The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-05
STIRS up A FUSS.
Situation in Jackson County Is
Still Interesting.
Upon 1t Hinges w. A. ThOmp-
sons Political Success.
MR.. HOPKINS MOVE.
Announces His Candidacy for
the Legislature.
Purpose Is Do Away With Cau-
cmses and Conventions.

Unless the boss busters arbitrarily
turn down the legally elected delega-
tion from Jackson county in the-Wich-
tta convention, W. A Thompson of that
county will be a strong candidate Tor
railroad commissioner. OF course, If
Mr.. Thompson's delegation should be
arbitrarily unseated at the dictation of
the railroads and A. D. Walkers dele
cation seated. Mr.. Thompson would
probably be out of the running. Other
wise. however. he will have strong
support in the First district and con-
siderable elsewhere.
Mr.. Thompson, too. has been en-
dorsed by the State Federation of Com
mercial Interests. which is this year
taking an active part in the selection of
railroad commissioners. while Mr..
Walker has been roundly condemned in
the address of the president of the
same body.
The endorsement of Walker by the
Curtis convention at Holton Tuesday
does not set we'll with the commercial
interests of ToDeka nor of the state.
1t is an undoubted fact that the rail-
roads took an active hand in ATTEMPT
ing to carry Jackson county for Walker
and against Thompson in the primaries
in that county. They used every means
possible to accomplish their purpose
They were beaten. Mr.. Walker himself
admitted it and the Curtis Walker or
gans published 1t, but after visit to
Topeka the cry of fraud was started as
a stop thief cry, and a bolt was made
in the county convention
The facts are Overwhelmingly against
the Curtis W alker crowd in the jack
son county bolt, and Mr.. Walker and
Mr.. Curtis have both lost many Of their
former adherentS through the course
Npr1i since j.
maries to overturn the will of the ma
jOrity. Some of these facts have al
ready been published in the State Jour-
nal Here are others which are pub
Ilshed in the Holton Recorder this week.
If they are not true the Curtis-W alker
crowd can certainly bring convincing
proof to the contrary. The Recorder
says .-..ss.4.,
"The Curtis Walker howiers claim
that several townships and wards were
carried by fraud for Broderick and
Thompson, but they never mention the
Third ward which was carried for Cur
tbs and Walker. Here Walker and Lo-
gan managed and controlled everything
in their own interests. Two years ago
the vote on secretary of state stood Re
publican 152, Democratic AZ, total vote
cast 1874 At the recent primary the
Curtis-W Walker delegates received 1872
and the observation-disclosures delegates
81, a total of PA. just 20 more than were
cast by both Republicans and Demo-
observation-disclosures workers have the
names of n known Republicans who will
make affidavit that they voted the
Observation-Disclosures ticket. This would
leave but 70 Republicans who voted the
other ticket provided they all voted that
way, which we are sure they did not
Now will not some of the boilers tell US
where the other 81 votes necessary to
make up the 123 the other ticket re-
ceived came from? The AZ Democrats
in the ward are not enough. They must
have imported a matter of Is or So
This was one of the precincts in which
contest papers were filed by Mr.. Crane
which Mr.. Logan arbitrarily showed
down in his pocket and refused to con-
slider.
Two years ago when the primary
elections were held in this county it
was very close between Sarbach and
Graham for representative and between
Mcconnell and Sharp for county clerk.
The friends of Graham and Sharp made
some investigation and found that
many Democrats had voted for Sarba ch
and Mcconnell in certain close pre-
cincts and that both money and whisky
had been used to get votes for them.
When the central committee met to
canvass the votes Graham and Sharp
We're on hand and filed contests for
several precincts. The contest papers
We're made out and fled strictly in ac-
cordance with the rules and provisions
OF the call for the primaries and with
the statutes AT that time A. H. Will
was chairman of the committee. a ma
1ority of which were also Walker -Sar-
bach men. At the dietation of Walker
the committee ignored the contests and
proceeded arbitrarily to declare Sar-
bach and Mcconnell the nominees
RMS year the chairman of the CEN
tral committee in opposition to a ma
jority of the committee and without
giving them voice in the matter arbi-
trarily and Illegally and without prece-
dent for such action and in violation of
oil parliamentary rules, declared GER
tain precincts contested and ruled the
delegates returned bv the election
boards as elected out of the convention
and proclaimed that they should not
have a voice in the proceedings Not
q contest paper was read not dele
gate was notified that his seat in the
convention was contested until the
ruling wes made that was intended to
deprive them OF voice in the con-
VenuOn- No attempt was made 10 even
appear fair or to follow the rules Mr.
Logan had in his possession, fled with
MN N pursuant of the rules laid down.
certain other contest papers which he
utterly and f1agrantly ignored.
1t was the most villainous outrage
ever attempted upon the rights of the
people to deprive them of their fran
cniSe- ANY man knowing the facts who
VIII accept a nomination secured by
such methods is no better than the per-
petratorS themselves and is no more fit
to hold an office than is their leader.
J. X. Burton, who is now under indict-
ment by the St. Louis grand Jury for
using his high office of United States
senator to assist get-rich-quick scoun-
drels to swindle the people,
AS a result of the unsa tisfactorv pri-
maries in several counties already this
year, particularly that in Jackson
county, the following announcement
appears in the Holton Recorder this
week;
Il hereby announce myself as a can
didate for the legislature to represent