The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-21
Anxious. to Attend COncOrdia
Banquet Next Week.
Too Late to Stop Bailey Siam
pede in Fifth.
RILEY ADDED TO LIST.
County Convention InstructS for
Nemaha County Man.
There Will Be I2I Delegates
Elected Saturday.

Senator Burton is coming home from
Washington. His friends would like to
have the people believe that his only
purpose in coming is to attend the Con-
cordia banquet This statement brings
broad smiles to the faces of the know
ing ones.
State Treasurer Frank Grimes re-
ceived telegram from him to that eff
feet last night. The telegram read:
L will attend the banquet at Con-
cordia. May be in Topeka Monday or
Tuesday"
Those people up there have been
writing and wiring invitations to Sen
ator Burton for the past month to at
tend their banquet" said Mr.. Grimes
this morning And they have been
writing to Mr.. Reid here in my office
to get him out there. They intend to
make it a sort of Fifth district and so
intend TO have a big time. They nave
invited all the state officers to attend
and of course they invited Mr.. Burton,
as he is a Fifth district man. All
know about it is this telegram which L
received last night"
Mr.. Burton's opponents declare that
he is coming home to try to head off
the Bailey stampede
The way in which the Fifth district
Burton's home-has been going pell
nell to Bailey this week has frightened
the Burton machine. 1t had confidence
in its ability to hold most of the Fifth
district in line for the feld''-at least
it expected to be able to prevent in
structions for Bailey. The gauntlet
was thrown down for a battle in the
Fifth, and it was said that as the Fifth
district goes. so goes the state
An order was sent out from Abilene
by the Burton machine and published
in last Sunday mornings papers that
the Fifth district should not instruct
in the gubernatoriaI contest but should
I-a ErrH solo In, he. iyfra ae+ of
their home candidates for state offices.
Bailey took up the gauntlet with the
result that every county in the Firth
which has held a convention thus far
has declared positively in his favor,
even placing him ahead of the Fifth dis
trict candidates, although the home men
will doubtless receive the solid support
of the district.
This is what has started the cold
chills to chasing one another up and
down the back of the Burton machine.
There is no telling where this instruc-
tion business viii stop. But if Mr.. Bur
ton is coming home to head off the
Bailey stampede in the Fifth district,
his coming will be a little late, and be
sides, it might do no good anyway. By
the time he gets here every county in
the district except Cloud will have held
its county convention In the past
Cloud has generally been considered
more favorable to Burton than any
other county in the Fifth except his
own. Dickinson county.
a conference in Topeka next Wednes-
day and Tuesday to try to devise a
plan to prevent the nomination of
Bailey.
w. ]. Bailey added only one more
county yesterday to the long list which
has declared for him for governor. This
may not seem very much, but in view
of the fact that it was one hundred per
cent. it was considerable. Riley county.
with eleven delegates TO the state con-
ventiOn. declared for Bailey for gov
ernOr. Coleman for attorney general.
and Wilson for state auditor.
1t has been expected that Riley coun-
ty would elect a Bailey delegation, but
that it would be uninstructed. A tele-
gram received last night from r. J.
Brock. one of the delegates elected to
the state convention. stated that the
convention not only declared for Bailey
in its resolutions. but that each delegate
also pledged himself to vote for Bailey.
Congressman Calderhead was OF
course endorsed and regarding state
candidates the following resolution was
unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That the Republicans of
Riley county in convention assembled
hereby declare that we recognize in w.
]. Bailey, candidate for governor. q. {,
Coleman. candidate for attorney gen
eral, and d Y Wilson. candidate for
auditor. men of true Republican char
acter and sterling worth, and hereby
declare that we favor their nomina-
tion and commend them to the favor
able consideration of the delegates this
day elected to the state convention"
The delegates elected to the state
convention are: c. f. Little, G. ii
Failyer, r ]. Brock, John r Hessin
NJ s HillerstOn. Jesse White, James
Hess. s. c. Baker, w. F. Peter. Andy
Sweet and Alex Palmer
To attend the congressional conven-
tion at Clay Center, the delegates
elected are as follows: w. s. Elliott
Peter Skow, Carl Engel. Robert Walk
er, F. NaWter H V Leighton Geo
Knipe. Charles Schreiber. Fred Dial q
J. Meyer, L N. Flint
George E. Cole has now denied that
he is connected with any guberna toriaI
syndicate. He made the denial in Kan
sas City last night Mr. Coles friends
nave felt confident that he had not en-
tered actively into any deal having for
Its special purpose the defeat of an in
dlvldEal candidate, but the fact thar
the field managers and that Mr.. Cole
mas not heretofore entered anv denial
OF the alleged combination, has Injured
him over the state
A few of Mr.. Coles friends now claim
that the story of a Syndicate was
originated by the opposition to hin, fo,.
the special purpose of hurting him in
dividualy and creating sympathy for
Bailey. At any rate Mr.. Cole has now
entered specific denial of the connbi
nation following the example of F. A
Enrisht- Denials from the other can
dfdates, including ''the fieldp mana gers |
can now be looked for 1t is not he
neVed that H B. Miller has ever ac- |
lively allied himself with the combina- |
that Troutman. Richter and Cole made
a common fight against Bailey in Jack |
son county and were successful.
Mr.. Cole left last night for the Third 1
district, which viii probably be solid |
Tor MIN in the state convention, giving /
him LA DELEGATES in q bunch He viii