The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-20

receiver of the land office, but for SOM
reason or other it was held up
Manhattan. Kan. Sept. 20.-Judg'
David NJ. Dale addressed a large anS
enthusiastic audience here last night
The judges health is improving ana NJ
is gaining strength not only physically
but politically in the way of votes
number of Republicans called on hin
at his hotel and pledged him their votes
His remarks were frequently interrupt
ed with enthusiastic applause. Ths
judge is man who inspires his au-
dience with his reason and logic
Judge Allen of Topeka followed Judge
Dale on the programme. and held the
profound attention of the audience IN
his usual convincing manner.
The Manhattan Millers' band sere-
naded Judge Dale at his hotel and
escorted him to the auditorium follow
ed by a long procession of voters
The meeting was a success beyond
the expectations of its promoters anu
the feeling of the fusionists of Riley
county is fattering for Judge Dale and
the entire fusion state ticket.
Girard, Kan. Sept. 20.-The campaign
in Crawford county got a good sendoh
last night. Congressman p P. Camp
bell. Senator w. E. Mason and Major
Lawrence Ennis. of Chicago. delivered
addresses in the court house. which was
filed 10 overlooking. many being turn
ed away. The speeches were excellent
and the audience enthusiastic. 1t was
Senator Mason's first speech in Kansas,
and Major Ennis first Republican
speech, ne having always been Dem
ocrat Music by band and a glee club
added to the interest.
The Parsons Sun says that the Third
congressional district will be a unit in
supporting Congressman Phil Campbell
for United States senator and it is do
ing Gil IT can to boom Campbell. And
the Sun Is owned in part by II. j.
lvafe-
who has a considerable senatorial boom
of his own.
The Lawrence Gazette notes that
Judge Dale says he will vote the Dem
ocratfc ticket straight and that MI
Hoch will vote the Republican ticket
straight, but it says that there will not
be many more straight ballots in Kan
sas than these two.
A Kansas man is the Republican can
didate for governor in the state of
Washington. He is Albert E Mead,
practiced law during the boom days at
Leoti- William E Curtis. writing in
the Chicago Record-Herald from Bel
lingha. Wash. says that Mead is good
man. but that the Republican state
ticket is likely to be defeated, although
Roosevelt will carry the state. In
speaking of the Kansas man Mr.. Cur
tbs says:
The Republican convention might
possibly have nominated a weaker state
ticket II IL had tried very hard, but 1t
would have been difficult, and almost
everybody comedies that it was doomed
from the start. The candidate for gov
ernor. Mr.. Albert f. Mead of this city,
is a young lawyer of excellent charac-
ter. good abilities and genial DISPOSE
ton, but he has had no experience, is
unknown in this part of the state, and
his nomination was an accident He
did not want 1t. He had an ambition
to go to congress, and the delegation
of this county attempted to send him,
but in making out the slate all of the
present congressman were reHOts1lna ted
and Mad was put at the head of the
ticket because he was the only avail
able man upon whom conflicting in
terests could be united Mr.. Mead was
born at Mamma tran. Kan. in 1861; ne
spent his boyhood at Carbonate, Ill,
and was educated there; he is a grad
uate OF the Union College of Law of Chi I
practiced there until 1889, when he re-
moved to the town of Blaine in this
state and has since practiced his profess |
sion there. He has been mayor of that |
town, prosecuting attorney of this
county. and it's representative in the |
legislature for one year"
The eastern press sees in John S.
Parks. the new fusion nominee for
Lieutenant governor. a trust mag |
nate" The New York Sun takes a long |
distance view of the situation in Kan |
sas and publishes the following editor
lal:
IF Mr.. Bryan takes the stump in |
Kansas next month he will have to ad- |
vocate the election of a trust magnate |
as lieutenant governor-and thereby |
hangs a tale. The Democrats and Pop /
ulistS fused on a state ticket some time /
ago The sapient Sapp, Democratic |
chairman. is mana ging the campaign /
In gumshoes The candidate for gov
one Householder. Populist, was put 1
up for lieutenant governor. The other |
day Householder formally withdrew
unable. it was said. to pay the assess
ment of $3.50. 1t devolved upon the Pop
ultst state committee to fill the vacan-
~. Mr.. John H. Curran. secretary of |
the committee and an employe of the |
Continental Creamery trust proposed |
the name of its president. Mr.. John 5.
Parks. and Parks was called up on the
committee was in WITCH
tia and he at his office in Topeka-and .
asked to be the Fusion candidate for
Sapp. who had no money for campaign
expenses. was notified of his luck-in
rural Kansas Parks is rich enough to
pass for a plutocrat.
Parks. 1t seems, has made Pop-
llism pay. Originally a Democrat. he
oined the Farmers Alliance move
nent, and in 1897 the fusion legisla-
ure bestowed upon him the lucrative
iiuCc OA EldNc winch ne neld
or two years The annual legitimate
profits were said to be not less than
$4,000 and possibly $4,000. Upon
etiring from Office Parks went into
he creamery business and finally
promoted the trust. He is also an
INVESTOR in Colorado mines and Kan
as petroleum. following in the foot
teps of Hogg of Texas and Charley
'owne of Duluth and New York
lone by one Mr.. Bryan's homespun
riends who fought for the noble cause
hat a 50-cent dollar was as good as a
Fhole one and dedicated themselves to
discriminating the Octopus have left
is side to engage in the debaSing
for as much wealth Il thar.