The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-29
OUT FOR BUSINESS.
Champ Clark's View of the Mis-
souri, Situation.
Preparing for Lively Political
Contests Everywhere.
CONGRESS is ACTIVE
But 1t is in Preparing for
Campaigns at Home.

WAsHINGTON, May e. Especial. i
Although the date of Adjournment is still
painfully uncertain and the issues of the
campaign not completely made up, the
political activity increases rapidly, and at
least half the members of the house are
devoting as much thought to their districts
as to their duties here AT the headQuar-
tiers of the respective congressional COM
mittees the work is active the books are
kept posted to date, and each secretary can
tell every night just how many of his party
nave Deen nominated so far but 10
Democrats and IA Republicans have been
entered in the race for the Fifty-fourth
congress, but the conventions will be nu-
merous in June, and, according to the man
ayers of both parties, it is expected that
the percentage OF new men and old mem
berS so far maintained will continue.
Out For Business.
I'm Missouri, . says Champ Clark, s'we
are in it early, and we are in it for stuff
Mr. Cobb of ST. Louis, Mr. Burnes of St.
Joe and Mr. Fyan of away down south
west have declined denomination, and that
throws the decision in their districts a lit
tie late. am rcnominated, as you know.
John Heard of the Seventh has delegates
enough to nominate him, and so has Marsh
Arnold of the Fourteenth. We have known
for some time that Morgan of the Fifteenth
had enough to renoninate him if they did
not bolt, but they have been acting queer
ly. OF course Dockery, Hatch, Bland and
reelection, but there is no news in that.
John J. O'Nein says he will be renomi-
mated also, but some have doubted it, 1t
appears, according to the statement of 9TH
erS, that Mr.. Hall of the Second district
had made a brilliant canvass and secured
a large majority of the delegates when he
went to the state convention and made a
fight for plank indorsiI1g Mr.. Cleveland,
whereupon nearly One-half of his delegates
Indignantly Topped After learning that
he flew about like a suddenly beheaded
hen, and what with getting appointments
here which he had neglected and other
well known processes slowly built up his
fences again
Glance at Indiana.
In the state of Indiana, SO say all the
Democratic members, there will be some
desperately contested Districts. In the
First Mr.. Taylor was renOminated on the
Gath inst, and at first view it would seem
that the chances were against hirn a thou
sand or so to one, but he is popular with
the labor element, and the Republicans
have opened the fight against him with a
party schism and q split in their conven-
ton In the Second Mr.. Bretz will be re-
nominated, of course, but in the Third
Jason Brown has to give place to ex-Con-
gresham Stockslaeger, who was commits
sioner of the land office in Cleveland's first
term Mr.. Holman will be renominated
by reclamation, and his friends think he
will come in with a whOop, but in the next
district George William Cooper, who will
be renominated on the 10th of June will
have hard pull, for the leading manufac-
turers are against him, and the PopuI.sts
in that district are, in the local dialect,
powerful uncertain. - Mr.. Bynum of
the capital district will have an equally
hard pull for the same reasons.
Mr.. Brookshire of the Eighth will be re-
nominated July g. Aand further this depo-
nent saith not The Populists had 2, 1928
votes in that district in 1892, and they are
as the local slang puts it, both numerous
and cantankerous In the Ninth Dan
Waugh, present Republican member, &C
cording to the rule of that district of two
terms only, retires for some Republican
yet to be named. In the Tenth Tom Ham
mond will be nominated, and as his plural
ity was only 40 child can see what that
means in a year like this. Mr.. McNagny
of the Twelfth will be renominated, and
experts of both parties say his chances de-
pend upon Fort Wayne and Allen county
generally, which has been acting mighty
queer of late. Mr. Conn of the Thir-
teenth will also be renominated. 1t is in
the Eleventh district that there will be
fun, for Mr.. Martins plurality was only
758, and the Republicans have put up
against him the veteran George w. Steele,
who has such q splendid army record.
Matters In Other States.
At Republican headquarters the records
show the following additional nomina-
tions already made in Indiana: Charles J.
Henry in the Seventh, Jesse Overstreet in
the Fifth and A NJ Hardy in the Second.
In Illinois there has been but one nomina-
ton, the present member, G. W. Smith, in
the Twentieth district. In Kansas, &C
cording to reports, the local fighting is al
ready as lively as it is elsewhere in the last
month of the campaign. In the Third
district Chester l. Long, new man, has
been nominated as against the Populist
memb T. j. Hudson, and in the Fifth
w A. Calderhcad against POpulist John
Davis In the Fourth Mr.. Curtis has been
renominated, and his success is taken as a
matter Of course In Pennsylvania Messrs-
DalzelI, Stone and Phillips have been re-
nominated and Matthew Griswold put up
in the Tventy-sixth district against the
present Democratic member, Mr.. Sibley.
In the First Tennessee w. c. Anderson
has been nominated to succeed the present
Mr. Taylor, and he will doubtless do SO,
as the Republican majority is about 5, 600.
In the Second there has been a great row,
and whether a nomination has or has not
been made depends upon the point of view
However, Mr.. Houk's majority was over
1000, and the Republicans there can
afford to quarrel
Hard Work and No Risks.
Besides the foregoing the Democrats
have nominated Walter / Hayes, present
member, in the Second Iowa; Rolla Is.
Hart, entirely new man, in the Ninth
Kentucky; F. G. Layton, present mem
Der in the Fourth Ohio, and Messrs. j.
K Weathersford and J. H. Raley in Ore
gon, both very new and very ambitious
men, though it is not claimed that they
will get much more out of it than the fun
of running The recent denomination of
Henry c. Snodgrass in the Third Tennes-
see completes the Democratic list 1t is
conceded on each side that the other side
is proceeding with great caution. taking