The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-09-29
Sixth DISTRICT NOTES.

part o1 the country
SIXTH DISTRICT NOTES.
The HIN city Recorder has Hoped
It has hauled down what portion of the
Republican ticket It carried and sub
stituted the Populist state ticket.
Jonn >. Dawson. bond clerk In the
state treasurer's Office. carries this law
card IN the Hill City Republican. This
leads his friends to believe that he has
a kind hankering for Graham county.
and Sixth district politics.
Sixth district fellows are in 1t with
both feet. Must be that Gov. Stanley
is counting on considerable strength
from way out there At an irrigation
congress to meet in Colorado Springs
October 4. that district won out with
eight delegates as follows: Charley
Smith county; J. F. Morse. Phillips
county; Alvin Law, Graham county:
w. G. Russell. Russell county; J. w.
Berry, Jewell county; w. L. Cham
bers, Rocks county, and Congressman
Reeder, Phillips county.
Capt w. H. Mitchell was reelected
chairman of the Mitchell county Repub-
lican committee. When he was first
was in the hands of the Populists: today
the Republicans have the majority OF
| them. including treasurer. clerk, attor-
ney. probate judge, register of deeds
anu MEMBER OF the 1c&lSlaLuTe. ana this
fall they expect to lick the platter clean
Capt. Mitchell is an organizer as well
as one of the shreWdest politicians and
earnest, hard workers the party has In
the state. He Is capable of filling any
Office in the gift of the party in Kan.
sas-
F. J. Knight. the Republican nominee
for county attorney of Mitchell county.
is brother of E. s. Knight. who is
holding down desk in the office of
Secretary of State Clark
II Gov. Stanley is to appoint man
to fill the unexpired term of the late
Judge Ellis from the Sixth district he
will do well to consult the friends of
John r. Hamilton, of Norton county,
present Judge of the Seventeenth dis
! trict, who no doubt would accept the
honor, besides prove valuable supreme
court judge.
nounced Populist organs in the state,
headed its article on the result of the
Mitchell county Republican convention:
THE Winners"
Ex-Democratic candidate for con-
gress In the Sixth district, Duane Free
man. of Beloit, has quit politics and Is
now in the trotting horse business.
w. B. Lockwood easily won in the
Cheyenne county convention for the Re-
publican legislative nomination. He Is
postmaster of Saint Francis, and does
a banking business on the side. He Is
the fellow who has been brought for
ward by the old tumbledown political
warriors to put them on top again.
1t is said more money will be spent
In the legislative election in the Sixth
district this year than ever before. For
several years most all the counties elect
ed Populists; now there is a fighting
in many of the counties.
There Is no necessity for change of
postmasters in the Atwood postoff1ce,
but there will be one just the same.
.oI tod he
ago. Postmaster Marshall made so
faithful an official, always on time, and
keeping away from conventions, that 1t
was imperative a change should be
made And, by the way, Atwood and
Rawlins county is the home of Cy An
derson. ex-register of the Colby land
Office.
It must be that Charley Hawkins, of
Cawker City, is after something. He is
always a delegate or alternate to the
Mitchell county Republican convention.
He was one of the most conspicuous
in that county. and was thoughtful
a whoop and hurrah endorsing Tom
Kelly for state treasurer.
In the last term of the district court
of Phillips county ex-Congressman N.
B. Mccormick was granted divorce,
and the division Of property WIS amic-
ably settled.
Many of the Republican legislative
nominees in the Sixth district are young
men whose ages are from 80 to 40 years.
Notably is this the case in Phillips,
Jewell. Cheyenne, Logan, Cove, Norton,
and other counties. It would appear
the young fellows are in the political
saddle and well they are entitled to it.
Ex-Judge Clark A. Smith and F. J..
Knight, of Mitchell county, Judge Chas.
W. Smith and w. B. Ham, of Rocks
county, M. A. Chambers, of Sheridan
county, C. A. Lewis and ex-Judge w. H.
Pratt. of Phillips county, Judge ]. r.
Hamilton and L. H. Thompson, of Nor
ton county. James Reeder and Lee Mon
roe of Ellis county, and E. A. McFar-
land, of Lincoln county. are all excellent
attorneys to select from as Sixth dis
trict successor to Judge A. H. Ellis.