The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-31
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Democrats Are Still After w. A.
Harris.
Insist That He Enter Race for
Governor.
SMOOTHING IT OUT.
Efforts Being Made to Fix Up
Hanna's Troubles.
Nj. Hollands Announcement
MI. Hollands Announcement
for Congress a Surprise.

with the Democratic state conven-
ton only three weeks away. the scar
city of candidates is becoming a really
serious problem. There is no one who
VIII stand for boom for the nomina-
ton for governor. and there has hardly
been a man mentioned for any other
place on the ticket.
1t is now the plan of some Of the
Democratic leaders to make last
grand effort to get w. A. Harris into
the race for governor. A delegation OIL
prominent Democrats will go to Mr..
Harris home next week. it is under
stood. and put on the pressure In an
effort to get him to accept the Demo
cratic nomination.
Harris could be nominated by accla-
nation, If he would take the job. But
ne has emphatically stated in newspa-
per interviews that he would not be
candidate. The Democrats think that
maybe he will talk in a different way
if the nomination Is brought and offer
ed to him on a silver salver. And that
is what the Democrats propose to DO.
If Harris persists in his refusal TO
run. the indications are that the nOmi-
nation viii go to Colonel Bill Sapp OF
Galena. Sapp is a popular man with
the Democrats, and he has the ap-
prevail Of a number of the strong men
of the party.
The rest of the ticket will be made up
after the convention gets together.
Anybody who Will consent to take the
nomination can have a chance TO run
on the Democratic ticket.
IF Harris should get into the race
the Democrats would not be entirely
without hope of winning, for they ng-
ure that Harris popularity would pun
many votes from Hoch. The Demo-
cratic platform will likely demand more
economy in the management of state
affairs, a cleanup in the state Offices
and the strictest kind Of railroad legls-
Ia frra linz inc n 2
People up in Graham county are
now doing their best to smooth over
the row which developed in the recent
county convention, in which Lieuten-
ant Governor Dave Hanna was worst
ed by Ed MulIaney and his friends.
The peacemal<ers are strenuously con
teEding that the fight was not against
Hanna, and that the county is still for
Hanna in case he wants a job But
Hanna says he doesn't want anything.
The fact remains, nevertheless, that
Hanna and his north side" allies
made a strenuous effort to control the
county convention and failed. He
carried Hill City and two other pre-
.cfncts but all the rest of the county
went for Mullaney. Hanna had about
one-third of the votes in the conven-
ton and no fight broke out.
Hanna now claims to be working
with the new crowd" and advocating
Va. new deal" He used to be lined up
with Mullaney's faction.
Mullaney, it is said, will not be a
candidate for any Office. He is simply
Interested in politics as the man he
hind the throne. 1t is predicted, how
ever, that the Republicans viii fix up
their strife and unite in the coming
election. so that G. ". Stober the
Democratic representative from Ora
ham county viii be succeeded by a
Republican.
In spite of the fact that Frank R.
public instruction, was defeated for
the control of his home delegation IN
SedgWick county, the school teachers
are still passing resolutions endorsing
his candidacy. The teachers OF But
Ter county passed strong resolutions
endorsing him at their convention on
March "A.
Politicians are not quite sure what
to think Of the candidacy of George
w Holland for congress in the Sixth
district. The fact that Holland an
nOunced himself late in the game puts
him at disa dvantage, as a good many
Of the conventions had already en-
dOrsed Reeder.
Holland lives in Russell county. and
has been one of the prominent Sixth
district politicians for a long time He
has an office with Represent tive
Charles Hall, but Hall has always
professed to be ignorant of Hollands
political intentions.
1t is possible. however. that some
thing is being fixed UP which will as
tonish the Sixth district natives when
their convention meets on April 10 at
Lincoln. There is a good deal of oppo-
sitiOn to Reeder, and If IL could be
centralized, 1t might make quite a fight
in the convention. Reeders friends.
however, do not anticipate any trcu-
BILE.
A man named E. Doom, Of Richlana
township, Ottawa county, tried to stir
things up in the recent Republican
county convention out there by offerlng
some resolutions which the convention
felt called upon to squelch. The reso-
lutions are particularly to be noted be
cause they "deuounce" the state oil m
spector. L. T. Hussey, and say that
kerosene is being shipped out there
which won't burn. The resolutions say:
Whereas, The coal oil which the
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