The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-04
P0PULIsTS NOMINATE.
Select County Ticket Leaving
Two Places Blank.

The Populists of Shawnee county held
a convention Friday afternoon at APO
Kansas avenue and made nominations
for all county offices except sheriff and
county attorney. The convention did
not endorse anyone for those offices, but
the Independent candidates, L. A. Steb
bins for county attorney and Frank
Stahl for sheriff, were conceded to have
had the sympathy of the convention.
Lee Myers, who is an Independent
candidate for sheriff without an indie
pendent party behind him, asked for the
endorsement Of the convention. but the
request was not granted. About %
delegates were present and they per-
formed the work left undone by the
county convention which met before the
ing the action of the state convention
The ticket nominated was as follows:
County clerk, e. c. Fowler
County treasurer short term, T. S.
Stevens.
County treasurer long term. W. H.
Coultis.
Probate Judge. H. c. Root.
Clerk of the district court. G. F.
Burgess.
Register of deeds, J. o. Brintnau.
E County superintendent. E. A Shaffer.
sa Coroner. DR.. a. NJ. Edison
Representative Thirty-seventh district,
l. NJ. E1Sn1eY.
Representative Thirty-eighth district,
w. r. Eyster
Representative Thirty-ninth district,
F. NJ. Boutwell,.
County commissioner First district, G.
G.. Mcconnell.
Hanley is the nominee of the Demo-
Gratis for representative in his district,
and Mcconnell is the nominee of the
Democrats for county commissioner.
No nomination for county surveyor
was made. The r0lIrtx-s frea c1IrnY r0Y11i-
nation was divided for the short term
ending in January and the long term
beg ginning in January.
The resolutions passed took a rap at
the coal situation and prodded the
other political evils. The resolutions
were prepared by w. r. Eyster, and
were as follows:
Whereas. For nearly 80 years the
dominant Republican party at all times
aided by the fossilizing element of De-
mocraey, have cried peacei peace.
where there was no peace. and
Whereas, In all that time Populists
and their ancestors in that line of DO
liucal thought have pointed with I'M
erring finger at the shadow of all those
awful and coming evils which are now
admittedly here. We do resolve as fol-
lows:
That our faith is unaIterably pledged
to the support of the doctrine of the
Peoples party as heretofore promulga-
ted at our state and national conven-
liJ1iS anu especially. we reaT1ru an al
1eg1ance to that grand principal of true
Populism, equal rights to all and spec
iaf prOvileges to none and believe that
prompt action on this line is impera-
tive
AN instance we call your attention
to the Thonstrous abuse of specia
privileges by the coal barons Of
Pennsylvania, who at this time hold in
firm cluch the miner and mine laborer,
saying work. at our price or 1.arve'
I nv eVrfr
price or freeze This condition is only
maintained by TIE granting of these
barOns, the special privilege of controII-
ing the fuel SUPPLY of the country
That we cordially endorse and will
heartily support the state ticket corrl:-
mated at the oooulist state convention
held this year at Topeka. believing that
in no other way than in the election OF
our candidates for the supreme court
can the people of Kansas obtain any re-
| lief from the oppression of the corpora
tons and TIE robbery by the trsuts: and
that any ATTEMPT at public OWNERSHIP
/ or other reforms under Republican
nomination OF. the supreme bench would
in the light OF the past be more than a
delusion and worse than a sham.
We can but view with alarm the an
archfstlc position of the executive Off
Gals of the county as regards the liquor
question and do hereby propose TO the
voters of the state that they inrnedfate ely
/ take steps to handle the business under
STATE OA 1fGISHiD mus QOfllS away with the
notification of law and take away ali
chance of gain from the traffic
We would also warn the men of mod
crate means of this state that the pro-
posed tax reform law is move to in
crease the tax on men of this class and
l VIII work corresponding reduction IN
fthe taxation of corporations and wealthy
/ individuals
Resolved, That in this county the doc
j triues of the Peoples party shall be push
| ed and promulgated with new vfgor and
that we present a county ticket of clean
men who shall make a stand for principal
for their support by every man who wish
| es to register his opposition and con-
demnation of every method of robbery
whether by change of standards. water
In the stock of corporations or the other
methods the ioascal, inevitable outcome OF
Republicanism and Cleveland Democratic
methods.
-Once make the people understand how
and of what they have been robbed aEe
triumph win be thelra"