The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-03
Third District Muss in Mont
gomery County Is Peculiar.
Rival Villages Each Have a Con-
gressiOnal Aspirant.
NOT PUBLIC SPIRITED.
Newspapers in Home Towns
Oppose Both Men.
One a Waterworks Attorney -
Other Opposed Paving.

A bitter fight for the home delegation
has already commenced in the Third dis
trict congressional contest in Montgom-
cry county. 1t has developed very pecu-
liarly. in that a. Cherryvale paper is
supporting an Independence candidate,
and an Independence paper Is practically
supporting a Cherryvale candidate.
A fire brought it all about. The fire
was last Saturday night 1t happened in
CherryVale and owing to trouble between
the city and the waterworks company
it is claimed the fire protection was not
ample to control the flames
The two opposing candidates for the
Third district congressional nomination
from Montgomery county are A. L. Will
son of Cherryvale and o. p. Ergenbright
Of Independence: and the man who gets
have a good show for the nomination.
But he will have to fight for the home
Since the fire last Saturday the Cher
ryvale Clarion, which has been and would
naturally be for it's townsman. A. L. Will
son, has como out with an editorial in
which it says:
cry county Republican chosen to repre-
sent this district in congress and in order
and hearty support to q. P. Ergenbright
pre-eminentIy At him for fort the exalted posi-
ton. He is big Drained, big hearted and
give a splendid account of himself If
chosen as the party's standard bearer,
is for MI. Ereenbright the, Clarion as
sumes g. position hostile to the candidacy
but who has forfeited every right to a
delegation from his home town and every
Rep l or Or not. We dislike to Oppose
a home man. but when that man cares
zens than for an attorney fee; when he
win Jeopardize the lives and property of
interests of an eastern corporation, he
must look elsewhere than to the Clarion
All things being equal. we are for a
Cherryyale man every time. ana we would
the way of our giving him hearty support,
but all things are not equal in this case,
taking up the cudgel on behalf of Cherry
vale, believing that her citizens will APP
the grimy hand that has so long smitten
them,
her, but il she would Else to meet the
exigencies of the present and the de-
for ali sit down. good and hard, upon the
enemies within her boundaries, whether it
the hired Hessians who stand ready to
write her doom for a mere pittance. The
work by sending a delegation to the
county convention for o. P Ergenbright
Wilson stands about as much show of
as Aguinaldo. would. and he is about as
much entitled to the support Of Cherry
=
Now the Independence Reporter, which
would natural lily support Mr.. Ergenbright,
turns against him on much the same
grounds. Commenting on the Clarion's
fight on Wilson it says:
1.-THE Reporter believes that a lawyer
who owes all he has to the community
or city in which he lives should not take
a case of a public nature that in it's pro-
gress or elimination brings injury to his
Te h FEELING eh aga G f Mr. Wiison arises
from the fact that a disastrous fire oc
CURED in Cherryvale while the city was
quarrel with the water company for whom
he is attorney. Mr.. Wilson had a legal
and professional right to accept money
from the water company for his services.
Lawyers have piles of rights and preroga-
tives that other citizens do not possess.
lawyer can sell his influence to do up
and generally regarded as not out of
place. If any other citizen. or a newspa-
per, would do the same thing it would be
bribery
but to come to the point: If Cherry
vale turns down Mr.. Wilson's aspirations
for congress because he is engaged in a
should turn down Oliver Perry Ergen-
bright for the same reason. Mr. Ergen-
bright has been a tireless fighter OF the
greatest public Improvement independence
for us as an advertisement than almost
anythings else could do. Our paved
streets is the Improvement referred to. he
and his associates have represented a nh
nority against this paving who would go
out into the streets and begin tearing it
c city II COUNCIL eny land and they have fought the
whole town, and they are still grabbing at
straws with which to sustain themselves
assuming that the Cherryvale papers
line of reasoning is right, Independence
should turn down Mr.. Ergenbright forth
with"