The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-07
Gets Out of Sick Bed and Starts
for Sixth District.
Burton Influence Makes Him
Quite Strong There.
INTEREST is INTENSE.
Senatorial Contest is Pushing
Everything Aside.
Evident to Everyone That Re-
suit is Uncertain.

Congressman Curtis has recovered
from his illness and left last evening /
Tor the Sixth district to make a tour !
of some of those counties during the
next few days.
Curtis is stronger in the Sixth district
than in any other part of the state, |
outside of his own district. HIS
strength up in the Sixth comes through
influential friends who have strings out
in that locality. The state senators of
the Sixth district are counted as friend
ly to Curtis, and the Burton forces nave
a better organization in that locality
than elsewhere.
The senatorial fight in the Republican
party is overshadOWing everything else,
even the campaign between Bailey ana
Craddock is secondary to it, 1t is so
evenly divided and there is a chance for
SO many unexpected developments in
it that it will probably hold public in
terest above everything else
1t isn't always the hlgh man VINO
wins in a contest of this kind. re-
marked a politician who is keeping a
close watch of the senatorial situation.
Where it is pretty close between two
OF three candidates and deadlock en-
sues, it is often the man who is third or
fourth on the list, or even lower. who
becomes the dangerous man to the fel-
low who is leading. When the eilml-
mating process commences it isn't al
who is the second choice of the major
ity. In 1895 Burton within one
vote of election but Baker beat him..
The truth of this theory was illustra-
ted in the famous anti-Ingalls fight of
1879. There were six or eight anti-In-
gals candidates and the loves of them
all was Judge Horton, who had only
two votes. Yet the anti-Ingalls caucus
finally decided upon Judge Horton as
it's candidate, and at one time he had
Sc votes, one more than enough to elect.
pledged to him, and he would have been
elected had not ingalls, managers Sc
cured three of his pledged votes.
1t is this possibility that the unlock
ed-for may happen that has led Con-
gresham Calderhead to get into the
race after the original starters are away
ahead of him. and the same thing will
lead Congressman BowersOck into the
race. For the same reason Senator j.
h. Cubbison, of Wyandotte' county, will
keep his lightning rod unsheathed, and
others will probably do the same thing.
The funeral of the late James F. Le-
gate was held at Leavenworth yeSter-
day. The services were conducted by
the Masons and there were no religious
exercises and no eulogy was pronounced,
but quartette sang a number of selec-
tiOns.
Among those who attended the funeral
was Captain Seaton, of Atchison, who
served in the lower house with Mr.
worth dispatch says that Captain Sea-
ton, in speaking of the race between
himself and Bale Waggener, for rep
resentative, said that he was not at all
alarmed over the outcome of the con-
test. He expects to take Waggener
down the line just as he has done many
ether good men, and he claims that
there is ground for the feeling that
Waggener is going to be elected The
race. Captain Seaton says, will be
marked with very little hard fighting.
as he and Waggener have always been
good friends SeatOn denies that he
said that he will move away from
Atchison if Waggener defeats him.
The Coffeyville Independent rises and
remarks: In our opinion the Republi-
can newspaper in Kansas that does not
demand the immediate withdrawal of
T. T. Kelly from the state ticket cares
nothing for the good of the party and is
not deserving the patronage of Repub-
lican voters
A lot of pink blotters that won't blot
have been distributed in the state house
offices. They bear this inscription:
Jerry Simpson and E. L. Wildly, Deal
ers in Real Estate and Live Stock.
Roswell, New Mexico. Irrigated Farms
and Ranches, Town Property Tor Sale"
A picture of gushing artesian wells is
printed on the alleged blotter.
The Kansas senatorial contest is be-
ing closely watched in Washington. The
Washington Post contains the following
on the situation:
assumed an interesting phase. The story
is that Senator Burton, who favors the
candidacy of Congressman Curtis, will
if convinced that his favorite cannot
win, throw his influence to Governor
Stanley or any one else before he will
allow Congressman Long to walk off
with the prize He is very jealous of
Long, believing that if the latter should
fer ia 70 would a
left for Burton.
Mr.. Curtis newspaper organs are
publishing figures to show that he is in
the lead, while neither Long nor Stan
ley will make definite statements. L am
willing to let the other fellows do the
claiming says Governor Stanley"
The delegates who are elected today
in the Republican primaries in Wyan-
dotte county will settle the race for
member of the legislature for the
Tenth representative district. This is
the sure Republican district in Wyan-
dotte county There is a three-cornered
fight, with James F. Getty and E. A.
Enright leading. Enright is the pres
ent county attorney, and made the race
for governor last spring. He is the
Curtis candidate for the legislature.
Getty is member of the Republican
state central committee. He is quoted
for Long. The third man is Charles S.
Witwer. and he is noncommittal on the
senatorial question.
The politicians generally believe that
Senator J. X. Cubbison will break into
the race for United States senator if he
is given half a chance. Anyway. none
of the other candidates are counting
very strongly on his vote.
Two or three weeks ago the yelling
ton News called down the Wichita Eagle
for starting a fire under Governor Stan
ley's senatorial boom. Now it comes to
light that VIII Stotler. one of the edi-
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