The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-05
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
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their own way where they are united.
Mr.. AlDaugh says:
| ION next Wednesday the Republican
state convention will meet at Wichita
| There will be but few contests before
| the convention. The universal Sent1-
ment in the state is for President
| Roosevelt and the delegates chosen to
! the national convention will be in
structed for his nomination with una
nimity. L. w. Hoch will be nominated
for governor by reclamation. No OBJ
position seems to have crystallized
| against any of the state officers non1i
mated two years ago except State
| Treasurer Kelly. There will be a con-
! test relative to the associate judge
ships, but it may be confined to the
1 place now held by appointment by
Judge Atkinson There will be con-
| tests for two of the places on the
| board of railroad commissioners that
] board having been made elective by
1 the late legislature. The nomination of
/ seems to be conceded. a. D. Walker,
one of the present members of the
board, is a candidate for nomination.
| although he lost his own county by a
| decided majority in his county conven-
ton. He is looked upon as the repre-
sentative of the Rock Island road on
the board. He has trumped up a con-
| tested delegation which will ask for
admission at the Wichita convention.
If his contested delegation is seated he
| doubtless will be nominated. otherwise
he will not. Mr.. Morse having lost his
own county. is not a candidate. and
| there will be a free-for- all fight for
that place on the commission, with
number of candidates in the field.
| state Treasurer Kelly did not dare
go before the regular Republican con-
vention in his county. He knew the
! Republicans there would be opposed to
/ his denomination and hence ignored
the regular call of the county commit
tee and summoned 'rump' con-
xrnT, do - hi
partisans. called and held without any
party right or authority, and the dele
gates chosen at that convention VIII
ask for admission at Wichita.
lit is claimed that all the strength
| of the leaders in the Hoch movement
will be brought to the assistance of Mr..
Kelly in this fight; that they will even
| hold a caucus for the purpose of lining
the Hoch supporters up for him, if it
| becomes necessary. If this is done re-
CARELESS of his record, regardless of his
actions in disrupting the party in his
county; regardless of his arbitrary in
crease in the taxes of certain counties.
under the guise of equalization; re-
gardless of the opposition that is mani
fest in almost every county in the state
to him among Republicans, he will
probably be forced upon the ticket.
This is the situation in a general
way as presented a week prior to the
assembling of this convention. 1t shows
! that the people who, under the guiSe of
a popular uprising, made ]. R. Burton
| United States senator three years ago,
are, under the guise of this uprising,
going to renominate his chief bench
man, Mr. Kelly, for state treasurer,
Notwithstanding his public record,
which is the most outrageous ever pre-
scented by any public officer in the
state. They do it when they know that
his denomination will weaken the ticket
in practically every county in the state,
when they must know that it will en-
danger both senatorial and legislative
districts.
'fWhy they should do this simply
because they have the power is beyond
explanation. There are hundreds of
other men in Kansas Just as good
/ friends of Mr.. Hoch. just as strongly
| anti-machine, whose nomination would
be thoroughly acceptable to all the Re-
publicans of the state, simply because
| they are known to be honest men and
| men who will make faithful public off,
Gals.
but the responsibility is with Hoch
and his friends. They are in control.
If they should name any honest Hoch
man for this responsible place they
could unite the party and allay much
bitterness. If they fail to do it, when
it is SO easy for them to do so, they will
have infinite trouble explaining why
| they found it necessary to place upon
the ticket a man who, by his own act,
confessed to the defalcation of over
81 300 from Miami county; who raised
warrants, forged vouchers, and, with a
| system, robbed the county while serving
in an important official position.
''They will find trouble likewise in ex-
planning why it was necessary to re-
nominate man whose influence in the
senate last winter defeated the Francis
ing for their purpose the giving to the
state the interest on state deposits"
The attitude of many of the Repub-
| liaan n n q
something of the widespread oppose
ton to State Treasurer Kelly. Many
of these papers say that they believe
he will be nominated, but they believe
him to be dishonest just the same, and
that he ought not to be nominated.
Here is a list of 85 of the anti-Kelly
| Republican papers in the state up to
date. There may be others:
| FIRST DISTRICT.
Horton Headlight.
Seneca Tribune.
Sabetha Republican-Herald.
Leavenworth Times.
Troy Chief.
Atchison Globe.
Efingham New Leaf.
Holton Recorder.
Rossville News.
Topeka State Journal.
White Cloud Globe.
Highland Vidette.
/ COTS Advance.
SECOND DISTRICT.
Fort Scott Republican.
Osawatomie Graphic.
Garrett Plaindealer.
Miami Republican.
Spring Hill New Era.
P1easanton Herald.
Ottawa Herald.
Baldwin Ledger.
Il LaCygne Standard.
|, THIRD DISTRICT.
Parsons Sun.
| Arkansas Traveller.
Wilson County Citizen.
Coffeyvil1e Journal.
Coffeyville Independent.
Il Neodesha Register.
FOURTH DISTRICT.
Emporia Gazette
FL Dorado Times.