The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-03
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL


stay at the Throop again this winter
John Schilling of Hiawatha Is here
with the Leland senatorial workers.
Representative-elect Frank Byers of
Ulysses, Grant county, is among the lat
est arrivals.
The new county officers will go into
Office the same day the state officers are
inaugnrated.
1t is not expected that there will DO
any caucusing on house organization be-
fore Monday night.
Frank l. Brown has arrived from Gar
nett, and is looking after his boom for
chief clerk of the house.
When Governor Lewelling retires from
Office he will take charge of his commits
sion business at Wichita
The inaugural finance committee will
meet tonight at the office of P. G. Noel,
in the Real Estate building.
President A. A. Robinson of the Mex
lean Central, went to Chicago today over
the Santa Fe in his special car.
C. G. Clevenger. who was sergeant at
arms of the Douglass house, is here and
wants the same job this winter.
Captain A. Nj. Fuller has been ap
pointed chief marshal of the G. A. R
division for the inaugural ceremonies.
All the Republican fambeau and po-
litical clubs of the state are to be invited
to participate in the inaugural cere-
MONIES
1t is expected that the state Populist
conference tomorrow will be held in
Representative hall. 1t will be a secret
session.
The legislature will be asked 10 make
it possible for the city of Coffeyville to
iqSn0 WaforU0rkz honda IN the apn0IOt
of $4,000.
Asa Thompson, editor of the Howard,
Elk county, Courant, is here and will be
candidate for place on the state board
OF charities.
One hundred prominent Topeka peo-
pie representing all political parties,
have been appointed on the inaugural re-
ceptiOn committee
W. ]. Fitzgerald of Dodge City, repre-
sentative elect from Ford county, is here
and will ask for an appropriation for the
Dodge City soldiers home.
Joseph W. Ady arrived in Topeka last
evening with his senatorial boom in
charge of Judge S. r. Peters and Con
gresham elect Chester l. Long
There will be three thousand invita-
tions issued for the inaugural ball. Out
siders will get omplimentaries, but
Topeka people who dance must put up
$3.50.
r 7. Simons is here from Caldwell,
Sumner county. and will occupy the
seat which was filed during the last two
sessions by j. NJ Doubleday, the Popu-
list leader.
Judge Scion O. Thacher, who was in
Topeka yesterday, went home last night
and left his senatorial boom in charge
of Representative E. F. Caldwell and
John Rankin.
State Senator Edwin Taylor of Wyan-
dotte county was in Topeka yesterday
and held conferences with Governor
elect Morrill, and Chairman John w.
Breidenthal.
Governor Lewelling has granted an
unconditional pardon to Julius Horn,
alias Frank Schmidt, who was sent to the
penitentiary from independence for MUIR
der ten years ago
c. A. Smart. the young Ottawa lawyer
who came so near being nominated for
congress in the Second district last sum-
mer is here attending supreme court and
taking in the political situation.
The fight between the Shawnee Coun-
ty Fair association for the collection of
the insurance on the sheds at the fair
grounds which were burned a few years
ago is now pending in the supreme court.
1t is said that State Senator Taylor, of
Wyandotte county, will act entirely in
dependent during the coming session
and will not go into the caucus of either
party. He is regarded as one of the best
men in the senate.
The candidates for speaker who are
now here at work are Charles E. Lobdell,
J. X. Cubbison, s. s. Benedict and ]. V.
Beekman. Those on the inside say Lob
dell will be speaker and either Cubbison
or Benedict will be speaker pro tenn.
State Senator Parker of Olathe, who
is here, is one of the Scion D. Thacher
senatorial hackers. Senator Parker says
he will be for Judge Thacher until he is
elected senator, and he admits that then
Senator Thacher will be for him.
All the unserviceable arms and ord
nance supplies in the state arsenal are to
be shipped to the government arsenal at
Rock Island. Ill, and the s0iled clothing
in the arsenal here Is soon to be sold at
auction. If you want to wear an army
blouse, this will De your chance.
Governor Lewelling says he will not
remove any police commissioners but il
they resign he will not name their sue
cessors. 1t is understood that Governor
Lewelling will leave the police affairs
JUST as Governor humphrey o1d TWO
years ago.
Several Atchison men who have been
protesting against the pardon of Patrick
McArdle have lately assured Mrs. Nc
Ardle that they will not enter any further
protest, although they refuse to sign her
petition. The murder of which McArdle
was convicted is said to have been one
of the most atrocious in the history of
eastern Kansas.
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