The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-27
| councllman te succeed Ar. Tincher. &c

councilman tc succeed Mr., Tincher. He
said;
+ IT'S too far ahead to tell anything
thought the matter over
1t is reported that you have already
announced yourself as a candidate for
mayor in 1905. Is that true -
Haven't done anything of the kind
declared the colonel emphatically. I
have not said word to anybody about
it,"
There is little talk that ]. W. Rip
ley, the laundry man, may get into the
race if the situation looks favorable. Mr..
Ripley has been talked of before as a
possible candidate for the council, but
he has never made the race.
Last year when Tincher was trying to
be nominated, he was threatened with a
contest by both Col. Hughes and J. A.
Ramsey. Ramsey was persuaded to
withdraw, and Hughes kept out of the
race after obtaining from Tincher, it Is
said, assurances that he would support
the Daily Capital for the official city
printing. Tincher did support the Capt.
tai Now the Hughes boom is being
incubated by the Capital people, it is
said, to enable that paper to keep a
friendly representative from the Sixth
ward in the council. Councilman SWend
son of the Sixth is openly and unquali
fiedly hostile to the Capital, and will
fight anybody the Capital puts up.
Swendson and his friends are said to
be the ones who are trying to get Ram
sey into the race. They realize that
the Sixth ward. and that a. strong can
didate must be found to beat him. Ram
sey is thought to be the man who can
be there with the goods
1t has been so long since the Sixth
ward has found anything to fuss over
within itself that the impending contest
will be like a fresh ocean breeze to the
tired political situation of the city. 1t
will be brand new element in local
politics for the mathematicianS to Jug
gle with. The Sixth ward is Overwhelm-
ingly law and order Republican and the
split which seems to be taking place in
the law and order ranks is nowhere
more clearly marked than in the sixth
ward. Councilman Swendson and his
warriors have been stirring up the dis
sensiOn wherever possible, anu Swend-
son hopes to be made the leader of this
revolutionary party. If SWendSon 8
faction prevails, it means that a, chance
at the mayors chair will be the reward
OF the leader.
The withdrawal of Councilman finch
er as a candidate for reelection will be
regretted by Mr.. Tincher's many
friends, both in the city council, and in
his ward. His health makes 1t seem
that some action of this kind will be
necessary, though Mr.. Tincher will not
resign his position.
My doctors tell me- said Mr.. Tinoher
this morning, on hts return from Morris
county, where ne mas spent Inc PAST Two
weeks, that the work here at the bindery
is too confining and that / must get out
into the air more. I am not yet sure
what 1 viii do. I rather expect to move
to Morris county in the spring; If do
not I have just about settled that / will
decline denomination for the council.
will have TO wait and see how my health
is before making any decision. l think
there is good opportunity for successful
work in the raising of trees and this would
take me out Of doors. may arrange to
put in my time here at the bindery during
the busy season of the year and spend the
rest of the time out in Morris county on
the ranch
Mr.. Tincher is troubled with stomach
and heart ailments He seems to be
man of rugged health, but during the past
year he has lost 40 pounds in weight