The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-06
Governor Hodges Laughs at
Senatorial RumOrS.
SAYS Recent Talk About Can
didacy Is Nonsense.
WI. BROWN STATES SITUATION
81 Am Candidate for Senator,
That's ALL" He Says.
A Little Plain Talk on Demo-
cratic Conditions.

| Members of the Democratic admins
tration forces in Topeka are kept busy
mailing down rumors concerning tenta-
tive candidates.. Last week it was
Henderson Martin declining the sena-
torial toga and speaking up for w. p.
FEEDER and Judge Helm Of the utilities
commission. Today it is Governor
Hodges condemning as nonsense the
report that he will run for United
States senator and w. L. "Ironjaw'
Brown insisting that his candidacy for
| Bristow's place is a mans job without
| trying to pry Governor Hodges from
his chair in Topeka
| 1t may be taken from the statements
| of the governor and his legislative
| leader today that they have set out
along their we'll defined trails for re-
| election and senator, respectively, and
| are not considering a shift as rumored
| throughout the Republican press of the
| state.
This talk Of my candidacy for sem
ator is all nonsense" Governor Hodges
stated this afternoon. II hardly believe
that there is a politician in the state
| who would accuse me of lodging, side
stepping or coloring my position in
politics. If I was in the race for the
place at washington ] would come out
and say so. 1 would say so, despite the
fact that 1 am not mixing political gOS-
sip with this business administration.
This settles the dope on the gov
ernor-for a little time at least. OF
course there is no law prohibiting a
man from changing his mind-a Ia L.
r., for inStance-and if Governor
Hodges sees a blazed trail leading to
the senate at Washington and he de-
cideS that he wants the nomination
and the guide through this trail Of the
lonesome "pie,' all the political horses
a object
legally to his action.
Meanwhile listen to ''Ironjaw"
Brown, the donor of the Hutchinson
fair and the man who walks right
down the streets of Topeka without a
bodyguard
st want to say that it is mighty
(Brown never makes a statement
without the -mighty'o strenuous for a
man to keep in the race for United
States senator without taCkling the
gubernatorial proposition at the same
time. I am candidate for United
States senator from Kansas on the
Democratic ticket at the next pri-
maries-is that plain enough for you
newspaper fellowSi''
Granted that it is a mans task to
care for the senatorial candidacy with
out bearing the burden of a fight for
the governors office, the argument
presented by the Seventh district leg
islative leader and right hand of the
administration is plausible.
From these statements it will be seen
that the battle between the Democrats
for the senatorial nomination narrows
down again to Neeley from the Seventh
district-if his wife decides that he shall
run-Judge Doster from the Fourth dis
trict but residing in Topeka, Senator
Carney of Concordia, Hugh Farrelly, the
man who gave Thompson a scare and a
possible round between Orr and Wag
gener at Atchison.
Governor Hodges likes the job in To-
peka. He is on deck early in the morn
ing, leaves at noon after the office is de-
serted and swings down the state house
corridors in the evening in time to es
cape stare from the night watchman.
He insists upon taking personal interest
in the departments, goes like a human be-