The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-09
OFFICIAL GOSSIP
Candidates for Attorney General
Are Bobbing Up.
M. Brewster of Troy Is the
Latest.
KAEAVEL is IN 1T.
Formally Announces Candidacy
fOF Railroad Board.
PoliticiansWilI A Attend SINNERS
Convention at Wichita.

Candidates for the Office of attorney
general are beginning to talk up.
sardius A. Brewster of Troy. climbed
iato the fight Monday evening with an
interview declaring his intentions.
Brewster has been milling around To
pega quite q bit of late, with his eye on
she attOrneyship, but up to last night
had not decided fully what steps he
would take in the matter
It IS an open fight for anybody"
said Mr.. Brewster. II have figured it
cut that I have just as good a chance
aa the next one"
For the past eight years mr.. Brew
ster has been county attorney of Doni-
phan county. He is a son Of Judge A.
81 Brewster of White Cloud, who died
recently at Kansas City, and brother
Of Arthur w. Brewster, postmaster ,
ST. Joseph. He is graduate of Wash
burn college.
Alpheus Lane of Paola and Alex
Mitchell Of Lawrence, have also been
mentioned as possible candidates for
tha place of attorney general. S. r.
jackson the newly appointed assistant
attorney general, from Greenwood
county is naturally looked upon as a
candidate though there is already
quite a grist of candidates from the
Fourth district Oscar Raines, of JEFF
Ters0n county, has announced himself.
IIe and Brewster are really the only
ones formally in the race I'D to the
present time. There have been rumOrs
that Otis Hungate county attorney of
Shawnee county, might make the race
IT. there seemed to be any chance for
another Shawnee county candidate.
George w. Kanavel, who as stated
some weeks ago in the State Journal
would likely be a candidate for railroad
commissioner, has formally announce
himself. The declaration was made at
Norton. Mr.. Kanaval says; my plat
form is brief; absolute fairness There
are evils that need rectifying, but it is
unnecessary to declare war on the rail-
roads to get a square deal for shippers.
The rebate system is the chief difficult
ty to be overcome in reaching an equi-
table adjustment of freight rates"
another good man for the job of rail-
road commissioner who has been men
toned of late is =. 3. Jewett, warden
of the penitentiary under Governor
Stanley. JeWett says he has retired
from politics, but if there seems to be
a good opportunity to fight it out with
skanavel for the place, he is likely to
go after 1T.
Jim johnson of Greenwood. a big
cattle raiser and Republican leader in
Fourth district affairs, would cut con-
siderable figure in the fight if he should
decide to enter. Johnson has lot Of
influential friends, not only in the
Fourth district but throughout the
state lie mas Deen In the legislature,
and was member Of the live stock
sanitary commission under NorrilPs ad-
ministratiOn.
Leslie Wallace. who has charge of the
lola Register during Charles r. SCOTS
absence in Washington. was in Topeka
Yesterday looking for some new blood"
for his paper. He said;
There is no doubt in my mind that
Scott viii be elected. This talk about
Aliens having sure thing amuses me.
AS a matter of fact ne hasn't a ghost
Of a show in Douglas; Scott has that
county without much of fight. For a
time the dispatches which were sent out