The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-15
GALL ID IOOUEUs
Mr.. Albaugh Announces Details
81 For Republican Convention.
Total Number of Delegates Will
Be 1881.
ORDER OF NOMINATIONS
Two Year Term Justice VIII BE
the First.
WyandOtte Has 40 Delegates
ORDER OF NOMINATIONS
WyandOtte Has 40 Delegates
and Shawnee 80.

The formal call for the Republican
state convention was issued today by
Chairman Morton Albaugh and Secre-
tary T. T. Kelly, of the state central
committee. 1t makes a total of 1,O3l
delegates, one less than the politicians
have been figuring on heretofore. 1t Will
take 516 to nominate.
AS usual the Justices of the supreme
court will be nominated first, but there
will be five to be nominated instead of
only one Three will be for six year
terms, one for four year term and one
for two years. The problem now to be
settled is. how shall it be determined
which ones shall be nominated for the
short terms?
1t is generally believed that the four
members VINO were appointed by Gov
ernor Stanley, Justices Greene, Pollock,
Cunningham and Ellis, will be renoTni-
mated. but this is by means certain.
The ifth place to be filled will be to
succeed Chief Justice DoSter, a six year
term. Now the question is, how shall it
be determined which nominees shall
take the short terms?
The latest suggestion is that all the
candidates be considered at once, five to
be chosen, and the three receiving the
greatest number of votes be nominated
for the long terms, the next highest for
the four year term and the next for the
two year term. But this plan won't
work Only six candidates will probably
be in the race. Four Will have no Oppo-
sition and will probably all receive the
same vote. so it would not decide who
would have to accept the four year
term. Then again Harry Mason and r.
b. WEIGH who are running against each
other, are candidates to succeed DoSter,
and this plan would make one of them
the one who is succeSsful-the low
man Of the five and consequently the
two year nominee, whereas they are
running for a six year term.
Then again if MIR. Welch should be de-
feated in the Shawnee county primal les
he would not go into the state convcn-
ton and there would be only five can
didates, each of whom would receive
the same vote, if all were voted for a {
once
placed first, the four-year term second
and the six-year term follows, and this
will probably be the order in whicn
nominations will be called for. or
course the friends of each man viii
want their particular candidate to get
a siX-year term, and each viii prope
ably wait for some one else to walk OF
with the shorter terms. When the two
year term nominations are called tor
it would not be surprising if there
should be a profound silence in the
eagerness of each candidate to avoid
the two year term
In the apportionn ent of delegates
Wyandotte county leads off with 40,
and it comes the last county on the roll
call shawnee is a close SeCOnu III
point of numbers with SO, and 1T too IS
well down on the roll call. LeaVcn-
worth comes third in numbers with 81.
the 10 extra delegates allowed for the
V orth delegation Sedgwick has q,
Crawford "a, Cherokee %, and Reno 20.
Crawford and Cherokee come well up
towards the top of the roll caH. ana
will make George Coles vote for gov
elnor mount up rapidly right in the
start.
The formal call and the apportion-
ment is as follows:
s'TThere win be a delegate convention
of the Republicans of Kansas. held in
the city of Wichita on "Wednesday, the
2Sth day of May, 1902, at the hour OF
o'clock a. M, for the purpose OF nom
zone justice of the supreme court for
a term of two years
"One Justice of the supreme court for
Three justices of the supreme court
for a term of six years
CongreSsman-at at-large.
Governor.
Lieutenant governor.
Secretary of state.
Treasurer.
Auditor.
Attorney general.
Superintendent of public instruction.
Insurance commissioner.
THE election of a state central COM
mittee.
1.-The delegates shall be elected in such
manner and at such time and under
such rules and regulations as may be
prescribed by the county central com
mittees of the respective counties. The
basis of apportionment shall be one
delegate at large for each county and
one delegate for each two hundred
votes or major fraction thereof, cast
for George A. Clark for secretary of
state at the November election in 1900,
provided, that no county shall have less
than two delegates, including a delegate
at large and that ten additional dele
gates be accorded Leayenworth county,
by reason of the vote at the Soldiers
Home under which apportionment the
several counties will be entitled to rep
resentation at the state convention as
follows: