The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-31
POLITICAL GOSSIP.

When Frank Nelson, the Republican
candidate for superintendent of public
instruction, strikes a Swedish settle
ment, he makes his speech in the Swed-
ish language. Notwithstanding the fact
that Nelson is running as the represen-
tative of the SWedes, he himself was
never nearer Sweden than Chicago. He
is a native of Iowa, and there is moth
ing about him to indicate his Swedish
descent except his name. He once rep
resented the state of Iowa in the inter
state oratorical contest before he gradu-
ated from college. That is where he got
his love for public speaking. The Popu-
lists claim that he is presuming on the
ignorance of Kansas SWedeS by making
speeches in that language, as there are
not many of them who do not readily
understand English.
E. N. Coldren, editor of the Oberlin
Herald, a Populist paper out in Deca-
tur county, has got himself into serious
trouble by not recognizing the fact that
the Brown family constitutes a large
per cent of the human race and that
there are frequently several of the fam
lily with the same given name. Coldren
cOnfounded Frank L Brown secretary
of the Republican state central COM
mittee, with Frank Brown, the Topeka
attorney who was arrested for forgery
some time ago and then sent to the in
sane asylum instead of to the peniten-
tiary. Coldren blames the acts of Frank
Brown, the forger, on to Frank Brown
the secretary. He goes on in detail and
says, among other things, that Brown
the secretary forged a number of checks
on different people over the state; that
he was arrested and that, in order to
save him from a term in the peniten-
tiary influential friends had him de-
clared insane and sent to the Topeka
asylum: that after brief stay there
| he was discharged as cured" and was
then made secretary of the Republican
state committee. This is the sort of a
man that is helping to run the state
Republican campaign" is the way the
article concludes.
Mr.. Brown will swear out a warrant
| for the arrest of Coldren on the charge
| of criminal libel CoIdren's trouble was
| that he mixed his Browns which, in
| this case, was worse for him than if he
! had mixed his drinks.
Asa Bum. who has just returned
| from Iowa, where he has been through
the congressional district in which Gen
eraI Weaver is running for congress on
I the fusion ticket, says that Weaver is
! sure Of election.
| The bitterest political fight in the
! state in this compaign is the one that is
! being waged in the judicial district
| composed of Doniphan, Nemaha and
| Brown counties, over the judgeship. It
| is especially bitter in Doniphan county,
! where it has developed into a personal
| fight on Cy Leland. 1t is claimed that
! Leland nominated his candidate, w. I.
| Stuart, by trickery, and the Democrats,
| Populists and anti-Leland Republicans
have Joined forces to defeat Stuart AS
a result Leland is putting in his entire
| time in DOnfphan county, superintend-
/ ing Stuart's compaign. Two years ago
/ Doniphan county gave the Repu blican
/ ticket 1900 majority, but now the anti
| Leland faction claim that they will not
] only elect Falcon, Stuart's opponent,
but will also elect a Democratic repre-
| sentative from Doniphan county, and
| reduce the majority on the state ticket
| down to a fraction of what it always
| has been.
George A. Clark. the Republican can
! didate for secretary of state, has been