The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-12
POLITICAL GOSSIP
RumOr That Mr.. Overmyer Isn't
Satisfied.
Doesn't Like Way the Campaign
Is Conducted.
REFUSES TO TALK.
Won't Open Controversy on
Democratic Party.
Takes a Shot at His Kansas
Critics.

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Democratic campaign is being man
aged by w. H. Ryan Mr.. Overmyer
has been quoted as saying that Ryan
ought to withdraw and allow Colonel
William F. Sapp to take the helm Of
the Democratic craft.
In response to a question as to the
truth of this report Mr.. Overmyer
said today:
No matter what I thought about
enoug to make the statements at
tributed to me unless I expected to
open up a controversy in the Demo-
cratic party. I pay no attention to
such statements.
why, some of these newspapers
even go so far as to say" continued
Mr.. Overmyer with great feeling. that
am a topper; that I have been
member of every party that ever ex-
listed, and that my opinions change
like the summer breeze. Let me tell
them that once was Republican and
am now a Democrat. and that COM
prises the list of my political afhlia-
tiOns. past or present 1 have not
changed my views on the silver ques-
tion=though of course I don't talk
about that matter all the tme-l have
not changed my position relating to
trusts. [ fought the trusts long before
they were considered a political issue.
] have always been aligned with the
enemies of trusts. l have always been
on the other side from the corpora
tions. / have been here in Topeka
| long time; my position on these ques-
tions is so we'll known that it seems to
me the time has about come when
should be relieved from the annoyance
of such attacks.
.TThey have also been discussing my
howery eloquence: they have talked a s
though I was a windbag, filed with
beautiful and meaningless phrases and
pretty periods. 1t is true that some
times when the occasion has justified, I
have endeavored to dress up my senti-
ments in attractive diction, but If there
/ is one thing which has been character
/ 4stie of my address it has been the pre-
sentation In direct and forcible. manner
Of sufficient factss concise argument and
not howery dietion is my delight. Now
John Atwood is a man who turns off
! beautiful sentences and possesses a gift
/ for elaborate diction, but anyone who
i knows Mr.. AtWood's style and mine
knows that they are not alike. am no
howery orator; simply expound the
facts"
C. E. Langdon, of Tecumseh, writing
to the State Journal concerning the re-
cent action of the insurance commits
sioner on the opinion of the attorney
4 general that mutual burial associations
are illegal, takes the position that the
i issue is a political one, and that mem
bers of mutual burial associations which
/ have been put out of business by the
attorney generals opinion should vote
against the Republican ticket He
says:
Il notice that superintendent Luling
is trying to drive the mutual burial as
sociations out of business. I. as mem
! Der. protest against this action, and I
believe I voice the sentiment of all the
members when say when he is minding
that which is none of his business. This
concern is in no sense an insurance or
| der, but it is simply a contract between
it's members and its appointed agent
/ that for an assessment of u cents per
month, the member shall be buried by
the agent at his death a. an expense of
not to exceed $780, We are satisfied
with it. and it would be a shame to rob
US of our hard earned dollars that we
have put in there during the past six or
eight years
some political notoriety which will tell
against the Republican ticket at the
election. I have been voting the Re-
publican ticket for 40 years, and feel
proud Of the fact, except of the last
state election. If the rest of the mem
bers of the mutual burial associations
feel as I do, this outrage viii result in
laying the whole political kit on the
shelf high and dry at the next election.
&C. z. LANGDON."
The nominations for congress thus
far filed are as follows:
First district: Republican, Charles
/ Curtis; Democrat, w. d. Webb; Popu-
list W W. Wiley.
Second district: Republican, Charles
4 F. Scott; Democrat, Mason S. Peters;
Prohibition. W. B. Monbeck; Socialist,
J. ". Pickett.
Third district: Republican. P. P.
Campbell; Democrat, Francis NJ.
Brady; Prohibition, J. R. Roberts.
Fourth district: Republican. J. NJ
Miller; Democrat. J. W. Moore; Pro-
hibition. G. F. Bradford; Socialist. W.
! J. McMillin.
/ Calderhead; Democrat, Hugh Alexan-
der; Socialist. Geo. r. Hibner.
Sixth district Republican. W. A.
Reeder; Democrat, John B. Rea; Pro-
hibition, r. G. Smith; Socialist, r. S.
/ Thomas: Populist, Harry Gray
Seventh district: Republican. E. H.
Madison; Democrat o. H. Freeman F;
i Prohibition. w. G. Johnson; Socialist,
R c. webster, ST.
| Eighth district: Republican. Victor
AIurdock; Prohibition, ]. J. Hill; So
cialist DR. Frank Ayres.
C. F. Bradford, the Prohibition can
| dfdate for congress in the Fourth dis
t~iet has started his campaign He ad-
dressed a good sized audience at En-
poria last night. Mr.. Bradford is as
sisted in his campaign by his two boys.
Eaged Il and IA years, who sing pro-
hibition songs.
The Beloit Call says concerning R.
S. Thomas, the Socialist candidate for
congress in the Sixth district:
ssR- S. Thomas home is at Traer in
4 Decatur county. where he has num-
j Der of large stores in which anything
can be purchased from a darning
needle to a threshinE machine. He is
said to be wealthy. but Withstand
ing which fact he has always been te
the front In every reform movement