The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-30
ON MARCH II.
Date Fixed for the Republican
City Primary.
Candidates Must Pay Up Before
February 2.
LONGER THAN USUAL.
Aspirants Will Have Much Time
to Campaign.
Assessments Are Levied With a
Free Hand.
LONGER THAN USUAL.

The Republicans will have a late pli
mary this year, but the candidates will
have to register their intentions and
their cash very early in the game. After
that they viii be permitted more than
month in which to expose their resDec-
tive merits to the voters of their party
Although there was considera bic diverg-
ence of opinion over the proper date for
the primary among the members of the
Republican city central committee, tbs
matter was settled in very short order
at the meeting last night.
On or before February all candi-
dates who are to appear before the Re
publican primaries must file their
names and pay assessments to the sec
rotary of the committee The primary
viii be held on March II A year ago
the primaries We're pulled off Just thirty
days before the city election This year
there Will be about twenty-five days
! between them The time between the
closing of entries for the primaries and
( the Gate of the primaries is longer than
usual 1t is the idea that if a wet can
didate is coming out on the Republican
ticket he viii have to make his appear
ance soon. IF one does come out the
/ dry members think they VIII be able to
pull down one of the two candidates
VINO have already announced.
Last nights was the first meeting Of
the committee this year. The next
meeting viii come some time soon aftel
the day Of closing entries for the pri ,
mary election. General plans for the
primaries We're settled last evening,
although the matter of campaign assess
ments and a few other more important
details were delegated to the executive
committee. Last year there were very
few candidates to assess, and the ex-
ecutive committee had to make the most
of what there were.
This year there are candidates ga
/ lore and they are not all out vet.
! But one candidate for the council has
! yet appeared in the First, Sixth, and
Third wards and no one has been led
out for the school board in any part of
1 town. There are two candidates Cor
mayor and about two candidates apiece
for each of the city offices. The officers
I of the city court are TO be voted upon
1 this year and candidates for these jobs
| will be an abundant source of revenue
for the campaign slush fund
! Polls are to be kept open in each Of
] the regular voting precincts, p in all
/ from a. M to p. m. on March IL.
/ The individual committeeman are in
structed to hustle polling places in their
/ respective precincts and the committee
4 agreed that not over IS apiece should
! be allowed for room rent. Two meals
| will be furnished to election boards. In
order to keep the primaries as clean as
possible it was voted that clerks in
each precinct should be under instruc-
tons to record every voters name and
residence The old. old resolution that
none but known Republicans" be al
lowed to participate. was adopted by
consent The Australian ballot will be
used in the primary
At a short meeting of the executive
committee held after the committee
meeting last evening assessments for
candidates were fixed upon as follows;
Mayor $50; city attorney s25; city clerk
$25; city treasurer SIS; judge of the city
court $40; marshal $50; clerk of the city
court $50; couneilmen So. school board
81: city central committee so cents.
In explanation of what appear to be
rather exorbitant assessments upon
most of the candidates Chairman z. Il
Simon of the committee said:
There are lot of candidates being
talked of but some of them will droI
out before the primary 1t is possible
that the biggest part of them Will gel
, out of the race and their Withdrawal
. would leave the committee financially il
!, the hole The assessments are smaller
in proportion than they were a yeal
ago. Personally I was not in favor al
assessing members Of the school boart
I anything"
Toward Page. of the Fourth ward
was chosen secretary of. the committee
last evening. Luther NJ. Nellis. whC
had served as secretary since its org5n
izatiOn last year. has dropped out to be