The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-26
SIXTH pIsTRICT NOTES.

Dick Picker, of the Fifteenth district,
and Chas. Smith, Of the Thirty-fourth
district. viii be reappOinted judges Of
their districts without q fight or an OPP
ponent among the members of the bar.
The most interesting political fight in
1902 may occur in the Seventeenth ju-
d1cia1 district. It viii be fought by the
politicians on one side and the people
on the other. The race win be between
John R. Hamilton and ex-judge w. H.
Pratt.
A Graham county paper accuses the
board OF commissioners of that county
as being the "'rottenest ring that ever
disgraced northwest Kansas" Just be-
cause they gerryna ndered one of the
commissioners districts to make 1t
Demo-Pop.
Sixth district lawyers L. H. Thomp-
son, of Norton; Jake Noble, of Atwood
and W. c. Don Carlos, of Colby, are
trying their luck in the new Oklahoma
territory. Each one of them have been
county attorney in their former kan
sas homes.
Ed wellington has hosts of friends
in Lincoln county. Some of the Reeder
followers in that county say If their
man can't get the delegation to the
congressional convention they will trot
out E. A. Mcfarland, who served on the
penitentiary board during Stanley's
first term, for congress just to divide
the Lincoln county delegation.
Frank McTvor. of the 1oxie Sentinel
who had rather witness a game of base
ball than eat a good dinner thinks the
politicians can bring Sheridan county
in line for Reeder for congress easily
He wants the Hoxie postOffice, which
might cause some of his friends to
think that this is causing him some
worry.
1t keeps the Sixth district papers all
guessing where Dan Dyer is going TO
land. He came within an ace of land
ing in the Smith Center postofice, dep
uty warden of the penitentiary, an Ok
lahoma land office, census enumerator
of Smith Center. and other offices. 1t
is now said he is booming Richter for
governor, Burrow for secretary OF state,
and Hanna for lieutenant governor
The Downs Times thinks all the fuss
about Sixth district candidates for the
several offices originates in Topeka.
And so it does. The statesmen from
that district go to Topeka to put up
probably jealous because they snub him
by not inviting him to their Topeka
conferences.
The indications are that F. NJ. Mar
shall will continue to write F. M. of
Atwood after his name for some time,
yet Frank E. Robinson has filed a large
petition for the Office. Oscar Turner, a
brother of the editor of the Colby Tri-
bune, would also like the Atwood post
office. The Turner editor is q fighter,
and if he fails to land either himself
or his brother he may make things
warm for some of the political bosses.
The politicians from the Sixth district
who We're in Topeka last week seem
to have been there for double pur-
pose. They went home with the pledge
in their pocket that John r. Hamilton,
of Norton, would be appointed judge
IN the Seventeenth district, so they
said. The other matter they attended
to, with the help of the Sixth district
boys who are holding down jobs in the
several state offices, was to appOrtlon
three offices from the district on the
II a
ehell county, for supreme court judge;
Hanna, of Graham county, for Heuten-
ant governor, and Burrow, of Smith
county. for Secretary of state. 1t is now
in order for all the Republicans to fall
in line and rally to their support; but
the burning question is, VIII they do
so?
Governor Stanley has been spared
from taking a. hand in another fight.
Out in Sherman county it looked as II
the governor would be called on to ap-
point Republicans to succeed Nm
Walker, Democrat, present sheriff and
Hoyt Andrews, fusionist, present coun-
~ attorney. Walker and Andrews each
had numbers in the land drawing in
Oklahoma; Walker was successful, An
dreWs wasn't. They have returned to
GOodland, and Walker refuses to file
an entry. They wisely came to the con-
clusion that Kansas and Sherman
county was good enough to live in. 1t
is said there is sore disappointment
among the Republicans who are after
their places because they didn't locate
in Oklahoma, there being two or more
candidates for each Office.
Ex-State Treasurer Otis L. Atherton,
of Russell county, has so far kept out
of the political muddles of the Sixth
district which lead many of his staunch
friends to think that he will enter the
race in 1902 for state treasurer. They
will never be satisfied until he has been
given a second term. 1t is conceded
that he can have either register or re-
ceiver of the Wa-Keeney land office,
but Atherton himself says he had
rather be state treasurer than COVER
nor. While in the treasurer Office he
landed several good jobs for Sixth dis
Esx- State Treasurer D. H. Hef1ebower,
who succeeded Anterior in the great
Populist tidal wave which swept the
Republicans out of power in the state
says of him: I desire to express ad-
mira ton for the manner in which the
financial affairs of the state have been
conducted during his administra ton,
for careful attention to matters of
minute detail. the scrupulous economy
and perfect order and the unimpeach-
able honesty and excellent judgment
which have made the two years in
which you have sustained the burden
of this official trust. models by which
the efficiency of your successors may
be measured It is not often that the
necessarily complicated financial in
terests of a great state can be so man
aged that after handling more than
twelve millions of dollars and turning
over to the incoming treasurer more
than seven millions, not a penny shall
be found wanting or a security mis-
placed. This fact, however. you nave
accomplished.
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