The Topeka state journal., 1902-01-20
SIXTH DISTRICT NOTES.

Ex-Speaker w. D. Street, of Decatur
county, is figuring on buying a paper
in Abilene.
land office, has gray horse, about as
old as the oldest settler in northwest
Kansas, who is claimed to know every
crook in the several roads in Thomas,
Sherman, Cheyenne, Rawlins and De
catur counties. 1t is said his old gray
horse is about as big politician as is
the owner of the horse.
1t is said ex-Congressman N. B. Nc
Cormick, of Phillips county is willing
to take the judicial nomination for
opposition to the Republicans can
harmonic on a candidate.
One of the most pronounced Populist
editors in the Sixth district believes l.
H. Wilder, of Horton county, is the
most satisfactory person for the Pop
ulist-Democrats to nominate for con-
gress. If they can't get together on
Mr.. Wilder he anticipates a three-cor-
nered fight with ]. A. Bucklin, present
member of the legislature from Thomas
county, also president of the State Far
mers' Cooperative Grain and Live Stock
association, being the Populist nominee
for congress.
Those who think they are in position
to know claim there will be several
Sixth district counties whose delegates
will vote against surrendering the name
PopuliSt in the conference convention
called to meet in Topeka in February.
The question is often asked if Colby
is a good place to hold Republican con-
ventions in. 1t will be remem bered that
both Pestana and McNall were nomi-
mated for congress in Colby and defeat
ed. John BiSSell, w. Fl. Nelson, Frank
Lockard, Lewis Hanback, and E. j.
Turner, all Republicans, aspired to go
to congress, the conventions being held
in Colby, and all Of them were defeat
ed for nomination. Now it is said the
next Republican congressional conven-
tion is likely to be held in Colby, and
some one has said that all three of the
I14@ Gov T7Nxror T1f.1f ff-ia in
Kansas who has wanted office has Wis
tied Colby, probably because it is the
site of a government land office and the
home Of ]. H. Fike, the Democratic
member of the board of railroad COM
miSSiOnerS.
Hays B. White and Ed Wellington
We're camping in Osborne county last
week. White was heard to remark that
since Reeder and Wellington are both
claiming the county he would make the
county a visit also to see if they would
be generous enough to give him only
a small slice if they couldn't give him
the whole of it.
A Sixth district Republican editor is
so enthusiastic to attend the Kansas
Day banquet, January 29, that he has
already invested the regulation fee for
his supper, besides he says he will have
to pay his railroad fare, as the owners
who lease the office to him are hogg1sh
enough to keep all the mileage.
About the only county in the Sixth
district where politics is not mention
ed is Mitchell. All on account of SO
much smallpox scare.
Some of the dark horse congressional
candidates in the Sixth district are
thinking of investing in automobiles,
for the reason that if neither of the
three prominent candidates can win
out the dark horse fellow who succeeds
can get through the twenty-five coun-
ties and back home in time to vote.
John Q. Royce of Phillips county,
chairman of the Sixth district Republi-
can congressional committee, is firm
in his opinion that Reeder Will easily
win out in the congressional race. and
that he will secure Osborne county be-
yond a doubt
There has been some talk of another
paper in Oberlin, and that Judge A G.
t. Geiger will be the managing editor.
His friends say he would be a strong
candidate for congress If the opposition
could harmonic on him