The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-14
SIXTH DISTRICT NOTES.

Neither John T. Pugh. John A. Nor
ton or J. ID. Taylor would object to re-
ceiying the Republican legislative nom
ination in Osborne county The trio
have all been brought to the surface for
the honor.
The contents of a dispatch from Lin
coin county to G. n. Cole. fusion nom
inee for congress in the district, says;
We have organized a Cole club IN
Lincoln with 200 members. Lincoln
county win give you 500 majority" This
is signed by two of the most influential
Democrats of that county.
It is claimed that Col Q. D. Jones,
the Republican nominee for the legis-
lature in Norton county, IaVOrS Cover
nor Stanley for .. S. senator. At any
rate Jones is under obligations to the
governor for turning down Fred Du-
vail, of Norton, who was an applicant
for the penitentiary board or some other
appointment in the governors first
term, and who was vigorously opposed
by Jones.
The friends of John NJ. Burton, of At
wood, are anxious for him to represent
Rawlins county in the legislature Mr.
Burton is not related to the present U.
S. Senator Burton. He came to Atwood
in 1887, and has been engaged in bank
ing ever since. He has never aSplred TO
an Office. His friends believe It would
be a proud act to send so representative
a citizen and business man to represent
RaWlins county in the legislature.
A Sixth district POpulist newspaper
is so confident of the election of Webb
McNau for the legislature In Smith
county, and that the fusiOnists will con-
troll that body, that he will easily win
out for speaker of the house.
Friends of Otis L Benton, the much
abused Republican politician of ODER
lin, say they would like to see him rep
resent Decatur county in the legislature
next winter. Benton has heretofore
won in many hOtly contested political
battles, and they see no reason why ne
can't do so again.
August Beckman, q successful Ger
man farmer living near Gaylord, has
announced his candidacy for the legis=
lature, in opposition to McNal. The
Republicans win undoubtedly nominate
him
A Republican newspaper fellow who
hasn't had all the political offices he
went after, predicts Reeoer's defeat in
the Sixth district for congress by not
less than 1 400 votes
So far only a few of the good fellows
are writing to Joe BurrOW, candidate
for secretary of state, to reserve them
an office. Burrow Is the KIND OF man mar;
who won't have any strings tied to him
and to one and ali he will politely but
emphatically tell the good fellows who
want to hold down a desk In his office,
that he viii not make any promises I'M
til after he is elected.
H. r. Rima, for nj any years one OF
the leading Populists of Smith county,
when asked as to his views on the
recent fusion deal IN the Sixth district,
answers by quoting the seventeenth
verse of the sixth chapter Of Corin-
thians, and then goes on to say: please
don't take me to be half breed, or IN
any way connected with that conglon1-
Grated fusion. I therefore shake the
dust off my feet, and if God will forgive
me for past mistakes, 1 will try and dc
better in the future"
Some dissatisfaction exists among a
few Of the late Democratic candidates
I,-A
ton. 1t is said that one Of the aspirants
who failed to get his county instruc-
tons. or even received q vote in the
convention, was heard to say that
either ne or Turner ought to have been
nominated because either one of them
were good takers and debaters,
All the Populist and Democratic jour
nails in the Sixth district are standing
by Cole, the fusion candidate for con-
gress, and are saying good things about
their nom inee, who IS at present weigh
ing out groceries and measuring dry
goods in his store in Phillipsburg.