The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23

in a building all by itself When COM
pleted Postmaster Woonen wiI be the
happiest postmaster in the Sixth dis
trict. Colonel L S Horne Is having
erected for the postctfics a convenient
building. 25x4s feet. with a fourteen foot
story. plate glass front. and as rear IRE
proof as can be- which the posrof1lce de-
partment has leased for q term Of ten
years The office viii be in It's new
quarters on or before July L
Friends o. Ike n Aahin. of Smith
county throughout the counties OF Nor
ton. Phillips and Smith have sprung his
name for the successor Of state Senator
z. Y. Peterson. Of the F'ortisrh district
Norton county IS Peterson's home. ana
they VIII hardly ask for it, Then, again
Norton county can't be friendly t0 PHIL
Judge Hamilton last fail. 50 it w0uiI
look as if Smith county ought 90 haVs
cinch on the state senator Look our
for Ike Mahiu.
one Of the best known rlan in the
sixth district is John c. Postietnvvaita o.
Jewell county he IS being urged 10
come before the next congressional con-
Nen1IOn tor conGress- As one or MS
friends said. Things may SO sha1-
themselves that ne will get into the
race il 1904 he is q man whom tl=
district would be pleased n see ID con-
gress. said another friend he not only
would have a strong personal following
IN his own county. but ne has Srruf&s
personal friends throughout 1he rlStriet-
scrap this spring. ana d caucus q men
and women politics barred oar. uomi
mates Is biESoeu one Of her progress
sire business men. for 13az1r
John r. HanlIitoc. Of Merton. as be is
best known throughout the unrrl reSr
half OF kansas for more than q quarter
of a century. lost no sleep OF flesh iu MS
contest for Judge in the Seventeenth dis
trict this winter He is an home l1 mss
law Office in Norton, and he hasur .u-r
any OF his oid-tiUe law practice. JUICE
Hamilton attributes his defeat % tne
Republicans in "a county adjoining
who ought TO have given him thelr
united support
! \ vel known nevsra per man. ure
IS en- she wing nere and there
I throughout the state. SAYS he =nsIs more
Republican boss busters in jewell
! City than iD any town he visits The
+ newspaper fellow didn't say whether
/ they aa1 All been applicants fer Office
ana the n@nC wagon had ran over Them.
Some CE the wise ones fl the sixth
district are always sprirgInE s1IneIEira
good. even If some Of their seneui=-
fan II ". A. Low, general attorney ~
I the Rock Island, ara n r. Lpoui-e
general attorney II the Jnier EscIrr
remain in their offices for the next ten
days. they arc pretty liable to te called
on for q carload OF passes frrm li4s
would-be wise ones OF tns district who
want to go TO Topeka to help srral -s1te1
cut the mixed up affairs At rna neat
lof tits great army OF political pie seek
cts 44AD AAGtrDll4ecA los t4ltil-rLtiE VIZ
! Colby. IS said to be captain. with sy
! Anderson and Charley Hail as iieuteu-
ants and d whole tTainioad OF serzeauLs
and corpCrais. Frank I-cckard- OF Nor
ton. who is just losing the postcf7ce- is
+ expected to be be al the meeting. but
+ he wiz refuse To '-Falk for puhiica ton
+ The band wagon boys are expected 20
stay at home Congressman Feeder VIII
be at this gathering The meeting -
expected 10 be more largely attended
than the one called by A. 8. Mead. ur
Mitchell county. prior to the conVenins
of the legislature.
Judge r. ~ Pickler. OF the Twelfth
district. VIII meet with the North Cen
/ trial Kansas editors al their conVeu ton
I in Beloit- April 10 and Il. Judge Picker
F IS practical printer having commence
at the bottom round. and finally pub
iished journals in Milan and Enionvills
In Missouri during the seventies H-
( expects to deliver an address before tbs
editors. the subject being Wrong Fonts
ard e rlalcles
There is some ccuasoticn among tbs
3 Ncrtcn people over the change Of post
( Merton Champion sizes up the matter
+ in song and verse as follows.
A SONG
tAlr: .. 1fr. Loaiey-f
BY gracious -re.- cri=d f1ocksrd
As BIZ Reeder he lid rad.
You can appoint PETE Nasb5--
Does he the ucuer reed
o desrad atiar.
= -r-llla tior
That one Endorsement m furnish -otl
or osiz Benton
never faauriol-
Q truly cruelty cruel cruel crew.
Sat Pete PLAYED with his z-hisks-s
And cleared mis- rhraaz - say
BY nod and wink sgost ci11Tie1r
The po9r srr-z-Sos.
NO orsre- .<-a4-Ez
Was ever mixed Up in city stew.
. ths dizssters
WHO'S nov postI11
q Mr.. Cody rcoig o1iE. be-