The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-04

sold his bank stock and bought ianu.
Now he spends his time raising TAT
cattle and figuring on the BACK OF an
envelope the price of next years wheat
ana swine. But Hendricks is rather
I Sarious minded man. He has the re-
snonsibiIity of the Democratic party
! deem i'm his heart and he will fight TO
see that the party promises do not go
| to protect.
..,Tba Democrats have a big respon-
| sibi1itv this year" said Hendricks
| ..rrhev must fulfill their promises or go
| ont of business. Even with a majority
! in both houses, the fulhIlment OF an
nronises is not an easy matter Tnere
is opposition to the initiative ana reIer-
endurn and the recall Personally
think they are rather an idle thing and
win not be used once in a hundred
times hut the people want them ana
| the Democrats must not forget their
| nrornise But our big trouble is to
| find some way to cut down the taxes.
| That is the really big, serious thlng
abo,,. the coming session; and I tell
Won honestly that 1 don't know now
| to go about it.
Mr. and Mrs Hendricks have
| quite of rooms at the Throop. Mrs
! Hendricks will spend the winter in To-
| Dalxa with her husband and Will attend
| MANY of the legislative sessions
| Senator and Mrs. Jouett Shouse came
70 Topeka from Kinsley Friday and are
now at home in the A. B. Qulnton resi-
dence. Twelfth street and Topeka ave
nue. With Senator Shouse' his wire
| and baby came a number OF Servants
drought from the Shouse home in Ed
,-a,.Se county. The family has leased
| tbo Furnished home of Attorney A b.
| O,,;n+on and will remain in Topeka
until after the legislative session me
| Ouinton family left last night Tor ,,
| Texas and Florida, where they VIII
spend the winter ,,,o
| 70 the state senate from the Thirty
! eighth district which includes Eu-
wsrds and II other counties, was one
| of the surprises of the election Snouse
| is a new man in Kansas politics anu
| in the November election o9ieeieea
Mayor E f. frizen u 1i.t;ct
| Shouse established a reputation as an
/ orator of considerable ability ana as
can,paisner probably has no superlors
| in the big Seventh district Shouse Is
| but 20 years old. In the coming SEES
sion of the senate. it is freely preulcC-
| ed that the Edwards county senator
LII he one of the men to be reckoned
With in the shaping of the affairs OF
the state
Following the announcement that
Candidate for the Democratic nomlna-
tion as United States senator IN 1914
comes a rumor that Senator B. p Wag-
eener. also of Atchison, may enter the
senatorial contest if his health Will
permit. Waggener and Orr are both
looked upon as candidates for the
honor of controlling First district Dem
ocratic patronage. So when Orr de-
clared that he would try for Joseph L.
Rristow's place in the United States
senate. friends of Waggener urged the
+ Atchison county warrior to take hand
in the fight. Now it seems probable
that both Orr and Waggener Will go
into the senatorial fight two years
hence.
State Senator-elect ]. W. Howe, OF
Abilene. may land the job of super1n-
tendent of the Hutchinson reformatory
10 succeed NJ F. Amrine. Howe is
publisher of the Abilene Chronicle and
in the recent campaign was valuable
asset in George. H, Hodges guberna-
toriaI campaign. In the same election
Howe was sent to the state senate
from Dickinson county He is young
man of much ability and in political
circles it is generally believed he can
have the Hutchinson job if he wants
it.