The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-16
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ingly Republican. but they have done all
! the splitting this year the voters will
stand, it seems to me. Now I under
stand the boss busters in Pottawatonie
county propose to dictate the Nemaha
county nominee for senator, but the
Republicans OF Nemaha county won't
stand it,
You wouldn't let Nemaha county go
against Curtis, would you, GOVERNOR
asked a newspaper man.
The man doesn't live who can line
up the entire Republican vote of Ne
maha county for Curtis.,' said Governor
Bailey. 1.-The feeling up there is very
intense, and the voters are too indie
pendent to be lined up for any man
they are opposed to-
Governor Bailey went up to Nemaha
county last week just before the state
convention and suggested that little
! harmony would be a good thing, but
he was informed that he might just as
well come back to Topeka and keep
still-that the Republicans would not
sacrifice too much for harmony. The
action Of the state convention in seat
| ing the contesting delegations did not.
| tend to allay the ruffled feelings of the
anti-Curtis people in the First district.
| The Republican senatorial conven-
ton in the Twenty-third senatorial
convention was held yesterday after
noon at 90dpOQy ana Dr. j. M. t1aInne
of Cottonwood Falls was nominated for
state senator by reclamation. The dis
trict is COMP osed of Marion, Morris and
Chase counties, and DR.. HanfS7e sue
ceeds Senator George P. Morehouse
of Council Grove. Early in the cam
paign Senator Morehouse announced
that he would be a candidate for re-
election, but it was Chase county's
turn to have the senator and Marion
county promised to stand by Chase, so
nothing was left for Morehouse to do
but withdraw from the race. Hamme S
name. by the way, is pronounced as
though it were spelled Hon." with
short co.
Emporia Gazette: Isn't it getting
time to quit this bigotry and narrow
ness? Isn't it getting time to forget
! factions and to recognize worth, wheth-
er the worthy man supported Long or
Stanley or Curtis for senator two years
ago? To ignore Bristow was a mis-
! take; but to be proud of it, means
that the mistake is in the blood of the
| dominant faction. What does Mr.. Hoch
or Mr.. Stubs say of this exultation
at malicious blunder?
A yellow dog is pretty bad. but not
as bad as the Evil one himself. There
| have been those who have declared
with great fervor that they would vote
| for that kind of a canine if their party
put him up. Here is a man who would
vote for the devil himself under the
| same circumstances.
! The Mankato Monitor comes out this
week for Tom Kelly for treasurer, TAX
ing the ground that while it would
prefer the devil to Kelly, that the
! Wichita convention had condoned his
sins and that the Monitor must SUD
port the ticket and all the ticket To
the Monitor Satan himself is all right
if he gets the 80. K" of the Republic
can party in convention assembled.
| There are some voters not so partisan.
| The Monitor says:
1.-THE time is at hand when every Re
| publican paper in Kansas must take its
stand for or against Tom Kelly, who
has been nominated by the Republicans
of Kansas for the important office of
state treasurer.
1.-TWO years ago this same Tom Kelly
was nominated for this office by the
Republicans of Kansas and was elect
ed So far as we know, Mr.. Kelly has
made a good official as state treasurer
and has not stolen any more of the
state funds than any of his prede-
cessors.
.sThen the question has arisen. he
| having been honored by the ReDub-
| lican party by one election to such
high position. should not such an act
condone his past sins. whatever they
may have been. and at this time in
particular. should he not receive the
! support of Republicans who believe
| that the will of the majority in con-
vention shall rule?
tom Kelly is not our choice for
state treasurer; we would have voted
for the devil in preference, had we been
in that convention.
THE Monitor is a Republican paper
and it will support the nominees of the
Republican party. To us the name of
Tom Kelly is just as honorable as the
names of some of the hypocritical gang
who started out to purify politics by
keeping Tom Kelly in office and send
ing Governor Bailey to oblivion
1--WE will support the ticket named
at Wichita, Tom Kelly. Ed Hoch and
all, because if we bolted Kelly We
would have to be consistent and bolt
the fellows who backed him, and this
we do not care to do
]. M. Dolan of Clifton, Washington
county, is mentioned as Democratic