The Topeka state journal., 1901-06-22
Richter May Be Burton Candi-
date For Governor.
Talk of Wilder Metcalf Showing
Signs of Weakness.
RESTING ON LAURELS.
Boomers BIandly Refuse to Dis
cuss Situation.
New Republican Daily Paper at
Fort Scott.

It is reported that Harry Richter is
to be taken up as the Burton candl-
date for governor. Col Wilder s Met
calf, of Lawrence, q young politician
of much popularity and congenial quail
ities. has been regarded all along as tine
candidate being groomed by the Burton
crowd. The quiet way in which Richter
n has been mixing. the bland confidence
Of it and the continuous performance
nature Of it lends color to the whisper
that has been dropped in one or two
places There was some such under
standing alleged when the presiding
officer Of the senate made up his COM
1nittees last winter, and the talk is be-
ing revived again. though Kansas has
not been IN the habit of promoting the
lieutenant governor
A Burton man was asked if it was
the intention to throw Metcalf over
He replied:
oh. it's not a case of throw-Over
Colonel Metcalf is a. good fellow and
ambitious. He would make a good gov
ernor. no doubt I suppose his boom
IS carried along on his personal popu-
larity. I do not know whether it viii
last TIL the nominating convention
Reports from Wyondotte are to the
effect that Representative Joe Butler,
who gained more notoriety in the last
house as a resubBissiOniSt and anti
WOman's suffragist than any other one
of the pestllential minority. is not
growing thin on his laurels, but is the
same Woodworking cooper. Joe is
making barrels at Armour's. Most rep
resentatives luring the reign of the fx-
ers made barrels of Doodle from Ar
mours and the like. but Joe Butler, in
this twentieth century of Wyandotte
county Democratic honesty is making
barrels at union wages
S NJ Scott. who a few years ago was
q Populist leader in the Fourth dis
trict. and who made such big strike
in the Beaumont oil boom that he let
his house in Emporia go under the
ham mer because he was. too busy to
lift the mortgage, has discovered a
new process for the manufacture OF
rubber from the oil that is produced in
the Beaumont district. Mr.. Scott said
last night that he has a process by
which hard and soft rubber can be
manufactured from old rubber mixed
with Beaumont OIL He also claims to
have a process for manufacturing
asphalt from Beaumont oil mixed with
other materials and says that several
blocks of this paving have been laid in
Chicago. This paving. says Mr.. Scott,
is constructed of a material manufac-
tured from Beaumont oil.
There is talk Of new Republican
daily morning paper being made out
of the Fort Scott Lantern The Moni-
tor was sufficiently impressed with the
rumor that it made an offer to buy the
Lantern but was too late, being told
that the paper had been sold to J. n.
Stout, of Neosho Falls. Stout has been
postmaster at Neosho Falls and was
conducting a weekly paper there
State Superintendent Frank Nelson
returned yesterday from New York
state. where he was attending a Luth-
eran synod and the exposition. Nelson
has been cutting a big swath in church
and school politics during the duh sea-
son in state politics. First he was elect
ed delegate to the district conference
Of the Swedish-Lutheran church. which
met In Denver. That body sent him as
g delegate to the national conference of
the church at jamestown, New York.
There he was further honored by being
made delegate to the general council
of ali the several Lutheran denomina-
tfons which meets in louisville nexr
fau. While in Chicago on his way home
Thursday Nelson had a chance meet
ing with a collegemate in jackson
Park whom he had not seen since
graduation From him he learned that
Frank Nelson, state superintendent of
pubic instruction OF Kansas had. been
elected president of the alumni associa-
uon OF his alma mater. Iowa State uni
Yersltyi a week ago. The association
has over 6.0Oo members and the positio,
carries an honor of which Nelson is
quite proud
Getting breakfast in Excelsior
springs, Mo-, is something Of a task. AZ
pave Hanna and Assistant Attorney
General H B. Tracy found ont LAST
Sunday morning. A politician ,loasT5t
care about missing the first meal Of tl,s
cay any n ore than another citizen Vrit5,
western appetite Being so wen ac-
guainted with the art Of wire-pullins-
however, the politician is bette.
equipped to cope with an emergencv Of
tnis sort Tracy and Hanna found
~ ~snST experience in diplomacy inval-
liable last Sunday. They were too late
1cr breakfast at the hotel. and ~ thav
hunted up the only restaurant on tha
main street OF the village. They seat
ca themselves and ordered a chop
Pretty soon the waiter came back
from the mysterious region where tbs
kitchen is supposed to Be. she looked
distressed and nervous. She went ana
looked anxiously out the door cs-,a s,,,e
back, busted herself about the fabIe
awhile, and went to the door again
Time was dragging heavily for tha
hungry politicians. Finally one ~ +re,,.
could not restrain his impatience ana
girl: ---'e4 - ene
~ nere's our chop, Susie %
Inc girl started nervously and made
= dasn Tor behind the screen again.
When she returned she still had no
SetaDles and was more nervous than
ever; The pair demanded to know
I-I-that is-wells the cook has gone
GOWN street and-and-' she stana-
How long win he be gone?'
don't know He said he would
only be gone q minute and would he