The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-05-23
A RED HOT TIME
Predicted for the Larned Senatorial
Convention - Senator Browns
Friends Stirring Up & Row.
rom Our Special Correspondent.

Convention - Senator Browns
Friends Stirring Up g Row.
From Our Special Correspondent.
Larned, kan, May 23.=There will be
a redhot political time in this city next
Wednesday at the senatorial conven-
ton.
The southwest is considerably work
ed up over the contest between AIilt
Brown and Bob Hopkins, the regular
nominee, although Brown is laying
pretty low" as yet.
Brown has been state senator for fourt
years and claims that he was not de-
feated at the convention except by
methods that should be rebuked.
A well known politician residing in
this district, familiar with the situa-
tiOn, but who is decidedly favorable to
Browns nomination next Wednesday,
says this to your correspondent:
"A lively time may surely be expect
ed at the senatorial convention here
next week. 1t is openly talked on the
streets OF Garden City that Bob Hop
klnS cannot carry his own county In
November; that Senator Brown beat
him by the popular vote but was trick
ed out of the home endorsement; that
Hopkins has been on the wane for
some time, that in 1894 he got through
by only sixty majority and that by
aid of over fifty Democratic votes, while
Brown carried the county by nearly
25O.
THE fight Hopkins has been making
on George w Watson about proposed
Reorganization of counties is a ground
less campaign charge 1t is yet fresh
in the minds Of the people that Hopkins
opposed creating these counties in 1856.
The people accordingly question his
political promises, and say that man
who has to change to get there won't
do to tie to. 1t is well known that
Lew PettijOhn, a southwestern sup
porter OF J. r. Burton, is trying to
move heaven and earth for Hopkins,
so that the people wink and say there
& AZ hi N n q VsTn y "
that is pOrtentiOus.
"On the other hand Mr.. Watson is be
ing opposed bitterly by the Hopkins
contingent, and in addition to the dis
organization charge they assert that
the loan company with which he is con
nected has refused to pay its taxes in
most of the counties ard thus made
their county warrants below par and
unsaleable. They urge tNat watson is
outspCl1en for Judge Nan6iVaTt for
United States senator 1t is urged that
Simmons is not a candidate in good
faith for state senator, but wants to bc
district judge, and that as Judge An
dreWs' ard Judge YanQiVert's districts
Will soon DE consolidated by getting
Vandivert out of the way under z polit-
ical agreement, that Simmons win be
come district Judge by appointment;
that by this agreement simmons viii
deliver his strength to Watson and in
return watson and Wandivert viii see
to it that Simmons is appointed.
In the midst OF all this, and over all
hangs q fear on the minds of some pol
iticians that Milf Brown is not yet dead
nor an impOssibiHty. The Ness County
News came out last week in q strong
editorial suggesting 20 the delegates
that the best thing to do was to set
I doYEl- on the schemers' and '1ixeTs' and
/ nominate Brown, as ne had made the
! best senator western Kansas had ever
/ had.
when some one spoke to Brown the
4 other day about the situation and
/ urged him to push the fight the sena-
1 tor said: Z am not scheming for the
1 nomination.
But you won't decline IL the cOnven-
I tiOn non2inaues yOu2'
THE senator asked to Please excuse
/ him. but he would not have it that
/ way, aad at last Brown said, We'll, ]
/ suppose, if the convention insists
should have to do as Bob McCOllOck
/ said: stand where the convention
puts me- But really, gentlemen, Fin
1 ney county has q. candidate in Mr..
/ Hopkins and its politics for US to nom
/ inale hiu}--if We cai
I3ut you cannot do it, replied the
/ speaker and we propose to show Fin
! ney county that she is only an 18th
! part Of this districti'
AS the bosses failed to defeat Nc
/ Ilirley, SO they may fail in selectina
any man for state senator Of the SSH
4 other than Milton Brown. who, in my
opinion. is the choice OF the Republi-
| can masses.
'-The excursion rate for the occasion
| will load the trains with q big crowd
/ and that fur-flying time may be e3C-
/ pected-is beyond a doubt"
In the mean time LaTned viii do al
she can to entertain her visitors anc
| makes all sides happy.