The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-10
Arrangements Complete for
Bailey-Craddock Debate.
G.. b. Hoffman Selected to Pre-
side for Fusionists.
BAILEY TO LEAD OFF.
He Will Make a Brand New
Speech.
Has 20 Minutes to Close the
Debate.

C. B. Hoffman, of Enterprise, has been
selected by the fusion state committees
as the fusion chairman at the Bailey
Craddock Joint debate in the Topeka
Auditorium next Monday night. while
the Republicans have selected Captain
H. Nj. Philips. chairman of the Shawnee
county Republican central committee.
Mr.. Hoffman was the leader in the
Populist state convention against the
plan of allowing the Democratic Sarty
to swallow the PoDulists. and it has
been reported that he has been ''off the
reservation" His selection as chairman
was largely to show that he is sup
porting the fusion state ticket.
1t is expected that a little more life
will be infused into the Topeka debate
than there was at Wichita. Bailey will
make the opening speech here and it is
reported that there will be considerable
new material in it. He will talk for an
hour. Mr.. Craddock will then have an
hour and a quarter to reply. and he
will probably have to make an off-han1
speech if he replies to Bailey's argu-
ments, and Craddock is not an off-hand
speaker He wants chiefly to get his
taxati ton ideas before the voters and he
may devote himself to that and not try
| to answer Bailey. Bailey will have 20
minutes in which to close.
The anti-fusion test case was finally
| filed by Judge S. H Allen in the dis
/ trict court of Sedgwick county at Wich-
| ita at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon
| The petition is exactly the same as the
one which was filed in the supreme
court, asking for a writ of mandamus tc
compel Secretary of State Clark and
every county clerk in abe state to place
the fusion ticket on the official ballot
under both the Democratic and Peo-
pies party headings.
Da1n Of
district court, set the case for hearing
next Monday. but there IS a good deal
of question as to whether the Sedgwich
county court has jurisdiction over Sec
Tetary of State Clark and county clerks
outside of that district. This feature
will probably have 10 be decided before
the case is argued on its merits.
Judge Dale is a Democrat but he Is
! credited by attorneys generally with
being an excellent judge, and attorneys
are of the opinion that he will not al
| low p9rtiSanship to enter into his decl-
sion in this case.
Secretary of State Clark believes he
has the authority to put the fusion state
ticket on the official ballot in any way
he Dlee Ses, since the candidates have
filed no choice of which nomination they
desire to accept. He thinks he can put
| the entire ticket under either the Dem
ocratic or Peoples party heading, or he
can divide it and put part under each
/ one.
AlOmSt every newspaper in the state
/ is now warning its readers to be careful
about voting the new ballot or they Will
lolse their votes entirely, The voting
system has got to the point where it is
| altogether too complex. Here is safe
general rule: If you want to vote
/ straight ticket, make a mark in the cir
Gle at the head of the ticket you wish to
vote, and nowhere else; if you don't
4 want to vote a straight ticket, keep out
of all circles and mark only in the
squares after the names of the men you
! wish to vote for. Any other marking
will throw out your entire ballot
A rumor has been started that Chief
| Justice DOster will be offered the attOr
neyship for the Missouri Pacific made
vacant by the death of Judge Horton.
Bale Waggener will make the appoint
ment about January 1. The railroads
have greatly changed their opinion of
Judge Doster since he went on the su-
preme bench. There might be some
doubt as to his accepting the offer,
however, although it would be a very
tempting one. The salary is said to be
about $4,000. while that of chief justice
is only $1,000 a year, and there would
be considerable outside practice as the
appointee will take Judge Horizons
place in the firm of Waggener, Horton
& Orr.
Atchison Globe: Keep your eye on
Henry J. Allen, of Ottawa No matter
what he may want to be, he will some
man getting what he deserves in poll
tics. A man with a voice and a laugh
like Henry ]. Aliens deserves the first
choice of entry in realizing his hopes
He is in greater demand in the cam
paign than any other man in Kansas
| today.
The fusionists of the Third congress
sional district are taking advantage of
Congressman Calderhead's alleged pro-
trust and anti-labor speech at Beloit to
make votes against Phil Campbell, Re
publican congressional candidate in the
Third district Crawford county, Camp
BELLS home. is a strong labor union
county on account of the mining and
manufacturing interests there. Mr..
Calderhead is quoted as saying that or
ganized labor is 1.-The great atest menace
which this country has today" Five
thousand big posters have been printed
derhead and Crawford county has been
covered with them by the fusionists to
prejudice the labor unions against
are very confident that Campbell will
be elected by n good majority, and they
point to the big reception given Bailey
by the miners at Chicopee Wednesday y
night as an evidence of the fact that the
miners are with the Republican party
this year The Bailey meeting at Chic
opee is said to have been the biggest
political demonstration ever held in that
locality.
Major John Conway, the erudite editor
Of the Norton Champion has fun with
his friend Conner Davies, over the lat
ter's desertion of Populism and return
to the Republican party Conway left
the Republican party on the silver issue
in 1896 He publishes part of Davies
editorial announcing his return to the
Republican fold. and then says:
VIII they give you the glad hand,
prcdigal2 Certes. Take Hanna's trust
ful hand: take BaiIey's glad hand. or
take the softest hand we ever squeezed
that was not superfine, Charley Curtis
hand. But take ours also; take our sad
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