The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-28
LYING ON THEIR ARMS.
Political Activity in Chase County
About at a Stand-off.

COtfOuwOOd Falls. Oct. 2S.-BOth CEN
traI committees in this CChase) county
seem to be slumbering. Not very much
of an effort has been put out by either
to run a red hot campaign The Pop
ulist leaders confidently claim that they
will carry the county for the state tick
ct by from one to two hundred votes.
This will be less than the majority OF
two years ago, but they claim that 1t
will be proportiOpately as large when
compared with the total vote of that
time. The total vote of 1897, one year
ago, was 400 votes short of the number
of votes cast the year before NO very
large meetings have been held in the
county by either of the parties during
the present campaign. The local cOun-
ty situation is complex. The POpulists
and Democrats had a good deal of trOu-
bic in fusing on their county ticket and
finally when the POpulists gave the
Democrats two places on their ticket
they put on one Of the nominees of the
Democratic convention but the other
Democratic candidate on the POpulist
ticket is not the same who is on the
Democratic ticket. Hence there are
three men running for county attorney.
The Democratic county ticket is even
more OF a curiosity in the shape of a fu-
sion. 1t contains the names of the
Populist candidates for representative
and superintendent of schools. A DEM
Ocrat IS run for clerk of the district
court and county attorney and the Re
publican candidates are run for probate
judge and county commissioner
The Republican county ticket contains
K6DuDuCan
convention came very near nominating
Con- &C. W) Harvey, the nominee Of
the Democrats and POpulists.
There is an old feud in the Republican
party here. The sides are referred to
as the Breese- Morgan and the Cochran
HOlinger parties.
The division grew out of the election
of f p. Cochran to the office of county
attorney some years ago. He did not
administer the office to suit S. A. Breese
and w. A. Morgan and they turned him
down for denomination. Cochran ran
on an INDEPENDENT ticket and since that
| time there has been g party split at ev-
cry election. Lately this breech has
been accentuated by the appointment
of w. H. Holsinger as postmaster. w.
A. Morgan was confident of getting it.
These local fights will probably not
effect the outcome of the state tickets
as everyone seems to be about as they
were two years ago and if there have
been any converts made by either party
they are very still about it.
Lester Cochran, chairman of the DEM
ocratic central committee said: 7
think that this county can be safely
counted for the fusion state ticket by
100 votes"
w. S. Romigh, chairman of the Popu-
list central committee said: Il think
everything is all right for the state tick
ct. I can't say by just how many"
W. E. TimmOns of the Democratic
committee said: 'fThe Democrats are all
right and will vote for the fusion state
ticket. There will probably be l. 700
votes cast at the election. There are
about $50 or 300 Democratic votes in the
county and from so to 100 Silver Repllb-
lcan votes. They viii all vote about as
they did two years ago. I have not
heard of any changes
W. A. Morgan, who is one of the Lead
ing Republicans in the county said to a
friend not long ago that Chase county
was SO close it would not give either
ticket 25 votes.