The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-11
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Populists Will Have No Test of
Their Case.
Secretary of State Clark Places
Ticket Under Z" Democratic .
DODGES THE SERVICE.
The Papers From Judge Dale's
Court Not Served.
Items of Interest About Kansas
Politicians.
DODGES THE SERVICE.

The regular Populist ticket will not
appear on the official ballot under the
head Peoples Party" Nor will any of
the fusion candidates appear under
that head. Secretary of State Clark has
elected to place all the fusion candidates
under the Democratic heading, and the
office force in his office is already at
work certifying the nominations down
to the county clerks.
The work was begun yesterday. 1t is
quite job and will continue tor several
days, but must be completed by next
/ Wednesday. The law provides that the
nominations filed with the secretary of
state must be certified to the county
clerks at least twenty days before cleo
ton, and the twenty day limit expires
/ Wednesday.
The tickets are certified by congress
sional districts and was begun with the
Fifth district. The official tickets for
the counties in that district were sent
out yesterday. Secretary Clark himself
disappeared yesterday in order to
keep from having personal service on
him secured in the anti-fusion test case
filed by Judge Allen in Wichita Thurs
day evening. 1t is stated that personal
service is necessary in this sort of
case in order to make the mandate eff
fective. Deputy Sheriff Simmons same
up from Wichita to serve the summons
1 in the case on Mr.. Clark, but after
waiting for him for some time in his
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left the summons there. 1t is given out
that Mr.. Clark has gone to Missouri
/ ION business and will be gone for sew
eral days. In his absence Hill p. Will
son, assistant secretary of state, is GER
Trying the official nominations to the
county clerks.
State Printer w. Y. Morgan, who is
Congressman Longs right-hand man in
the senatorial fight, does not think thar
the local contests over members of the
| legislature in some counties where there
are differences among the Republicans
ought to be charged up to the senatorial
fight. He says that so far as Mr.. Long
is concerned. he is urging his friends
to support all Republican Legislative
nominees regardless of their position
with reference to senator Mr.. Morgan
said today:
''It is not fair to charge up the fac
| tional fights kept up in some counties
to the senatorial contest AS a rule the
fight was in the blood of the local
statesmen and they only needed the
drop of the hat to start a scrap. In
the first district. the factional disturb
ances are all on the old line between
Bailey and Curtis. which have existed
ever since Mr.. Curtis broke the Horton
1 agreement Nearly all of the factiona1
feeling is confined to the First congress
sional district and it has not been
fomented by either Mr.. Long or Mr.
Stanley or Mr.. Calderhead or Mr.. Bow
ersock, for it was there before the SEN
atoriaI question became an issue.
'"Then take for example Lyon county
where there was a bitter fight between
| the men who were supposed to be for
| Stanley and the men who were SuppoS-
ed to be for Curtis. The actual dividing
| line was not the senatorial question but
a local fight. Neither Mr. Stanley nor
| Mr.. Curtis can fairly be charged with
the troubles in Lyon county any more
than Mr.. Stanley and Mr.. Long can be
charged with the fight against Curtis in
Ieavenworth where again the contest
was one of local origin.
'In spite of the friction in a few coun-
ties, and there are only few I think
the numerous candidates on the Repub-
lican side for United States senator by
| giving their time and work to the cleo
ton of the Republican legislative ticket
| will make the next house more largely
1 Republican than it has been for years
1t is barely possible that two or three
districts may be lost on account of fac
tional fights, but there will be three
gained by hard work on account of
friends of the senatorial candidates to
one that is lost because of friction
The Republican national congressional
committee is helping out Congressman
Reeder up in the Sixth district It re-
alizes that he has a hard fight on hand
and for that reason it sent A. c. Rankin
from Chicago to help him. Rankin has
toured Kansas before and understands
the situation here. He was once a lee
turer for the State TemDerance union
and he is a good speaker. The national
committee will also send other speak
ers to the aid of Reeder before election
AS a rule outsiders do little good. I'VE
are glad to see outside speakers come
into the state to help the Republicans .
said J. M. Senter, manager of the fusion
speakers bureau. As a rule they will
make more votes for us than for the
Republicans Cyclone Davis is the
only outsider We could get that we
f+I, ~ IN 1.1,
and he has been making some good
speeches for US.
Miami County Republican: The Grant
County Republican, in defense of Tom
Kelly, says the finding against Kelly
is made by men who are either thieves
or do not-know anything This is the
line on which Kelly is building up his
defense where he is not known. The
men VINO made the finding that Kelly is
a thief are the county commissioners Of
Miami county = Richard Hampson,
Thomas Crawford and Capt. Reuben
Smith. Kelly and his supporters say
that Hampson is a thief or an ignor-
anus; they say Crawford is a thief or
an ignoramus: they say Capt. Smith is
a thief or an ignoramus. The only de-
fense Kelly can offer is to blaczen the
characters of honest men. There is no
depth of infamy that ne will not ex-
plore to save himself.
Holton Recorder: A good many Dem
} ocratic papers are denouncing the Re
publicans for running a man for state
treasurer who the records of Miami
county show was guilty when county
clerk, of raising county warrants and
putting the surplus down in his pocket
but. as yet have not whispered a word
in denunciation of the Democratic can
! didate for governor whom the court
records of Jackson county, Missouri
prove cheated poor widow out of $3.50
by downright lying and deception, and
was made to cough up this amount and
pay it back to her as well as the costs
of the suit a number of Republican
! (Conti1usf on Page 14.)