The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-13
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Gov. HOch will Speak at St.
Louis Monday.
Democrats Are Lively Down In
Cherokee County.
HOT IN LEAVENWORTH
Ryan and Cory viii Decide Who
Is to Control.
W. I. Morgan Writes a Letter
About Stubs.
HOT IN LEAVENWORTH

Governor Hoch will go to St Louis
Monday to speak at banquet of the
Business Mems league. The banquet
viii be at the Hotel Jefferson on Tues
day evening. There will be six COVER
nors in attendance at the banquet.
Governor Hoch will respond to the
toast. Kansas Is. All Right Governor
Kibbey of Arizona to the toast. THE
Modern Arizona" Governors Folk of
Missouri, Hagerman of New Mexico,
Frantz of Oklahoma and Davis of Ar
kansas will also speak. Former Cover
nor Francis will speak to the toast, "St.
Louis and the Southwest"
Charles F. Scott, publisher of the
lola Register, and nominee for con-
Sress, is said to have polled heavier
vote in Allen county in the recent cleo
ton than Roosevelt did two years ago.
Despite this fact. his paper has just
been voted out of the Allen county
printing contract, which nets the pub
The lola Record, Mr.. SCOTS contem-
porary, was given the county printing.
Democracy seems to be lively down
in Cherokee county At the county
convention there there were POS out of
So delegates present. M o. House
holder was chairman. Delegates were
elected to the state congressional con-
ventions, and resolutions adopted de-
manded the abolition of free passes, the
election of United States senators by
direct vote, a new tax law. and the
working of county prisoners on the
county roads.
Hutchinson. Kan. April BE. X.
Pentz, Democratic candidate for state
superintendent of insurance, was au-
tn orized to select the eleven delegates
to the state convention. BY a vote OF
AZ to 10 the convention refused to put
a resubmission plank in the resolu-
tons.
Hiawatha. Kan, April 13.-The post
master of this city, Ewing Herbert, has
been advised by the postoffice depart
ment that federal officers must not at
tend political conventions as delegates.
Mr. Herbert had applied for permis-
sion to attend the Republican state
convention as a delegate to make the
nomination speech of 0. J. Nugent, the
Brown county candidate for state audi
tor.
Garden City Kan. April 13.-Colonel
W r. Hopkins, for more than quar-
ter of q century a citizen Of Finney
county. was nominated by reclamation
here Thursday -as~the Republican can
didate for judge Of the Thirty-second
district.
Harper. Kan. April 1S.-The Repub-
lican judicial convention to nominate
Judge for the Twenty-fourth judicial
district was held here Thursday. The
district is composed of Kingman, Har-
per. Barber and Pratt counties Judge
p B. Gillett was nominated for the
third term without opposition Refer
ence to Judge Gillett as future justice
Of the supreme court caused prolonged
cheering
Frank J. Ryan and J. NJ. Cory, the
Ieavenworth county men who are
candidates for places on the state Re
publican ticket have agreed to submit
their case to a primary election of the
voters of Leavenworth county, to be
held next Tuesday. The voters will
vote direct for either Cory or Ryan,
and the one who gets the most votes
in each township or ward shall have
an instructed delegation in that town
ship or ward The county convention
will be held Thursday, and the dele
gates elected at the primary will meet
and choose a delegation of "a to the
state convention.
Frank J. Ryan is a candidate for
the nomination for secretary of state.
J. M Cory wants to be a railroad COM
missioner. Both are well known IN
Leavenworth county politics Cory is
now the county treasurer, and Ryan
is now serving his third term as county
clerk. The indications are Lhat Ryan
will win, though Cory IS backed by
some strong friends who expect to
bring about his success.
The plan adopted will eliminate one
or the other candidate from the race,
and the Leavenworth county delega-
ton will come to the state convention
instructed for one of the two men. The
plan adopted by the county central
committee at its meeting is in part
as follows:
whereas. Leavenworth county has
two candidates for nomination for
states Offices and in order to settle the
contest between them in a manner to
subserve harmony in the party, be it
Resolved, That their names be
voted on by the Republicans Of the
county at a primary election to be
held Tuesday April II. in the country
from the hours of 2 to 4 p. m. or
as otherwise desired by the township
committeeman. and in the city from
the hours of to p. m.
Resolved That the committeeman
from the various wards and townships
be instructed to prepare a list of ten
/ delegates and ten alternates from each