The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-06
.LEIDY IS BEATEN.
Butler County Senator Loses
the Nomination.
Representative j. b. Adams
Captures the Prize.
LINTON ALSO LOQES-
LINTON ALSO LOSES.
Man Who Defeated Webb McNaIl
Isn't RenOminated.
Burton and Anti-BurtOn Forces
Are Even.


faction got state senator. while the
Burton faction secured a member of
the lower house.
In Butler county J. B. Adams won in
the primaries for state senator over
Fremont Leidy, who was a candidate
for denomination. In Smith county
Representative L M. Linton was de-
feated for denomination, and S. r.
Boggs was nominated for representa-
tive.
There has been a tremendous fight on
in Butler county for weeks between
Adams and Leidy. Leidy voted for
Burton four years ago and has always
trained with the Burton crowd. Adams
was just the other way. He has rep
resented the FL Dorado district of But
Ter county in the last three sessions of
the legislature and has always trained
with the anti-Burton crowd.
Bent Murdock put up a hard fight
for Leidy in his FL Dorado Republican,
but it was unavailing. Adams was
charged with all the crimes of the last
legislature, particularly the employ
ment of the excessive number of en-
ployes in the house. but it was shown
that Senator Leidy not only participa-
ted in employing still more employees
per capita in the senate, but he put his
wife and an employe Of the Ell Dorado
Republican also on the payroll.
1t was in this Butler county fight
that the falsifying of the senate jour
nal regarding the GoebeI bill was
brought out. Adams was chairman of
the committee on banks and banking
in the house and pushed the Goebel bill
| through that body. Leidy and his
friends tried to make out that it was
then held in the house until TOO late
for the senate to pass it. This is what
the printed senate journal indicated.
but an investigation of the bill itself
showed that the senate journal had
4 been falsified and that the-biIl had been
/ suppressed in the senate for more than
4 ten days in order to keep it from COM
/ ing to vote
/ In Smith county the man who made
/ the race against Linton was not nomi-
mated. but new man was sprung. DR..
/ +. M Bilby, of kenSingtOn, was used
/ as a candidate. against Linton, but it
was charged that even he might not be
| entirely submissive to the will of Sec
retary of State BurrOw, and that Mr..
/ Burrow would nominate another man
/ if possible. This seems to have been
done, for the nominee for representa-
I tive is S. r. Boggs. Boggs was named
on the third ballot.
Adams is pretty certain of election
i in Butler county. Two years ago the
| average Republican majority in the
/ county was something over 500, while the
] average Republican majority in Smith
/ county was only about 200. There is great
| danger, therefore, that the Republicans
will lose Smith county, for the fight
there will be sure to cost the Republi-
cans some votes.
Two former Marion county Populists
are now among the Republican leaders
! in the state of Washington. Edward
| Palmer, at one time a leading POpulist
| of Marion county, has just been elect
ed chairman of the Republican state
I of a nd
he has appointed Henry Mclean, one
of his former Populist brethren in Mar
ion county. on the executive committee.
| Mclean was one of the big POpullSts
of Kansas during the Leedy admins
| tration and was for a time assistant
supreme court reporter.
The Kingman county Republicans
nominated the following ticket Satur-
day: Representative, V. T. Cannon;
/ treasurer, r. w. Campbell; register of
deeds, w. w. Donaldson; county clerk,
George P. Wellrnan; county superin-
/ tendent, ]. f. Boyer; county attorney,
| George L. Hay: clerk of district court,
Frederick G. Cloud; sheriff, F. NJ
/ Kenna; coroner. 3. H Jordan; com
missioners, L. ". Seeley and J. E Van
kirk President Roosevelt, Senator
Long. Congressman Murdock, Governor
| Bailey and the candidacy OF +. W.
Hocn were indorsed-
Ihe SOCIALISTS nave put III a StA eaAs1lt
\ county ticket in Dickinson county It
I is as follows: Representative G. H
4 Baker: county clerk. L. c. Nelson; dis
| trict clerk. G. Mccoy; treasurer, c. ;.
/ KraybiIl; register A. Templeton; pro
4 bate Judge. John Ostrum; sheriff, J. NJ
4 Sexton: superintendent. NJ. d. Settle
Judge Clark A. Smith, the new Re
publican nominee for supreme court
/ Justice, can afford to quit the practice
4 of law and go on the supreme court
4 bench He owns an S00-acre farm in
/ Osborne county. for which he recently
4 refused an offer of S21,OO0-
| A funny thing about the contest in
Smith county IS a dispatch sent out
| from Smith Center which says ''the
Hoch faction controlled in Smith
1 county" In the last legislature L. NJ
II Linton worked and voted for Hoch for
state printer, while Secretary of State
Burrow worked hard against Hoch.
I Mr.. BurrOw does not deny it. In the
recent Smith county fight Burrow op-
posed the denomination of Linton and
4 won. That is the way "Hoch won in
Smith county"
Some of the Republican leaders are
4 wondering what will be the attitude
4 of w. r. Stubs towards the State
! university in the coming legislature.
In the last session one of Mr.. Stubbs'
chief efforts was to secure a liberal
/ appropriation for the university This
year he is making a special effort to
have appropriations cut down Those
| who want appropriations for other in
stitutions will insist, of course, that
4 Some of them Will probably be unjust
1 in their demands lAl1f iS likely "a he