The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-28
POLITICAL GOSSIP
State Printer Amendment NAV
Lose Plant to Topeka.
No Provision That Work Must
Be Done Here.
LIVELY TIME IN KIOWA
John Davis Has Trouble in Run
ming Things.
Everything in Readiness for
Seventh District Battle.
LIVELY TIME IN KIOWA

It has developed that if the amend
ment to the constitution to elect the
state printer by a vote of the people
carries next year, as it probably WILL
Topeka may lose the state printing
plant. This viii not necessarily follow,
but it is quite likely to-
The present section of the constitu-
ton relating to the state printer says:
All public printing shall be done at
the capital and the prices shall be reg
ulated by law The proposed amend
rnent to the constitution repeals the old
provision and says nothing about where
the work shall be done.
1t would be possible, of course. for
the legislature to pass law requiring
that the work shall be done at the state
capital. but it is by no means prob
able that such a law would be passed
4 There would be a big demand at once
that the contract for the state printing
be sublet to other printers over the
state, and the demand would doubtless
be so strong that it would be necessary
for the state printer to comply
I This sort of an arrangement might
allow the newspaper men of the state
tc participate in the pig profits of the
state printer. provided they did not bid
against one another too hard. For in
stance. the printing for the various
state institutions would perhaps be
done in the town where the institution
exists-that for the State university at
Lawrence. that for the state normal at
Emporia- and so on.
If the amendment carries it Will be
come effective Immediately after the
election in November of next year.
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council, including State Auditor Wells,
who is about half-and- half, are sending
out senatorial garden and flower seeds.
They go out under Senator Burton's
frank Secretary 8urrow is looking
after his Burton friends in the Sixth
district Attorney General Coleman
those in the Fifth, Treasurer Kelly those
in the Second, and Auditor Wells those
in the Third. The First and Fourth
districts have Burton congressman
There are no Burton people in the Sew
enth. so they are not missing anything.
There ought to be lot OF Burton flow
| er gardens this summer
Editorial comment in the Kansas City
Star: An outside paper objects to eX-
Senator Harris for ca nal commissioner
because Kansas already has its nose
pretty deep in the federal trough. 1t
cites Justice Brewer of the supreme
court e F. Ware commissioner Of pen
sions; J. L. Bristow. fourth assistant
postmaster general; Thomas Ryan, as
sistant secretary of the interior, and W.
+. Stanley. member of the Dawes com
mission. This objection IS wea kened by
the fact that President Roosevelt wants
some more men like them
1t is pretty generally settled how the
first ballot in the Seventh district con-
ventiOn next week Will stand In it all
the home" candidates will receive their
complimentary votes and after that
the home candidates Will begin to throw
their delega tons to the candidates
whom they want to get them
There is some doubt about Kiowa
county A local factional fight there
has resulted in two delegations. John
Davis heads one faction and if his dele
cation is seated it Will vote for Davis
himself, or it may go to whoever he
wishes If the anti-Davis delegatie--'
is seated it will be unqualihedly for
Judge Price. All Of the counties in Sen
ator Smiths senatorial district that
have no candidates of their own will
vote for Smith.
Counting Kiowa county for Price. the
vote on the first ballot will stand as
follows:
smith-Edward county 4. Grant ,.
Greeley > Haskell >. Hodgeman 3,
Kearney ,. Lane , Morton >, Scott >,
Seward ,. Stanton =, Stevens .. Wich-
ita Q Total %
/ Nurdock- -Sedgwick p.
! F'Orsha-RenO H.
/ Price-Clark ,. Comanehe 2, Ford ;,
\ Gray .. Kiowa 8, Meade ,. Total 16
Richards-Sumner 13.
Grattan-McPherson Is.
4 Branine- Harvey TO-
( Jones=Rice 10.
Banta=BartOn s.
! Noftzger-H Harper T.
Wallace -Kingman l.
Akers-Stafford s.
/ Chandler-B Barber s.
! Halloway- -Pawnee ..
BIaine=Pratt >.
Bsrnd#NesS a.
/ RusseH-Rush a.
Hopkins Finney 3.
Hall-Hamilton ,
Rocks County Record. Tt appears all
that kept the legisla ture from passing
/ the tax bill was house amendment
/ strenuously adhered to. leaving money
| in the hands Of county treasurers until
( needed by The state. thereby preventing
the state treasurer from getting in
/ terest on state deposits from Topeka
/ banks. The senate stood by the state
4 treasurer and defeated the whole bill.
4 We needed some reforms in our meth
DDS of assessing property, but they will
= have to wait until the people speak in
a loud enough tone for the obtuse sem
ators to hear and understand
The Kiowa county contest took place
( Friday afternoon John W. Davis,
/ Greensburg attorney, is in control of the
county central committee, and he has q
miniature congressional boom of his
own There has for years been a local
factional fight in Kiowa county. which
! has been Davis and anti-DaVis- The
/ county central committee did not call
a convention to elect the three congress
! sional delegates to which kiowa county
is entitled. so the anti-Davis crowd got
up q petition and called mass cOnven-
ton to he held today. That stirred ul'
the Davis faction. and the county cen
{ tral committee called regular ccnNen-
tion for Friday. Davis wanted the