Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-12-07
Political Potpourri.

glasses. He has accepted" an in
yitatIon to serve as q member of the
committee to arrange an appropriate
national celebration of the establish
ment of the seat of government at
Washington, D. @. The committee
holds its first meeting at Washington
December 81, and the governor will
be present. This celebration is being
planned under the authority of an
act of congress.
Grant Hornaday's aspirations for
congressman-at-large received a Sc
we're jolt when the fusionists took his
county -Bourbon-awey from him.
Cy Leland had taken kindly to Horn
aday's candidacy, bnt the boss sell
dom picks out man as recipient of
his fsvors who can not control his
own county. The fusionlsts elected
every man on their ticket in Bourbon
sounty.
The returns from Bourbon also es-
tablish that s. o. Spencer, state oil
Inspector, is statesman without any
following in his own bailiwlck Gov
erner Stanley thought, by picking
out two of the latest Offices at his
disposal, oil Inspector and chat man
of the board of charities, he had
Bourbon county fixed. Spencer is
the statesman who uses a cYclometer
to test ''how many degrees of foreign
heat there are" III gasoline, and adds
that "wheYe it gets above ITO It's
combustion"
Squire Lit" Crum is also in deep
Disgrace. He was credited with car
rying Labette county around in his
vest pocket, but Fog" Edwards,
populist, was not elected sheriff of
Labette county, but walked all over
his opponent in Oswego, the home of
Crum, and Parsons, the home of Pete
Foley.
Judge Postlethwaite and Superin-
tendent Hancock Of the reform school
also failed to do any good in Jewell
county, as republican majority of
year ego was reversed, and the fus-
iouists elected four out of seven
county officers.
Mort Abeugh, of Kingman county.
chairman of the republican state CEN
trail committee and receiver of the
Gross bank at Emporla, is another
republican sub-boss who lost out.
His county lepudIated the entire re-
publican ticket and is back once more
firmly in the fusion column. A chair
man of the republican state commit
tee who can't keep his own county
lined up is false alarm in Leland's
eye. It Is matter of jest around the
Copeland that Albaugh did about as
we'll in Kingmsn county as Syl Dixon
and Andy Richards combined did in
Sumner county.
The defeat of the Stanley appoint
ees and the republican managers" is
the rule all along the line. Frank
Brown, secretary of the republican
state committee, and Judge johnson
of the court of visitation, combined
couldn't prevent their county-An-
derson-from piling up fusion ma
iority.
Two good places were given to
Franklin county in the selection of
Henry Allen for the governors pri-
vate secretary and Charley Ridge
way to be assistant superintendent of
insurance, but the fusionists carried
Franklin county by an old-time ma
jority.
Insurance Superintendent Chulch
of Marion county was appointed ia
order to sppesse the republican bosses
in that county. and for the first time
since the war fusion sheriff and g
fusion commissioner was elected.
The normal republican majority ID
that county is 1.500
The appointment of Brother Me-
Kenzie" of Wyandotte county to be
grain Inspector was rewarded by the
defeat of the republican district Judge
and the loss of portion of the county
ticket in Kansas City, Kan.-saline
Union.