The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-04

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l.. p. King, SenatOr-eIect From Cow
ley County, Veteran Legislator and
Candidate for President Pro Tenn.
Senator-eIect King was years old
when his parents, in 1854, brought him
from Washington county, Illinois, his
birthplace, to Doniphan county. In
1863 he and his younger brother drove
yoke of oxen across the plains 500
miles, taking the family, consisting of
mother and five children, to Fort Lart-
mic, Wyo., to join their father who was
a soldier in the Eleventh Ohio volun-
teer cavalry and stationed at that
point. His father was killed in 1868.
The young fellow remained with the
regiment until the spring of 1865, being
employed in the quartermaster's de-
partment as clerk and errand boy, re-
turning to Doniphan county, where he
resided until 1871, then moving to Cow
ley county, and was elected to the
house of representatives in 1884, and re-
elected in 1886, serving four years in
that body. Following this service in
the house, he was elected to the senate
four consecutive times, making a con-
tinuous service in the Kansas legisla-
ture of twenty years, longer than any
other Kansan ever served.
Senator King was president pro tenn
of the senate four years, and he is
being urged for this position the COM
ing session. In the joint convention of
the legislature of 1895, he received the
full vote of the Peoples party for
United States senator. He was again
candidate for United States senator in
1897. and received nearly enough votes
in the first session of his party's caucus
to nominate him.
NJ
Populist state convention in 1898, chair
man of the railroad committee of the
senate the same year, and vice presi-
dent of the Worlds Fair commission at
Chicago in 1893. He retired from the
banking business in Winfield last
August.
In a statement of his campaign ex-
penses filed this week Judge William
H. Thompson, United States senator
poses during the primary and cleo
ton campaign a total of SIS, @5S.12, of
which amount $3,56O.75 was contribut-
ed to his campaign fund by the state
and national Democratic committees
and by personal friends. His state
ment in full gives list of all con-
tributorS in amounts of 81 and more
and likewise covered in detail the ex-
penSes of the campaign.
The principal items of expense COW
cred in the statement include $1,862.40
for printing, SSO5.42 for newspaper
advertising. $1,040.5O postage, cleri-
cal hire, $725.00; telephone and tele-
graph, S95; personal expenses, hotel
bills, railroad fare, livery and hack,
$1,0S5.25. OF this total campaign ex-
pense of $5,953.12, Judge Thompson
392.37. His contributions included
$4,000 from the Democratic state
committee, $572 from the national
committee, and $4Ss.75 from personal
friends.
Under the federal law, these entire
contributions must not necessarily be
made public. But the Kansas man ac-
counts for every penny received and
expended, he declares. The federal
law exempts the following items:
Money expended by any such can
didate to meet and discharge any as
sesSment, fee or charge made or levied
personal expenses, incurred for him
self alone, for travelling and subsis-
tence, stationery and postage, writing
or printing, (other than in newspa-
pers) and distributing letters, circulars
and posters, and for telegraph and tel
ephone service. shall not be regarded
as an expenditure within the mean
ing of this section, and shall not be
considered any part of the sum fixed
as the limit of expense and need not
be shown in the statements required
to be filed
The federal law limits the campaign
expenditures of congressional candf-
dates to $4,000 and the expenditures
of United States senatorial candidates
to $4,000. In his recent campaign,
Judge Thompson spent a little more
than one-half of the total amount al
lowed by law.
Representative J. A Mahurin of
Coffey county, will work for the cleo
ton of Judge Thompson to the United
States senate. Mahurin, who is a
Democrat, urges Thompson's oppon-
ents to come out in the open where
they can be viewed by the members
Of the coming legislature. Not only
does Mahurin deny that Thompson is
disqualified for the senate, but de-
clares that any attempt to block his
be a direct effort to defeat the vote
and will of the Kansas voters in the
recent election.
Those people who under the anony-
nous title of The Good Government
League are trying to stir up trouble
and defeat the voice of the people,
says Mahurin IN letter to the state
Journal had better shut up shop and
quit their wild deception or come out
m the open so We can see who they
are as well as hear Them
Mahurin is Democrat. He was re-
elected as member of the house from
Coffey county in the recent election.
George E. Tucker, of Eureka, for
mer state senator from the Greenwood
Lyon county district, believes there is
a strong probability that there viii be
three parties in the fight in Kansas in
the 1914 campaign. For that reason
Tucker does not believe that the Dem