The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-13
Kansas Democrats Stamping
Around Patronage Trough.
Impatient Hungry HOrdes Are
Waiting for Their Pie.
THOMPSON is IN TROUBLE
President Not Eager to Serve
Senator Against Tariff.
Bill to Fully Naturalize George
LerrigO of Topeka.

Washington, May 13.-Democrats of
Kansas are STEPPED in gloom. A plain
tive story of being kept away from the
patrona ge trough too long was yester-
day told to President Wilson by four
Democratic congressman from the Sun
flower state, the great state where
Democrats were as scarce as hens
teeth until Woodrow Wilson and the
Democratic party increased in number
last November.
Congressman Doolittle, Helvering.
Medley and Connolly called on the
president to say that the hungry
hordes back in Kansas do not under
stand why the jobs are not coming fas-
ter and the republican newspa pers are
INVITING the Kansas statesmen about
their inability to make good on pat
ronage questions. Kansas Democrats
have been reading the Topeka State
journal and have learned that jobs
are hard to land.
Senator Thompson and the Kansai
congressman have made several re-
quests for certain places, nota bly, the
biggest-that of director of the re-
Clamation service-but they have lost
out and the bantering Republican pa
pers of the state try to make il ap-
pear that Kansas Democrats do not
stand very strong around Washington;
therefore, the appeal to the president.
If President Wilson was sympathetic
the delegation didn't seem to show it
upon leaving the White House. Sena-
tor Thompson is going to vote against
the tariff bill, it is said, and why Mr..
Wilson should rush everything to turn
on the patronage hose strictly for the
benefit of a state that is giving him
little support in a critical time is not
explained.
Whatever the troubles with Senator
Thompson, however, the congressman
from the Sunfiower state want some
offices to encourage them as they go
along the hard road of craftsmanship.
The Kansas statesmen have a Dem
ocrat who wants job in the govern
ment of the District of Columbia, and
they mentioned his name to the presi-
dent He is Miles Mulroy of Hayes,
Kan, present speaker of the Kansas
legislature. Mulroy wants something
good of course, but has not picked
out any special place. He was here
few weeks ago and sit on the Kan
sas Democrats for several days.
Under the caption of "Profting by
Political Interest, the Washington
Herald editorially says:
If the political managers are slow to
take advantage of the eagerness of the
people to be informed upon political
topics, the Chautauqua bureaus are
more alert.
A series of joint debates, more than
sixty in number, has been arranged to
be given in Oklahoma, Kansas, Colo
RADIO, wyoming, South Dakota, Ne
braska, and Missouri. upon Republi-
canism VS.. Progressiveism. Former
Representative Charles F. Scott of
Kansas upholdS the former, and Henry
Allen is his opponent. The ChautauQua
managers expect to realize largely by
appealing to the political interest in
these states, and they are not likely
to be disappointed. The attractiveness
of politics is perennial. 1t is the one
subject, next to religion, which appeals
to the universal mind and is thus a
sure foundation for a business venture.
incidentally, these joint debates are
likely to have some effect upon the
next campaign.
The following Kansas presidential
postmaster appointments have been
confirmed by the senate: ]. H. Stan
berry, Attica: Leonard Shamleffer,
tGus Charles Buche, Miltonvale; c. c.
mckenzie, Morrill,; Claude Rowland,
sProtection; A B. Smith, Robinson; A
fEllingson, Scandal; A. F. Achenbach,
Soldier; Charles Hewitt, Wakefield.
Congressman Dan Anthony has in
troduced bill in the house admitting
to citizenship and fully naturalizing
George Edward Lerrigo of Topeka.
Senator Thompson introduced a SIM
liar measure.
$4,000 SCHOOL HOUSE