The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-03-09
ALL CYS WAY.
He is Running the Wichita
Convention
Pretty Much as He Desires It
to Run.
SOME GOSSIP AFLOAT.
Tim Mccarthy as a Candidate
for Governor.
Troutman Present and Receiv-
ing Assurances.

From the State Journals Special correspondent
WICHITA, March 9-Judge A. H
Horton will be chairman of the Republi-
can state convention if the Leland slate
is kept intact. Leland has been here
since Saturday morning and seems to
have everything in his own hands.
The Leland slate for delegates at
large to the national convention at St
Louis will elect Cy Leland of Doniphan
county, Nat Barnes, Wyandotte; T. j.
Anderson, Shawnee; A. P Riddle, OF
tawa; NJ. NJ. Murdoch. Sedgwick, and
Prof Swensson of Mcpherson.
There is now but one anti Leland can
didate for delegate at large, State Sena-
tor John c. Carpenter. Carpenter lives
in the third congressional district and
the Leland slate leaves both the third
and sixth districts without representa-
ton.
General W. W. Guthrie of Atchssou is
here trying to form anti-Leland com
bination to break the slate. He said to
the JOURNAL representative today: "If
the third aud sixth district delegates
who are left out of the state will get to-
gether, l will see that enough votes are
furnished from outside to break
the slate" At this time
there seems to be little pros
poets of an anti-Leland com bin alton
strong enough to break the slate. Major
Anderson is not here today, which is said
to mean that he does not intend to make
an anti-Leland fight for the national con-
vention.
An anti Leland worker says: "Leland's
scheme is to have himself made national
committeeman if Mckinley is nomin ated,
but if Allison should be the nominee he
proposes that Tom Anderson shall be the
national com mitteeman."
M A. Low, general attorney for the
Rock Island, is here looking after the
Anderson interests, and, as he is an Alli-
son man. the Leland programme ia prob
ably satisfactory to him
Secretary of State Edwards is the
only state officer here making a fight.
He is working for the election OF Mike
Sutton as delegate from the Seventh dis
trict
Harry Bone of Clark county and
Frank Vincent of Hutchinson are the
other candidates and two are to be elect
ed. There is fight on Sutton because
he would not declare for Leland until
forced to by his own county convention
If Bone and Vincent are elected as seems
likely, Billy Edwards will have a fight
on his hands, and already ex-State Audi
tor Tim Mccarthy who lives at Larned,
Edwards home, is being doomed as a
candidate for governor. Mccarthy is
here but will neither affirm nor deny his
candidacy
He said: SIT is true there is a good
deal of talk among my friends about
such move, but l have not authorized
an announcement that l am a candidate"
Edwards friends say there is nothing in
the Mccarthy boom. The Leland forces
are making a strong effort to break
Troutnan's strength by bringing out
Speaker Charles E. Lobdell for lieuten-
ant governor.
Lobdell is a Leland man but he is one
of Troutman's strongest hackers and it is
doubtful if he can be used by Leland to
aid Morrill,. Dick Blues friends are
urging Lobdell to come out for lieutenant
governor, as they are afraid he might vet
be candidate for congressm an at-large
Troutman arrived this morning and is
receiving many assurances of support
from men who will support Leland in to-
morrow's convention.
NJ. A. Low is said to be using all the
Rock Island influence to place John c.
Carpenter on the delegation to the na-~
tionaI convention If Carpenter should
win the indications are that Nat Barnes
will be dropped from the Leland slate.
CHESTER I. LONGS DENOMINATION.
The Chief Feature of the Morning Session
LobdelrS Speech.
From the State Journals Special Cores pondsnt
WICHITA, March 9.-The Seventh dis
trict Repu blican congressional conven-
ton met here at II o'clock and organized
by the election of Charles E. Elliott of
Sumner county as chairman and W. J,
Fitzgerald of Ford as secretary
In his address Chairman Elliott said he
knew the convention would nominate
Chester l. Long for congress and would
elect delegates to st. Louis who will vote
for the nomination of Mckinley for pres
ident.
Short speeches were made by Senator
Harry Gordon of Wichita and Charles f.
Lobdell of Dighton. LobdelI in speak
ing of the dilatory action of the admins
tration in the Waller case said:
Il am not prepared to say John Waller
ought not to have been Imprisoned and
from my acquaintance with that gentle
man l am led to think that perhaps he
ought"
He said Republican administration
would have taken quicker action in in
vestigating such a case, and if necessary
would have placed American guns at the
gates of Paris in forcing an investigation,
After the appointment of the commit
tees the convention adjourned until 2
p. m.
3:3) p. m-The following is the money
plank of the platform adopted We are
in favor of gold, silver and paper money,
coined and issued by our
rational government interchangeable
at par and in volume sufficient to
meet the requirements of the agricultural
and commercial interests of our coun-