The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-11

FEE TOPEKA DAILY ST
born and raised in the Second congress
sional district and lived there till he
/ was q years old. Last year he super
1 intended the city schools OF Ashland. He
owns a section Of wheat land down
there. and has big income independ-
/ ent of his teaching Mr.. Smith has not
/ been attending the conventions because
of his school duties, but he has put in
I lot of quiet work, and thinks that he
may show a lot of strength in the con-
vention. He and Fairchild have agreed
/ that the one that shows the least
strength will drop out
Lincoln did q good job of taking care
of the visitors. Committees had been
| appointed and labeled with big white
! badges. They met the trains, took the
! delegations up town, and when the
4 hotels were filed up, assigned the
/ guests to private houses which were
4 thrown open for the occasion. A corps
4 badges, was on hand to escort the
visitors to the houses to which they
were assigned In addition to the Ordi-
nary restaurant facilities, the Metho-
/ dist church women served a sumptuous
meal at noon and night Tuesday in
a vacant store building. Everybody
| who came to Lincoln had a good bed
I and plenty to eat The committee on
/ arrangen ents was composed of E. A.
/ Mcfarland, c. M. Heaton, d z. Nc
| CuIlom. J. c. Cooper. Joe Jackson. W.
/ 2. Menoher, W. NJ. McCandless and F.
K. Latto.
Lincoln made good use of the ag-
gregation of political speI1binders
which had assembled in its midst.
! There was a meeting Monday night at
the opera house addressed by a dozen
| state candidates and ]. L. Bristow.
/ Bristow made another speech at the
| convention, and Tuesday night there
4 was grand farewell meeting at the
| opera house addressed by Ansel r.
1 Clark, l. D. Young and others. The
opera house was packed for both
evening meetings. Half of the audi
ences were women and half of the
women brought babies. and half OF
the babies squalled. E. T. Skinner, the
presided at the Tuesday evening
meeting, and County superintendent
Stanley at the Monday night meeting.
The new congressional committee
met Immediately after the adjourn
ment of the convention, and organ
lied by the election of Capt. William
| H. Mitchell of Mitchell county as
chairman. E. A. Mcfarland of Lin
coin as secretary, and Chas. W. Ian
dis of Osborne for treasurer. The
new committee is made up as follows:
| Cheyenne, w. A. Pegg, Decatur, H. d.
Colvin; Ellis, Geo. ". Cross; Els
worth. T. G. O'Donnell; Cove. c. F.
| Pierce; Graham. E. E. Mullaney;
| Jewell, Geo. H. Case; Lincoln, E. A.
! Mcfarland; Logan. E. Mor~enstern:
i Mitchell. W. G. Perdue; Trego. H. S.
/ Givler; Norton. f. E. Ames; Osborne.
/ c. W. Lands: Phillips, John Thomas;
/ Rawlins, A. T. Aymes; Rocks F. e.
Young; Russell. Chas. E. Hall; Sher-
| idan, A. L. McCallen; Sherman, J. E.
Stevens; Smith, J. R. Burrow; Thomas,
1 I. ". Crumley; Wallace. G. G. Halsey.
/ At large, 18th district, N. NJ Cowan,
Smith county; 23d district. L. F.
Poole, Grainfield 18th district F. s.
Hazleton, Norton: saith district. r. a.
/ Chapman. stockton; Goth district H.
| z. Hissom, Ellsworth.
There is a little story connected with
! the election of Capt. Mitchell to sue
! coed John Royce as chairman of the
1 committee. Two years ago, J. R. Bur
/ row wanted somebody to use as can
| didate against Royce He selected
Mitchell and gave Royce hard fight.
/ This made many people think that
/ Mitchell was an antf-Reeder man. As
a matter of fact, Mitchell was for
4 Reeder, and he came to the conVen-
4 ton this year with a. letter of endorse
ment from Reeder himself. This letter
/ upset the plans of the Royce faction,
| which had planned to make either
| Chas. Lands or Harvey Penny chalr-
man. Mitchell came to Royce and de-
J clared that he did not want the place
4 at the hands of Burrows friends, SO
| Royce sidetracked Lands and Penny
and threw his influence to Mitchell
/ This action met with severe condernna-
/ ton from some of Royce'S friends. They
4 said that no attention should be paid
: to Reeder's communication. One sald:
! Feeder always is writing - fool let
ters, and this is one Of them
IL, fv,-f ion
! for a fifth term as congressman by
/ John O. Royce, who has OBLIGATED at
that same function so often before
/ Mr.. Royce said: "Reeder is a man who
He is not so brilliant as Roscoe Conk-
/ ling, but he he is right, to the core on
/ every proposition
There was more enthusiasm mani
! tested over the nomination of Holland
! by Harry Pestana than over that of
/ Reeder. But everybody knew 1t was
1 complimentary. Pestana was not a
! delegate to the convention but the Rus
/ sell delegation secured the consent OF
I the convention for him to make the
nomina ting speech. Pestana said he
I had nothing against Reeder, but
| thought that he ought to be willing
to pass a. good thing along.
There was one mild little surprise
/ on the ballot A new candidate was
! Launched" by Wallace county-the last
4 county to cast its vote. Wallace voted
sond-two votes-for ". E. Ward of
Wallace. Russell county gave Holland
! its seven votes, and Logan gave him
i two and Reeder one. The final result
was: Reeder III: Holland 9; Ward 2.
The vote was announced at 3 p. M,
and A l. Voker of Russell county
moved to make it unanimous, which
motion prevailed.
Geo Holland, the defeated candidate.
was then called out for speech, and
he made one of the very best kind of
/ speeches he could have made under such