Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-09-27

effected and one OF the candidates with.
drawn; but this Is not probable now.
Third District.
The battle OF the state is really eentered
in the third district. Congressman Hudson
was elected by 2.4O0 plurality In 1892, but
today the republicans confidently claim the
election of s. s. Kirkpatrick. who is making
one of the most remarkable campaigns In
the history Of the state. To add TO the
discontinue Of the populists Congressman
Hudson withdrew from the contest on the
ground that he could not AFFORD to make
the race from a pecuniary point OF view.
This, the republicans declared. was a con-
fession Of weakness. This action, OF course.
necessitated the calling Of another conven-
ton for the nth instant 70 nominate
another candidate. There are a half dozen
applicants, and no matter how strong the
candldate, the delay and Illustration caused
by Congressman Hudsons action has been
of great benefit to the republicans. Then
the democrats who had affiliat ted with Hud-
son for years declared that his course in de-
Tending the Coxeyites In Washington was
unwarranted. and they held a convention
and nominated w. F. Sapp. who will re-
ceive 1.!sO OF 1000 votes that would other
wise be cast against Kirkpatrick. Both re-
publicans and democrats will put their
ablest campaigners in the third district.
The result cannot be predicted with GER
tainty: IL may require the official count to
determine It.
Fourth and Firth Districts.
CONGRESSMAN Curtis will be reelected u
the fourth district by from 1900 TO coo
plurality. He defeated Wharton, demo-
cratic populist candidate, two years ago by
1850. Now r. j. O'Neil is the democratic
candidate. and he will divide the opposition
with s. NJ. Scott. populist.
There are three candi hates in the fifth.
but the battle is between Congressman
Davis, porulist. and W. a. Calderhead. re-
publican. Davis won two years ago with
the populist and democratic support by Liz.
the adyices received by he republican COM
mittee Calderhsad's election is claimed by
1000 plurality.
Sixth and seventh Districts.
There has been such an exodus OF drouth-
stricken farmers from the sixth and seventh
districts that IL is impossible to deeermine
which party has suffered most. Repub-
lioans claim that out Of every ten voters
who have left the state at least seven are
populists. for the reason that they are gen.
orally renters and have no lands to hold
them. They also claim that the old soldiers
who are receiving pensions are remaining
on the plains. and that they are almost uni
versally republicans.
On the other hand, the populists say they
| have investigated this matter. and that IL IL
| a stand-On between the parties. Upof the
above claim the republicans say they will
defeat Jerry Simpson In the seventh and
VIM. Baker In the sixth districts Judge A.
H. Ellis, the republican candidate against
Baker, Is making a campaign OF great Nigor
and force. Persons who cave attended his
meetings say there are many populists who
have declared for him as against Baker.
| Two years ago the democrats supported
Baker but now they have w H. Hurd In
the field. ana will give him from l.WD to
1900 votes Hurd pledged the convention
which nominated him that he would not
withdraw. and, IL he remains In the race,
Baker will be defeated by Ellis. republican.
In the seventh district tie democrats met
| In convention and declined &c nominate a
candidate. The ma jority of them Will sup
pert Simpson and a few will vote for Long.
the republican candidate. Simpson. the
fusion candidate. was elected by l.1o0 In
1st2, but he was supported by several thou
send Cherokee strip boomers. who had been
waiting for two years along the southern
Dorado. Added to this loss " IN be the exo-
6us from the drouth-strickcn district, which
| is an uncertain quantity.
Another drawback 10 Simpson In his con-
tirued i'll health. He is unable TO make a
canvass of the district. but he has called to
his aid Congressman fence of Colorado.
Jesse Harper of Illinois and other we'll
known populist leaders. Simpson stil holds
the advantage, and is reasonably certain OF
reelection.
AS IL appears now. il seems almost certain
that the republicans will have five. and pos
sibly seven. Of the eight congressman from
Kansas. IL the republicans win the state.
| they will elect six. They say the INSISTS OF
Mckinley and Reed will give them the en-
tire delegation. but there is no proba billy
OF such a sweeping result