The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-30
One Thousand Visitors Are to
Be There.
ARE LOSING NO TIME.
Extraordinary Provisions Being
Made for Care of People.
The Congressional Sky Has No
Clear Spots.

Bend More than a thousand visitors
Will gather there to name the Successor
of Chester I. Long in the lower house
of congress. and it viii probably be the
most interesting congressional conTen-
ton held in Kansas for years on ac-
count OF the large number Of candI-
dates,
Already the crowd is gathering at
Great Bend. 1t began to arrive on SUM
day. More VIII reach there today To-
night the milling" will commence To-
morrow il Will increase and vii reach
its height on Wednesday. BY that time
all the delegates and the spectators VIA
be there The candidates win then 81
playing for position. The convention
viii open on Thursday morning and
viii continue until q nomination Is
made.
The little city of Great Bend Wiz
therefore have to care for the crowd
for nearly a week It viii tax the hos
pitalty of the town TO its utmost but
it is putting forth every effort to DO its
best 1t would be a hard matter for
many town of four times the size q
Great Bend to take care of a thousand
or twelve hundred visitors and il r19
people of Great Bend succeed In tns
undertaking with credit TO themselves
convention town
There win not. OF course, be SUFFICIENT
hotel accommodations TO care Tor a
fourth Of the crowd. Large mum 1ers e1
cots have been secured but these VIII
not go far. Consequently the people l1
the town have opened their homes and
probably a majority of the visitors villa
be entertained at private residences.
Then there viii be six tourist sieepers
on the Santa F'e sidetracks to DroFl4s
sleeping accommoda tions for some -
1 the delega tiOns- Sedgwick county viii
come with three sleeDers, Reno county
with two and Sumner county with one.
These tourist sleeDers cost SO each Tor
not to exceed three days, and Se5 g day
] for each additional day. Each sleeper
! Viii accommodate 4S people, 50 tna- ta1
six win take care OF 2ss-
on Saturday rooms for 500 persons
had been secured. and it was exEacte1
/ that enough for two OF three nun1re4
more could be found.
A large number OF county conventions
were held in the Seventh district sat
urday afternoon. W n Wallacc. 1E
/ Kin2man. who is himself q candidatz
for congress. attended TIE Ssdgwi-l-
county convention at Wichita and cr--
ated great deal of enthusiasm bv tbs
/ compliment which he paid Victor .s1ur
dock. the Wichita candidate. In
1 speech before taa convention he nra.
matically took Mir. MurGock BY this
hand and said. Gentlemen of the CON
4 VentiOn, if my reputation and an tnat
j of priceless value. I would TRUST II e.
the care and honesty and honor Of Nie-
tor Murdock-
Mr.. Murdock was allowed to name tbs
% SedgWick county delega tes- He named
4 O. Il. Smith. J. H. Stewart. ". e.. Ed
wards, ollie Pittinger, Fred Dold, C.. r.
Luling. r. F. Forrest C. J.. Davidson.
J. d. Davis. A. C. .Jobes- John bro1Fr.
John Adams. NJ G. Campbell. Lee Ness
ly, L. s. Naftzar. Hub Patterson. y. E.
! Masterman, James Harper. Thomas G.
Wilson Q. 2. Bentley. A c. Husey. r
3. Wall. Sol Tuttle. orin Sarles- A. 4
/ Webb F. Bellew and Fred Fichter-
R. w. Hopkins of Finney county. who
has been counted as d candidate. vita
| drew in the Finney county couventio1
! Saturday afternoon. This leaves only
! eighteen candidates to start finney
/ has three delegates 1t Is IN Senator
/ Smiths sena toriai district and II u foi--
/ lows the example of the other counties
in the district with no local candidates
it viii give it's votes to Smit ,, bringing
his total up to 81.
The hve Barber county delegates.
headed by Representative r. H. Nixon.
were instructed for G. X. Chandler. TIRE
Kansas bank king. Mr.. Chandier is
not pushing his candidacy and Is ma E-
ing no fight for the nomination. but ni&
! county is for him Just the same
Harper county instructed its six de1s-
a gates for Senator Noftzger- They are
Z F. r. Zacharias. o. =. Benton Jo1im
Burke. NJ. Cole, 6. b Croker and E'red~
1 eTick Wasnb0n.
wichita county instructed ITS tUr
( delegates. ". 4. Anderson and n Har~
lzins, for Smith
Kearny county did the same. The
two Kearny county delegates are Z u.
Thorpe and r. S. Snow.
Lane county's delegation IS II
Smelzezr and +. H H.LobdeI- Smiths cam
didacy was endorsed
Edwards county. Senator smith 8
home. simply allowed Smith to name
the delegation. It is composed OF Gen
W. Watson, W \. Beeziey, C. A Nos
her, and Edward Donovan
The Barton county delegation was fr-
strueted for D. A Banta. The defe-
gates are C. a swartz. 9 s. Channiar.
Frank Aillard, w N Chitten. g. H.
Bowman. J. w. A. Cooke James Dsgan
and F V. Russell
Hamilton countv's two delegates. Ar
fred Pratt and Paul Rich were 5n-
structed for John Hall. the Syracuza
banker
The Ness county convention not ouiy
instructed for Representative J. IS.
Barnd and allowed aim to name te
Ness delegation, but It passed the i1i-
lowing resolution commencing his worz
: in the legislature.
I'VE indorse the courazeo and W.
dependent course Of J. X Barnd- and
his faithful work in the interests 1f tra
people. and take pride in the recuSF =
tion his ability has received sroru tz1
press Of both Kansas and Missouri
Mr. Barnd named the following IS eek
egates- ". D. Minor. r. O Eitli=z g.
f. Neighbor, and D o Ienny.
According to a Washington disuatcE.
President Roosevelt has given 1t oar
that the Sunday he spends at Sharon
Springs on his trip through kansss E
to be day Of rest and quiet II there
is any attempt to force excursion trzissr
on him on that day he may have Ills