The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-13
DEMOCRATS IN EARNEST.
A Lively Campaign Being Waged
Against Populists in Sixth
District

Norton. Oct. 1S.-The Democrats of the
Sixth district are in deadly earnest in
trict The nomination of William G.
Hoffer of Lincoln has been dubbed a joke
gressional committee IS making. a lively
campaign for its candidate. If any re-
the POpulist nominee, N. B. Mccormick,
who seeks reelection:
dates at tbs time, an ante-election COM
pilation, to be sure. follows:
N. 3. Mccormick. POpuliSt............17 40
W. A Reeder. RepubL can............16.s7 SIS
w. G. Hoffer, Democrat. ISIS
The democrats claim that HOffer will
have $500 votes. sufficient to turn The tide
in the direction of either one of the re-
votes will come from the following of
Reeder or of Mccormick is now a matter
The Democra tic congressional commit
tee, which has headquarters in tn s city,
is hammering away industriously and is
flooding the district with circular letters
pertaining to the campaign. The most
man Charles NJ. Sawyer follows:
LAS Democrats we address you a few
of this district have candidate for CON
~ called Democratic congressional con-
vention. and as such will remain in the
e1tit1e cd ID an6 sbn95d have eve TIto Deno7
sional convention authorized the Send
ing of an address to the Peoples party
the sixth district and ali the counties in
the state, have done for the Populists in
the past and asking of them the W tn
drawaI Of their nominee and the subst tu-
ton of the Democratic nominee VIM. G.
HOffer, their ticket. This address was
wholly ignored. And instead the Popu-
lists are seeking to detract from Hotter s
vote in the interest of judicial and m nor
offices This should not be done The
trict should be kept intact. The only way
in which it can be kept so is by, voting
for VIM. G. HOffer for congress. The vote
that is given him will be the real test of
our strength A Democratic vote given
ReDuDHCan RODunSt candidates
will not injure Hoffer, but 1t viii weaken
and destroy the Democratic party in this
Through the active assistance of Dem
ocrats the Populsts have been enabled to
sena tors, state leg slators innumerable, five
appellate judges and many d strict and
county officers. And desp te this show ng
and nowhere in the state have the Dem
Gratis stood more Loyalty with the Popu-
more consequence than road overseer or
1T is time to stop this headlong career
of burying the Democratic spirit in the
papty " Of the Peopleohe mass masgsesthrough
out the land; it is a national body; it will
sndqTe as hong the 6gHe no it Mt Mt
cease to exist soon. It is dead in Maine.
Alabama, Georgia and Arkansas. 1t is
finishing its career in Kansas
Now is Democracy's crucial time. Let
g g9H and show to our conrad through
out the state that there is at least one
Kansas district Wnere me 6, De ems ra{i re-
the spoils-hunting ofhce-seeking horde
lowers of Jefferson and Lincoln.
There is only one true party of Jeffer-
son-the Democratic party. And the way
to show our Democracy and compute the
number of Democrats in the Sixth dis
trict Is for every man who calls nself
Democratic candidate for congress nom
mated in a Democratic convention, by
Democrats. and on Democratic plat