The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-03
land, Peters and HUI are all waiting
for a chance to get in.

for a chance to get in.
The only. congressional district which
has not yet set in motion the wheels
for the nomination of the Republican
candidate for congress is the Fifth
The situation in the other districts is
as follows
First-Primary caleld for March 10.
Second-Committee called for Feb
ruary Is.
Committee called for Feb
ruary %.
Fourth = Convention called for
March IA, Emporia.
Sixth--Committe called for Feb
ruary IA.
acknowledgements called for
March Is. Hutchinson.
Eighth = Convention called for
March 6, Wichita.
Ex-Governor BaiIey's popularity
throughout the state continues TO keep
him prominently in the public eye as
a possible candidate for various offices.
He has been mentioned for congress
from the First district, governor and
United States senator. The country
newspapers are full of Bailey's praises
since his ovation in Topeka last Mon
day.
Bert Walkers paper, the Osborne
Farmer, has this to say of Bailey:
Now that the foam of the late boss
buster movement has settled, ". J.
Bailey stands out in his true light be-
fore the people of Kansas. Bailey is
big enough for United tSates senator
and it would be the wisest thing the
next legislature of Kansas could do to
name him. He i sa typical Kansan.
He has brains, ability, honesty and
rugged health. 1t would be typical of
Kansas fair play if this man, so unjust
lyr humiliated and defeated two years
ago, should come into his own The
naming of Bailey would do away with a
whole lot of the unholy warfare now
gong on in the ranks of the Republ-
can party of Kansas. Though defeat
ed and Inundated as he was two years
ago, Bailey stands today the biggest
man in Kansas. Kansas has expert
mented in United States senators to its
sorrow. With the tOga on the Shout
ders of w. J. Bailey she could sleep in
peace. Bailey is too big a man to be
retired from public life in the Sun
flower state. Kansas needs such men
the the front ranks under the banner
of Ieadership-she needs them more
now than ever before. Again we say,
and shall keep on saying 1t, there IS
nothing the matter with Bill Bailey for
United States senator
Baney's boons for governor have been
coming in the country Weeklies so fast
that they can't be counted Here is a
sample from the Clyde Republican:
Public sentiment is a queer thing 1t
was with W. J. Bailey at Wichita and
ment allowed itself to be misled by
Bailey's political enemies and he was
turned down for the second term. Now
the people have realized their mistake
and the great injustice done Mr.. Bailey
and are demanding that he be nominated
by the Republican convention to succeed
Governor Hoch- Mr.. Bailey has said Io
his friends that he wiz NOT be candi-
date, but there is no way to stem the
tide of public sentiment hat is now flow
/ ing in his favor. He will either have tc
announce his candidacy or he will be
ticians all over the state openly predict
/ this, and even the Hon Stubs admits
that Bailey is very popular with the
: people This retributi0n is a little late
but it is characteristic of Kansas Repub-
leans that when they once discover they
have made a mistake they are going tC
+ try to repair the injury done at the
{ earliest possible opportunity
willis J. Bailey viii be the candidate
+ of the Republican party in Kansas this
/ year for governor.
1T is right. It is justice.
The Atchison Globe says that there is
/ some talk in that county of boiling the
Curtis plan for a congressional primary
! DR. l. N Plummer, Of Muscotah is the
author of the idea. The Globe says:
DIR Plummer proposed that AtchisOn
! county ignore the call hold regular
7 delegate convention to select delegates to
/ a congressional convention and try ano
1 get a few counties in the district tC
adopt similaE plans. He says other coun-
/ ties are ready to follow the lead of Atch-
i isOn county PIummer's scheme is the
best that has been suggested, but poll
/ ticians have about concluded that OLD
I Grim Death is the only refOrmer that viii
/ get Curtis You have heard it said that
Il dead Indian is good Indian