The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-04-10
WyandOtte County Republicans
Angry at Enright.
Claim He is Trying to TRADE
State Delegation.
WANTS A JUDGESHIP.
Would Also Like to Land Part
ner as Postmaster.
His Authority to Name Dele
gates May Be Revoked.

All sorts of trouble is breaking loose
in Wyandotte county, and the politicians
down there are not backward about
talking about it when they get away
from home. The delegation from the
Kansas City, Kan. Commercial club,
which was in Topeka Wednesday, told
all about it.
In the first place there is an insurrec-
ton against Z. A Enright, Wyandotte
county's candidate for governor. There
are several hundred politicians who
want to go a delegates to the state con-
ventiOn. but only forty of them can
have their ambition il this direction
gratiied. Enright has the naming Of
the delegates, but he is delaying naming
them as long as possible. He wants to
be sure they will stay by him when he
selects them because Wyandotte county
delegates have a reputation for lining up
for somebody else when they get to the
state convention.
But the fellows who want to go to
Wichita and WELD a little ''infiooence"
think that Enright is putting off nam
ing his delegates for the sole purpose Of
using them to get something else beside
the Republican nomination for governor
They say he is to trade the Wyandotte
delegation for the district judgeship for
himself and the Kansas City postOffice
for his law partner, q. S. Sartin. If
there is any trading to be done they
want to do it themselves and there is a
revolt in the air. There is already talk
of calling the county central committee
together and revoking the authority
given Enright to name his own dele
gates, and calling a convention to elect
them.
A. L. Berger. who was one of the del
egat1ons In Topeka yesterday, said last
night before leaving for home;
The Republican party in WyandOtte
county is utterly demoralized, and could
it be expected to be otherwise? Here a
state convention is coming on, and the
40 delegates from our county are still
unknown. Their identity is a secret and
viii remain so, I suppose, until deals
are closed by the managers of syndicate
candidates for governor and our post
office parcelled out by those who are
not residents of our county even. Had
it been known that the 40 delegates
from Wyandotte county were to be
used for commercial purposes am sure
that Mr.. Enright or any other Republi-
can would have been permitted to name
the delegation to the state convention.
It seems very strange that just as soon
as one man is permitted to name his
deIega ton to the state convention these
| syndicate managers begin to work for
/ these 40 votes and in return for them
! they give our postofflce away, or rather,
promise it.
This thing of appointing a receiver
for the Republican party in Wyandotte
| county was tried once and you know the
/ result-we lost the congressman and all
the county offices, and there remained
| disorganized party It took US four
years TO recover from it.
THE result of one man choosing his
1 delegation to the state convention and
! entering into deals for his law partner
/ with outsiders for pOstn aster is simply
/ using the delegation for commercial
/ purposes, and the rank and file of the
party won't stand it. Can You guess
why we are demoralized2 I speak for
myself, and BRIEF canvass OF RepuD-
hcanS who are not hunting for an office
/ will confirm my statement: the custom
of allowing one man to name his dele
cation is at an end, for the party can
not stand private delays made by prl-
Vate persons for private purposes, and
| by persons not residents Of the county,
We can run our own affairs, and prom
/ ises by others for our postoffice are dis
tasteful to the decent Republicans of
/ the county"
The county central committee gave
/ Mr.. Enright the authority to name the
| Wyandotte county delegation, and it is
argued that 1t can revoke that author
/ ity and call a convention to name the
/ delegates instead.
In the second place the postoffice row
continues to increase the revolt against
I Congressman BOWersoek- There is talk
/ of organizing an nti-Bowersock Re
publican club in Wyandotte county for
the purpose of defeating BOwersocks
reelection to congress Wyandotte
| county is a great place for reVOltS any
way, and it doesn't take much to start
one A few years ago there was an
anti Buchan Republican club and a
j great many of the Republican leaders
/ were active m bers of it. It split the
/ Republican party in Wyandotte county
wide open. Some of the Republican
leaders are now prophesying that Wy
/ andOtte county will give a majority of
from. /, 500 to 1000 against Bowersock,
whereas he carried the county two years
ago and the defeat on the county ticket
is also expected. AS Wyandotte county
is the biggest one politically in the Sec
/ ond congressional district. it cuts con-
siderable figure