The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-26
WHO Will Get TT?
Republicans Discuss the GUber-
Material Nomination.
Peters Thought to Have Got In
Too Late.
CY ABUSES MORRILL,
Says If He Had GumptiOn He
Would Retire.
Jim Simpson Talks Confidently
For Governor Morrill,.

The politicians are talking today
about Pudge sam Peters as candidate
for governor. Tit is the al-absorbing
topic among them
Governor Morrill, claims not to fear
the result any more then he did when
Peters candidacy was first suggested.
He said to a reporter;
81 do not care to discuss the coming
out of NIr Peters. There is nothing to
say, in fact. am assured constantly
that my denomination viii be accom-
phshed as sure as the convention
meets"
But when pressed for something
further, the governor said;
"Of course after what judge Peters
said in his statement some time ago, a
have the right to be surprised and dis
appointed i'm his coming out
Railway Commissioner Jim Simpson
who is the manager for Morrill, said to-
day to a State Journal reporter
we have nearly 100 of the 145 dele
gates so far selected, and scattered as
they are in every portion of the state,
I think it shows that N1Orril's chances
are better than those Of any other can
didate. Some politicians are talking of
a landslide, but that viii not occur un-
less to Morrill,.
Potter is practically out of the race.
as he can get no more delegates than
those he already has because Peters
viii take them away from him in the
Seventh district and in other counties
where Peters is stronger than Potter.
The strength of Peters, Potter and
TrOutman viii remain about the same. '
F.. Leland viii lead the Peters forces and
he says he can nominate the man from
Newton This remains to be seen, how
ever. The politicians are divided, Of
course. The majority of them are for
Morrill,, but there is q. larger number Of
them who are opposed TO the governor
Some of the shreWd ones who are keep
Ing track of the situation say that Pc
ters' move was made at too late an hour
and that his statement made to the
newspaper mon about two months ago
VIII greatly injure him as it viii show
his Inconsistency
Leland has made more of an attack
upon Governor Morrill, since he came
to town yesterday morning than ever
before. He said.
The leading Republicans of the
state know that Gov. Morrill, ought not
to be renominated. There isn't sim
Ele congressman for him. They all
think that he ought to set out of the
way and let somebody have the nomf-
nation who can be elected. If Morrill,
has any gumptiOn he viii retire from
the field. IF he persists in running,
the party VIII turn him down in the
convention and make Peters the stan
dard bearer. Peters is the man of the
hour"
Leland criticised Morrill, severely for
the part he took i'm the arrangement
for the late convention in Wyandotte
county. "Ihal was a rank deal" he
said Morrill, traded the police com
missioners of Kansas City, KAN, for
a delegation to the state convention.
and what a mess he made of it, The
work was very coarse
THE call for the committee meeting
was issued sunday; the committee met
/ Monday: the primaries We're held
I Wednesday,; the convention was held
I Friday, and the cOnquering hero wait
/ ed at the Union Depot hotter for the
snap convention to call on him for a
/ speech. But the anti-snappers were
on hand, and the governor was not i'm
I demand. Morrill, figured that by APP
/ pointing some new commissioners for
! Kansas City. with authority TO tax the
/ joints. he would be able to carry wy
and0tte county, thereby offsetting his
/ defeat in Mcpherson, but he failed
I dismally"
/ Continuing Mr. Leland said: ''The
4 trouble with the old man is that he is
weak and vacinating and his word is
! no longer good He has had Office all
\ his life with the exception of a few
/ years, and even then he was candi-
\ date and he imagines that if he is moi
! in the harness all the time the WOrld
/ viii go to the devil
''The stand that 7 take in this matter
/ is for the good of the party. I have nc
4 personal axe to grind. I shall not ever
/ be chairman of the new state commit
4 tee. What want is man at the head
| OF the ticket who can place Kansas
/ again i'm the Republican column. Nor
/ ril1 can't do it, Peters can"