The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-26
OTermyer Boom For Governor
is Apparently Growing.
May Be Nominated as a Straight
Out Democrat.
A TRADE FOR HARRIS.
Would Promise to Send Him
Back to Senate.
White and Wellington Are Still
After Reeder.

There is something doing over on the
Democratic side of the house. Topeka
anti-Repubncans have sprung up Davlu
Overmyer for governor. and sent Out
word that they mean it,
This is not all. 1t is asserted that d
deal is in progress. if not already ce-
mented, to run Overmyer for governor
next. year. on the Democratic ticket, anu
that the Populists will come in as DEM
ocrats. Their part of the bargain IS
that w. A Harris shall be reelected
United States senator 1t is taken as
assured that if Overmyer could De
elected governor the control of the leg
islature will be had also. These moves
are cropping up right on the heels or
the knockout blows that have been
rained on the fusionists lately They
made haste to pick up new organ
when the light of the Kansas city
Times went out and the whisper be-
gan going around as soon as the DEM
OcratS were awarded their olo pidce u
second column on the of1clal baliot-
I guess that's right" SAID A NJ;
Harvey when asked if there was deal
on to head the ticket with Overmyer
and work for the reelection of Harris.
"Overmyer is by far the one Democrat
in Kansas who is closest TO the Fop-
ulists. I guess you will find every Dody
The Populists want Harris to go back,
and the legislature can be elected 10 90
the trick
The delegation that was here a few
days ago to select an official organ is
reported to be in on the deal, and Ma
tional Committeeman Johnson and
Mack Love, state chairman, are re-
puted to be cognizant and not object
ing.
Ex-State Senator Anson Cooke will
likely be a candidate for the legisla-
ture in Mitchell county on the Popullst
ticket Tt is also reported that the
Prohibitionists will get behind Cooke If
he makes a start for the place
All three of the Sixth districts candi
dates for congress appear sanguine OF
nomination. Congressman Reeder's
friends claim that his chances have
materially improved in the last few
weeks and that his denomination is
foregone conclusion Hays White as
serts that, as far as he has been
through the district, he has met with
solid encoura cement, and thinks be-
yond a doubt that he will capture the
delegates from Jewell, Smith and Nor
ton counties as we'll as some of those
in the short grass country. Il am In
this race to win says Mr.. White. Ed
Wellington has recently taken a tour
of some of the western counties, anu
returns home satisfied that he is the
sure enough winner. He visited Lin
coin, Rocks. Osborne, Norton, De
catur Rawlins. Cheyenne and other
counties, and feels elated over the
prospects. Some prognosticators among
the Republican politicians claim that
the congressional nomination goes the
way that Osborne county goes Others
are equally certain that Lincoln county
will decide it
When he becomes collector of internal
revenue shortly ]. NJ Simpson will give
the place of field deputy in the Fifth
and Sixth districts to John Randolph,
of Clyde, succeeding Parrott. of Clay
Center.
Lieutenant Governor Richter inclined
his ear unto Pat Coney two minutes in
the Copeland lobby last evening and he
has been kept busy ever since explain
ing that he has not Joined the boss
busters
Kansas is to have one member of the
women's board of managers of the ST
Louis exposition and Mrs Belle E
Everest, of Atchison, is to get the posi-
ton The national commission names
the women's board and it's members told
the Kansas commission last week that
Kansas should have one member and
the state board at once recommended
Mrs. Everest.
Congressman Calderhead is visiting
each county in the Fifth district to
learn the needs of his constituents be-
fore returning to Washington about No
started
some time ago over the Big Seventh
on the same kind of trip.
r. NJ. Richart editor of the Columbus
Courier. is here for the political confer
ences. booming Congressman Curtis on
the side. and telling Governor Stanley
what big mistake he made in not MAX
ing him (RicharD oil inspector but LET
ting s. NJ Spencer work along al the lob
without announcing a reappointment.
Richart Is warm friend of H G
n1c l.
sons why the young representative from
Coffeyville is the man to run for CON
gress in the Third district. Says Editor
Richart: For this reason his paToa is
Dooley. Dooley is also the name of the
most verbose of E P Dunne's Mr.
Dooley and Mr. Hennessey Irish dialect
stories These stories are sparkling
fountains of horse-sense philosophy The
farmers of Montgomery having heard of
H G Dooley a great deal are of this
opinion that he Is the Dooley who holds
the conversations with Mr. Hennessev
and the Kansas City Sunday Star has a
great sale in Liberty, Drum Creek Faxvn
Creek. Sycamore and Parker townships
in Montgomery county. Fred Wander
grift who has an easy berth with tbe
Star, and being unable to account for
the immense sales of the Sunday Stars
in the above particular localities investi-
gated the matter and found that the
farmers are buying the Stars for M
Dooley's stories They worship Doo1ev
over there He is strong man.
P. P. Campbell, OF Pittsburg. is an
nounced to be lin the race "Owins.
to the fact that the announcement
was made in haste from the ,eoio- Of
the state treasury's hot air chamber
there was an important omission made
in telling what Mr. Campbell. of Pitts
burg, was in the race for. From prece-
dent the omission can probably be sup