The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-30
WAR MUTTERINCS.
d. A. Low Opens Campaign For
National Delegate.
Would Be Representative From
the First District.

The politicians are discussing with
much interest the rumor that NJ. A
Low, the head of the Rock Island rail-
road in Kansas, has permitted his
friends to start him in the race as a
candidate for delegate to the national
Republican convention next year from
the First congressional district.
This action on the part of Mr.. Lows
friends has had the effect of setting the
politicians guessing. They are unable
at this time to determine what the ulti-
mate result of this plan is calculated
to bring about. For this reason the
rumOred candidacy of Mr.. Low IS being
discussed with an unusual interest
Some of Mr.. Lows friends have been
besieging him to become candidate
for delegate at large and thereafter
enter the race against Cyrus Leland
for the place as national committee
man from Kansas, which Mr.. Leland
now holds and seeks for another term
of four years.
1t is said that Mr.. Low has declined
to enter this kind of a fight but some of
his close friends in Shawnee county
have made the announcement that he
will be a candidate for delegate from
the First district.
The first question the politicians ask
is: (which side of the congressional
complication will Mr.. Low be identified
with?''
One of Mr. Lows friends said today:
1T is strange indeed if Mr. Low can
not become a candidate for position
as one of the delegates to the national
convention without allying himself
with the factions which have pushed
the congressional fight upon the people
of this bailiwick year in advance of
the time when it should come. Mr. Low
as a candidate for delegate does not
necessarily have to identify himself
with Curtis or Bailey to win, yet he
has the full and free right to enter the
contest and to refrain from entangling
himself in the controversy which is
now going on"
Mr.. Low is well known to be one of
the Curtis managers and one of the
advisors of the Shawnee county candi-
date.
It is admitted that if Mr. Low has
anV ambition to go to the national con-
district he will be chosen in spite of
any complications in the congressional
fight
Some of the men who are closely
identified with the First districts af-
fairs assert positively that Mr.. Low
goes into this contest for the purpose
of adjusting some political obligations
incurred during the past year. This
condition gives ground for the sus-
picion in the minds of the Republicans
that Mr. Low and Mr.. Leland may come
together under this new plan, in a con-
test which will be memorable. Some of
Mr.. Leland's friends say that Mr.. Low
makes this move the preliminary step
in plan to get on the national COM
mittee. Others say Mr.. Low has no
such design. The claim is made that
the Low-Leland forces will be arrayed
in battle by next spring and if this be
true. it is then suggested as a logical
result. carrying the fight to the national
committee contest will follow.
Mr.. Low is not a talkative man and
while he is keeping quiet about this
whole affair. the other fellows are doing
some powerful guessing and the mys-
terry which pervades the rumor only
adds to the discontinue of the Republi-
cans who would by the very nature of
things become opponents of the idea.