The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-16
JACKSON NAMED.
FusiOnists RenOminate Third
District Congressman.
No Opposition Develops In the
Convention.
MEANS A BIG FIGHT.
MEANS A BIG FIGHT.
Campaign is Certain to Prove
Interesting.
John Seaton Renominated For
Legislature For 10th Time.

Legislature For 10th Time.
A. M. Jackson was renominated by
the fusionists for congress in the Third
Kansas district at Girard yesterday
The Democrats were well represented
in their convention, but the Populists
seemed to take little interest in the
matter and had only a small representa-
tion- The conventions met separately
and Jackson was nominated by accla-
nation.
The fight in the Third district in the
coming campaign will probably be one
of the fiercest in the entire country. Two
years ago Jackson was elected by
narrow plurality of only zto out of a
total vote of over $1,000 His opponent
was George w. Wheatley and some OF
the Republican papers In the district
were opposing Wheatley- This year the
Republicans are united upon z. r.
Campbell and in his own county. Craw-
ford, it is claimed he will get a big
fusion vote. Canpbells. friends are
confident he can defeat Jackson.
On the other hand Jackson has been
active in congress and has gained con-
siderable prestige He is stronger per-
sonally than he was two years ago. He
gained state leadership among the
vention at Wichita. He will have all
the help he wants from the national
Democratic congressional committee,
and probably some of the strongest
will be sent to his assistance
There is no doubt that it will be
fierce battle. The interests of the dis
trict are extremely diversified-more
SO probably than any other congress
sional district in the country. The
greater part of zinc in the United States
comes out of the eastern end of this
district 1t mines an immense amount
of coal. 1t has great oil and gas de-
posits, and as a result big manufacture
ing industries have grown up in its
also diversified. With the exception of
Cowley county it lies outside of the
wheat belt, vet Montgomery and La
bette counties both produce big wheat
crops. 1t grows a large amount of corn
and 1t is the only portion of Kansas
| where cotton is also grown. Its inter-
ests are more or less interviewer with
those of the Indian territory, and this
complicates matters.
For these reasons there is ample scope
| for all kinds of political work in the
Third district, and neither party will
overlook any chance of getting the best
\ OF ii.
NO OPPOSITION TO CURTIS.
! Ewing Herbert editor of the Brown
County World, takes the position that
| he is not correctly represented in his
position toward Bailey as candidate
| for governor. The World came out in
another editorial last week which led
the newspapers to say: Ewing Herbert
advises Republicans to bolt Bailey; to
retaliate for not supporting Curtis"
Here is the editorial just as it ap-
| peared under the heading "A Pointer for
Bailey"
wv. ]. Bailey should make it point
to call off his newspaper dogs, notably
such rabid ours as his home paper, the
Seneca Tribune. The friends of Con-
gresham Curtis are getting trif1e
tired and indignant at the abuse the
Bailey newspapers are heaping Mr..
Curtis.
I'm the first place Mr. Curtis is Re-
publican candidate for congressman
and as such is entitled to the same
spect and loyal support accorded Mr..
Bailey, who is the Republican candi-
date for governor.
I'm the second place the Bailey men
can scarcely think that Mr.. Bailey cap-
be elected without the votes of the Cur
tbs men. for it is agreed that both men
need all the support they can get
I'm the third place, and LET this soak
in, there is no sort of reason in suppos-
ing that the Curtis men are any more
bound to support the straight ticket
than the Bailey men are And ii tbe
Baileyites insist on driving away Curtis
votes their present course will do It,
It's up to Bailey and his crowd: Either
let up or else take the same dose. Curtis
men everywhere say the time for
speedy cessation of abuse OF Curtis by
Baileyites and their newspapers is right
now"
The strange part of the above editor
ial is that while it plainly displays AMI
mus against Bailey it asserts an oppo-
sition to Curtis which does not exist
and which no paper but the World has
ever imagined.
The World says if the "Baileyites".
insist on driving votes away from Curtis.
the Curtis men will be compelled to
fight Bailey. Curtis is a candidate for
congress and nobody is driving votes
away from him. That is all nonsense.
| No one is talking of scratching Cur
| tis on the state ticket There is some
ion IN a "a
| United States senator, but what has
| that to do with. knocking on Bailey.
The World says not word about the
senatorship. It claims the Bailey peo-
| pie are fighting that portion of the Re-
| publican ticket which reads Curtis for
| congressman" and uses that as an ex-
] cuse for retaliatory measures Ofeourse.
| the .'Baileyites'' are doing nothing of
! the kind, and Herbert ought to be hon.
| est about it. Mr.. Herbert might just
as well say the Curtis people should
4 leyites" are against Curtis. and the
"Longites" are against Curtis. They
| are against him for senator, but he is
not running for senator-on the state
l it confidentfa11y that Stanley and Long
| are both solid for Curtis. and
| evermore-on the state ticket-for con-
| gress-
| For the tenth consecutive time Cap
/ tain John Seaton was nominated for the
legislature yesteroay py the fttpuDu-
| cans of Atchison. There was no oppOsi-
/ ton to him and the motion that he be
/ nominated by reclamation WAS made by
| w r. F. Donald, who was supposed to.
| be In revolt against Seaton. If Captain
| Seaton is reelected and serves out the
/ coming term he will have given 20
| years continuous service in the lower
/ bouse OF the Kansas legislature A leg
| fslature without him in it would not
| seem natural. That is why he is known
/ as ssThe Father Of the HOUSE, u n
Ccontdnusd On sixth Pass.s