The Topeka state journal., 1902-11-18
BREAKS IT OFF.
Stanley and Long Friendship
Suffers Rupture.
Governor Reported to Have Com
bined With Burton.
NJ II E0 NENHr nnnuH
MAKES A NEW MOVE
Helps Hire Lawyer to Beat
Long Man in Barber.
Interest in the Contest Contin.
ues to Increase.


point where the friends and managers"
of the various candidates are maintain
ing close watch over the movements
| Of the others. OF course this watching
business has been in progress for some
time, but it has not been so pronounced
as 1t is at present Now each set of
managers is watching all the others, try
ing to find out where combinations are
being formed and attempting to head
them off.
The latest bugaboo in the Long camp
is that Stanley has formed a combina-
tion with Senator Burton. A Long
watcher saw Burton and Frank Grimes
go out to the governors residence Sun
day before Senator Burton left for
Washington but nobody saw them come
away. The report spread that Stanley
and Burton were holding a conference
and probably forming a"combination."
This is the third combination that has
been formed for Stanley since he an
nounced himself for senator. First the
Curtis people insisted that he had an
understanding" with Long. few
weeks ago the Long people discovered
combination between Stanley and
Curtis. and now they fear one between
Stanley and Burton.
The Stanley camp has its bugaboos
too. The report is constantly reaching
the Stanley people that some of their
own number are really not for Stanley
but are only pretending to be, SO that
they will be in position to lead the
Stanley strength to Long when the leg
islature meets Then the action of ].
c. Q. Morse. whose election as railroad
commissioner, and one or two others who
are under obligations to Stanley. in de-
serting him, is not comforting to Stan
leyS friends. and it naturally leads to
the suspicion that there may really be
idence.
The strife between Stanley and Long
has come to a head over the Barber
county contest where the anti-Long
forces allege that Long is trying to steal
the election of his member of the legis-
lature. Barber is Longs home county.
and the other candidates made a great
deal out of the fact that Longs legisla-
tive candidate failed to carry 1t. Now
Nixon, the Republican candidate, has
secured writ of mandamus to compel
the county commissioners to count him
Is votes in one precinct, which would
make more than the total number cast
in that precinct.
1t is definitely known that Stanley is
putting up the funds for the fusion can
dldate to fight Nixon'S mandamuS, which
indicates the degree of bitterness engen-
dered.
While at present the little strife be-
tween the Stanley and Long followings
has the center of the stage because both
, are from the same congressional district,
+ the opponents of Congressman Curtis
are by no means inactive The Leaven-
worth Times is continuing its fight on
him personally and never loses a chance
) to say something to the detriment of
Curtis
A peculiar thing about Curtis
! strength is that much of it comes from
politicians who have no members of the
legislature to influence. For instance,
there are Congressman Miller and Reed
er, both of whom came to Topeka on
terviews simultaneously declaring them
l selves for Curtis. In the recent cleo
ton both of them lost the members of
the legislature in their own counties In
Morris county Miller lost Robert Ray,
the Republican nominee for the legisla-
,ture whom Miller's influence had in
structed for Curtis. and in Phillips
county Reeder not only lost his nominee
for the legislature but failed to carry
the county himself.
The Curtis crowd is trying to make
sentiment for Curtis and against Long
by making comparisons of their con-
gressional records which shall be favor
able to Curtis. Then again the COM
plant is being made that the two prin-
cipal sources of Longs strength comes
from Missouri.
Long has two elements fighting for
him." said an anti-Long man TODAY.
"One is his Sev enth district machine
and the other is the Missouri Pacific
! railroad. Cochran, the general solicitor
of the Missouri Pacihc wants to be a
power in Kansas politics and he is us
, ing the Missouri Pacific influence,
, tnrOugn Baife WaSgener, TO Send Long
to the senate. He lives down in st.
Louis. The head and brains of Longs
Seventh district machine is Charles S.
Jobes, president of the American Ma
tional bank in Kansas City. These are
: the two dominat ting forces in Longs
strength-one in St. Louis the other
Kansas City. and both in Missouri
Senator Robert Findlay of Rice coun-
! ty, who has been claimed by all three
of the senatorial candidates, came to
Topeka yesterday and has given it out
that he will vote for Stanley. Hereto
fore his position has been doubtful, all
I though it has been supposed that he
would vote for Curtis. He had to con-
l. test for his seat in the senate two years
ago and it was largely through D. w.
Mulvane's influence that he was seated
and the Curtis people have been claim
ing him. The Long people have been
q claiming him because he lives in the
= Seventh district, and the Stanley forces
= have been claiming him on general
Z principles Now he has landed in the
Stanley camp.
Superintendent Frank Nelson has been
looking up the number of ScandinaVians
who landed in the recent election in the
western states and he finds that they
= did first rate. They seem TO pretty
= nearly own the state of Minnesota.
}, where they elected state auditor secre-
/. tary of state, three congressman and {.
majority of the legislature. AS a rule
they are Republicans, but not always.
The Scandinavians are an imposing
> force in the politics of the western
: states,'' said Mr.. Nelson. Among the
. Scandinavians elected to important po-
sitionS are Governor Herreid of South
Dakota, John A Holmberg, state audi
ter, Colorado; o. s. Berg, secretary of
state, South Dakota; S. G. Iverson,
state auditor, Minnesota; ]. r. Frinck
= attorney general, North Dakota; G. s.
q (silbertS0r state treasurer Iowa. Peter