The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-06-14
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Democrats to Have a DoIIar-a-
Plate Banquet.
All the Leading State Candidates
Will Make Speeches.
1900 GUESTS EXPECTED
Senator Benson Buys a $1,000
Home at Ottawa.
Fred Harris Doing Work of Sec
rotary to New Senator.
500 GUESTS EXPECTED

Democratic Dollar Banquet has a
euphoneous sound. and indications
are that the event bearing the same,
to be held at Fort Scott June 80, will
be one Of the big political affairs of
the season. It will mark the opening
of the campaign of the Democratic
are announced to participate in the
speech making are as follows;
Kansas ". a. Harris.
Suppress the Trusts Hugh P.
Farreliy.
estate Aid to Railroad steals" Da-
vid Overmyer.
THE judiciary" David N Dale
Equal and Exact Justice" A. NJ.
Jackson.
Faith in the Courts" ". S. Glass.
Regulation of Railroad Rates"
The Railroad Pass in Politics."
Harry Mcmillan.
Each of the speakers is on the DEM
ocratic state ticket, and each is
speechmaker of ability. The event
Will likely be one well worth attend
ing.
W. H. Ryan, chairman of the Dem
ocratic state committee, is arranging
for a special train from Topeka to
Fort Scott over the Missouri Pacific,
and he expects to take a delegation
of 500 Democrats from this part of
the state. Special trains will also be
run into Fort Scott over the katy
from Coffeyville. and over the Mis-
souri, Pacific from Wichita.
The banquet is for voters only. and
will be held In the Fort Scott conven-
ton hall. Plates will be laid for 1900
The galleries of the convention hail
will be open to ladies and other spec
tators
On the morning of June 80 the
ton viii be held at Fort Scott, and
this will bring about 500 Bourbon
county Democrats to town Indica-
lions are that the demand for tickets
to the banquet will exceed the supply.
The Independent News. of Girard.
which has been elassed as a Repub-
lican paper, has bolted Governor Hoch
and comes out editorially for Harris,
as follows:
Governor Hoch has been in many
respects sore disappointment to the
whole state3 His ideas are beautiful,
but the administration has been a
succession Of ignoble failures COM
pared with Senator Harris, who, al
most single handed. forced the Union
Pacific railroad to disgorge some 80
millions of dollars for public lands.
Compare him to Hoch. Such a COM
parison must clearly show Senator
Harris to be immeasurably the better
candidate. This is a state campaign
with definite state issues. The condi-
ton of affairs in some departments.
the state treasury and the school fund,
is alarming, yet nothing is being done
It IS not laws we need, but men,"
A travelling man who makes a
great many Kansas towns. and is a Re
.t1h1frzn in nnlifioS said = dax~
ago:
Judging from my personal contact
with people throughout the state. /
should say that Harris is going tesrun.
a good deal stronger than the Repub-
Ecan newspapers are willing to admit.
I don't want to say positively that I
think Harris will beat Hoch. but say
that he is going to get surprisingly
nig vote. He will make trouble for
Koch.
1t is said that Mayor ". W. Rose Of
Kansas City, IS getting a good start on
a congressional boom, and that if the
supreme court Furnishes him for con-
tempt in holding the Office Of mayor. II
will solidify the support of WyandOt.e
county. Wyandotte will get back CT
him Is the Democratic nominee in the
Second district, and it may make
trouble for Charles F. Scott.
Frank J. Ryan ore CT the Fepub-
Hcan candidates for railroad cominis-
sioner. is making a more energetic
canvass for votes than any other man
en- the ticket thus far. Ryan has a
new and original way of duet!ng A
state campaign. He Is not much Of a
speechnnaker. but he is a heavyweight
in the mixer class. He can talk to
folks and shake hands all day without
appearing to get tired of his job. So
he is going to all of the big factories
and offices, where hundreds of voters
are accessible. and is getting personal
| ~ acquainted with the people. Last
week he spent several days in Kansas
| City going through the packing
/ houses. He shook hands with every
body who had time to shake, and saws
I that he made a lot OF votes. Mr.. Ryan
! figures that between now and election
time he can pick up about 1000 votes
more than the normal Republican
strength, simply by personal solicita-
ton.
Frank Ohlhausen, who was a member
of the last house Of representatives from
| IeavenWorth county will be opUosed
! ex-senator Lucien Baker Ohlhausen
has never been especially friendly to
! the Anthony-Biddle wing of the Repub-
I lican party. and as the Anthony people
now seem to be in control of the Leav-
enWorth situation, it is likely that Baker
/ will be nominated, and Mr.. Ohlhausen
retired Ohlhausen has had a lot OF
| strength among the labor unions of the
city.
The Ottawa Herald. Henry Aliens
/ paper, says this about Judge Benson
the new United States senator from
Kansas.
The railroads and other corporate
| interests will be against Judge Benson
in his campaign for the long term, but
with the rank and file of his party thai
/ will be to his credit When the return
| Of Co. K Of the Twentieth Kansas regi-
ment was arranged for, several years
! ago. a committee went to Topeka t.
obtain passes for two delegates to Sar
| Francisco to meet the returning soldiers