The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-12
BILLY MORGAN
Will Play the Organ = He is
Chosen as State Printer.

w. Y. Morgan, editor of the Hutchin-
son News, will be the next state printer
of Kansas, according to the decision OF
the Republican joint caucus last even
ing. The nomination was made on the
third ballot.
The proposition to hold the caucus
last evening was sprung on the Repub-
licans rather suddenly late yesterday
afternoon. The senate caucus decided
by a vote of eleven to one, to postpone
the caucus until Monday evening, ana
sent word to that effect to the house
caucus late in the afternoon, but TINS
idea did not meet with favor from the
Morgan men, who wanted 1T held last
night The members who live IN the
short grass country, who were alrnost
solid for Morgan, said they could not
get back to Topeka till Tuesday morn
ing if they went home for Sunday, as
most of them proposed doing
At length Seaton of Atchison proposed
holding the caucus at once and having
it over with A committee was appoint
ed to get the Republican senators To-
gether, and at O'Clock arrangements
were completed for holding the caucus
Immediately after supper
The caucus organized by electing Sen
ator Hessin as chairman and Represen-
tative Geissler of Logan county as
secretary. Osborn of Saline and Nc
Keever of Shawnee were appointed as
teIlers to assist in taking the vote.
There were an even hundred of the
104 members of the caucus present Ihe
absentees were Senator Fulton of Ne
maha and Representatives Adams OF
Sedgwick, Ackerman of Russell, ana
Ward of Wallace. 1t was decided that
it should require 80 votes, majority OF
all members, to nominate.
No nominating speeches were made,
but an informal ballot was taken to be
gin with, which resulted as follows:
w Y Morgan. editor of the Hutchin-
son News, SO; Arthur Capper, publisher
of the Topeka Mail and Breeze, 3S;
Charles Lands, editor of the osborne
Farmer, IA; Geo. w. Crane, the Topeka
publisher, Z.
On the first formal ballot Morgan
crept up 6, while Capper and Lands
each lost 1, and Crane lost 3. The vote
stood: Morgan, As; Capper, 81; Lands,
13; Crane, 4.
On the second ballot Morgan made, an
bis ise vote il s. = while Rands fell to TO- and
Crane gained 1. Crane and Lands men
On the third ballot Morgan received 81,
four more than enough to elect, while
As soon as the vote was announced
Brooke of Shawnee jumped up and said:
young man Who was born and raised in
Kansas s and tb as loyal rtb@I bR9puGPlean Ganaa as
gan unanimous
have been associated for the past thirty
five years. said Major Tom Anderson, "a
veteran Republican, second the mo-
ton
The motion carried with a whoop, and
the caucus broke up
The quickness with which the nomina-
tion was made was a surprise to nearly
everyone. Politicians say that it the
work of Mort Albaugh, chairman of the
Republican state central committee, who
threw all his influence for Morgan.
Billy Morgan. as he is Familiarity
called, born in Cincinnati in 1866. and
is therefore now 81 years of age. although
he does not look to be more than 25. At
the age of years he came to Kansas,
bringing his parents with him and set
tied them at Cottonwood Falls. where his
father founded the Cottonwood Falls
Billy was large enough to sit up and
hold a printers stick he took his first step
toward becoming state printer by learning
to stick type He was educated at the
state university. from which he graduated
in 1885. and after various experiences in
the newspaper business he purchased the
Emporia Gazette in 1892, but after keep