The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-17

Santa Fe, Kan, Feb. 1.-THE Demo-
cratic county central committee of Has
kell county has set March IL as the date
for holding the Democratic county con-
vention in this county. The committee
is unanimously in favor of drafting w.
A. Harris for governor.
w. R. Stubs, the head of the anti
machine" machine, recently published
a communication in a Kansas City
publicans to vote against Henry Allen
for congressman. Regarding Mr..
Stubs communication Mr.. Allen says:
L really ought to say nothing to re-
duce the present joyous spirit of Mr..
Stubs. There are so many cases just
| like his that it seems idle to offer ex-
PLANTATION anyway. He has been of
considerable service to the Hoch boom.
| Through his railroad connections he
| was able to secure no end of free
transportation to the first boss buster
meeting at Topeka The newspapers
have hailed him as chief, and have
| flattered and soft soaped him until he
has come to consider himself a man of
ment. He sits around like a king, is
suing edictS and adviees to the party.
He makes addresses advising the Hoch
boom to strike till the last armed foe
expires
1.-The party looks on with good ma
tu;ed tolerance. This isn't the first
time a self-constituted leader has been
detected by the public in an innocent
and perfectly harmless exhibition of
his gall and conceit. Mr.. Stubs new
| ly constituted leadership is very pre-
cious to him He is in the very heyday
of it, and if he takes himself more
seriously than the public takes him, it
is only the result of too much news
paper attention. We are all addicted
to the same weakness. The Republican
voters of the Second district will prob
ably go on doing their own thinking
just as they were obliged to do before
Providence and the railroads gave US
the immortal Stubs.
THE only unusual feature of the
! fight in the Second district has been
the presence of Mr.. Hoch. Dick Blue
in various counties of the district urg-
ing the Republicans to vote against
me because I have been Governor
Bailey's friend The action of Mr..
HOch has caused cOnsiderab BILE disap-
| pointment to Republicans who accept
| ed in good faith his first utterance
that he was making a campaign of
| measures and not men, Mr.. Hoch is
a Well-meaning man and I believe he
would like to be sincere and consistent,
but Dick Blue. Tom Kelly and a few
saints of that stripe have insisted that
| he take a hand in the Second district.
His attitude is not injuring my can
didacy and my only regret is that Mr..
f1OCu Is allowing the OLD burton Kelly
machine to use him for its political
| purposes. The Republicans of the state
had right, on account of Mr.. Hoch' S
pious declarations, to expect that he
would be his own master and use his
personality to build up the party"
DR.. Henry O'Donnen, of Ellsworth
| has declined to be candidate for state
senator in the district composed of Os-
| borne Lincoln. Russell and Ellsworth
| counties Ia
work in surgery in New York the com
ing summer or fall, which will require
his absence for six weeks, and he there
! fore does not want > enter the sena-
toriaI carraign. He has served two
terms as representative from Ellsworth
county, and the cattlemen's association
| has petitioned him to again do so, but
he has not determined whether he will
or not. There would probably be little
opposition to his candidacy for repre-
sentative.
Emporia Gazette: There is some
| doubt as to who was the original Hocf
| man. To settle the dispute, the Gazette
| Murdoch and Mr. Stubs. The origina
! Hoch man is John Marshall of Topeka
whose big brass band played won
You Come Home Bill Bailey at th'
governors inauguration There is NJ
| going behind these returns.
The Emporia G. A. R. has started
| boom for Charles Harris of Empori;
for department commander. Mr.. Harri
has been prominent in departmental
circles of the Kansas G. A. R. for
number of years. He has representet
Lyon county twice in the legislature.
Atchison Globe: The Kansas Cit,
Journal files a demurrer in the cas-
of Tom Kelly; it says, in effect: 9TH
charges are true, but what of it?"