The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-11
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
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The endorsement of Benson BY the
convention doesn't mean anything a
certain crowd was in control and the
Benson endorsement was simply put
through by some old soldier 1 don't
know who Richardson. the nominee is
for United States senator,
According to the reports brought back
from Mitchell county by the state poll
ticians who went out there last Satur-
day to the Long Hoch meeting, the stu
alton has been pretty thoroughly sized
up and A. G. Mead Is almost certain to
be nominated in the convention Satur-
day over b F Bracken by 10 votes
There are about 40 votes in the conven-
ton.
This estimate Of 10 majority for Mead
is given on the authority OF Capt. W H
Mitchell of Beloit, the chairman of the
Sixth district congressional committee.
who is one of Meade's strong support
ers.
The Mitchell county primaries have
been held, and mead is reported to have
carried the towns of Beloit, Cawker and
Glenn Elder, and these with his country
delegates will give him the 10 majority
claimed. Mead is the Curtis candidate,
and Bracken IS anti-Curtis.
l. A Thomas, a member of the Texas
legislature and editor of the Leonard
Graphic, has written to Governor Hoch
lDT INFORMATION concerning Tie SioAC
printer law Of Kansas. He says that
there is a lot of grating going on in
the Texas printing department, and he
Is expecting to Introduce a bill at the
next session of the legislature providing
for state printing plant like that OF
Kansas.
Judge W. D. Webb of Atchison. the
Republican tax revisionist who has been
nominated by the First district Demo-
Gratis against Charles Curtis, IS man
past 70 years of age, but he seems TO
have plenty of ginger left. The train on
which Judge Webb was going to Valley
Falls to attend the meeting of the Dem
ocratic congressional committee had the
misfortune to get behind freight
wreck about four miles from Valley
Falls. Judge Webb didn't wait for the
wreck to be cleared He got off the
train ard walked the remaining distance
to Valley Falls.
Judge Webb said at his home in Atehi-
son in discussing the campaign which he
will make for congress:
Don't let anyone suppose that I don't
realize what influences and the amount
of money that viii be expended against
me in this fight. 7 appreciate fully that
every railroad operating in Kansas Will
use every string it has to defeat me and
elect Curtis. While 1 am not a railroad
batter and their enemy, I shall demand
pie are concerned. There is no denial
of the fact, and there can be none, that
MI Curtis is their especial friend and
champion.
THE railroads viii have a double OBJ
ject in trying to see that Mr.. Curtis IS
not defeated. If he is defeated that, of
course, eliminates him from the sena-
toriaI race. If he is elected his chances
are somewhat strengthened. So, you
see. if Curtis is elected the interests
still have a congressman. with a fair
chance of pushing him still higher
Then you expect to be elected2'
Indeed I do, and Furthermore, I am
not going to make a campaign on the
defensive, but on the aggressive. This
district went about 1000 Republican two
years ago. Mr.. Curtis ran behind his
ticket by about 5000 votes, giving him
a majority. therefore of 4.000 am
going to overcome this and give that
gentleman the hardest run he ever had
in his life"
There probably is no man in this por-
ton Of Kansas who has 2 wider and
more extensive acquaintance than Judge
Webb. For four years he was judge Of
the Second judicial district. This was
from 1893 to 1897. AS jurist his ability
and fairness was recognized throughout
the state and his decisions show that
at that time he stood for the rights of
the people as against the corporations
Judge Webb was born in Madison
county, New York, and educated at the
Jefferson county institute. He studied
law in the office of James Starbuck at
WatertOWn. Judge Webb came to kan
sas and settled in Doniphan county
Where he was elected county attorney
in 1874 He came to Atchfson in 1873
and was made judge of the Second ju-
dicial district in 1898.
Judge Webb viii begin his active cam
paign Immediately.