to the bonds of lifelong mutual
friendship.
Then somehow-Shouse says he really |
doesn't know how-he became the !
candidate for state senator
in the Thirty-eighth district. Now the
district comprises 1S
counties and is the largest dlstr1ct IN
the United States. That was not all
Pitted against Shouse was Mayor E.
p. Frizeu, nominated by the Republic
cans of his district FrizeI1 is a pow
er in short grass country politics.
Shouse wrote to Champ Clark and
ASrV, Ind n
Clark came to Kansas and made three
speeches for Shouse in that big 1S
county district But Shouse did not
shirk his own responsibility
II travelled about 1900 miles in my
automobile" he said, land 1 guess
about that far by rail in making my
IT was strenuous fight. The dis
trict is normally 2,4O0 Republican. Ad-
ded to that situation was Frizelfs
known power as campaigner and
politician But the young man from
kentucky kept right sat work. he
made 20 speeches and tralled the re-
noWned FrizeH all over the district.
He huilt his own organization and in
averv precinct had his own individual
workers
Then came election day. News from
those sparsely settled counties came
slowly but there was no uncertainty in
he returns Capper. Republican nom
nee for governor, had carried the
senatorial district by 1000. But Shouse.
what of him? He had carried ma
oritv of the counties against the pop
liar Frizell. He carried FrfzelPs own
county and FrizelTs own ward. And
gain the people of the Seventh dis
riot had occasion to ask as to the
IDENTIFY of the mysterious stranger.
Shouse is a clean cut shrewd young
business man. When he came to KAN :
,as he bought 5000 acre ranch. He :
s interested in one of the biggest
,anks in Kinsley and devotes much of
lis time TO stock raising on his ranch |
3 miles from Kinsley in Edwards
.ounty. It is probable that he will
,on1e to Topeka early for the coming
session. He will bring Mrs. Shouse and
heir four months old baby and will
spend the winter here.
81 think we will do lot of things
his winter said Shouse. who was in Y
ropeka this week 1.-The Democrats in t
nv opinion win fulfn their promises.
rhey ought to do it. They will stay {
n power a long time in Kansas and s
n the nation If they do it. If they {
Ion't. they will be beaten-and they
ught to be. AS for the election of {
Judge Thomson. he will surely win.
md win easily. 1t would be suicide :
or the Democrats of Kansas to try .
o defeat him after he has honestly +
nd feirly won in the primaries and V
n the election" '
Many of the legislative members
I'll bring their wives to Topeka with S
hem this winter and the session will t
e social affair a we'll as a business
ne. reservations made by Topeka b
otels and rooming houses indicate S
hat number of the senators as well t
s members of the house viii bring 0