The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-11
Would Have a Place on the
Kansas Ballot.
COMMITTEE WILL ACT.
Babb, Lawrence and Wright Will
Settle the Controversy.
Majority Stood for Fusion at
State Convention.


brethren went through last week. 1t is
a question of whether to fuse with the
Democrats or fight them. They propos-
ed to the Democrats that the Demo-
Gratis endorse the Populist electoral
ticket and that they fuse on the state
| ticket, dividing the offices, but this the
Democrats will not agree to. The Dem
ocrats want each party to put up its
own electoral ticket and fuse on the
state ticket as was done in Kansas.
Thomas E. Watson. of Georgia, Popu-
list nominee for president, is there
fighting the fusion proposition. He
talked for over two hours before the
Populist state convention yesterday af-
ternoon, growing so weak that he was
compelled to sit down to finish his
speech.
The Kansas situation has been un-
der consideration by members of the
national Populist committee there, and
the following dispatch was sent out
from Lincoln: 10 A. Parker, a mem |
ber of the national executive commit
tee of the PopuliSt party, tonight gave
out the following statement relative to |
the status of the electoral ticket i'll |
Kansas:
" The national committee of the Peo- |
pies party in session at Lincoln today
inaugCrated steps to have the party
duly represented on the official ballot of
Kansas. The matter was referred 10
the Kansas members of the national
committee for action. Judge Edwin ;. |
Waterbury of Emporia, Kansas, was
constituted q : member of the executive |
committee of the national organiza-
ton
The wording of this dispatch seems |
to indicate that the Kansas situation is |
not fully understood by the national |
committee. The Populists are represent |
ed on the official ballot by a full set or |
presidential electors. ]. A. Parker is a |
Kentucky man. He is the man who |
wired several Populists at Topeka last
week to fight fusion, and has since sent |
word that the action of the Kansas
Populists will not be recognized by the /
national committee. The Kansas lead |
ers seem to think differently, however.
For IL the state ticket as put up by the /
Populists is not recognized by the Pop |
ulist national committee it is likely to |
cause a big falling off in the support or
the Watson electoral ticket.
If, as the Lincoln dispatch states, the |
matter has been referred to the Kan
sas members of the national committee |
for action, the state ticket will stand
as it is at present. The Kansas menl-
bers of the national committee are DR..
F. B. Lawrence of Ell Dorado, w. j.
Babb of Wichita, and ]. A. Wright of
Smith Center. DR.. Lawrence worked
for the plan which went through the
state convention; Judge Babb was not
entirely in favor of fusion on thCSoem- |
ocratic ticket, but he was willing to
for it; Colonel Wright was very much
opposed to fusion as IT went through,
and he will probably favor straight
Populist ticket, but the other two mem
bers will hardly back him up in it.
Wichita, Kan, Aug. 11.-Already the
organization of Roosevelt and Dale
clubs has commenced in the Seventh
it's list is receiving SO many signers
tnat it is believed the membership will
reach at least a thousand
The list of members include both
Democrats and Republicans. Many
Democrats are not at all averse to vot-
ing for Roosevelt, while hundreds of
Republicans in Sedgwlck county VINO
know Judge Dale will vote for him for
governor so an agreement is easily
reached between Democratic and Re
publican neighbors. The Republicans
state ticket, while the Democrats agree
to support Roosevelt and the Republic
can national ticket, and both join the
Roosevelt and Dale club.
A movement mas been inaugurated to |
organize clubs in other towns in the
Seventh district, and it is believed it |
will meet with great success.
The Democrats of Crawford county
nominated the following ticket: State
senator. D. NJ. Whitehead, Walnut;
Elmer Loomis. Girard; representative
Twenty-fourth district, F. B. Wheeler,
Pittsburg; county treasurer. T. W.
Morgan; probate judge, Francis Kee-
gan, Willerton; register of deeds, J. c.
Hiett, Girard; county attorney, w. H.
Morris, Pittsburg; sheriff, n. B. Swain,
Arcadia; district clerk. Warren Sea-
baug, Pittsburg; county clerk, ]. r.
Derry, Engelvale; county superintend-
ent, Charles E. Grandle. Midway; coun-
ty surveyor, Walter Daniels, Crawford
township; coroner, Charles D. Vest,
The reports from Crawford county
indicate that the Democrats stand a
good show of carrying the county this
year. 1t has a large mining vote, and
the miners would have stood by Cover
nor Bailey on account of his veto of
the Dolley garnishment bill, but for the
Republican ticket as now constituted.
A fight was made on Bailey because
he vetoed the garnishment bill, and for
tnat reason the laboring element is
afraid of Mr.. Hoch.
State Auditor Wells has received a
dispatch stating that his brother-in-law,
Don G. Edwards, has received the Re
publican nomination for congress in the
congressional district in Ken
lucky by 1900 majority over w. G..
Republican districts of Kentucky so a
is equivalent to an election.
Two years ago there was a row in the
district of about the same proportions
as that in the First Kansas district
now. Hunter got the decision in the
fight on the nomination. but Edwards
ran against him in the election and the
result was close that Edwards con- |
tested Hunters seat in congress, and
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