The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-20
OFF TO CHICAGO.
Many Kansas Republican Poll
ticians Already There.
State Officers Get Berths as AS
sistant Sergeants-at-Arms.
GOV. BAILEY WON'T GO
He and Attorney General Cole
man Will Stay.
Large Number of Kansans viii
Be at the Convention.

There is an exodus of Kansas Re
publicans, especially those of the Bur-
ton crowd, to Chicago to attend the
Republican national convention this
week. Most of the state officers, ex-
cept Governor Bailey, Attorney Gen
eral Coleman and State Auditor
Wells, are already there, and the lat
ter went today. A number of the
state officers got appointments as as
sistant rgeants-at-arms in order to
get into the convention. Among these
are Secretary of State Burrow. State
Treasurer Kelly, Lieutenant Governor
Hanna, Superintendent of Insurance
Luling. superintendent Dayhof is in
Chicago, but he is not among the ser
geants- s-at-arms.
There will be more sergeants-at-
arms in the convention than there
were in the last Kansas legislature.
and they will be just as useless. There
will be one thousand assistant ser
geants-at-arms, or four more than
there are delegates in the convention.
Fifty Kansas men are so designated,
by the grace of D. W. Mulvane, the
national committeeman. Each of
them will wear a big badge.
Governor Bailey will not attend the
national convention. The Kansas del
OF his political enemies, and as there
will be no contest at the convention,
he does not see that it is necessary for
him to attend. Attorney General
Coleman is also keeping away from
the convention.
There are a large number of Kan
sas Republicans in attendance at the
national convention aside from those
who got jobs For these National
mi
mission by ticket, but he could not get
tickets enough to go around, hence his
large supply of observation-disclosures. His
list of the latter is as follows:
Gen. Wilder s. Metcaif, United
States pension agent; ]. S. Dean,
United States district attorney, D. J.
Hanna, Lieutenant governor; c. H.
Lullngs state superintendent of fnsur-
ance; Thomas T Kelly, state treas
urer; J. r. Burrow, secretary of state;
A C Jordan, Lyons; S. E. Rowson
RusseIl; charles w Hull, Kirwin; F.
5. Johnson, Washington; G. w Ka-
navel, Sedgwick; Charles Starr, Scott
city; John H Upton, Wichita; Charles
! j. Engstrom, Smith Center; H. D. Col
vim, Oberlin; F. E. Grimes, Topeka; S.
5. Benedict Benedict; DR.. Charles S
Huffman, Columbus; B. H Tracy
! Wamego; Clyde Miller, Usage City; G,
/ W. t1ndlay, Topeka; William Hig-
gins, COneyville; G. A. Mosher Kins-
ley; Frederick Sturges, Concordia; A
j. Nugent Hiawatha; T. J. HAYES
| Kansas City; J. N. johnson. OsIxa2
I9oss; To- s5aoR, r; IT T. Ray. COUNCIL Grove: F.
Topeka; D c Roseman, Clifton:
Frank Burt, Wichita; w ]. Stewart
/ W1chlta; r. NJ. McGonigIe, Colby: G.
| +. Holiday, Topeka; c. E. Moore
Cherryvale; L. N Flint, Manhattan.
John Dudley, Topeka; o. J. Green
leaf, Greensburg; w. c. Alexander
everest; H G. Dooley, CoffeyviIle; w
Z. HowelI, Barnard; Nicholas Chiles
] 1ODeka.
| W. j. Stewart, A. c. Jordan and
! NICK Ch1les will be in active service
and the others will be simply orna-
mental.
Ewing Herbert announces that he
viii support A. L. Gilbert for state
senator and not bolt, although he
claims a good many Brown corntI-
Republicans will not support Gilbert
A dispatch from Troy states that
! Major Jeltz is up in Doniphan county
working for Curtis. If this did not
appear in a Curtis organ it might he
regarded as a scheme of Cyrus I,e-
lands to injure Curtis.
Salina Journal: In late interview
on the outlook for the new RepubIi-
can administration w. r. Stubbs ont
lines some work which he says the
next legislature will accomplish. One
] of the measures included in Mr.
/ Stubbs' prophecy is law doing away
with the 'state treasurer steal" by
/ providing that state money shall re-
main in local banks until it is called
1 for by the state treasurer. Mr.. Stubbs
says the people will demand this He
! is doubtless right. The people have
| been demanding it for some time. And
without desiring to aggravate a fac
/ tional dispute the Journal desires to
! call attention to the fact that exactly
such a bill was put through the lower
house of the last legislature and
slaughtered in the senate by the
/ friends of State Treasurer Kelly and
/ the alleged friends of Mr.. Stubbs-bv
the men who afterward cried out that
Bailey ought to be downed and the
legislature rebuked for its sins. This
/ is not a partisan remark; it is merely
| a matter of news. Mr.. Stubbs is un-
j questionably honest in his advocacy
of reforms. Unquestionably also the
same reforms will stir up opposition
among the men who fought them be-
fore and. who have been bowling for
pure politics ever since.