The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-23
PARKS ON TICKET.
Democratic + State Committee
Takes Formal Action.
Chairman Sapp Tells About Pol
of State.
TOBE COMPLETED SOON
VIII Knew What Situation liz
by Oct. 10.
Another Meeting Of State Com
mittee Will Be Held.

The Democratic state committee
formally placed J. S. Parks on the
Democratic state ticket for lieutenant
COVE nor at the committee meeting
Thursday afternoon. The action was
mere formality and comprised the
only real business of the meeting. Mr..
Parks had already been designated by
the Populists for the place, SO there
was no contest over the matter. Mr..
Parks succeeds NJ. A. Householder.
who intends to remove from the state.
Chairman Sapp told the committee
that he has started to take a poll of
the state. which he expects to COM
plete early in October, probably about
October 10. He says he does not take
it by telephone, either.
The members of the committee
present talked over the reports they
had heard concerning Judge Dale's
chances to win. Sam Amidon said if
the reports as to boiling Republicans
who will vote for Dale this year
should be discounted SO per cent. Dale
would still be easily elected. The re-
ports concerning Republican disaffec-
ton in many localities are so strong
that the Democrats themselves will
not believe them.
Chairman Sapp will call another
meeting of the state committee along
some time in October, in time to ar
range for a final roundup before cleo
ton.
A good many members of the COM
mittee did not attend the meeting of
the committee Thursday, as there was
nothing to be done except to formally
nominate Mr.. Parks for lieutenant gov
erncr, and a few members could do
that as we'll as the entire committee.
The Democratic STATE ticket has not
yet been filed with the secretary of
state, but has been held up awaiting
the action of the committee in formally
filling the vacancy on the ticket.
John S. Parks, the new nominee for
lieutenant governor, formerly lived at
Beloit, where he edited the Beloit Call.
He still has interests there. The Be
lott Gazette, which was the business
and political rival of Mr.. Parks paper,
and is the leading Republican paper
of Mitchell county, has the following to
say of his nomination for lieutenant
governor:
Like everyone else we have taken
the opposition ticket, headed by Dale,
as a joke, believing that it would cut
but very little figure in Kansas this
Roosevelt year. The Democratic tick
ct now has a mascot, who has never
been beaten in anything. We refer
to John S. Parks, who is now their
nominee for lieutenant governor. SEN
ator Householder has withdrawn from
the ticket, and the Populist state COM
mittee has substituted Parks name
for the place. OF course the Demo-
cratic half of the pie hunters will
accept him. AS said above, Johnnie
is a sure mascot. He has always won
in love, politics and business; and
if anything can pull Dale and his
crowd through it will be Johns luck
and money. We congratulate the boy,
whom We still claim as a Beloitite on
the great honor conferred upon him."
A Kansas City railroad organ says
that the Kansas Federation of CONNER
cial interests is going to pieces as the
Republicans who have been members
are withdrawing. 1t must be admitted
that some of the Republicans who at
tended two or three meetings of the
are no longer in sympathy |
With it. For instance, there is A A |
GODDARD, the close friend of A D. |
Walker. Mr.. GODDARD made a plea be-
'ore the federation that it make no rec |
lamentations to the Democrats for |
candidates for railroad commissioners. |
But the federation does not desire the |
reelection of Mr.. Godard's friend, and /