The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-07-10
WON'T Be BUCHAN.
The Second District Congress
siOnal Convention
Which Assembled at Lawrence
This Afternoon
HAS A HARD TASK.
Buchan Will Hardly Get the
Nomination.
Funston Says if He Isn't
Nominated,
The Convention Will Adjourn
Sine Die.


sion at Olathe from the 18th to the oath
of May, without nominating a candidate
to succeed Farmer E. II. Funston. will
reconvene at Lawrence this afternoon at
o'clock.
The result of this convention is inn
portant to the Republican party not only
Of the Second district, but of the entire
state. If weak candidate is named he
may lose enough votes to take the state
ticket down with him, while a strong
man on the congressional ticket may be
the means of saving the state to the Re-
publican party.
The delegates and statesmen now
sembled at Lawrence seem to realize the
Importance Of the convention and it now
seems probable that this session of the
convention will be a short one and that a
good candidate will be nominated.
A STATE JOURNAL reporter visited
Lawrence today and talked with the
candidates and many of the delegates.
and the consensus OF opinion was that
the first ballot would show no change
from the last ballot taken at Olathe,
which stood Funston 40, Howard IL,
Smart II, Parker IL, Buchan 40. This
was on the 88Oth ballot
The indications seem to be that the
forces of Billy Buchan are ready to go
to pieces when an opportunity presents
the nomination, but IL is generally be
lieved that if any of the candidates be-
fore the Olathe convention are nomi-
mated it will be c.. A Smart
Farmer Fun-ton Confident.
Farmer E. Ell. Funston, the present
Congressman from the Second district
against whom a majority of the dele
gates in the convention have signed an
agreement TO vote, seems confident that
he Will be nominated nevertheless.
To the STATE JOURNAL reporter he
said: "The situation looks all right To
me. My friends are all standing firm
and the indications are that there will be
very little change in the first few ballots
I believe l will be nominated and if am
not nominated the convention Will ad-
journ sine die. The people of the dis
trict will then have another opportunity
to elect delegates to new convention,
but l am satisfied / will be nominated
1T is just this way among the men
who have signed that agreement not to
vote for me twenty men who are my
warm personal friends They signed
that agreement not because they were
set against me, but because they are
pledged to a local candidate and under
stand that the only way to nominate their
local man is to get me out of the road
These twenty men are honest men /
could trust my pocketbook with any of
them and when the break is made and
they see that they cannot nominate their
local candidate they will come to me.
Now they have not told me this, but |
have reason to believe this is the case
sWill the report of the congr ressi0Bal
election committee have any shti ueuce
on this conventionr"
81 think not. These delegates have
made up their minds whom they Will vote
for when the break is made and they
will vote for me-"
What Buch@n Says.
Rnchau the Kansas (tffv cqu-
didate. Is there with all his workers and
he SAYS his men are going to force his
nomination, although the delegates from
other parts OF the district do not agree
with him The indications seemed to be
that BucEan's forces were weakening
and that he would not be in the race
after the first ballot
Mr.. Buchan said: THE situation looks
about the same as it did when the con-
vention adjourned at Olathe, and l think
nv chances for the nomination are good.
NY men will stand solid, and if it should
prove that the other delegates are like
my men the convention Will adj Ourn
without making nomination. However,
/ think this session Of the convention
will be a short one and nomination Will
be made either tonight or tomorrow
State Senator J. w. Parker of Olathe
is still a candidate. He said Il can see
no great change, but / believe the con
ventiOn will not be in session long before
nomination. DClleFc LldL am the
logical candidate and that when the
com binations go to pieces will be NOM
mated"
H1r. smart's Chances-
G. A Smart of Ottawa seems to be the
candidate among those before the Ola.he
session of the convention who has gain
ed the most strength and he is very con-
tident that he will be the nominee Of the
convention. Mr. Smart received 81 votes
on the 550th ballot more than any other
candidate before the convention and he
thinks he will be the choice when the
next break is made. He said Il am
atisfied with the situation. 1t looks let
ter for me. l will receive more votes on
the first or second ballots than l had when
the convention met before, and when the
break is made ] am satisfied / will get
enough to nominate me-"
W. {. Howard, the Douglas county can
didate is still rustling around with the
delegates, but even his own delegation
make no boasts Of his probable nomina-
ton. Douglas county like almost every