The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-02
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Half Of Republican Legislative
Nominations Have Been Made.
Any Other District.
THREE NAMED TODAY.
Miami, Republic and Lane Coun-
ties Nominate.
Fight Over Tom Kelly Is Bitter
In Miami.
THREE NAMED TODAY.


With three candidates for the legisla-
ture who will be nominated today, there
will be tonight GA of the 125 Republican
legislative candidates nominated-a
trifie more than half of them. The
counties which nominate today are
Lane. Republic and Miami
In the First district II candidates
have been nominated in the following
counties: Atchison, 2; Brown. 2; Doni-
phan, Jackson, jefferson, 2; Shawnee, 8.
There have been seven nominated in
the Second district as follows: Allen.
Bourbon, 2; Douglas, 2; Franklin, 2.
There have also been seven nominated
in the Third as follows: Chautauqua,
Elk, Cowley, 2; Montgomery, 2; Neosho.
The Fourth district has also nom
mated seven, as follows: Butler, 2;
Lyon, 2: Marion. Morris, Pottawaomie.
The Fifth district has nominated only
three, Riley, Saline and Washington.
The Sixth district has nominated
seven as follows: Ellsworth. Jewell,
Logan, Norton, Russell, Smith, Wallace.
Down in the big Seventh" 19 legisla-
tive candidates have been nominated In
the following counties: Barber, Finney.
Greedy. Wichita, Harper, Harvey.
Hodgeman, Kingman, Mcpherson, Ness,
Pratt, Reno. 2; Rice, Sedgwick, 2: Sum-
ner, 2; Scott.
There have been 2s conventions called
to meet in August which nominate rep
resentatives. Bourbon county meets on
August IA, but the legislative nominees
down there have already been selected.
Nine conventions have been called to
meet in September, and 20 have not yet
been called, but probably will be in the
near future.
The following are the dates of the
conventions as far as set:
August 2-Lane, Republic, Miami. Pri-
mary election in Miami.
August 5-Greenwood and Osborne.
August 6-Phillips and Stevens Nor
ton. Latter at Hugoton.
August 7-Meade-Seward
August 9-Johnson, Wyandotte, Staf-
ford, Barton. In Barton the primaries
will be on August 2. and in Wyandotte
on August Z.
August 11-Marshall.
August 12-Ottawa, Usage and Mem
aha. Primaries in Ottawa on August 2
and in Nemaha and Usage on August II.
August 16-Sheridan. Kearney, Dick
inson and Clay.
August 19-Linn.
August 20-Crawford.
August 21-Cloud.
August 22-Thomas.
August 23-Pawnee.
| August 301Rooks.
September 1-Gove.
September 2-Woodson. primary cleo
| ton.
| September 6-Ford and Wilson.
| September 9-Cherokee.
| September FISHERMAN. Kiowa. and
| Lincoln.
| September 24-Rawlins.
The following have not vet called
their conventions: Anderson. Chase,
| Cheyenne Clark, Coffey. Comanche De-
catur, Edwards. Ellis. Geary, Grant
f! Stanton, Graham, Gray-Haskell. Hamil-
| ton, Labette, Leavenworth, Mitchell,
| Rush. Trego, and Wabaunsee.
Down in Miami county the ticket is
i nominated by a primary election, which
J is in progress today. T. T. Kelly, nomi-
| nee for state treasurer, is making fight
| to control the county con mittee in or
| der to secure another ''vindication-' IS
| The Spring Hill New Era publishes the
| following about it
The gall OF some politicians is mon
umenta1 and Tom Kelly is one of that
! kind who has shame He is this
| week in Miami county using all sorts
| of tricks to work the primaries over
there Saturday so as to control the
| county central committee and a little
| later have it endorse Kelly, by declar-
| ing him to be all kinds of a good clean
| official with a record above the slightest
suspicion. The good clean Republicans
| of Miami county should be out in full
| force Saturday and see that Kelly s
! strikers and henchman do not accom-
| plish these designs. Miami county was
! not fairly represented by the delegation
| sent to the state convention at Wichita
| and il the Republicans allow q repeti-
| ton of Kelly's methods Saturday we
snail have to revise our opinion of the
| lHdhc Up VI lic party lHdC county
| To us it would seen that every anti
| Kelly man should manfully support
| Major Remington for the legislature as
Bradbury is known to be Kelly's tool
in disguise. 1t is up to the Republic
cans of Miami county Saturday to say
whether they endorse Tom Kelly's OF
| ficial record or not, as revealed by her
| county commissioners, who are honor
able men. We believ they will endorse
the commissioners by defeating every
Kelly candidate, from central commit
teeman to men ber of the legislature
! This is the issue, and we await the re-
suit with deep interest, as it is a state
| wide interest that they are dealing
with"
The fusionists over in Atchison county
! are holding their county conventions
this afternoon and will probably nomi-
nate Bale Waggener for the legisla-
| ture.
convention Buell., the Curtis candidate
for representative. got 81 votes, and
Dunn, the Long candidate. got lis.
Since Ewing Herbert called down or
himself the reDroacheS of a large num-
Der of Republican papers over the state
| because of his remarks advising Bailey
to call off his dogs" D. o. McCray has
| written Mr.. Herbert letter Of sympa-
thy, in which he says:
by the way, all of this trouble in the
Republican party reminds me that the
members of the party to which 1 be-
long do not call each other liars ant
| traitors. We are friends. not enemies
You never heard of Web McNall calling
me liar or a traitor and you never
heard of me denouncing Web. Our par.
ty simply agreed to get along as broth
ers. Other parties may come and go
but the Silver Republican party will e
on forever We take pride in the fac
that our membership is large and re
spectacle is large and I am re
spectacle"
i Here it is: Grant Harrington accuses
| Mort Alhaugh of being behind the mid