The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-26
POLITICAL GOSSIP.

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The attorney generals department
has ruled that the Republicans of the
Sixteenth representative district, in
Franklin county, Will have to hold
another convention to nominate
member of the legislature. A w.
Benson, who was nominated recently,
refused to accept, so there is va
cancy- The attorney general rules
that as there is plenty of time to hold
another convention the committee has
no authority to fill the vacancy.
out of thirtv-five candidates for
county offices in Douglas county, W.
r. Stubbs is the only one who has no
opposition. The Republicans have
big majority in Douglas county, and
the Democrats have no show anyway,
so they are being urged to turn out
and vote at the Republican primaries.
Each candidate thinks he will get
more Democratic votes than the other
fellow. so no one is offering any OBJ
| iections.
one of the big fights is between ].
L. Brady, editor of the Lawrence
1 World and Senator A. Henley, for
representative. Some of the boss
busters assert that Brady is a ma
| chine candidate, although he has the
sympathy of Congressman Bowersock-
| BOWersock is opposed to Henley.
Brady has written personal letters to
| every Republican in his district. A
| few days ago G. S. Finch, editor of the
/ OTaZeIJe, SalQ LndL BGaOY AaQ De6n
preaching for years aginSt circular
| advertising and saying that news
| paper advertising was the only kind
| that pays. Finch said Brady would
| have to take back all he had been
/ saying or acknowledge that his own
paper, the World, has no circulation.
/ He said if Brady wanted to advertise
in really good paper that would
reach his constituents the Gazette
would print an advertisement for him.
Brady called Finch's bluff and yester-
/ days Gazette contains a displayed ad-
vertisement of Brady's candidacy,
although the Gazette is fighting him.
/ Bradys platform is as follows:
"A broad and liberal policy toward
/ the educational and eleemosynary in
stitutions of the state.
''Such changes in our laws of as
sessment and taxation as will secure
the just and equal assessment of all
property real and personal.
"A law governing and controlling
! the holding of primaries and conven-
tions and providing penalties for
| bribery and fraud.
The legislative reapportlonment of
| the state, with my best efforts, if
elected, to secure for Douglas county
| a separate senatorial district
MY hearty sympathy with and
| support of the reforms in state affairs
demanded by the Republican state
| convention. J. L. BRADY.'
The primaries will be held tomor-
row.
E. E Paving was nominated for
representative in the country district
of Bourbon county over Dr. William
Baird, the old representative, by vote
of 55 to SO.
D. B. Harrison, of Downs, was nomi-
mated for state senator by the Repub-
| lican senatorial convention in the Thir-
| ty-fourth senatorial district at Lucas
! yesterday. It was a three-cornered
hght. Lincoln county supported f. F.
Bracken and Ellsworth county was for
J. Q. Seaver. Russell, the fourth coun-
| ty in the district. joined with Osborne
in nominating Harrison.
The Republicans of Crawford county
yesterday afternoon nominated the fol-
lowing ticket: State senator, E. F,
Porter; county treasurer, A. Burns
probate judge, T. r. Jones; register OF
deeds, ]. r. Carpenter; district clerk
c. E. Woodbury.; county superintend-
ent, Harry HOrnaday; county attorney
J. M Wayde; county clerk, Fred Ger
/ kin; Sheriff, Ed Walsh; county survey
or, A. G. Robson; coroner. DR.. E /,
Strobe. The high school trustees were
nominated as follows: First district, J
5. Pyle and Isaac Clark; Second dis
trict, J. S. Blair and w. z. Crawford
Third district. E. NJ. King and W. E
as representatives: Twenty dis
trict, J. W. Monte; Twenty-fourth dis
trict, DR.. c. A. Fisher. Senator Porter
and DR.. Fisher are denominations. ]
w. Monte, the man nominated for rep
resentative in the north district, is {
new man.
In printing the item about John Cur
rams proposed train to carry the Kan
sas delegation to the Populist nationa
Journal heads it "A Funeral Train