The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-25

I. L. DAYHOFF,
Whose Forces were Victorious in Reno
County.
Il don't expect to see Bailey's name
go before the Wichita convention.
Hoch has more than 800 delegates
pledged to him already, and he needs
only $50 to win. 1t is great work con-
sidering we have been in the field only
| a week. We have carried Reno, Brown
Jefferson and Johnson counties The
Reno victory was great one, as 1t mas
been one of the strongholds of the
/ Bailey machine"
The question now is, Who has been
pledging Mr.. Hoch more than 500 dele
| gates before they are elected? This
| smacks of machine methods more than
anything the machine" has ever done.
Clay Center, Kas., Jan. 25.-The Clay
! county Republican central committee
met Saturday afternoon in the rooms
/ of the fire department. The majority
/ of the committee are anti-Bailey men,
/ but on account of this being the home
| of Attorney General Coleman the
alone, lest the chances of Mr.. Cole
mans denomination might be jeopar-
died. A call was made for a county
convention to be held February 20 to
elect delegates to the state, congress
sional and senatorial conventions. Gov
ernor Bailey has many warm friends in
Clay county, and they are great po-
/ litica1 workers. A breezy time NAV
be looked for from now until Feb
ruarv 20.
The anti-Bailey people are now max
| ing desperate efforts to prove that Sen
1 ator Burton is in no way allied with the
anti-Bailey movement. But notwith-
standing this the fact remains that the
Burton faction is exceedingly anxious
/ for the success of E. w. Hoch and the
! Joeo e TO,sI
ever it is believed their open work for
the Hoch cause will not injure it they
are working for it openly, as in the
case of Frank Grimes, w. H. Mackey,
and others.
Down in. johnson county T. T. Kelly
has been working for several days for
| the HOch forces, and the success of
Hoch also means the success of Kelly
and Burton's friends generally. For
| instance, the candidate for state SEN
ator who ran with the Hoch ticket
was F. w. Sponable, who is and al
ways has been strong Burton and
Kelly partisan. The success of the
Hoch ticket was the success of Spon-
able, which means a vote for the re-
election of Burton as United States
senatoHrin case he manages to escape
conviction for the crime of which he
has just been indicted in ST. Louis. If
he is convicted it will bar him from
being a United States senator.
The same thing will be true in every
other senatorial district. The Burton
! candidate will always be found running
with the Hoch movement and the sue
cess of the Hoch movement means a
vote for Burton for United States sena-
! tor in all such senatorial districts, and
all the denialS of the anti-Bailey mana
gers cannot make it any other way.
| even though they may personally be
against Burton only for spite work, and
not because they are personally for
Burton.
Pratt, Kas., Jan. 25-At the Repub-
| Hcan county convention held here Sat
urday the following Bailey delegation
was elected to the state convention at
Wichita: D. w. Travis, r. D. Sanders,
| j. B. Hupp, J. M Lucas. Andrew Nc
MILAN. The following were elected to
the congressional convention: NJ. c.
Briggs, B. F. Moore, George Stewart,
Daniel Hutton, and Otto Deadoff.
About one-fourth of the delegates were
for Hoch. Resolutions We're adopted
! indorsing President Roosevelt Gov
ernor Bailey and Victor Murdoch.
Sedan, Kas., Jan. 25.-The Republican
judicial convention of the Thirteenth
| district has been called to meet in
! Sedan, Friday, February 5. Judge c.
P. Altman, of Ell Dorado, has no oppo-
/ sition for denomination. The sena-
| toriaI convention of Elk and Chautau-
qua counties will be held at Moline.
| February 8. Senator W. S. Fitzpatrick,
| of Sedan. is q candidate for renomina-
ton. He is opposed by T. P Hawkins,
| of Elk, the present representative from
that county. Fitzpatrick is a strong
| Burton man.
| Kingman, Kan, Jan. 25-A meeting
of the central committee and 100 other
leading Republicans of the county was
held here Saturday. Resolutions in
dorsing President Roosevelt, Governor
Bailey, Congressman Murdoch and State
Chairman Morton Albaugh were adopt
| ed unanimously. The convention to Sc
| lect delegates to the state and congress
sional conventions was set for Jahu-
airy 80.
Lawrence, Kan, Jan. 25.-The Repub-
lican central committee of Douglas
county met Saturday afternoon to call
the county convention to select dele
gates to the state and congressional con-
ventions. The committee was unani-
NOUS in its action and called the pri-
maries for Friday February. 5. and the
conventions for Saturday, February 6.
in Lawrence. Resolutions were adopted
endorsing Roosevelt and Hoch
D. w. Mulvane, Senator Burton's spe-
c1al political friend and hacker, was in
/ Kansas City Saturday and Tin, &c