The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-14
after LARIMER.
d. ". MulYane's Friends Would
Punish Him.
viii Try to DepOse Him on Cen
trail Committee.
FLEW IN THEIR FACES.
Dared Oppose Mulvane Ring at
County Convention.
Contests VIII Be Limited to
Two Wards.
FLEW IN THEIR FACES

The fight Of Dave Mulvane and his
faction on their enemies in the Repub-
ncan party in Shawnee county win be
reinacted again at the city primaries OF
the party which viii be held next week
Tuesday.
This time it is directed against H. q.
Larimer, chairman of the present city
central committee, who aroused the
animus OF the Mulvane clique by fore
ing himself as chairman at the county
convention Monday.
A plan Of pretty well defined proper
lions Is on foot to return W. P. Wilcox
as committeeman from the first precinct
Of the Third ward in place of H. G..
Larimer. This of course would relegate
Larimer in the background and any as
pirations for a second term as chairman
of the central committee would be eff
fectually quashed.
Wilcox is the only candidate who re-
mains in the Third ward and who was
placed in nomination by A. D. Bauer,
all the others like the Arabs folded their
tents and silently took their names from
the list. refusing to run. A contest for
every committeeman position from the
precincts from the Third ward existed
when the nominations were first put In.
They have all been taken off with the
exception of Wilcox and Bauer refuses
to sidetrack Wilcox or permit the with
drawa1 Of his name. AS the result of
conferences held this morning and yes
terday afternoon the Third and Fourth
wards will be the only ones where pri-
maries will be held Tuesday. The First
and Second wards on account Of the face
that no contests exist have been WITH
drawn from the list of wards where the
primaries viii be held. The only contests
in the First and Second wards were for
the positions for committeeman. The
present executive committee and Bauer
and James Gibbons finally agreed to
terms, and the Bauer nominees in the
First and Second wards were taken OF.
The First ward nominees were taken
off this morning and those in the Sec
ond ward yesterday afternoon. In the
last instance fear that a contest would
arouse bitter feeling and probably re-
suit in the defeat for c. K Holiday
for councilman was the Inspiration for
the mOvemen Mike Heery, the can
didate for councilman on the Demo-
cratic ticket, is making q showing
against Holiday and to precipitate
fight in the Republican party in the
Second ward might possibly result in
Holidays defeat. In the fourth pre-
cinct of the Fourth ward, John T.
CLANCY has withdrawn his name as a
candidate for committeeman.
With this condition of affairs the
next Republican city central commit
tee will still be a strictly dry com
mittee.
The absence of contests will result
in material cutting down of the ex-
penses and the councilmen will re-
ceive rebates which will amount to
fully one-half of their assessm ents.
The assessments were $54 this year for
each councilman.
The fight for councilman from the
Third ward has some peculiar phases.
Both William Green and Major A. NJ.
Harvey, the candidates, were Demo-
Gratis and voted the Democratic mu-
nieipal ticket last spring. Harvey
came over in the Republican party last
/ fall. Green decided to run on the Re
publican ticket just a few weeks ago.
! He had decided first to run on an in
! dependent ticket. To keep party spirit
alive the Republican city central com
/ nittee induced Major Harvey 10 come
out as a candidate in the Third and
/ Harvey accepted after being assured by
/ Mr. Green that he would not enter the
/ race in the Republican primary. Then
/ Councilman Green decided not to run
/ on an Independent ticket and came out
/ as a Republican at the solicitation of
4 friends. Both men are strong candi-
1 dates and have q mum erous following.
I Neither is campaigning vigorously
/ though the contest is expected to be a
! close and exciting one. S. S. Rice and
1 E. Montgomery are opposing each 9th
/ er in the Fourth ward.
Registration for the primaries closes
/ on Saturday. About 800 have regis
TERED who stood to lose their registra-
ton. Voters who failed to vote at the
/ last election or have changed their
places of residence are required to
! register. The total registration amounts
/ to about 1900.
The following is the list of candi-
dates to be voted for at the primaries
to be held Tuesday:
Third ward-Councilman A. NJ
Harvey, William Green; board of edu-
/ cation. F. Il. Anderson; committee
man-at-large. DIR. w. s. Lindsay; com
mitteeman. First precinct. H. G. LarI-
mer, ". P Wilcox; committeeman.
Second precinct, r. P. Pay committee
man. Third precinct, w. c. Ralston:
committeeman, Fourth precinct. S. ".
Pasker.
Fourth ward-Coun Gilman. S s.
Rice, E. Montgomery; board of educa-
ton. Jonathan D. Norton; committee
man-at-large. r. F. Carver. T. J. An
derson: committeeman. First precinct,
Charles o. Knowles. W. A. L. Thomp-
son: committeeman, Second precinct,
Frank N. Cope, John A. Van Vechten:
I committeeman Third precinct, W. T.
Calvin. John 0. Olstrand; committee
man, Fourth precinct. J. C. Rogers.