The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-06
LINE is DRAWN.
Long and Curtis Fight It Out
in Brown.
Direct Issue is Made on Senat-
Orial Question.
BOTH SIDES ACTIVE.
All Of the Candidates Are Pop
ular Men.
Items About the Politicians and
Their DOingS.
BOTH SIDES ACTIVE.

Tomorrow the Republicans Of Brown
county viii express their choice for Dni-
ted States senator. The expression win
be indirect, of course, but it will be just
as clear cut and decisive as though the
voters were voting directly for United
States senator.
Tomorrow the Republican primaries
in Brown county Will be held to nomi-
nate county ticket. and the principal
contest is over the nomination of cam
didates for the legislature in the two
Brown county districts. 1t is probably
the Warmest fight ever experienced in
Brown county. The only issue is the
election OF the next United States sena-
tor. It is Curtis against Long. Each
of two candidates in both districts has
declared himself, one for Curtis and the
other for Long. A third candidate in
one district is maintaining a neutral
policy.
The contest is SO warm that the
Brown County World, Ewing Herbert's
paper, devotes nearly all of its reading
matter in its first seven pages this week
to making fight for the Curtis candi-
dates.
In the Hiawatha district Simon Fraser
is the Long candidate, and s. E. Brown
the Curtis man. Both are ex-sheriffs of
4 Brown county NJ. G. Ham, the third
! candidate, is non-committal, and the
/ fight is between Fraser and Brown. In
the other district, T. c. Honneu is
candidate for denomination in the inter
! est Of Curtis, and J. Nj. Robbins is OPP
/ posing him A peculiar feature about
4 the situation in the south district is
! that Robbins is a son-in-law Of Honnell,
against whom he is running.
There are no personalities entering
/ into the fight All the candidates are
said to be good men, and it is simply
/ a question of whom Brown county Re
publieans want for United States sena-
1 tor
Herbert makes every appeal possible
for Curtis this week. He claims that
/ DCniphan county is putting up the fight
against Curtis in Brown county. and
says if Curtis is not elected United
/ States senator he viii remain in the
lower house and those who oppose him
! will not get any recognition from him.
0. J. Nugent is helping Herbert in his
fight for Curtis, while Captain John
/ Schilling and I. n. Smith are for the
! Long candidates.
The Brown County Republican says:
! Judge Ryan insists that he heard calls
for Governor Stanley at the Wichita
convention and Sample Newton says
/ Judge Ryan furnished some of them.
! We didn't hear a call for Stanley, but
! presume some did call for him" There
was at one time in the convention an
! enthusiastic demand for a speech from
/ Governor Stanley. It was as vociferous
as the calls for Curtis, Long or Bur
/ ton Governor Stanley was tar back in
] one corner Of the stage, and he rose and
/ said. Never mind me now. Go ahead
! with the business of the convention, and
next fall when the ticket is to be elect
! ed you win hear from me-" The dele
/ gates were making SO much noise CALI
/ ing Stanley's name that nobody heard
| him off the stage but Chairman Cole
/ heard and insisted on proceeding with
/ the balloting, as it was in the midst OF
/ a rush of business.
r. A. Levitt has withdrawn from the
race for the fusion nomination for dis
/ trict judge in the Thirtieth district com
! posed Of Saline, Ottawa, Ellsworth and
/ Lincoln counties. This gives 7. l. Bond
clear sailing in Saline county. and he
( will probably be nominated. The fu-
sionists believe they can elect their can
didate in that district this fall because
OF the disaffection in Ellsworth county
/ over the Republican nomination. The
their candidate, G. J. Evans. was not
/ given square deal in the Republican
! judicial convention, which nominated r
/ X. Rees Of Ottawa county after a dead
lock Of two days.
A big Republican ratification is sched-
Bailey win speak. Bailey has also ac-
! cepted an invitation to deliver an address
at Hutchinson on the Fourth of July.
Assistant Attorney General clad Hamil-
occasion orator he d ieHe sS t P 2i6a
/ pal Memorial day speech at Beloft last
Center has captured him for the Fourth
of July. according to the Times, ito
wrestle with the American Eagle
G. G. Clemens. who left the Populists
for dead two years ago and ran as the So
/ cialist candidate for governor, is quoted
/ BY Kansas City paper as for CraddoclS
/ It quotes him follows: THE Republi-
I cans have no cinch in Kansas this year
! / believe conditions are favorable for the
election Of Craddock for governor. OF
course the Populists have not yet held
! their state convention. but I think there is
no doubt that they viii indorse Craddock's
nomination"
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