The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-12
BARNES LOST IT..
Machine Forces Carried Wyans
dotte County Overwhelmingly.
Congressional Delegation viii
Be for Mr.. McGreW.
TALK OF A BOLT.
Barnes People May Try First
District Tactics.
Hoch Attends Kelly Convention
in Miami County.

The primaries in wyandotte county
yesterday were carried by the Bailey
element by an overwhelming majority.
Since the withdrawal Of Governor
Bailey from the race the division of the
factions has been on the local congress
sional candidates, the Bailey people
lining I'D for Henry McGrew and the
anti-Bailey element for Nat Barnes.
In the county convention. which will
be held Saturday. McGrew will have
about 260 delegates and Barnes will
have "a.
The Barnes people are adopting First
district tactics They claim they were
cheated out of a lot Of delegates and
they are going to demand that 20 ok
their delegates be seated in the county
| convention Barnes says he wiA get
the Wyandotte county delegation
which seems to indicate that bolt is
on foot. It is claimed that a victory
for McGrew is victory for Henry
Allen, provided McGrew has no show.
while Barnes delegation from Wyan-
dotte county would mean that 1t would
be for RowerSOck.
Wyandotte county Will have SO dele
gates in the state convention, and 81 n
the congressional convention.
James F. Getty win doubtless be
nominated for 1ate senator over d ~
Enright.
Paola, Kan. Feb 1&-The Kelly
trump" convention here yesterday
afternoon was fairly we'll attended. con-
sidering the attitude of most OF the Re-
publicans towards Kelly. The conven-
ton called for 210 deIega tes, and about
140 were present. Very few of the dele.
cations were full. and East and West
Valley precincts were not represented at
all. In East Valley not vote was cast
at the Kelly primaries and in West Val
ley only one was cast.
e. w. Hoch made a speech before the
Kelly convention. He said he was
against Henry Allen for congressman
in the Second district because Allen
] had opposed him for state printer last
year. He also said he had taken no
position with reference to the balance
of the state ticket, other than COVER
nor, and did not know that he will do
so, but if he does he will favor the
denomination of the balance of the pres
ent state ticket.
The Kelly people kept Hoch safe
| guarded while he was in Paola so that
anybody who is opposed to Kelly could
| not get at him. 1t was the intention of
/ the anti-Kelly people to ask Hoch to
Inspect KelIys record here in the Miami
county court house, but Eoch kept
close to the Kelly people and afforded
no opportunity to KeIly's opponents to
| get at him.
The delegation elected by the Kelly
| convention to the state convention IS
! headed by 3. +. Simpson, Kelly's at
| torney 1t is instructed for Hoch, and
the congressional delegation is in
| structed for Bowersock. The resolu-
tions are for Roosevelt. Hoch, Kelly and
| the other state officers.
The regular primaries called by the
Republican county central committee,
| are being held this afternoon, and the
county convention will be held toH1or-
| row.
| 'I notice." remarked State Chair
man Albaugh today. that Mr.. Hoch
! has been down in the Second district
for several days making speecnes in
which he asks all his friends to vote
/ against Henry Allen for congressman
| Mr. Hoch's crowd is fighting me be-
cause they say represent the boss IN
| politics. but I will give a new suit of
| clothes to any man who Will show
| where I ever wrote a letter or where
I ever asked anybody to take sides in
a congressional fight outside of my own
district. 1 have never been guilty or
| going over into somebody else's district
] and trying to dictate who shall or shall
not be nominated for congress, yet Mr.,
Hoch has been doing that very thing"
The Republican senatorial conven-
| ton in the Jewell Mitchell district met
yesterday at Jewell City. and I D.
Young, of Beloit, was nominated for
| ton was conceded to Mitchell county
by Jewell, and as Young won in his
| home fight in Mitchell county he had
no opposition in the senatorial con-
vention. The convention lasted only
| fifty minutes. Resolutions were passed
endorsing President Roosevelt. Con-
gresham Reeder. e. W. Hoch, and
Clark A. Smith of Cawker City for JUS
tice OF the supreme court.
Scott City. Kan. Feb. 1.-THE Kelly
men are trying desperately to prove
that becausee Scott county is a Bailey
county. it necessarily follows that the
| anti-Kelly resolution passed by the Re
publican county convention last Satur-
day, was the work of the Bailey men,
The truth of the matter is that the
chairman OF the convention and all the
members of the resolutions committee
who reported the resolutions are all
original Hoch men.
The following resolution was adopted
without a dissenting voice:
Resolved, That an overwhelming
majority of the Republicans of Scott
/ county believe that an office of public
state treasurer, should be occupied by
a man entirely free from suspicion; and
4 without passing on the personal honesty
| or dishonesty of the present incumbent,
an anti-Kelly caucus, if there be such,
and to use every honora BILE means to
secure the nomination of Hon Fran55
Nelson. or some other Republican sS7-
tirely free from suspicion"
The local correspondents Of the Kasas
sas City Star, the Kansas Cry Journal
and the Topeka Capital each sent notics
of the resolutions to their papers. The
Star and the Journal did not publish
word concerning the convention. The
Capital published a garbled account.
The friends of Justice Atkinson ara
| getting busy now in looking after At
kinson delegates outside of. Labette
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