The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-16


spoke at length about 1.-The dignity of
labor quoting scripture on the subject
He urged that Kansas. ought to send
full Republican congressional delega-
ton to congress at the coming election,
and elect a legislature which would give
him a Republican colleague in the SEN
ate. Coming down to local matters he
said:
Men are nothing. principles are
everything. Principles, ideas, control the
world. Vote for principles, If you must
fight, do it at the right time There IS
a time when it may be a good thing for
Republicans to fight Republicans, but it
isn't after the nominations have been
made Maybe you don't like the nomi-
nees, but be a. Republican 365 days in
the year. have voted for men l did
it again this fall
Captain Philips. as chairman of the
Shawnee county Republican central
committee. took occasion to contradict
some statements made in a Topeka pa
per yesterday 1T has been my policy
in this campaign not to answer newspa-
per articles" he said. .but l want to
say something. regarding some state
ments in this paper. 1t says that we are
about to give up our county campaign
and that what we have made has not
amounted to anything, and that we have
been working only for two candidates
AS to whether we are about to give up
our campaign, / want to read this list
of meetings." Here Captain Philips
read a long list of Republican meetings
for the next two weeks. 1T is a fact"
he continued. that we have been hold
ing great many meetings and they
have been well attended. and we have
been working il the interest of all can
didates."
John Curran and Charles McCrum,
secretaries of the fusion state commit
tees, think they have a joke on Hill +.
Wilson, assistant secretary of state. 3.
d. Adams was nominated for represen-
tative in the Meade-Seward district by
the Democrats, but no Populist conven-
ton was held. He filed his nomination
with the secretary of state on an old
blank which is not legal now. Mr.. Will
son called the attention of the fusion
secretaries to the matter. and they sent
Mr.. Adams new blank prepared by
the attorney general, which was duly
filed in the place of the old. one
Curran says Wilson took this to be
Populist nomination and so entered it
in his record, and Adams was certified
down as Populist nominee instead of a
Democratic, The error was discovered
yesterday and Mr. Wilson's attention
called to it. Mr.. Wilson insisted that a
Populist nomination had been filed for
Mr.. Adams, but Curran insisted that no
Popuflst convention had ever been held
Mr.. Wilson could not find any Populist
nomination papers for Adams and
agreed to correct the error
The fusioniSts also claim that the
nominations of c. H Apt, of Pratt. for
that of T. H. Grisham. but that he has
been certified down as Populist candi
date instead of a Democratic.
Secretary of State Clark makes the
bald statement that Secretary Curran
lied in his testimony before the supreme
court in the GriSham case. Curran said
that he had told Secretary Clark that
Grisham was nominated by the Demo-
Gratis first. Clark says that he was out
of town on the day that Curran filed
Grisham's Democratic nomination and
that Curran never talked to him about
any nomination except that of William
Striker.
The Populists of Shawnee county-or
rather the Peoples party-attempted a
coup late yesterday afternoon, which,
had it been successful. would undoubt-
eddy have given them temporary pos
ately after election and would have
given item the. county. treasury for a
whole year
In a number of counties over the state
the PopuIists have nominated their
county ticket for both long and shor [
terms for those offices in which the pres
ent incumbents are holding over a year
by virtue of the biennial election law.
Assistant Attorney General Clayton has
held that there are no vacancies to be
filled by short term election, and he
has instructed the county clerks of the
state that it would be useless to place
short term nominations on the ticket
Some of the fuSiOnistS believe the BIZ
ennial election law makes a vacancy to
be filled in this election, and yesterday
afternoon Allen & Allen applied for an
alternative writ of mandamus in the
supreme court, in the name of J. O.
| Brintnan, the Peoples party candidate
| for register of deeds, to compel County
| Clerk Wright to place the three Fec
| pies party nominees for register, treas
urer and county clerk on the official
ballot. The court refused to consider
the case, however.
If the supreme court had decided that
| there is a vacancy to be filled it would
have caught the Republicans mapping
as they have made no nominations for q
Eshort term and could not now make any
/ Consequently the Peoples party can
didates would have been elected for tbs
short term. which in the case of register
and county clerk would have lasted only
until January, when the regular tern
| begins, but in the case of treasurer the
short term would have lasted until next
October
ed a record in the supreme court. 1t
was filed. presented to the judges, de-
cided, Judgment entered and costs paid
all within five minutes.
The Wichita Eagle believes that part
/ of the state should be given the United
States senator because the eastern por-
ton has always had both senators. Its
geography is little off in locating Abb
| lene within hundred miles of the Mis-
souri, river. 1t says:
Political equity and a decent regard
for local amenities it seems to us would
concede to southwest Kansas the next
United States senator from this state
For more than thirty years, or ever
since Kansas was admitted. all of he1
United States senators have beer
chosen from the northeast quarter OF
| the state. The home of no one of these
from Pomeroy and Lane down to Har-
ris and Burton has been more than &
hundred miles from the Missouri river
! 1.-THE homes and interests of nine OF
them were situate within few miles OF
the east line. The result has been that
the material affairs and personal polit-