The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-03

a telephone exchange as a side line.
Mr.. Dolan's insurance business takes
him over the northern part of the state
a great deal, and he has a wide ac-
quaintance all through the north cen
trail portion of the state. He is very
popular whsre he is known, and that
is why the counties of the Fifth dis
trict and others in that part of the
state lined up so solidly for him in
the Democratic state convention.
Mr.. Dolan's popularity at home is
in marked contrast with that of 7. T.
Kelly at his home, Miami county. Mr.
Dolan lives at Clifton in the southwest
corner of Washington county. A few
years ago Mr.. Dolan's friends persuad-
ed him to run for sheriff of Wash
1ngton county against the Republican
nominee Washington county had
normal Republican majority at that
time of about 1900. DoIan was elected
reelected two years later. That is
the way he is regarded at home.
Down in Miami county, where T. T.
Kelly lives, he is repudiated by a ma
5ority of the Republicans of the coun-
ty- Two years ago he lost the county
by nearly a thousand votes, although
IT gave Governor Bailey and the rest of
the Republican state ticket a majority.
The Republicans of Miami county are
very bitter against Kelly because of
his dishonesty while county clerk of
<A@NN NOAlAlS- AhdN 10 the way nelly Is
regarded at home. What a contrast
1t is to Dolan's standingi A mans
standing among his neighbors is gem
orally a good index to his character.
Mr. DOlan was born of Irish parents
in Ohio. He has been a resident of
Kansas for thirty-three years. He has
always been a Democrat but he has
not been very active politically except
while he was sheriff of Washington
county, although he has attended con-
VentfonS now and then.
Mr. Dolan was born a Catholic, and
MS SympathleS and church connections
have always been with that church
but he has refused to make that an
issue in the campaign any more than
possible His position has been that
the church ought not to be brought
into politics, although it is a recog-
n1zed fact that Mr.. Kelly brought If
IN two years ago Mr.. Kelly made the
pea Two years ago that the fight on
him was started because he is a Cath
ohc, and it was to head off any such
argument and to show that the fight
on Kelly was not because of any relig-
1ouS Dellef that the fuSiOnists nonoi-
this year. ------
Republican primaries were neId in
Doniphan county Saturday. Delegates
were chosen to the county convention
10 nominate a county ticket. The Cur
US people put up a hight to beat Cyrus
Leland for representative. They ca rried
TWO precincts out of seventeen. They
carried Severance by 13 majority and
6lgnland Station by majority. Ieona.
Wh1ch was generally supposed to he
favorable to Curtis, gave a majority of
DO the other way Ia Troy the largest
precinct of the county. Mr.. LeIand's
home, the vote was~13 for the Curtis
ticket and 322 against it. That is the
way the Republicans of Troy feel on the
subject. The Curtis people will have
ABOUT 10 delegates out of 80 in the coun-
ty convention, which will be held on
Wednesday.
The Democrats of Doniphan county
viii put up no county. ticket. They
&ave already held their convention and
S1ey simply reelected a county com
mittee and passed resolutions The
Curtis faction, however, which mas its
headquarters at Severance, is already
at work to put up an independent
ticket 1t is said that a full county
ticket will be nominated, but a special
effort will be made to beat Cyrus Lee
land for the legislature. The Curtis
and Populists to join with them in the
independent ticket. and then they will
trade off other county officers for votes
against Leland. if possible.
The Burlington papers say that at
the fusion meeting at Burlington Fri
day evening the opera mouse was crowd
ed; almost as many people were turned
away as succeeded in getting into the
building Judge Dale ana DR.. T. B.
Lawrence, candidate for congress in the
Fourth district, each spoke, and T. NJ.