The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-19
VIII Have an "Opening" on
Thursday Evening.
BOOKS TURNED OVER.
Mr.. Albaugh Gives New Chair
man the Records.
Some Invaluable Documents
Are Among Them.

and his associates are TAKING possess
sion. The typewriters. books and rec
ords were secured from Bank Com
missioner AIbaugh's Office several
days ago. and today the furniture be-
longing to the committee. which had
been stored by Mr.. Albaugh with a
storage company between campaigns,
was moved to the committee rooms
One of the valuable assets of the
Republican state committee is a large
volume containing township maps of
each county in the state. The maps
are simply marked off into precincts,
and in each precinct is marked the
vote of that precinct in each election
for the past eight years Thus the
political history of every precinct in
the state can be secured from this
volume at a glance
accompanying this volume is a list
of many thousand precinct Repub-
Hcan workers, so that the leaders and
influential Republicans of each town.
ship precinct can also be secured
at a moments notice
Besides Chairman Stubs, Clyde
Miller secretary of the state com
mfttee, and ]. n. Dolley, nominee for
senator in Wabaunsee county, who
has been associated with Mr.. Stubs
from the beginning, are here ready
for work Just now preparations are
in progress for the meeting of the
state committee on Thursday after
noon and evening and the conference
with the state and congressional can
didates.
The rooms of the state committee
take in the two connecting parlors of
the National hotel on the main or sec
ond floor of the building, two front
rooms Immediately north of them in
the annex, and three rooms in the
rear. Some of the rooms have been
newly painted and papered and the
floors painted. A stairway leading up
IA 1rrC n-TI of Tf7e
main entrance to the hotel gives the
headquarters an entrance indepen-
dent of the hotel and not connected
with it Invitations have been sent
out for the meeting of the committee
Thursday evening.
@. W. Holdren, of Cherryvale, has
been nominated as the Republican can
dtdate for the legislature in the east
district of Montgomery county. 1t took
four ballots to nominate. The other
candidates We're Captain E. A Rosser
Address was the nominee two years ago
but he was defeated by ]. H. Keith, a
fusionist.
u. G. Griffin secured the endorsement
of Jefferson county for state senator
yesterday over Matt Edmonds. The
vote in the primaries was very close,
but when EdmondS found Griffin had a
majority he withdrew his candidacy and
Griffin was endorsed. Jefferson is in
the same senatorial district as Douglas
and it is Jefferson's turn to name the
senator this year. Griffin is a Curtis
man-so is Edmonds.
DIR. J. H. Briefly, of Glasco, is a can
didate for the Republican nomination
for representative in Cloud county. 1t
is reported that Conner Davies, head
boss buster of Cloud, wants to be state
printer, but it is not known whether
Briefly is satisfactory to him or not.
DR.. Briefly aspired to be state senator,
but at the time Cloud county endorsed
Representative Charles n. Peck for
senator. it was reported from Cloud
county that DR.. Briefly would succeed
him as representative. The resolution
presenting Brierlys candidacy to the
Republicans of Cloud county is signed
by Rev. B. f. Mcmillan, w. A. Hill
J. Z. Willars, c. G. Archer, NJ. L Hare,
J. S. Grau. A Studt, and A OFT
Here is the way poet on the New
York Sun figures out the significance
of the financial plank in the Democratic
platform:
Said the Democratic Gold Plank,
In the watches of the night,
m the hole inside the doughnut
II you think it out Alright.
For you surely can't deny it
When you get right down to biz,
It's the presence of my absence
Makes the platform what it is.
Barney Sheridan, who called Henry
Allen a Gathering boodler" a year or
so ago, now publishes the following |
about Mr.. Allen, which signifies that
Mr.. sheridan either meant what he !
said when he stated that he was will |
ling to let bygones be bygones or he /
IS anxious to have an independent Re |
publican candidate for congress:
Henry J. Allen is too good a man 1
TO be crowded out of the congressional /
race His friends should circulate a /
petition for him to run as an indie |
pendent candidate"
Hill City Republican: Lieutenant |
Governor d. J. Hanna is a very sick |
man. Tuesday he was taken down |
with typhoid fever and had to be re- |
moved to the residence of E. E. Null
lAney. where he is receiving the best l
OF attention. DR.. Norrish of Pioneer /
township has the case in charge.
The following notice appears in the
"CHILDREN'S PICNIC.
"All children in the city and county, /
Rixteen years of age and under. are in
vited to attend my annual picnic at |
Forest park, Saturday, July 80, from |
= D. m. until 10 p. m Children will be |
go-round, lemonade. music, moving
pictures. and everything necessary to
give children good time, free.
"B. p. WAGGENER'
Which means that Mr.. Waggener
has begun his campaign for state SEN
ator.
William Allen White: Party loyalty
IS very properly not what 1T used to be.
The old-fashioned idea that a man
should be drawn and quartered who did /
not vote the entire ticket-Democrat tic
or Republican-of his party, yellow dog
and all has departed Although TheO-
dore Roosevelt, the leader of the Re
publicans today. is a party machine
man-in the sense that he is believer
in the close organization and entire re-
organization of the party machine-yet
no one is more liberal than he with the /