The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-11
FIGHTS ALLEN.
HOch Takes a Hand In Second
District Contest.
Asks His Friends to Help De-
feat Allen.
HE MAKES A SPEECH.
Goes to Assistance of Bower
sock in WyandOtte.
Primary There Is Being Held
This Afternoon.
E MAKES A SPEECH.

"non-factional' and "anti-boss' can
didate for governor. Following the
attempt of Mr.. Hoch's organization to
dictate to the Republicans of Miami
county that they should endorse an
acknowledged thief and forger for re-
nomination as state treasurer, Mr..
Hoch himself, according to a Fort Scott
dispatch, has taken a hand in the Sec
ond district congressional fight and is
attempting to force the defeat of H. j.
Allen. It is stated that Mr.. Hoch Gre
ated a surprise by declaring himself
unqualihedly opposed to Allen and he
asked his friends to oppose Allen. The
dispatch as published in the Kansas
City Times is as follows:
e. w. Hoch. the probable Republic
can nominee for governor, created
surprise here today by declaring before
a meeting in Convention hall that he
was unqualifedly against Henry Allen
for the Second district congressional
nomination. Mr.. Hoch and Mr.. Bow
ersock came here together and viii
have another meeting this evening. Mr..
Hoch said the Kansas Republican ma
chine was building up a newspaper
syndicate in each congressional district
and that Henry Allen was at the head
of the Second district syndicate. He
asked his friends to oppose Mr.. Allen.
Tomorrow Mr.. Hoch and Mr.. Bower
sock will attend the county convention
in Miami county.
Mr.. Hoch's chief grievance against
Governor Bailey has been that Bailey
recognized those Republicans who were
for him before the Wichita convention
Mr.. Hoeh is going even further than he
charges Bailey with going. He is
against all those who were not for him
before Bailey withdrew
The only thing Mr. Hoch urges
against Allen is that he is at the head
of syndicate of newspapers. Mr..
Allen will probably have to plead
guilty to this charge. In company
with Joseph l. Bristow, fourth assist
ant postmaster general, Mr. Allen owns
three newspapers, the Ottawa Herald
the Salina Journal, and the Parsons
Sun. Now will Mr.. Hoeh also urge
that Mr.. BristoW ought to be turned
down also? Bristow is associated with
Allen
Allen has always been a close friend
of Governor Bailey and was therefore
a supporter of Bailey until the latter
withdrew. Since then he has joined
in the support of Hoeh, but Mr.. Hoch
says he is unqualified1y against Allen
and asks his friends in the Second con-
gressional district to vote against
Allen.
Mr.. Hoch claims to be running as the
candidate of a movement which is for
the purpose of doing away with boss
ism in politics, yet here he is going
moved from his own and attempts to
dictate who shall be nominated and
who defeated for congress.
When Mr.. Hoch was cornered con-
corning his efforts to dictate the re-
nomination of Tom Kelly for state
treasurer, he pleaded as his excuse
that Governor Bailey had declared for
the denomination of the entire state
ticket. Possibly his defense in this IN
stance will be that Governor Bailey
wants to see Allen nominated, and
therefore he. Hoch, wants to see him
defeated. 1t is probably true that Gov
ernor Bailey would like to see Allen
nominated, for Allen has uniformly
stood by the governor, while his oppon-
ent, Mr.. Bowersock, has generally been
against the governor But Governor
Bailey has never gone to the extent OF
saying in public that he is unqualified
ly against Bowersock.
Possibly Mr.. Hoch would not come in
for so much criticism in this connection
if he was not making his campaign on
a platform of doing away with the boss
in politics, yet before he is nominated
and when he has no opposition what
ever he is attempting to dictate that
every man who was for Governor Ball
ey shall be marked for slaughter.
And in addition to this. in the case
of Kelly he is taking the part of a man
| who has practically confessed to theft
and forgery by disgorging 81, 900 that
he had stolen from Miami county with
| out attempting to prove his innocence
when the county commissioners pro-
nounced him guilty
The primaries in Wyandotte county
are being held this afternoon. The main
fight in them is whether Wyandotte
county shall give its congressional dele
cation to Nat Barnes or Henry Nc
Grew, both home candidates. The anti
| Bailey faction is supporting Barnes
and the Bailey faction is supporting
| McCsrew The primaries will elect 1856
delegates to the county convention
which will meet next Saturday, and the
convention will elect 81 delegates to the
congressional convention, 80 delegates
to the state convention, and nominate
a county ticket
1t is announced that the "Anti-Ma-
chine League" will have 10000 cam
paign buttons made. The design will
politics." and the pictures of Roose-
Welt and Hoch on the button. The
| league is spending money and making
strenuous efforts to help Tom Kelly
carry Miami county with his boiling
committee. primaries and convention
Why doesn't it put Kelly's picture on
it's buttons?
In the primary election in Woodson
county the following candidates Won:
Senator, J. L. Martin; representative.
J. H Sticher; county clerk, Fred Jack
son; county superintendent, John
Markham; county treasurer. H. H.
Schlichting: register of deeds, w. H.
Trueblood; probate judge, J. A. Greg
DRY; county attorney, a F. Florence:
sheriff. E E. Bartlett; district clerk. A
! B. Estep; surveyor, l. n. Tallman:
| coroner. DR.. Otis Orendorff; commits
sioner Second district. s G. Paris.
E. w. Hoch, for governor; J. NJ Mil
/ Ter, for congressman, and Oscar Foust,
1 for judge of the Thirty-seventh judi
! cial district, carried the county by
about LOO The delegates Will be in
structed for Hoch.
This afternoon Tom KelIy's trump
convention is meeting in Miami coun-
ty, and the Kelly organs tomorrow
morning will doubtless tell how the
Miami county convention was
! INA nirln1ls for Kelly They will