The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-26
The Republican Forces Doing
Hard Work.
The Effort to Give all the Can
didateS a Fair Show
Promises to Be Successful at
the Primaries.
No INSTRUCTIONS
For Delegates is the hey Note
Sounded by Shawnee,
Which Has No FavOrite Son i'm
the Contest.

and Fifth wards. Even the Second
ward, which the Seaton managers claim
ed by a big majority, is regarded as
doubtful by the opposition, and the
workers are not neglecting the ward.
A few days ago the shop men were
claimed as solidfor Seaton, but the in
roads that have been made by the oppo-
siticn has disconnected Mr.. Dave Null
vane and his friends, and trusted men,
some brought to Topeka for the occa-
sion, are laboring with the shop men to-
day in the interests of Mr. Seaton.
t s. Williams, who lives east Of the
Santa Fe tracks in the Second ward,
said today:
TT may sound strange, but I firmly
believe that we will carry the Second
ward for the anti-Seaton ticket. There
is no doubt at all in my mind about the
territory east of the tracks. We. will
carry it for the anti-Seaton ticket They
have thought all along that they had
the Second ward their own way, but
they know now that it is not so easy.
The Second ward is against the old
gang"
The makeup of the Seaton tickets in
the wards, and in fact in the whole
county which was managed from Mr..
Dave Mulvane's office, reveals a clever
subterfuge. There are some out and out
anti-Seaton people among the Seaton
delegates. They include such men as
Councilman G. J. Drew of the Fourth
ward and NJ. A. Low and Judge N. F.
Handy of the Third ward. The names
add strength to the ticket, and the plan
IS to carry the ward by the use of the
names and then have the alternate
serve.
Councilman Drew of the Fourth ward
attended anti-Seaton caucus last
night and he told a Journal reporter
that he intended to stand with the anti
Seaton forces to the last. Still, his
name was placed on the Seaton delega-
ton. Nj. A. Low of the Rock Island
has been prominently identified with
one of Seaton's opponents from the first,
but Selling a time when Mr.. Low is
absent from the city, his name was
placed on the Seaton ticket by Mr.. Dave
Mulvane, who would like to carry the
Third ward.
John T CLANCY, who is one of the
prominent anti-Seaton workers, said to-
day:
I'VE object to an instructed delega-
ton. believe that this is a poor time
for Shawnee county to be tied up to
anyone. Mr.. Seaton wants everything
or nothing, and L do not believe that
the people are going to stand it.
Mayor Fellows said: I'VE do not
want to be placed in the position of be
ing tied up to Mr.. Seaton or anyone
else Suppose our delegation stands by
Seaton to the last and some one else is
nominated The successful candidate
will say: I do not owe Shawnee coun-
ty anything If there ever was time
when Shawnee county should send an
uninstructed delegation to the state
convention, this is the time. feel con-
fdent that we will win
All the anti-SeatOn workers show the
same degree of confidence. They say
that the Republicans of Shawnee coun-
ty do not intend to put on Dave Null
vane's collar, and that if he wants to be
chairman of the state central cornnllI-
tee, they do not propose to be wheel
led into helping him through man
who poses as gubernator1aI candidate
Our morning contemporary occupies
the very happy position in answering
the loud complaints of it's supporters
who have regarded it as the great pro-
hibitory organ of the state, by saying
that the best way to enforce the prohlb-
itory law is to place in the governor
chair man who is an open and aVoW-
ed enemy of that law. AS the Commit
tee of Seventeen and the many friends
of prohibition are trying to figure TINS
out Dave winkS the other eye, TO the
reputable element among the resuDn!s-
sionists and to Nick Chiles and all the
other elements, as John Seatons IN
.swervina record on this subject is dis
closed to their view
The erstwhile great Republican or
gan of Topeka has now put itself into
the position of being simply Seaton
organ. That's unkind. Is there no
district but the first, and no candidate
but John 81 Ask the Saturday prl-
maries.
This paper may not be, and probably
Is not Dave Mulvane, John Seaton
partisan Republican newspaper, but 1t
is not now just before an important pr1-
mary and at the assembly of the Re
publican league of Kansas, publishing
whole lot of old stories about alleged
scandals concerning prominent Repub-
Icans-tales which were published
months and months ago and which the
Capital now reprints from the Advo-
with big headlines. Why now? The
material was available long ago. Sim
ply to rip a few leading Republicans up
the back, because they think there are
other candidates besides Seaton, and
other districts besides the First, en-
titled to a hearing in this community.
So good a man as Judge Horton has
been led to believe and to say that John
Seaton has three counties in this dis
trict whose delegates are solid and in
structed for him. The judge would not
nisrepreSent. He is simply mistaken.
John Seaton has only one county-his
Own-instructed for him. Jackson coun-
ty-classed as one of the three-not only
did not instruct for Seaton, but it is
understood, may not cast even single
vote for him.
This is one of the few years when
Shawnee county has not a favorite son
of her own for governor Why should
not the courtesies of this great capital
extended to other candidates, all of
whom have done as much for Topeka,
as the only good man. the man from
Atchison.
The morning paper of Topeka the