The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-21
ENDS TONIGHT.
Curtis-Bailey Contest Will Be
Settled In TOday's Primaries.

The Curtis-Bailey contest will be set
tied this afternoon and evening by the
result of the primaries in Atchison and
Jackson counties. If either Bailey or
Curtis should capture both counties
that will put an end to the fight.
At this time it appears that Curtis
has the better of the fight His friends
in Atchison are greatly encouraged at
the outlook, and they expect to carry
the county, and the same degree of con-
fidence is felt with regard to Jackson.
special dispatch from Atchison,
sent out last night, said:
The day has been one of more hurry,
caucusing and excitement than has
been known in AtchisOn for years. A
stream of people of all colors and condi-
tfons has been continuously pouring in
and out of the Curtis headquarters at
the Byram entertained by Judge Gill
bert, Tom Beattie and Captain Seaton-
The Bailey men, less pretentiOus, have
no headquarters except in hotel Hobbies
and on street corners, but are by no
means either invisible or scarce. Cyrus
Leland was here Friday night and hur-
riedly took in the situation and left
with about the same look of satisfac-
ton which may be read in the faces of
Curtis leaders.
Mr.. Bailey spoke at McInteen hall
tonight to a crowded house. Ex-Mayor
Kelsey presided, and after Introductory
remarks by Z. b. GerSon, Mr.. Bailey
told his side of it.
Captain Seaton made a counter play
by throwing the theater open free to
everyone. The Girl from Chilli was
on the boards, the scenes being inter
spersed with Curtis talk and music by
the MOdOc club, from Topeka The
principal speakers We're Harry Stafford
and a colored preacher from Topeka.
Every indication points to a neck
and-neck race at tomorrow nights pr1-
maries, though the leaders on each side
affect to believe their respective candi-
date has almost a clear field There
are several hundred colored voters
here and they are an unknown guam
tity in the fight. They are being
groomed and curried by both sides, and
if ever the colored voter stood high in
Atchison he does now, for eacn faction
vies in hailing him as the mobiles work
of divinity"
Many of Mr. Curtis Topeka friends
are in Atchison today to do what they
can to assist their idol.
Ed Howe said in last nights Atchison
Globe:
The writer of this mas lived in Atchi-
son twenty-five years, and been pretty
constantly on the streets during that
time. He saw more drunkenness to-
day, as a result of the Bailey-Curtis
row, than he has seen before in many
months. This is politics. No wonder
politics. One negro was reeling around
the streets this afternoon saying that
since he got out of Jail, he was the best
Curtis man this side of hell. He was
very drunk. and very disgusting. o,
politics, what crimes are committed in
thy namel AtchisOn has been particu-
larly quiet and decent for many years:
now comes this political row to disgust
the people. It would be a magnificent
thing if neither of the men responsible
for the present row would get the Atchi-
son county delegation.
Curtis measured strength with
Bailey in an Eighth street billiard hall
yesterday afternoon, and Curtis won
two to one Joe Lewis, colored, was
talking for Bailey, and a colored school
teacher nam / Green was talking for
Curtis Lewis and Green soon drifted
into a heated argument, Green throw
ing Lewis through a window st.
Paul Kelly, another Bailey supporter,
and Lewis friend, came in later to ar
que the Bailey-Curtis question with
Green. Green knocked Kelly out
through the door. and into the gutter.
No arrests