The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-27
SIXTH DISTRICT NOTES.

Since the appointment of John @.
Royce as bank commissioner, 1t is hint
ed that he and Secretary of State Bur
row have made up, and that Royce will
now try and swing Phillips and other
counties to Burrow for congress, though
this is not at all probable.
Another candidate from the Sixth dis
trict has appeared. He will stand for
state school superintendent. H NJ.
Cutter, of Norton, superintendent or
schools of Norton county, is the man
and will ask for the Office of state sup
erintendent.
Since the return to Beloit of A. G.
Mead, member of the legislature from
Mitchell county, and I. D. Young, state
senator from the Mitchell-Jewen dis
trict, both of them have been kept busy,
the former on the farm, and the other
in his law work Since the legislature
adjourned Senator Young was called to
Missouri on important law business.
A well known Sixth district politician,
and one. too, holding a government po-
sition, has frequently asserted that Bob
McGonigal, of Colby, would make
mighty good successor to Secretary OF
State Burrow.
It isn't believed that the fellows who
are urging Dave Hanna to be a candi-
date for lieutenant governor for the
third time, are in earnest. They are
only asking it to get him out OF the
race for congress in case Hanna wants
it. They know Hanna is strong in the
district; they also know BurrOW wants
to succeed Congressman Reedef- It IS
said the fellows who are asking third
term for Lieutenant Governor Hanna
are usually friendly to BurroW for con-
gress. Pins are already being stuck up
in RawlinS county for favorable Bur
row delegation so it is claimed by some
of the Reederites. If Hanna gets into
the race for congress he will distance
all the local candidates because of his
popularity, and will be the strongest
candidate just as soon as Reeder is
fI1r-,1 7rrI, rrrsfI I,e off
Mrs. Beardsley, of Russell, wife of L.
b Beardsley, who has been having all
the work he could do in the Office of
the secretary of state this winter, is a
Topeka visitor. The husband, who is
Sixth district politician, says his wife is
in Topeka for the purpose of keeping
him from getting into bad company.
Sergeant-at-ar1ns Frank Lockard, of
the state senate, has sold his Norton
county farm and moved in town. 1t
is said Lockard has his eye on some
appointed position in the oil belt just
as soon as the state refinery can be got
into operation.
Mrs. Smith, wife of Associate Justice
Clark A. Smith, who spent the greater
part of the winter with her husband in
Topeka, has returned to her pleasant
Cawker City home, to remain during the
summer. There is no place like home,
they were heard to say on their return
home.
United State Senator ]. R. Burton has
accepted the invitation to deliver the
Decoration day address in Beloit, May
30 One of the best known politicians
of that town, and who has been friend
ly to Senator Burton, said to the chair
man of the committee to secure a
speaker: You have more nerve than
any other man in the state
George W Holland; of Russell. was a
Beloit visitor recently. He was there
on law business. To some of the fel-
lows in Beloit who have some political
pull, he incidentally mentioned con-
gress. It viii be remembered Holland
had a desire to succeed Congressman
Reeder two years ago; he may get into
the race in 1906.
1t must be that Frank McIvor, edi- |
tor and publisher of the Hoxie Sentinel, |
has given up his ambition to be post
master Of Hoxie. He hits Congressman |
Reeder a jolt in most every issue of the |
Sentinel.
The Sixth district has so far Won out
handsomely in state appointments, |
thanks to Governor Hoch- The district |
gets state bank examiner, two mem /
0ers of the board of regents of the Ag-
ricuItural college, and a deputy oil in
spector. It has already two members