The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-18

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The Wathena Times says that not a
single one of the present state officers
was soldier in either the civil or Span
sistants' positions in the state house are
filed by Spanish-American veterans
though. Captain Clad Hamilton is as
sistant attorney general and Captain
Albright is deputy bank commissioner.
There are veterans of the civil war on
the supreme bench and Lieutenant Gov
ernor Richter is also an old soldier and
there might have been others If they
had been old enough
Col. E. c. Culp is in the race for state
auditor in dead earnest He will make
the race on his old soldier record, which
is a good one. Culp has been out of
politics so long, though, that he VIII
have a hard time breaking in. A dozen
years ago he was a prominent figure in
the Fifth district, but he got a taste for
expoSitions while occupying high po-
sition at the Chicago worlds fair, and
has been giving his attention to that
line OF work since. In the meantime a
new generation has come into control
in the Fifth district Culp was near
relative of Lew Hanback,, who was in
congress as a congressman at-larSe
from Kansas years ago and later rep
resented the Sixth district. Colonel
Culp claims that he will have an in
structed delegation from Saline county,
Notwithstanding the fact that Judge >.
J. Osborn is also Sprinting after a place
on the state ticket In a letter to a To-
peka friend Culp says; This county
viii instruct for me and no one else.
This you can bet on. And predict that
our next state convention will have
some old soldiers in it, On the other
hand a prominent Salina Republican,
who was in Topeka this week, said that
neither Culp nor Osborn would get the
Saline county delegation. There seems
to be a disposition to knock on both
Osborn and Culp both at home and over
h. f-fr- OF hT,f oil inil
rule say that if James A. Kimball, OF
Salina, who has a small boom for lieu
tenant governor after him, viii make
the race, either for that or some other
state office, he can get a good support
There is not much probability that KIM
ball will do that, however. He is pay
ing no attention to his boom for lieu
tenant governor. As a matter of fact,
Kimball cannot afford to be candidate
for anything. He has a position with a
big wholesale company in Sa1ina which
pays him as well as any state office
would, and he could scarcely spend the
time to be lieutenant governor. His
dabbling in politics extends only to be-
ing a member of the state central COM
siding over local conventions now and
then.
Senator Fitzpatrick, of Sedan, has
come home from Washington to look
after his congressional fences in the
Third district, which W. H. SprouI had
been tearing down
Here is an opinion handed down by
the Douglas Tribune: "Vayor Parker of
Topeka, who has just been given the
office by the supreme court, is said to be
the only Democrat ever elected to Office
In Shawnee county. He is the logical
Democratic candidate for governor"
While this may be true. the Tribune is
several miles off about Mr.. Parker be-
ing the only Democrat ever elected to
office in Shawnee county, though he
was once before elected register of
deeds. There have been several Demo-
cratic mayors before Mr.. Parker.
Candidates for county offices are al
ready beginning to announce up in
Osborne county As the announcement
cards will probably be run until sum-
mer the candidates will get the worth
of their money.
The Downs Times denies that it is
opposed to Dave Hanna's candidacy for
lieutenant governor. 1t says it "is
against those fellows who visit a coun-
ty once in six months and then get in
terviewed and tell just how the county
is going"
1t is possible that in all the array of
congressional candidates in the Third
district the name of the successful man
does not yet appear. The Arkansas City
Traveller intimateS that Cowley county
may yet spring a candidate of it's own
JeffrieS, of Winfield, who will speak at /
the Kansas Day banquet next week,
has been mentioned as a candidate, but
he has denied the imputation. The
Traveller discusses the Third district
situa ton at length and says: The
field is now full of candidates and with
scarcely an exception they are capable
and worthy men, but unfortunately
each one of the candidates have oppo-
sitiOn in their respective counties. In
Cherokee, Skidmore and Wheatley are
contesting for the delegation The enc
mics of Wheatley seem as Virulent and
as they were during
the campaign of 1900. Montgomery has
two candidates-Ergenbri and Will
SON The newspapers have lined up for
their choice tnd are veneering the Oppo-
sition candidate with excrement from
the cutters. Fitzpatrick and Sproul rep
resent Chautauqua county in the war
dance for political preferment. p. p.
Campbell, of Crawford county, is being
opposed by the friends of the late John
Randolph. Percy Willets, of Wilson, is
kept busy lodging the corn knife WELD |
ed by Senator Burton's friends, because
he entered a protest against the remov-
al of DR.. Blakely and the appointment |
in his stead, a life long Democrat as
deputy internal revenue collector. With |
the disturbed condition of affairs in La
bette county, there is no prospect of
the Republicans of that county lining
up for Kimball or any other of its citi- |
Zens."
1t looks as though the entries in the |
contest for attorney general might be |
about closed. Harry Bone has formally !
announced his candidacy out in the |
Seventh district and if he can switch |
Mccullough of Harper from the track !
ne viii have solid delegation from
that part of the country. Judge West |
will have a great part of the eastern |
portion of the state behind him, and c. |
&. Coleman has the northern part pref |
" Wen lined up 1t looks as though it |
would be hard for a new man to break |
in with a boom of any great proper |
tions.
Sterling Bulletin. "Since Dave Mu1vane |
has been mentioned for cabinet position. |
some one has commenced look IN his |