The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-05
WHO SHALL GO?
Question Now Absorbing the
Kansas Republicans.
Wild Scramble to Attend Ma
tiOnaI Convention.
SLATE BEING FIXED.
Men In Authority Are Discuss
ing Situation.
Some OF Those Who Would BE
Delegates.

The politicians are just now absorbed
in the work of selecting delegates from
Kansas to the national Republican con-
vention to be held in Philadelphia next
June.
June is some distance in the future
but the Kansas slate makers, whatever
else may be said of them, do not pro-
crastinate in the laying of plans and
the conception of designs on offices of
any old kind whether big or little.
This characteristic of the politician
has been demonstrated in the present
instance when the selection of delegates
to the national convention is going on,
in the minds of the f1xers at least, six
months in advance of the time when
they will be called upon to serve the
people. The convention to name these
delegates has not been called but the
state committee will soon meet and dis
pose of that feature of the preliminary
proceedings.
Kansas will have twenty delegates to
the national convention, two from each
congressional district. a total of IA
Six are chosen at large to represent the
whole state. Each delegate is pro-
vided with an alternate to take the
place in the event the regularly consti-
tuted delegate is unable to take the
place. However, the positions as alter
mates entitle the holder thereof, usually,
to honorable mention only, but this
alone satisfies the political ambitions of
many erstwhile candidates for places
as delegates.
The anti-Leland forces will make
stand in this convention to defeat Lee
lands ambition to retain his place on
the national committee. While the
skirmisherS in this contest are making
no noise, movements in the political
E,as +.N7ss -f,1, q
land is charged with having are ac-
cepted as indicative of progress in the
effort to down the boss
AS to the material in sight from
which to make delegates to the national
convention, every county in the state
has receptive candidates. Some Of
the men who would like to make the
race are being kept in the back ground
until the conditions are more fully de-
velOped but there are several men who
are talked about in this connection. To
but one man. however, is conceded, an
election at this time. He is M. A Low
of Topeka He is already counted as
one of the delegates and there will be
no opposition to his election as a dele
gate at large from the state.
Others mentioned in connection with
the honor of being one of the five re-
naming delegates at large from the
state are as follows:
J. H. Richards Fort Scott.
Newt Allen, Chanute.
D. w. Finney, Neosho Falls.
]. r. Burton, Abilene
Ed. w. Wellington, Ellsworth.
Judge Henry G. SluSS, Wichita
The candidates for district delegates
are as follows:
First district-C. D. Walker. Atchi-
son.
Second-Charles F. Scott, lola; Mayor
Frank Marshman, Kansas City.
Third-John G. Pollock, Winfield; T.
N. Sedgwick, Parsons; Mark Tulley,
Independence; ]. P. Bradley, Sedan.
Fourth-S. B. Roehr, Burlington; r.
T. Battey, Florence; T. B. Murdoch Ell
Dorado.
Fifth-W. W. Caldwell, Concordia; J.
G. Morrow, Washington.
Sixth-Joe Burr, Smith Center: Dave
Hanna, Hill City.
Seventh-W. c. Edwards, Larned, ex-
secretary of state, and Judge Frank L,
Martin, Hutchinson.
In the event there should be some
pronounced opposition to J. r. Burton
he will get out of the way. His can
didacy is at this time more in the nature
of a 'feeler' and a gauge of the senti-
ment of the people concerning him.
1t is said that Morrow of Washington
in response to a request came to Topeka
late at night and left early in the morn
ing one day last week after a confer
ence with Mr. Leland in which Morrow
was asked to make the race for dele
gate at large from the Fifth. What was
agreed upon is a subject which the poll
ticianS are not at this time able to de-
termine.
Marshall and Geary counties sent del
egates to the national convention at
Minneapolis. Saline, Riley and Ottawa
were honored when the delegates to
that Washington, Cloud, Republic, Clay
and Dickinson shall choose The vaay