The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-14
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Finance Committee Square Deal
Republicans Meet.
Decline to Make Public Plans
for Raising Money.
REPORTS ARE DENIED.
Organization Has Not Spent
Sixteen Hundred Dollars.
Second District Democratic
Leaders Will Meet August 21.

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Deal Republican club held its meeting
Monday afternoon. and those present
were ". R. Stubs, c. L. Davidson Of
Wichita and Senator Fred H. Quincy
Of Salina, who represented John Bishop
Of that city.
The members of the committee de-
clined to give out anything concerning
their plans for raising money. They all
felt confident, however that there would
be no lack of funds.
James A. TrOutman, president Of the
clue, said this morning: The report
In a Kansas City morning paper to the
effect thar we had spent $1,000 and had
occurred answers from only 16 candl-
dates is entirely false. No member 81
the finance committee ever gave out
such a statement. As a matter of fact,
we have spent less than one-fourth Of
the amount mentioned, and We are not
a bit worried about our ability to get
all the money we need to carry on our
work
The club has submitted its questions
to J. T. Pringle, the member of the leg
islature from Usage county, and
It IS expected that Mr.. Pringle's
answers will be Of rather
torrid nature Mr. Pringle introduced
the anti-pass bill in the last legislature
which it is claimed was beaten through
the influence of W. r. Stubs, and con-
sequently Mr.. Pringle has no Use what
ever for StuDbs' anti-pass movement
through the agency of the Square
DEAF club.
B. J. Sheridan. chairman Of the
Democratic congressional committee
in the Second district, has called a
meeting Of the committee for August
Fl at Paola at which time the COM
mittee will in all probability choose
RI NTa77fo-H SPhno11-
over as the Democratic nominee for
congress in the Second district.
w ". Rose of Kansas City is out
with statement in which he says that
he positively will not be a candidate,
but there is not much danger Of the
committee choosing him.
The friends of Rose are trying to
have the committee call another dele
gate convention, and not name the
candidate in the committee meeting.
committee the right to fill the vacancy,
and 1t is altogether probable that the
committee will go ahead and do so.
The Abilene Reflector says: Elk
Senator Burton returned from Kansas
City. He says the story that he will
start weekly paper in Topeka is pre-
mature. 1t may work out later.
I. NJ. York has issued a call by which
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party in Kansas. At the present time
the organization goes under the name
Of the Kansas Cooperative club but
Mr., York hopes to have a new and
shorter name by the time the party is
we'll organized, which viii be in two
years. The party viii not make a cam
paign until 1908, the intervening time
being spent in getting an organization
perfected in every county Of the state
I. M. York was a professor Of econ
omics in Leland Stanford university
for several years. He studied the gov
eminent relations to economic cues
tions and finally in order to have more
time to study resigned his position and
came to Topeka to work out a new
party platform which would make
many changes in the government.
David Overmyer, the Democratic nomi-
nee for attorney general of Kansas will
address the Mohawk club in the Kansas
City. Kan, Auditorium of the PepDer
building, at Ninth and Locust streets on
"Wednesday night at s o'clock The Mo-
hawk club is a young mems Democrats
club Of Kansas City.
Walter Evans, a former Vashblr71 col
lege student, who commenced his nevvsns-
per work with the State Journal is in
Topeka this week writing a series Of spe-