The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-15

Kelly, IS; BowerSock, 100; Blaker for
state senator, 4S0; Trigg for representa-
tive, 1876. The Republicans also elect
register of deeds, county CLERK, probate
judge, treasurer, superintendent and
surveyor The Democrats elect county
attorney, clerk of the district court and
sheriff.
Fogle, the Prohibition candidate for
state treasurer, carried his home pre-
cinct all right. Kelly was third man in
Franklin county, and the returns from
there show that he received 1O7 votes,
Dolan SO and Kelly 81. The vote on
governor in that precinct was, Hoch
$50, Dale 118, Kerr Is, Lowther 8.
7. T. Kelly carried only one precinct
in jackson county. That was the Third
ward in the city of Holton, where he
had II plurality. Hoyt precinct, which
Roosevelt carried by vote of 1876 to
7S, went against Kelly by a vote of ~
to 209.
Senator Harry Mcmillan, who retires
as state senator from the Saline-Ottawa
district, having been defeated by Fred
H. Quincy, the Republican candidate,
announces that he is out of politics,
although he will probably be in Topeka
off and on during the coming session
of the legislature in the interest of rail-
road legislation, as he is president OF
the Federation of Commercial Inter
ests. The fight in Ottawa and Saline
counties centered almost entirely
around Mcmillan. The Republican or
gan in ottawa county, gives the defeat
ed senator a good send-off, now that
election is over. 1t says that the Re-
publicans were confident of carrying the
election, with the possible exception-Qf
the senatorship, and that the hght
therefore centered around Mcmillan
Concerning Mcmillan personally it says:
Personally Senator Mcmillan is very
popular and he has many warm par
tisan friends in all parties who feel
deep interest in his success. He had
served the district in the state senate
for four years with marked credit to
himself and his constituency, though
minority member of that body. All
these things tended to make the state
senatorial race the interesting feature
of the local canvass owing, as suggest
ed, to the uncertainty of the result.
There is nothing hunfiliating, how
ever to Senator Mcmillan in his de-
feat The majority against him it is
true is overwhelming, being from SIX to
eight hundred more than the most san
guine calculations on the part OF Re
but when compared with the
vote cast for Parker, the head of his
ticket, it will be seen the senator re-
tains- his old time popularity in the dis-
trict and that. his defeat meant that ne
could not retard the Republican land
slide. the overwhelming majority in the
district.
Senator Mcmillan is defeated, not
because the people have lost confidence
in him as a citizen or his ability to
represent the district in the state SEN
ate. He was a candidate for political
office, in the highest sense, po1Hon
hat has to do with party measures
and the Republicans have now sent a
of their own party to
Topeka for the next four years. That's
ln.''
Fred H. Quincy, the new senator, was
himself identified with the Federation !
If Commercial Interests, and he held
he support OF most of the big shipping
concerns in Salina which would other
wise have naturally gone to Mcmillan. |
Senator Quincy's actions will doubtless
De in line with what the federation