The Topeka state journal., 1902-03-31

l his row with Ewing Herbert over the
| Hiawatha Dostoffice. it is reported that
| he has come out for Bailey for gov
ernor. For the past few years Sch1l-
| ling has been an ardent hater of Cyrus
| Leland, and for that reason he schemed
| to carry Brown county against Bailey
! in the primaries a few weeks ago, but
now he has Topped to Bailey in order
| to be against Herbert.
Clay county Populists will be against
fusion, no matter what the state at
large does. At least that is what ex-
Senator George w. Hanna says, and he
generally knows. NO matter what is
done on the state ticket, or what other
Populist ticket in the field said Sem
ator Hanna THE Populists of my
county do not intend to surrender to a
handful of Democrats. We have
about 1,S00 PopuliStS in Clay county
and only 100 Democrats, and we do not
propose to let the tail wag the dog. The
dog will either wag the tail or it will
go bob-tailed.''
1t seems that the Craftsmanship of the
Fifth district Republican congressional
committee has not been settled after all.
1t was given out after the convention
at Clay Center last week that the re-
election of Chairman ]. B. Case as
member of the committee from Dickin-
son county meant that he would be re-
elected chairman of the committee,
the principal fight against Case was in
his home county But there has not yet
been an election and the anti-Case fac
tion is booming Senator Fulton. of Mar
shall county, Congressman Colderhead's
county. Mrs. Forter. Mr.. Calderhead's
sister and one of his chief political ad-
visers. was friendly to Case al the con-
Vention last week. and it was reported
that Mr. Calderhead himself had re-
quested the reelection of Mr.. Case.
1t looks as though Ergenbright is in
r. i ~
sional race. He has Montgomery and
Labette counties solidly behind him,
with a probability that he will get a
portion of Neosho and Cowley.
Somebody has started a boom for
'Bill'' Sapp, of Galena, for the Demo-
cratic nomination for governor. Sapp's
chief recommendation is that he has 2
barrel and is not afraid to open it.
Here is an item about a candidate for
governor which is not political but it
will probably be of interest to the ma
jorfty of Kansas voters regardless of
politics. 1t is published by the Jewell
Republican, which is given to hunting
up items like this:
Mr.. Bailey of Nemaha county, who is
a candidate for governor, says he raised
$ 600 bushels OF corn last year. That the
hot winds killed the tassel and after that
the rains came and the corn filled out.
But he says he has tested this corn and
Iowa for ali his seed this year: Vet. he
says hundreds of bushels of this kind of
corn is being shipped over the state for
seed corn
The Mitchell county Republican conven-
ton Saturday elected its delegates to the
state convention with special reference to /
the denomination of Judge Ellis for asso- |
ciate Justice and no preference was eX-
pressed for governor. In the Sixth district |
congressional fight the county is decidedly |
for Reeder. The delegates are Clark A. /
Smith. William H. Mitchell Frank Ho- |
bart. S. H. Dodge. H. F. Burke. l. d. |
Young, A W. Robinson, w. F. Ramsey, |
H NJ. Ingraham, Joseph H. Hill.
Ellis county instructed for Hayes B. |
White in the Sixth district congressional /
fight. The state delegation is divided be- |
tween Bailey and Richter. 1t is composed |
of T. K. Hamilton. William ShrinkIer Hill !
p. Wilson and D. Robst-
Osborne Farmer: 1T begins to look /
very much if w. J. Bailey. who seems |
to be the peoples choice for governor. will