The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-28
BRISTOW IS HERE.
Continued from Page one,

! TO washington to the special session
and he leaves things political as mud
/ died and mixed in Kansas as ever. Il
was exected that he would announce
as simon pure Progressive candidate
| A third party candidate for the United
! States senate, and run on his record
This he could consistently do, for he
/ has a fine record as a Progressive
| From the time of his debates with
! Aldrich on the tariff bill three years
and more ago down to the closing
I hours of last congress Joe Bristow has
been in the forefront of the battle Tor
progressive principles all the time. He
has been dangerous in debate. invinci-
BILE in the matter of statistics. and
steady as the stars in his vote.
He is entitled to the Progressive
nomination. But what about the sixty
or seventy thousand regulars in the
state? What about ex-senator Cur
It's with q fine Republican party rec
ord of his own? What about har-
Bristow does not take much stock
in the call for a harmony meeting of
the party by Senator Troutman. This
much he was certain of, and that was
senate again.
"I will stand in the next campaign
for exactly the same principles upon
which 1 made my campaign four years
ago." declared the senator. IT will
run on my record in congress. A year
from next November the people of
Kansas will have the opportunity to
say whether OF not a majority of them
during my congressional career for
what I believe a majority of the peo-
pie of Kansas stand for. AS to the
details of my campaign, the vehicle,
the planks of the platform, the plat
form, etc, I will make those things
clear and unmistakable when the time
comes for my formal announcement.
"As far as I am able to judge at
n ms
for a harmony meeting of the party is
made to get candidate to run against
me; that is to say, to aid the Demo-
Gratis to win, like the Standpatters did
in the last campaign and for which
many are receiving their rewards"
Cross Examination That Was Futile.
How do things look in Kansas"
Senator BriStow was asked.
Fine said Bristow, things are in
mighty good shape and I am mighty
well pleased
What sentiment have you found re-
garding the harmony movement, sena-
tor?' was asked.
THE what?" asked Bristow, as he
slipped forward in his chair, looked
inquiringly at his visitor.
why the plan to harmonic the two
factions in the Republican party
Really. don't know anything about
it. What is it, anyhow? Is it a plan
to further the cause of some candidate
or to crib-a few more offices? There
hasn't been anything said to me about
it. No one has asked me to attend
Then Senator Bristow was asked
about the sentiment he found in Kan
sas concerning the new Democratic
administration and what he thought
of the work of the recent legislature
and of Governor Hodges.
DO you mean what do 1 think of
Governor Hodges plan of talking pro-
gressive principles for the Progressives
and appointing stand patters to Officer
inquired Bristow. well, I don't think
want to talk about that
"Of course you will be a candidate
for United States senator again next
year?" asked the visitor, who wasn't
having one bit of luck with his inter-
view.
Zone year from next November"
said Bristow. ST propose to give the
people of Kansas a chance to say
what they think of my work. They
know what I have been and what 1
have done. I have represented the
Kansas sentiment. Kansas is a Pro-
greSsive state.
Then will you be a candidate on
the Progressive or Republican ticket?"
was asked.
IT haven't announced my candidacy
yet merely said the people would
get a chance to indorse or approve my
record" replied the Salina editor
senator.
But wouldn't the people of Kan
Sas really like to know ON which |
ticket your name will appear for in
dorsement ?" persisted the visitor.
when l make up my mind about /
that, then L will say so,'' was the cool
reply that accompanied a rather scorn- |
Chester I. Long in the fight of five |
years ago.
Really, though, senator" insisted |
the visitor don't you know which
ticket you will run on?"
Il haven't made up my mind yet"
reiterated Bristow
would you be a candidate on the
Republican ticket if the two factions
really harmonized?"
Bristow stopped stock still in his
walk from the Throop hotel to an Of
flee where he was to hold a confer
ence with Arthur Capper.
There Might Be Harmony.
well, there might be such a thing
possibly" replied Bristow, eff 1 was
given the nomination on a Republican
platform which I felt was truly Pro-
gressive.'
But that was all. Nothing which
Senator Bristow said in reply to ques-
lions driven from a dozen angles
really bound him to any faction or any
party. After week in Kansas, he
will return to Washington Saturday
leaving the political situation as bad
Y nuddled as it was when he first
zane home. He will be a candidate
Tor reelection. That much is admit
ed. But in a Commute conversation
oday not one word was said that
could be construed as placing him
= It'll either the Progressives or the
Republicans.
Bristow questions the good faith of the
harmony movement That much was as
'ured in his statement intimating that the
plan was launched to further the interest |
If some one person or several persons.
And he did not assume that he was t. |
become the beneficiary legatee of any
such move.
Cyrus Leland of Troy visited Senator
3ristow at the Throop this morning.
Later Bristow called on Arthur Capper. |
He will spend the day in conference with
men well known in Kansas politics and
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