The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-09
May Be Like the State Chair.
manship MuddIe.
AN IMPORTANT PLACE.
Speaker Controls All the I'M
pOrtant Committees.
DOniphan-BrOWn Deadlock Is at
Last Broken.

speaker of the house in the next leg
islature will without doubt meet with
q ready response in many quarters.
But it will not be favored by the Bur-
ton crowd. Stubbs isn't the man the
Burton people want for speaker any
more than they wanted him for chair
man of the Republican state commit
tee.
1t may be that the Burton element
will not fight Stubbs openly at pres
ent- That would not be good policy.
But it viii organize to keep him from
becoming speaker of the house just
the same. Secret Influences will be
brought to bear on him to keep him
from becoming a candidate, because
he is not the sort of an individual who
will do the bidding of the Burton ele-
ment in all things. He would prob
ably be far more acceptable to the
Burton faction than some others, and
as a usual thing would probably do
/ just what that faction wants, but he
might go back on it at a critical point.
1t is not at all improbable that the
4 speakership contest will develop just
as did the contest over state chair
man. OF course this is speculation,
/ but it is not all improbable. In the
state committee Hoch and Stubbs had
]
/ to keep the Burton faction from get
1 ting complete control of the state or
/ ganiZation, and then it was only ac-
compIished with the aid of the very
| men whom Hoch and Stubs had
| OverthrOwn. The same thing may
happen in the organization of the leg
/ islature- The Burton people are anx-
iOuS to control it in order to elect a
United States senator and control leg
! islation. If it controls the pledges
made by HOch and Stubbs will come
to naught-
The election of the speaker means
| the control of the committees which
viii formulate and pass upon the bills
which will come before the house.
i Stubbs has promised that there shall
be an economical administration and
the chairman of the ways and means
committee has control of the apprO-
priations to a large extent If he
| speaker an effort will doubtless be
made to sidetrack him to this chair
manship, as that would interfere very
little with the plans of the Burton
leaders. And it might work.
A. L. Gilbert of Powhattan, Brown
county, was nominated for state SEN
ator in the Brown-Dontphan senatorial
district Saturday afternoon. thereby
| breaking the long deadlock which has
existed there. He was nominated by
ten votes from Doniphan county and
one from Brown. There were only five
Brown county delegates in the conven-
tiOn but the DOniphan crowd would
not nominate until it could get a ma
jority Of all the delegates. Any one of
| a number of Brown county men would
have been acceptable to the Doniphan
/ delegates, but 0. J. Nugent, the one
man for whom Brown county voted,
was not acceptable to Doniphan. Final
ly s. Z. Friend,a Brown delegate, voted
for Gilbert, and Doniphan county also
gave him ten votes, giving him ma
jority of all
John A. Cragun has been appointed
by Judge P. 3. Gillette as county at
/ torney of Kingman county to succeed
w. NJ Wallace, deceased. Cragun is
the man for whom the anti-Kelly dele
gates in the state convention voted for
state treasurer
1t is announced that both Judge F.
c. Price of Ashland and Senator Fred
Dumont Smith of Kinsley will be can
didates for United States senator to
succeed Burton. Both live in the same
section of the state and each viii try
to offset the candidacy of the other.
! They were both among the leading
candidates for congress in the Seventh
district after Chester I. Long resigned
last year. and had they combined they
could have controlled the nomination,
but neither wanted the other to win.
It will be the same way in the fight
for United States senator.
Senator Burton was in Kansas City
yesterday and then went into southern
i kansas for the alleged purpose of
looking after oil and mining interests.
/ w. T. Harris. who represented Dick
inson county in the last legislature,
has been renominated by the Demo-
Gratis He is in the banking business
at Solomon. THE Solomon Tribune,
which has been a Republican paper,
has recently changed hands and will
be Democratic hereafter. The chances
are that the Republicans will have
hard time defeating Harris. The bal
ance of the Democratic county ticket
is as follows: County clerk, ]. H
Roemer; county treasurer, NJ. H.
Malott; register of deeds, F. A. Sum
ner: probate judge, c. F. Klamm; dis
ney, r. II. Seeds; sheriff. W. c.
Murphy; coroner. f. M. Gaines. The
Populists have given up their organiz-
alton and act with the Democrats.
George b. Cones has been nominated
for representative by the Republicans
lin the Meade-Seward legislative dis
trict He is a real estate dealer Of
Meade and the retiring county treas
urer.
]. S. George is talkedy of as candi-
date for the legislature from the
Hutchinson district of Reno county.
George is the wholesale grocer whom
the commercial interests nominated for
railroad commissioner, but whom the
railroads did not want 1t is said that
he has agreed to run for representa-
tive.
Ancient history from the Atchisoa
Globe:
John 7. ingalls,. came to Atchison. he