The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-26

Senator Morrow or Calderhead could
not win, that county would go to Peck.
If Peck is not congressional candi-
date he will probably be elected to the
| state senate next year.
Brock would have Riley county. and
Geary county is problematical. The
junction City business men have the
| interests of Fort Riley to look after.
They do not want to offend Senator
Burton. and at the same time they
want to be on the good side of the new
Congressman if there is going to be
one, and of Mr.. Calderhead if he is to
4 be reelected. Then, too, United States
! Marshal Mackey is the strongest po-
litical influence in Geary county. and
| he is about evenly. divided in his DO
litieal debts between Burton and Cal
| derhead.
This is not the year for F. L. Williams of
| Clay county to run, and he would doubt
less like to see Calderhead reelected,
although he is counted with the Burton
| element. He is a law partner of Attor-
ney General Coleman. Mr.. Coleman
may need a little help from the Fifth
district next year and he will want
Clay county in a position to help him
1 ii he should have fight on his hands
in the state convention. and if Clay had
\ a candidate for congress it could not
! ask help for him and for Coleman too.
In another two years Coleman will have
! finished two terms as attorney general
q
Williams to the front. That is why
Williams would like to see Calderhead
reelected this year and the fight for the
congressional nomination postponed two
years, for If a new man gets in it will be
haTd to dislodge him.
For either Fitzpatrick or Brock to win
the nomination they would have to COM
blue Saline, Ottawa. Dickinson, Geary
and Riley counties. and then get Re
public. Cloud, Washington or Clay be-
sides. Clay can doubtless be controllei
by Williams. and it is doubtful if either
cloud or washington would enter the
com bination, but Republic might do so,
and this would defeat Calderhead
No candidate can afford to be known
in the Fifth district as Burton candi-
date In order to win it would have to
be understood that Burton would gain
no prestige by the defeat of CaIderhead
but at the same time Burton's help viii
be necessary to beat Calderhead. That
is what makes the Fifth district Situa-
tion so problematical.
The announcement that Senator Geo.
p. Morehouse will ask for denomination
to the state senate in the district COM
posed of Morris, Chase and Marion
counties is stirring up a considerable
muss in those counties. 1t has long
been the practice to rotate the office of
state senator among the three counties,
and next year it will be Chase county's
turn for the nomination. DIR. J. NJ.
f1dInIle OF (QdSe IS a canQ1QdIe, anu
he will doubtless put up a fight against
Morehouse, and as Morris now has the
congressman the chances are against
Morehouse. In commenting on the re-
port that Morehouse will ask for a re-
nomination the Chase County Leader
says:
This will be a surprise to the Chase
county people, whose turn it will be,
and particularly to Congressman Mil
ler's friends. who are completely at a
: Lore &c
county can ask Chase county's turn for
senator after the loyal SUPPORT this
county hns always given Mr.. Miller.
Marion county. which has the de-
Gliding of this matter. will not permit
any such violation of the agreement
of rotation
"Chase county will have to decide at
her convention whose name she will pre-
sent to the convention. but we have
plenty of good men to choose from. The
only avowed candidate a present is DR..
J. NJ. Hamme, who has been chairman
of the county Republican central COM
mittee for the past four years, and has
made a record of which he may be
proud.
1.-The doctor is a man of ability and
knows the needs Of the people. and the
people can make no mistake in sending
him to the senate"
Marion county will decide the matter,
and it is said that ]. S. Dean of Marion,
who is United States district attorney,
has dltSd0y dSSuIeu lle OIdS6 County
leaders that Marion county will support
whoever Chase county decides upon.
Congressman Reeder wants to be
chairman of the irrigation committee in
the lower house next winter, and he
stands a good chance of getting it, as
he is now the ranking member of the
committee.
Congressman Bowersock is in Fort
Scott today viewing the ruins of the fine
fences he built up there a year ago with
the postoffice compromise. Henry Allen
has been cutting that fence all to pieces.
Mr.. Bowersock will do some repairing
on it if possible and possibly make
few gaps where Allen has been digging
post holes and stringing barb wire.
Down in Sumner county the news
paper rivals of Senator Simons have
been contending that he is not earning
twelve dollars a day for the time he'
puts in as member of the st. Louis
exposition commission. Simons turned
around and offered them each twelve
dollars a day out of the salary which
he will draw between now and 1904 for
all the time they want to put in col
lecting exhibits for the exposition. He
was perfectly safe in doing so, for the
appropriation was for only 70 days
services during 1903. and that has been
already exhausted. For the rest of the
year the commission will have to work
for nothing