The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-24

! craIS TO nominate MIR. Ferguson, anC
| which started Ferguson's boom. J
T. White of Ada, whom the fedora
| ton asked the Republican state con-
| Ventlon to nominate for one of the
| places on the railroad board, is the
| Republican nominee for the legisla-
ture in Ottawa county.
| 1t is true that some of the Demo
cratic leaders started trouble because
j. w. Robson, against whom the
Democrats nominated no candidate al
the request of the federation, is sup
porting the Republican nominees for
railroad commissioners instead of
those named at the request of the fed
GRAFTON. A move was started to put
up somebody against Robson, but the
federation would not stand for it and
it was abandoned.
One of the chief grounds for COM
plant that the Republican railroad in
that Harry Mcmillan, the Democratic
senator from the OttaWa-Saline dis
trict, is its president. Yet some of
Senator McMillan's opponents in his
race for senator are members of the
federation. Mcmillan himself refused
to be candidate for railroad commits
sioner, alth ough urged by members of
both parties to run, because he
thought it would injure the federation
of which he is president.
If the Republican state convention
at Wichita had needed the requests of
the federation and nominated three of
the seven men it recommended for
places on the railroad board, it is quite
have asked the Democrats for any
favors. Instead, however, the Repub-
lican state convention, which was un-
doubtedly dominated by railroad in
turned the federation down hard and
renominated the very men whom it
was asked not to nominate.
Congressman Curtis made a speech
at Coal Creek, up in the south part of
Seneca Tribune says there was not a
Curtis Republican there to preside. 1t
says that there were 25 voters present
at the meeting, but they were all eth
who are against Curtis.
Commenting editorially on the meet
ing the Tribune says:
Congressman Curtis began his cam
paign in Nemaha county with a speak
ing. meeting on Coal creek last Monday.
His Topeka organs fiaunt this meet
ing as one in the enemy's country.
and predict great acceSSions to the
Curtis ranks to follow Coal creek is
one of the strongest Democratic
strongholds in Nemaha county, popu-
lated by an industrious class of Irish
who generally vote 'er straight But
Mr. Curtis has his workers out attempt
ing to capture this Democratic vote,
and they are offering the earth for
support. Republican sentiment in
Nemaha county is so notoriOuSly anti
attempt to save strength from his own
party, but comes into this section SOW
ing discord, threatening candidates AMI
bartering for support. 1t is a sorry
sight; but the November count of the
ballot will show the voter in Nemaha
county knows his mind and will not be
dissuaded from rebuking with defeat q
congressman whose nomination was
obi frqIld and WIN inf
Nemaha county through the back
door!"
The Severance News, which is about
the only Curtis paper in Doniphan
county, calls for a mass meeting to
nominate an independent" county
ticket in Doniphan county in opposi-
ton to the regular Republican ticket.
Most of the nominees on the Repub-
Iican ticket in Doniphan county are
against Curtis.
w H. Jordan, editor of the Seneca
Tribune, has just completed new
building as home for his paper, and
the moving in process has just been
completed. 1t is about the finest build
ing in Seneca, and is said to be as
good an office as any country weekly
in Kansas can boast.
The Phillipsburg Post, a Demo-
cratic paper, publishes quotation
from the Jewell Republican. in which
the latter asserts that T. 7. Kelly and
perhaps some of the other candidates
on the Republican state ticket ought
to be defeated, and the Post COM
ments on the EDITORIAL as follows:
Mr.. Palmer, editor of the Jewell
City Republican, a devout Republican
paper, has Kelly and the railroad COM
miSsioners sized up about right, but
we are slow to believe that majority
Ill .f l.
great state of Kansas are going to
stif1e their consciences and paralyze
good government by voting for
man whose own people, in his own
people who are his own neigh
bors, and if justice permitted would
be his friends, call him a thief and
forger.. They know him best, they
know from his record what he really
is.
s.Mr. Palmer who has always been a
Republican and is yet, admits that the
Republican state ticket is composed of
'boodlerS, fixerS and railroad tools, and
still anticipates their election along
with that of Hoch to whom the Repub-
licans point as an injured puriey be-
cause he failed to land the state print
er's graft. The mere fact that he is
Kelly man assures the people that
there is something wrong; the fact
that he is and always has been a Bur-
ton man is double assurance that he is
out of line with good morals and civic
virtue, two essential elements of good
government.
1.-The people are commencing to re
aIize that parties are means for good
and not its ends. A citi-
zen should not belong to party in
the sense that a party's action and or
ganization should bind him with a silly
prejudice to vote for what his good
sense and conscience tell him is wrong.
Stop and consider. A party organiza-
ton has no charter rights, if one may
use the figure, to have and to hold
human beings in slavery against the
best interest of the state and nation.
1T will be a great day for this re-
public when every citizen has come TO
the high standard of citi-
zenship expressed in the following sem
tence: 1T is better to bolt then to be
a traitor to the state Thomas Dolan,