The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-05
A NUT TO CRACK.
Opponents of Bailey Are Doing
Some Thinking.
Plan to Counterfeit Influence of
Early Strength.
MILLER SHOWING WE'LL
Usage County Man Surprises the
FiXerS.
VIII Get Majority of Fourth
District Delegates.
MILLER SHOWING WELL

The politicians who are supporting
''the field" candidates for governor are
| trying to overcome the effect of Bailey
having the preponderance of delegates
thus far elected to the state convention,
by pointing to the fact that most of the
| Bailey counties have held their state
| conventions. while a comparative small
| number of the counties in which the
field candidates are strong have been
| heard from.
The opposition to Bailey point out
that Bailey has got all he can expect TO
receive in the First district except
Leavenworth, unless Troutman is de-
! feated in Shawnee. Nearly all the
| Seventh district, which is Bailey $
stronghold, has also elected its dele
gates to the state convention and they
| have been counted. 1t is claimed that
| the only place where Bailey can get any
more is in a few counties in the Fifth,
and the opposition is expecting Senator
| Buttons Influence in the Fifth to do
much towards carrying that district
| against Bailey.
! 1t is a fact, though. that Burton's in
| f1uence in his home district is prob
| ably less than in any other district in
| the state. He can, of course dictate as
| to how Dickinson country shall go, but
| it is doubtful if he has much influence
anywhere else in the district. On the
! other hand Bailey has an exceedingly
| strong following in most of the Fifth
district counties.
1t is true that more Bailey counties
| have held conventions than those of any
other candidate. 1t is also probably true
| that there are more of EN-. To be sure,
many of them are short grass counties
| and do not count very heavily in the
state convention.
In the figures presented in the State
| Journal only those counties in which
| the delegates have actually been named
were counted. This did not include
| Wyandotte county, which will give En-
right forty delegates to start with Nor
| did 1t include Crawford county, in
| ed for Cole, although the convention
| will not be held for several weeks.
Bourbon county will lead off for Cole
tomorrow and will probably give him
| its entire delegation. Not a single coun-
| ty in the Third district has yet held it's
convention, and these will probably all
/ line up for Cole.
The Sixth district conventions are still
| to be held, and these are a very IN
certain quality. 1t is probable that few
| of them will declare for a certainty how
| they stand on the gubernatorial con-
] test, most of them will be used in
! the interest of Ellis for associate JUS
| tice, Burrow for secretary of state, and
Dave Hanna for lieutenant governor.
H. B. Miller is surprising many of the
| politicians with the way in which he has
| been stacking up the delegates. 1t has
| been figured that he would not have
| many outside of the Fourth district, but
he seems to be keeping up with the rest
| of the field He will easily lead Rich
| ter in the Fourth district
| and others left for Hutchinson this af-
ternoon to attend the Seventh district
congressional convention State Auditor
Cole was in Fort Scott yesterday look
ing after his Bourbon county fences,
and will probably go out to Hutchinson
also. 1t is expected that there will be
a general round up of candidates at
Hutchinson today and tomorrow Gov
Sfarl 1axyi &c 1e sa~iI
liver address before the big grain
growers meeting tonight but he will
probably incidentally look after his
senatorial fences while there.
The Seventh district is recognized as
belonging to r. p. McColloch and Harry
Bone in the race for attorney general,
but Bone has given Judge West his full
permission to come out there, and West
in return has invited Bone to come to
the Second district convention at Fort
Scott next week. Judge West says he
| doesn't expect to fish for delegates at
Hutchinson but just wants to ''get
acquainted When it was suggested
to West that he and Mr.. Bone are put
ting up a job c. c. Coleman, of Clay
Center, their chief opponent, in making
a campaign together, Judge West de-
MED it and said Coleman is not showing
proper respect for the feelings of his
competitors, in that he is taking it for
granted that he will be nominated any
way, while they realize they must get
w. ]. Bailey was in Topeka last
night He seems to be in good spirits
over the reports from the county con-
ventions held recently and says if they
will just keep up at that rate he will
have no kick coming.
The friends of Superintendent Frank
Nelson say it is a mistake that the Nc
| PherSon county delegation is a Bailey
delegation. They say it is primarily for
Nelson and will do whatever it can to
advance his interests in the state con-
vention regardless of gubernatorial cam
didates-
1t is not likely that the Populists will
call any of their congressional conven-
lions to meet until after their state con-
vention is held The state convention
| will decide for good the question of
| fusion and the congressional conven-
| lions can then follow suit. 1t is posi-
| Bile, however, that there may be fusion
in some of the congressional districts
regardless of the action of the state
| convention. In the Fifth, for instance,
| the Democrats are booming Andrew
! Shear of Frankfort, and no one else is
| talked of, since Senator Mcmillan posi-
lively refused to be a candidate. There
will also probably be fusion in the
| Third, where the Republican opposition
has a better chance of winning than
| anywhere else in the state.
A Washington dispatch states that E.
F. Cochran, of Cottonwood Falls, is
there in connection with the appoint
ment of new postmaster for Cotton
Cochran went to Washington for the
purpose of preventing the confirma ton
of William Norton, who was appointed
a few days ago by Congressman Miller,
but he seems to have reached Washing
ton too late. for Norton has already
been confirmed.
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