Show LUJ6K fOllOWS T06fl th J I Li 1 LAS FOLLOWED KANsAS KAN-sAS SENATORIAL SEAT One of Predecessors 7 H at I Recently Convicted of UlD f n SE Left Office Under Crime Lessof Cloud More Dr Kan18 the senatorial sue ka f which belongs Senator J U to t I 10 Jed with 111 luck Judging 0 of those rAH tL who have the history of those oo I i that same seat In tho upper since Kansas was I of congress e tted to the union It would seem V I fullsized bird of 111 omen had I l i Its wings over nearly overy teen of that succession I who has much Impressed was Sen tt so c lucklessnesa of with the en IngallS Iqat that ho referred to It as tho I succession l nfuty United States supreme court tho I rday e rendered a decision uphold itht ao b tchny I LYI a t8 I tom a to rail a rip M paT p-aT roth II k 10 Si j dbidt 1 Jldaa art au I oraq JOSEPH H UURTON hen PPIWII t 111 Senator Whom tho Supreme u1 Declared Justly Convicted wnmd ende tie ruling of the United States etamd alt tort at St Louis sentencing D i to fine and Imprisonment for ndis oustnj 111y r representing n St Louis con ndisbefore 1 i the government depart 11t1 11 mon belongs to tho Lano succes irs u4 ellS1lll a senators That Is ho Is tho last be t elected of the line of which riNG ew IS i H Lane was the first ho hav v been elected the first senator of ILL i In 1SC1 the year the state was fled 1 Into the union the ten senators who have been = from i that time to the present Js seems to be only one of whom i has reason to be justly proud il that was P B Plumb but ho In hery zenith of his power and use MSJ died He was In tho first part lli third term re d I III luck seemed to have started i Jr 1 the Lane succession from tho very beginning Lana and S C Pome roy were practically the only two candidates for the senate when Kan sas territory was changed to the Sato oC Kansas This assured the election > of both But one of the terms was four years and the other for six The question arose as to which of the two men have one or the other of the terms Lots were drawn Pomeroy drew the long lcrm and Une the shorter ono of four years The hoodoo hall apparently started Its work In 18C5 Lane was reelect but the following year h ° committed suicide Gov Crawford was called upon to name a successor for the unexpired term Ho appointed Edmond C Ross Senator Ross days were full of trouble almost from the first There arose a cry and a demand for the Impeachment Impeach-ment of President Johnson Kansas was among the loudest In that demand de-mand Hoss hesitated Then ho voted against the Impeachment lie may have felt that he was doing right but It sounded his political death note Ho was defeated for election In 1871 and cast aside and forgotten lIe soon loft Kansas disheartened and Is now In New Mexico where he u following tho trade of a typesetter Alexander Caldwell was elected to succeed Ross He held the office two years when he suddenly resigned His resignation was forced upon him however as his enemies threatened that unless ho gave up his seat they would bring charges against him that ho had obtained his seat through corrupt cor-rupt means Once more the governor was called upon to name a senator and he selected se-lected Judge Robert Crozier Dut the Judge seemed to be Ignorant of many of tho essential points of the political game and In 1874 he was defeated by James M Harvey who was elected to fill out the Caldwell unexpired term But for some reason Harvey didnt seem to suit the Kansans for ho also went down In defeat before P B Plumb In 1877 He was reelected In 1883 and In 1889 In 1891 as the old year was expiring he came to a traglo death Gov Humphrey appointed Bishop W Perkins to 1111 the vacancy until the legislature met In 1893 This legislature leg-islature was controlled by the fusionists fusion-ists and John Martin was elected for the unexpired term of Senator Plumb which ended In 1895 At this time the legislature was again Republican and Lucien Baker was elected over J R iiurton after a bitter and exciting contest In 1901 the legislature met as usual but It did not seem to approve of the official conduct of Baker for before the final action was taken Baker withdrew and Burton was elected practically without opposition |