The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-28
Candidates Come Thick and Fast
in Spite of 1t.
FIFTH Is DISSATISFIED
Burton Evidently Can Not Con-
troll the District.
Things the Fixers Are Now
Talking About.

| the state ticket Events have made a
dent or two in it, There has been a
wavering at the top. The Fourth dis
trict stin has the call, and Fl. B. Miller
has pulled down some Of the lead Of
Harry Richter. without turning hand
himself Tom Kelly pulls a steady
stroke for treasurer, Joe Burrows for
secretary of state, and Dave Hanna
for lieutenant governor, in general
opinion.
The announcement that c. G Cole
man, of Clay county, is candidate for
attorney general has come in the nature
! of a showdown A similar showdown
on state auditor trails along not many
days behind. The grooming of Coleman
4 has been studied and careful. and it Is
/ understood is the work of Mr.. Separa-
ton Church -from-Stat Case of
Abilene 1t is said that Mr.. Case led
out Mr. Coleman only after several
| trips to Topeka and consultations with
Mr.. Mulvane and Mr. Low.
Apropos of the governorship, it is
said that the weakening on Richter IS
the fruit Of early running. There are
two or three districts that could not
be controlled for Richter at all. one
of them is Senator Buttons Own-the
Fifth. In handing out the places at his
disposal the Fifth has received moth
ing. 1t may have been expecting more
than its share because it is the home
district, but ut any rate the over
Whelming balance on the other side has
led to dissatisfaction as it is. State
Senator Cal Morrow has his Fifth dis
trict following, and his own county,
idOlizing, would accept his leadership
even against the other organization
Then too, George Clark has his friends.
In short, friends of Richter concede
that the Fifth is hopeless for him Fl.
3. Miller gets some of the petting now
that Richter IS losing his grip, and 1t
might even go to Seaton- A commend
a bic inclination is shown to take up
candidates popular with the rank and
file as we'll as leaders. The Organiza-
ton shows evidence of adopting the
man who will win and claim credit for
his election.
1t has about been decided that it is
unwise to run Frank Nelson for a third
term as state superintendent Nelson
would have liked to have it. and in order
to let him down a little on his disap-
pointment he has been given permits
sion to name the man to run for his
successor. Nelson named w. ID. Ross.
of Oskal0osa, who is his friend and q
graduate of X. u. Prof. Kendrick IS
another possibility, if his removal from
Junction City to Newton does not in
terpose an obstacle.
The auditor is to come from the Third
district for the fifth consecutive time.
Superintendent of insurance shows no
particularly available man in sight.
Luling has taken a place on the st.
Louis fair commission at the hands of
Stanley, and SO he viii have to con-
yard. Biddle is slated for a deputy
under Lit Crum when the latter is Mar
shall Crum. There is a chill around the
Office at present and no one is clutch
ing for fever and ague-
Seth g. Wells, of Erie. is the Third
district man picked to make the run
for state auditor. His home paper |
started him out in a notice yesterday. !
The placing of Wells on the slate is
supposed to be in line with w. S. F'itz- |
patrick for congress. Wells is pop
ular man in his vicinity. and the Bur
ton men figure that he can do some !
harmonizing. if with him they can cap |
ture the Third district delegation
AS to the judgeships. the programme
is to renominate Ellis, Greene and Pol |
lock. Cunningham, of the Fourth dis |
trict, is to be slaughtered to make way !
for Judge Mcfarland, of Topeka |
Henry Wasson goes on the ticket to |
get the place of Doster
Favorites are getting considerably |
less attention at present and some of |
the long-shots are forging to the front /
A DEVELOPMENT of strength for John |
finding some of the Curtis men in the |
eastern part of the First district work |
ing for him is taken as an indication /
of Wedging in against Bailey for all it /
is worth AS an Independent, Judge J. |
S West is skimming along for attorney |
general as good as the best And now !
Harry Bone IS out IOE the same place,
evidently as the anti-Burton candidate. |
avoWed and ready for a fight hide |
pendently also S. II. Kelsey will make /
a brisk run for auditor. unless the /
First district goes back of Seaton good |
and hard for governor.
Congressman Charles Scott is by all |
odds the busiest man in lola if the re
is true. This observant authority says |
that the congressman at-large keeps I
two typewriting machines and runs |
them himself When he gets tired of /
one he tries the other. He keeps thir- |
ty-tWo lead pencils, all Sharpened ready /
for use four inkstandS and three dozen 1
pens on his table and when he gets |
down to work he makes things rattle |
around lively. This is another good card |
for Scott boomers who want the lola |
man for governor
Apropos of his entry into the congress
siOnal lists against J. NJ. Miller, Thorn /
as Benton Murdoch says: I'VE were /
elected school director of Ell Dorado in /
1875, and have since been chosen to /
the state senate We do not now recall /
as having held any other office of honor |
trust in the A years we have lived /
in Kansas" To the fellows who have |
been rubbing him down the back for /
advising young men to stay out of poll |
tics and putting him on the horns of the
dilemma of being either old or inconsist-
ent Murdoch blandly replies: oh I /
don't know little the rising of 40
not exactly young-simply approaching
middle life, so to speak"
Now that the appointments of circuit
judges and commissioners to the St.
Louis fair are out of the way Governor
Stanley has a free hand to take up the
most troublesome lot on the docket of
appointments created by the supreme
courts decision on the biennial election
law. Sheriffs whose legal standing can
not be questioned must be provided for
in the several counties where elections
for such an officer should have been
held this year. Governor Stanley was