The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-09
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Only Four State Senators Want
to Come Back.
Other SO Satisfied to Retire on
LaureIS.
TWO ARE PROGRESSIVES
Fred Quincy of Salina and j. L.
Denton of SaIina.
The Regulars Are Emerson
Carey and Francis C. Price.

/
] the Kansas senate-two progress1Ves
and two acknowledgements to come
| back. The other Sc members are either
| content to stay at home and watch
| the battle from afar, or are seeking
jobs better suited to their political
| dreams.
OF the four senators who want to re-
turn, all are Republicans. John L.
| Denton, of Grenola, representing the
| Twenty-sixth district, and Fred H.
Quincy of salina. in the Thirty-first
district, are the two progressives for
whom the senate chamber still holds
some allurements. Both are reformers.
Both are bankers. Both fought and
bled for the administration in the 1911
session. Both went home SCARED and
battered, but smiling and they want
to try it all over again.
Out in Hutchinson is Emerson
Carey, the salt packer, and in Ashland
is Francis C. Price, the lawyer In the
recent legislative activities Carey rep
resented the Thirty-sixth district and
Price looked after the interests of Il
big string of counties that comprise
the Thirty-seventh district. When the
an INSTRUMENTATION steam roller was
oiled and in proper running order,
Carey and Price were both riding up
close to the driver. 1t was the Vitriolic
sal casm of Price that caused the
Stubs forces SleepleSS nights and it
was the fighting Price who killed
light of day in the judiciary commit
tee. 1t was Carey who helped frame
the organization that sidetracked the
initiative and referendum and the re-
cali and helped block the tender legisla-
tive mOrSelS that were intended for the
dca" people. 1t was Carey's presence in
the senate that caused Bill White to
smell a pork barrel and it was the
presence OF Carey and 13 other stand
pats that brought about the Leahy in
Vestigation.
With the history of the 1911 ses-
sion right at hand, Kansas may be GER
tam that the 1913 session win not De
without some Importance ifthese four
old timers-Denton, Quincy, Carey and
Price-return to the senate.
George E. Tucker, a former mem
Der OF the legislature from the Tween
ty-fourth district, was here from Eu-
reka last night Tucker has sold his
newspaper, the Eureka Herald, has
quit politics and is in the stock rails
ing business. Last spring the Eureka
man lodged a boom for lieutenant
governor. There's more fun in rails
than there is in playing politics.
w. S. Hyatt, a Parsons lawyer, was
in Topeka last night. He is one of the
five candidates for the Democratic
nomination for attorney general and
expects TO spend the greater portion
of the month in the interests of his
candidacy.
United States Senator Charles Cur
tbs is expected to return to Topeka Fri
day and will Immediately begin an
active campaign for the denomination.
Friends of Curtis insist the senator
will not make a speaking campaign
unless Stubs takes the stump. In that
event Curtis himself Will unlimber
some oratory and pitch his wigwam on
the Kansas governors trail.
While it is true that Curtis has been
in Washington, his campaign in Kan |
sas has not gone by default. Every |
day the mails carry to the Curtis con- |
StituentS-or possible constituents
reminders of the senior senator's work |
for the good people. The Curtis cam |
paign managers, the stenographers !
and volunteer militiamen in the Curtis |
service have been faithful to their |
trust and no details have been over |
looked. Now it remains fer the Indian
senator himself to return to Kansas
and provide a proper climax for the /
closing of the fight.
1t is claimed that no itinerary has
been provided for the Curtis cam
paign, that the towns he shall visit
have not been determined and that by
all means the senator will dodge a
speaking campaign. On the other
hand, the actions of Stubs will deter
mine the course of the Curtis cam
paign to great extent If the
pie on the issues of the hour, then Cur
it's friends say the senator will be
equally accommodating and provide a