The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-06-15
POLITICAL GOSSIP
John c. Carpenter Is Still At
tracing Attention
Who Is to Run For Congress in
Third District?
FITZPATRICK SCARED.
CattIemen Raise TomahaWks
Over TwO-Cent Nuisance.
Uncle Storms Dancing to a Con-
tinuOus Hot Campaign.

tinuOus Hot Campaign.
Col. John c. Carpenters boom for
congress in the Third district is grow
ing. according to the reports that come
up from the southeastern portion of
the state. c. H. Kimba1l, of Parsons.
pulled out in short order before the
grOomers had fairly got him started
The Carpenter boomers point to this as
an example of keen wisdom on the part
of Kimbau and an assurance that their
man is gaining strength. Sam Fitz-
patrick came out with a card, too, de-
clining the temptation with thanks
Cherokee county has two standing can
didates, but not much has been heard
from them lately. George w Wheatley
had his best chances blasted, however,
by the spared m monument" Col. Dick
Blue is regarded as too recent a Third
district acquisition to pull a convention
his way, notwithstanding his place
close to the Burton throne and his ad-
vantage of a term of service as con-
greSsman-a at-large. With Fitzpatrick
and Bradley dormant, Chautauqua
county is as effectively out of the way
as Cherokee and Labette- Henry Clay
D0Oley, of Montgomery, and Percy Will
Iitts of Wilson, are a brace of avowed
candidates holding their own. The ter
rible stigma of anti -Burtonism has
been prOdded into Willitts not little
to the credit of no one. If Willis has
the stuff in him that some of his friends
think he has. he will get up and go in
and win.
Fitzpatrick's climb out from under
the shadow OF an impending nomina-
ton is not all because Senator Carpenter
was thrust under the same shadow
law upon the cattlemen, and the signs
are that the aggTieved are camping or
the trail of the Chautauqua statesman.
III spend a thousand dollars TO square
fr~. 1af no n "a r
tleman from that neck o the woods
said in Topeka this week
OF the four men who, with or without
success, run for governor on the Pop
ulist ticket, John BreidenthaI is the
only one still living in Kansas. Level
ling is dead and Leedy has gone to
Alaska
Apropos of the Populist jaybird and
Dem Ocratic robin who fought over the
Topeka avenue cherry tree and
wouldn't fuse, Chris Ritter, of lola,
says the reason they don't quit fighting
and fuse IS that there is g. Republican
polecat on the roost."
Harry Richter is as German as his
name, but that does not prevent
western Kansas editor from crossing
wires and indulging in these few re-
marks relative to Richter's boom for
governor: 1T would be a wise, grace
ful and polite thing to recognize our
Swedish fellow citizens by elevating
one of their number to this high posi-
ton"
Failure to secure a railroad pass
keeps a certain state representative
campaign hot and still a-heating out in
the short grass country. There has been
a continuous campaign on ever since
the incident occurred in the tail end of
all the districts. Morton and Stevens
counties comprise the 125th representa-
tive district. There are 240 votes all
told in the two counties and an election
by so majority is as big to that district
as 500 in a Tammany ward
George H. Storms was elected by the
Republicans last fall by a majority Of
eight votes. He served his maiden term
with all the abandon of an old hand at
the business. In appearance Uncle
Storms might be picked up by bunco
steersr if he should go to the metrono-
lis like he walked down Kansas here
this Week-Shirt sleeves, vest flowing
open, wide-brimmed hat, gray, dusty
and faded, and struggling grey whisk-
ers pointing away from an honest red
face. All that lacked was a, straw be-
tween his teeth to complete the model
of rural simplicity But Uncle Storms
is not so guileIess as he looks. He is
lust as ShreWd as the next short grass
statesman and the chances are he will
be back next term, Notwithstanding his
erstwhile opponent is kicking his heels
plumb against the sky all the while I'm
gone. l 'spect," as Uncle Storms re-
marks
Dalton beat Storms by three votes in
Stevens county and Storms wiped up
the grass roots with Dalton in Morton
county by eleven majority. Dalton is
spending a good part of his time look
ing for five votes. That's all he needs
to accomplish his revenge. Storms at
tracted attention last winter by fighting
the BotHin claim tooth and nail but it
is on one of his local bills that the fight
er is plugging. This bill made the land
in his district free range. This suits
the cattlemen, while it nags the agri-
culturists, who are few, a bit, because
it necessitates the fencing in of their
crops. So the battle wages.
I'll beat him yet" says Dalton.
NO. he won't retorts Uncle Storms.
"if get the nomination again