The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-04

and will make desperate effort to elect
him. They put up only four Candidates
on a county ticket and will center their
The other three are: Sheriff. S. Perkins,
the present sheriff; county clerk, Robert
Porterfield; county commissioner, Geo.
White.
Congressman Miller is reported to
have suffered small defeat in the
organizat ton of the Morris county Re-
publican central committee Saturday
For several years Congressman Miller
has been accustomed to name the chair.
man and secretary of the committee.
but when he made his recommendation
Saturday they were turned down ana
Mayor Stickel was elected chairman
and Joseph Freshman, editor of the
Council Grove Republican, was made
secretary.
up the following ticket: Sheriff. Will
liam HOdson; treasurer, Thomas Crotts;
county clerk. Mack Ross; register OF
deeds. Joe Haines; clerk of the court.
George Sain; county attorney, James
McKinstry; county superintendent D.
E. Krehbeil; probate judge, c.. w. j.
Olmsted; surveyor, Alva O'Hara; coro-
asr, DR.. Ives; representative, Eighth gia
Eightyfirst district. Joseph Sheron.
Judge ]. T. Burris for several years
on the district bench in johnson and
Miami counties, has been nominated
for the legislature by the fusionists of
Johnson county. The Populists and
Democrats each nominated half of the
county ticket, and Judge Burris comes
nominated S. G. Long for probate
judge; A w. Crawford, register of
deeds; George T. Little, county treas
urer; Price Hendrix, sheriff; c. g.
Hoge, county attorney, and Fred S.
Pickering for surveyor. The Democrats
nominated j. T. Burris for representa-
tive; Lee Bowls, clerk of court; W. A.
Mahaffie, county clerk; Maude EClavin,
county superintendent; DR.. j. Sloan,
coroner, and ]. A Young, commissioner
of the First district
Congressman Long opened his cam
palgn for reelection as congressman
from the Seventh district at Cimarron
Saturday. He will campaign through
the western end of his district for the
next two weeks.
w. J. Bailey spoke at Fulton. Bour-
bon county, Saturday. The occasion was
a WoOdman picnic and there were
about 1000 people present W. H
Craddock, the fusion candidate for gov
ernor, was also expected to be present,
but he was not there.
Over in Atchison county the Populists
adjourned their county convention Satur-
day and went bodily into the Democratic
convention, on invitation from ex-Gov.
Click. and voted Democrats. They stip-
ulated that their choice for representative
from the country district and for county
superintendent be nominated. which the
Democrats conceded. The principal inter-
est was over the nomination of Bailie
Waggener for member of the legislature
against Captain John Seaton. Waggener
was nominated and will make the race.
The full ticket named by the Democrats
was as follows: Representative, city dis
trict, B. P. Waggener; representative,
country district, Peter Laughlin; sheriff,
Elias Graves; county attorney P. A. Mox-
perintendent. Miss Ina Martin; county
treasurer, M. c. Morris; coroner. DR.. c.
F. Howe; county surveyor, l.. 8. Here
ford; register of deeds, Fred Lawless; pro-
sioner, DR.. 6. W. ALBANIAN; clerk district
court, H. N. Killen; county high school
trustees, j. H. Cavanaugh and B. d. Zin-
norman, David House, jr., Jacob Roger,
and ]. B. Smith.
convention to nominate a legislative can
didate in the south district of Cowley
county Saturday in the shape of fist
fight between two delegates. They were
Lien" Harmed and Norman Barker. They
quarreled over Barkers right to vote but
were separated without much damage.
There spirited contest over the NOM
nation of candidate for the legislature,
and twelve ballots were taken without re-
suit On the thirteenth ballot o. S. Glib
nominated on the fourteenth.