The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-02

of the other state officers win reference
to his running for governor against
Bailey next year. Mr.. Hoch mas SAID
all along that he does not wish to run
for governor and the result of his visit
has probably proven to him that the
demand for his candidacy comes from
those whose sole desire is to beat
Bailey. If it We're an open field and IL
Bailey were not a candidate for renom-
ination, as will be the case IN Two
years, Mr. Hoch would. sdountless De
strong candidate, but even those state
officers who are not friendly to Bailey
do not want Hoch to run because II
would open the way for a fight on tnem
The Kansas City journal, which IS
very pronounced anti Bailey organ,
prints the following under Topeka
date line:
ED Hoch, of Marion, now realizes
that. in case he becomes candidate
for governor the anti-machine state
officials will not line up in the hght
between him and Bailey unless they
are forced to do SO by the macnlne-
Hoch was here today consulting the
politicians and several state otncers
The officials intimated that they didn't
care to line up against Bailey unless
the machine brought candidates out
against them. They intimated that
they would prefer if possible. to nave
second term without a fight. They
recalled that they were nominated by
the same convention that nominated
Bailey, showing clearly that the ma
chine didn't get much of the pie at that
convention except governor.
''They were not tied up to any par
ticular candidate for governor at that
convention and do not want to be tied
up at the next. They want to be free
to fight their own battles. If the ma
chine should jump up candidates
against them. in case Hoch gets in the
race, then they might line up with
Hoch. But they do not believe the
machine will do it. That would de-
stroy the chief argument of the ma
chine, namely, that Bailey is entitled to
a second term. The machine couldn't
consistently ask the people to give
Bailey a second term and at the same
| time ask them to turn down the anti
machine officials for a second term.
Hoch, therefore, cannot depend upon
the solid backing of the anti-machine
state officials in his contest if he
runs.
1t is now stated that the attempt to
keep Miss Nellie Tutcher, formerly
stenograDher in the office of the state
superintendent of public instruction,
from receiving pay for the week that
she was absent at the bedside of her
brother and the subsequent funeral
was made by subordinate in the
office. Supt. Dayhoff was absent from
his office attending to educational work
over the state. and when he read of
the incident in the newspapers he
wired instructions that Miss Tutcher
be paid for the week in controversy,
and she has been so paid.
State Auditor Wells devoted the entire
first page of his paper, the Erie Repub-
lican-Record, to Kentucky politics last
week. His brother frB>law. D. c. Ed
wards, who formerly lived at Erie, was
nominated for congress by the Republi-
cans in one of the Kentucky districts,
4 but the Democratic secretary of state
/ refused to put his name on the ticket
under the Republican emblem This is
| why Wells takes a hand in the mat
| ter.
j. K. Brand, who represented Ness
county in the legislature last winter, is
owner of the Ness City opera house as
| we'll as editor of the News of that place.
i Barnd was an actor himself during the
/ sixties and played with Mary Anderson
| in Washington Last winter when there
was a call of the house during the legis-
lative session and things were dull,
Barnd used to recite dramatic selections
for the entertainment of the house, and
he is pretty good at it. He has recent
" been remodeling his opera house and
the reopening was held Friday night
Mr.. Barnd but on play in which he
himself starred" It was THE Chin
ney Corner" with which the house was
opened when it was first built II years
ago.
A. S. Wilson, of Galena. has a boom
for supreme judge in case there is a va
cancy on the bench. This is the first
time Wilson has been heard from polit-
ically for years Long before the days
of Populism he got the Republican nom
ination for congress in the Fifth district
defeating John A. Anderson. The people
didn't like it. however. and Anderson
was nominated as an independent can
didate by mass convention. Those
were the days when the Republicans
had everything in their own way ir
Kansas, but notwithstanding this Will
son was defeated and Anderson elected
Then Wilson went out of politics ano
moved to Galena.
N. H. Loomis has been mentioned as
candidate for delegate-at-large to the Re
publican national convention, but he say:
he is not a candidate for that honor anC
will not be.
The report comes from Scandal tina
Congressman CaIderhead has decided t,
name c. c. Wilson for postmaster at tina
place, turning down A B. Kimball, the
present postmaster, for re-appo1ntment
Kimbal is editor of the Scandal Journa
, and is one of the knockers on the presen
. | administration. Congressman CalderheaS
week ironing out his postoffice troubles
and at botn Belleville and Scandal h
turned down the faction that has beel
t fighting Gov. Bailey.
1 SIXTH DISTRICT NOTES.
Frank Lockard of Norton county cal
now visit Topeka in suit of broad
cloth. He has made money on the farm