The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-04-26
Effect Of Senator MOrrOW's En-
trance in Treasurer Race.
Will COmpIieate Situation in
the Fifth District.
A STRONG CANDIDATE.
He Has Advantage of a Wide
Acquaintance.
Made Good Record as Presi-
dent Of the Senate.

The entrance Of Senator J. c. Morrow
into the race for state treasurer will
considerably comphcate the political sit
uation It affects not only the chances
of r. T. Kelly for the nomination for
state treasurer, but it will have an i'm
portant bearing upon several other Off
ces on the state ticket
Senator Morrow comes from the Fifth
district. The Fifth has three other can
didates for state Offices C. c. Coleman
wants to be attorney general, D. Y
Wilson is a candidate for state auditor,
and Steve Osborn is after the nomina-
tion for superintendent Of insurance
Morrow's county, Washington, joins
Coleman's county, Clay, on the north
1t also Joins Wilson's county. Republic,
on the east. The three candidates are in
a bunch. Not more than two of them
can Win-pOssibly only one
Morrow has more of a state acqualnt-
ance than any Of the others Before ms
long service in the state senate he was
a member Of the lower house of the leg
islature. Last winter he was president
OF the senate He supported Burton Tor
United States senator because Burton
was from his congressional district, but
since then he has turned against Bur
ton along with the greater part OF the
Fifth district, and during the guberna-
torial contest he has lined up for Bailey.
IN ltCts ne HGlpE4 10 start TIE idAtlStAAAG
for Bailey in the Fifth district, He has
a wide acquaintance in every faction of
the Republican party in Kansas-no
more SO perhaps, than Mr.. Kelly, but
more than any Of the other candidates
from the Fifth district
There is already a Long Curtis fight
on in Brown county. 1t has generally
been supposed that nearly all, if not
quite all, Of the First district would be
solid for Curtis for United States SEN
atOr and it was not supposed that any
one would make an open fight on him,
but the row over the Hiawatha postofdce
has brought out a Long candidate for
the legislature. Before the pOstofhee
row started S. =. Brown and j. T.
Metsenheimer were aFoWed candidates
for the legislature. B5ce-.tly he Ia ter
withdrew. and at the same time. Simon
Fraser. formerly sheriff of Brown couu-
ty, announced his candidacy, and a { the
same time said he VIII vote for Chester
I. Long for senator il he is elected. So
the contest for county nominations in
Brown county win really be a contest
for United States senator.
funny story is being told in con
nection with the recent contest in the
LeavenwOrth county primaries. W. A
Thompson, formerly deputy warden of
the penitentiary. and John Dudley went
over to LeavenwOrth from Topeka to
carry the primaries against Bailey
Some practical jokers spread the report
among the slum element in IeaVenW0rth
that the visitors were W. A. I. ThOmp-
son and Guilford Dudley two Topeka
bankers. and that they were ready to do
the right thing" by voters who wanted
to turn an honest dollar or two by vOt-
ing against the Bailey ticket. AS a con-
sequence Dudley and Thompson We're
kept busy all the time they We're there
interviewing men with votes to sell
The Hutchinson News makes the fol-
lowing estimate on the standing of the
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