The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-19
1T LOOKS BLUE.
Scarcely One Of the Kansas Del
egates to st. Louis
Feels Merry Over the Prospect
Of Facing
HIS CONSTITUEN ON
A Gold Standard Platform This
Campaign.
e XDreSsiOns From the Kansams
quoted Verbatim.
HIS CONSTITUENCY ON

From Our Special Correspondent.
St Louis, June 19.-After the excite
ment of the convention has worn off
our Kansas delegates begin to view
with alarm what has been done.
Politicians like Cy Leland and Lit
Crum talk of Kansas being for the
gold standard, but these men are not
the ones who must do the hard work
of the campaign. There are those VINO
must go out into the thickest of the
fight and uphold RepubHcanism on the
stump These are the men who must
convince the Kansas voter that the Re
publican party viii help him to bet
ted condition of affairs, and bring him
prosperity; men like ingalls,, Judge
Beekman, Judge BrOderick and Char
ley Curtis
That Kansas is for silver is not to be
gainsaid- The rank and file OF the
Kansas people who attended the con
ventiOn were for silver. and all reports
sent out to gOldbug papers did not pOr-
tray the feeling as it existed after the
recognize the friendly sentiment tow
ard silver in this state were sore, dis
heartened, discouraged, humihated-
They are just as good Republicans as
ever. most of them. but they are doubt
full as to the result in this state this
fall
Senator John J. ingalls, said after
the result was known:
Il have always been favOrabl to sill
Yer, and am yet. L do not care what
the national platform declares; I viii
YER; L am not afraid to do it."
Congressman Chester I. Long of the
Seventh district said
Il viii go home and make my fight
on this platform. but it viii be hard
work The result viii be close"
Last evening one of the State Journal
correspondents went around in the
x Kansas headquarters and talked with
various Kansans about the platform.
Here are the expressions from some Of
them:
Judge J. v. Beekman-I am COINS
home to talk to my constituency I do
not know yet what shall do
T. E. Lambert delegate from the
Fourth district am a candidate for
think I can pull through but the result
in the state is somewhat doubtful.
Kansas is for free silver.
Mayor Frank Vincent of Hutchinson,
delegate from the Seventh district
am opposed to the free coinage of sill
yer. Is to L. but L recognize that Kao-
sas is friendly to silver. and that is why
I voted for it in the convention
think the result in Kansas this fail,
owing to the platform, makes Repub-
ncan success somewhat doubtful The
opposition viii concentrate every effort
toward carrying the legislative and
senatorial districts and it is hard to
tell how it viii come out This plat
form may mean the defeat of Chester
Long for congress in our district
NJ NJ. NurdOck, elegate-at-large-
do not care to say what the effect viii
be in Kansas. but our state is silver
state and this platform is not what
wanted.
J. s. Dean. delegate from the Fourth
district-Kansas does not approve this
platform. and what it will do in the
state is a question I am sure that
Charley Curtis majority will be the
largest Of any candidate in any CON
gressional district.
Dave Hanna. representative from
Graham cOunty-NO man can carry our
county on this pla atfOrn- do not
know whether I viii be a candidate for
denomination and reelection or not
J. II. Richards of Fort ScOtt-The
platform makes the legislature q mat
ter of doubt. The platform viii greatly
affect the state in the selection of
LEGISLATURE
d. w. Finney. Neosho FalIs-Kansas
is opposed to the single gold standard
and if Mckinley carries Kansas he
viii do it on account of his name, and
not because of the platform upon which
he stands
n d. F'itzpatrick-T am little afraid
of Kansas this year. I know that
shall not make any campaign speeches
on this platform.
T. n. TRY. Ft Scott. who expects to
be a candidate for the legislature from
EourbOn-Well. the platform is made
and we'm have to abide by it, but it's
tough on good many Kansas Repub-
Hcans.
There were a few Kansans in attend
ance at the convention who were hear
tiIy pleased with the platform Among
these were CONGRESSMAN Calderhead.
of course, Maj. Tom Anderson. Eugene
Ware. Delegate w IT. Brown of the
Second district, and Sam Benedict of
Wilson county. Benedict is at present
representative from Wilson county in
the legislature and figures on being
candidate for denomination and re-
election. To a State Journal cores
pOndent last night he said that he was
pleased with the platform: that he
would take pleasure in standing square
~ on it, and that he would be a can
didate upon it, But such expressions as
these were very few among the Sun
flower State men.
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