The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-04-21
ARE ALL THERE.
Sixth District Congressional
Candidates on Ground.
Norton is Already the Scene of
Excitement.
-~ - - -, - - ~.
LOOKS LIKE REEDER.
His Friends Claim He Has More
Than Enough Votes.
People Exerting Themselves to
Entertain Visitors.

Norton, Kan. April 21.-Reader. White
and Wellington, candidates for congress
in the Sixth district, are here already.
all busy lining up their forces as they
arrive by trains and other conveyances
Norton already presents an animated
appearance. and it now looks as though
this convention viii be the political at
traction of the year 1902 This town, too,
is the home of State Senator E. V. Pc
terson, Bank Commissioner Elmer E.
Ames. Chief Clerk Of the Penitentiary
john G. Brown, ex-state senator and ex-
member of the board of charities Frank
Lockard, who is also postmaster of Nor
ton, and Judge John r. Hamilton. of
the Seventeenth district, all of whom
are political drawing cards. Besides
there are rumors of a lively scrap going
on Tor the legislature between Col C.
d. Jones and John c. Cornell present
county clerk. which is made so on ac-
count of the contest for United States
senator
Upon careful canvass of the entire
p counties in the Sixth congressional
district by the friends of Mr.. Reeder,
the situation has been summed up as
follows There are u counties which
have elected 72 delegates solid for Reed
er's nomination, of which the large ma
3ority are instructed. OF the uninstruct-
ed delegates from the remaining coun-
ties there are q who are the personal
friends of Mr.. Reeder, and have pledged
him that they viii do all in their power
to secure his nomination, which makes
a total of SO votes for him, or II votes
more than are necessary for a nomina-
ton. Out of all the other delegates who
are elected to the convention and are
friendly to the other candidates.. and
who no doubt will cast a complimentary
vote for the other candidates, more tha1
half of them are the personal friends of
Congressman fReeder, and are for him
for a second choice. hence it is believed
by the friends of Mr. Reeder that they
cannot possibly be handled in any com
bination against him, so that they loo.x
upon Reeder's denomination as a fore
gone conclusion.
A meeting of the congressional COM
mittee has been called to meet in Nor
ton at 10 o'clock tomorrow, for the pur-
pose of investigating the cause of the
eontesting delegations from the coun-
ties Of Osborne and Decatur, and for
the further purpose of taking such ac-
of the Republican party of the district
The call is signed by both the chairman
aud secretary.
The people of Norton are determined
that none of their guests will go home
dissa atisfed, and While 1.-The hotels are
running over homes have been thrown
open that all who come viii find Sleep
eatables and drinkables like tea, coffee
and clear, sparkling water from the
Prairie Dog creek II there are any
dissa tisf1ed ones after the convention
is over it will only be those who went
into the contest and came out of it
second best or worse
The state aggregation of candidates
for office, together with representatives
from the daily newspapers, viii arrive
tomorrow evening.