The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-24
POLITICAL NOTES.

1t is announced that w A. Thomp-
son, OF jackson county. the present
county treasurer, will be a candidate
for railroad commissioner against A.
D. Walker next year, when all three
members of the railroad board must be
nominated at the state conventions and
elected by the people. AS Mr.. Walker
is one of the Curtis leaders in Jackson
have with Mr.. Thompson for the con-
troll of the county may cut some figure
in the congressional fight.
A dispatch from Garnett announces
that the two Republican papers there,
the Republican Plaindealer and the
Eagle, viii shortly be consolidated. The
same report was sent out at the time
Henry Allen purchased the Repub-
can-Plaindealer, but was fatty denied
by Fred Trigg. who has an interest in
the Eagle. Now the report is renewed
and is made positive.
Speaking of the boom that has been
started for Representative F. w. Bev-
ington of Jewell county for delegate to
the Republican national convention
from the Sixth district, the Jewell Re
publican says: Representative Bev-
ington says the first he knew of his
candidacy for delegate to the national
convention was when he saw it report
ed in the daily papers. Come to think
of it, though, he could probably vote
for Roosevelt as hard as anybody
Conner Davies, who has been over the
route himself, publishes the following
comment on Webb McNalPs rumored
homecoming to the Republican party:
The indications are-and we know
something about signs-that Webb Nc
Nell will again line up in the Repub-
lican party. He says what thousands
of others who have been estranged from
the party have been saving of late: IT
2nOCaxrnlf
ditions which amounts to the same thing
as saying he will be for Roosevelt That
man Roosevelt is the way out for a lot
Of fellows in Kansas. 1t may be safely
said of him that he is the light and the
life to a lot of us fellows who have been
buried alive. But why shouldn't Mr.
McNall return to his old political camp
ing ground? The idea for which he
commended. even to the extent of break
Ing the political ties of his early life.
has gone into innocuous desuetude, and
the party with which he associated has
no more life in it than a last year. 8
birds nest. Roosevelt and Roosevelt 8
closest political allies stand nearest Mr..
McNall's idea of government than any
other organization and he is too siren
uous man to be a maverick If Nc
Nall makes up his mind to come back
into the Republican ranks he will come
pack without asking the consent of any
one about 1t. We think he is about due
to make the plunge"
Holton Recorder: The Topeka papers
claim to have discovered that there is a
law on the statute books that prohibits
a Judicial officer from running for any
other office during the time for which he
was elected judge, and have sprung IL
on Judge Stuart who has congressional
aspirations with evident design of fore
ing him off the track. Mr.. Stuart $
friends claim that the law referred to is
a dead letter, and point to two instances
in which judges have been candidates
Tor other offices, a conspicuous one being
that of Judge Peters when he was elect
ed one of the big four" congressman.
We do not know anything about the
matter and care about as little as we
know. We have one solicitude however
and that is if the Curtis men succeed
IN forcing Judge Stuart off the track.
that if they should get control of the
next legislature they might enact a law
making 1t penitentiary offense for any
man to run against Curtis for congress-
man, senator. president or any other Of
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