The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-03
THEIR WORK DONE
Republican State Convention
AdjOurns Last Night.
Stubs Forces Beaten at Nearly
Every Turn.
WHEATLEY is BEATEN.
Kanavel Takes the Nomination
From His Hand.
The Anti Pass Plank Is Voted
Down.
WHEATLEY is BEATEN.


county. ..
gerald, Ford county
Secretary OF state T. Denton
Harper county.
State auditor NJ. Nation Neosho
Superintendent Of public instruction
-E. T. Fairchild. Ellsworth county.
Attorney general-tred l. Jackson
Greenwood county
State treasurer-Mark Tully, Mont
state superintendent of insurance
Chas. Barnes, Usage county.
State printer-T- A. McNeal, Shaw
nee county.
Railroad commissioners= A. Ry-
ker. Reno county; Geo. ". Kanavel,
Harvey county; Frank Ryan. Leaven-
worth county.
six year term) w. A. Johnston, OF
tawa county; R. A. Burch. Saline
county. Cor four year term) -Silas
fsPorter, Wyandotte county; c. B.
Graves, Lyon county.
The convention was in the control of
the slate" makers. The railroad and
professional politician element was N
ffhe saddle. and they rode the full length
OF the course.
". r. stubbs and his friends were
beaten at every turn in the road. The
the railroad slate If they were on any
slate at all. The platform is composed
Of generalities. The anti-pass 2-otrt
ffare and primary election propositions
were all rejected.
George ". Wheatley was the only
railroad candidate" who was beaten.
FfVVheatley IS now a railroad commits
Eioner. and wanted to be renominared-
George W. Kanavei Of Harvey county
beat him by the narrow margin of IS
votes.
The anti-pass plank which was p-o-
posed for the platform was voted down
by a vote of s to by the committee en-
resolutions. The vote stood as follows:
For the anti-pass plank: ]. S. Dean,
Marion; J. w. Dunn. Onaga; D. A.
Against the anti-pass plank: John
Geaton, Atchison; Benz. Schnerlie,
WyandOtte; W. S. Fitzpatrick. Sedan;
w. II. Smith. 3. P. Walker, Osborne;
"A. A Richards, wellington.
Fourth District Fared Wen.
It was the Fourth district which car
ried of the lions share of the spoils.
The four men nominated from that dis
trict were Hoch for governor, Graves
for justice, Barnes for insurance COM
missioner and Jackson for attorney gen.
eral.
The Seventh district got three places:
Fitzgerald for lieutenant governor,
Denton for secretary of state and Ry-
ker for railroad commissioner
The First district secured two places:
IGcNeal for printer and Ryan for rail-
road commissioner the Third secured
two. Nation for auditor and Tully for
treasurer; the Fifth secured two, John
ston and Burch for justices.
The Second, Sixth and Eighth dis
tricts landed only one place each. The
Second secured Porter for justice; the
Sixth landed Fairchild for state super
'intendent Of education: the Eighth
managed to get Kanavel for railroad
commissioner
How the Procession Moved.
After w J. Fitzgerald had beaten
Ansel R. Clark for lieutenant governor
by the decisive vote of 6851z to 1884,,
st was evident that the railroad slate
was bound TO go through without
hitch. All of the sO-caled slate can
ididates were elected by as large or
larger vote than received by F1tzger-
aid.
c. E. Denton beat ]. c. Brown for the
vote OF 654 to 37O.
James NJ Nation beat S. c. drummer
FOR the nomination for auditor by about
200 to 300-the vote was so decisive that
drummer withdrew and moved to make
1T unanimous without waiting for the
tally sheets to be footed.
Mark Tuly of Independence was
nominated by reclamation for treasurer
without opposition
Two ballots were necessary to settle
the fight for attorney general. The 1e-
suit was exactly as had been predicted
by the friends of Fred s. Jackson. They
had been claiming a lead on the first
ballot and stampede on the second to
their man. There were four candidates
in the race. and three Of them, 3 NJ
brewster. Oscar Raines and A. E. Crane
were from the First district. On the
Grst ballot, Jackson. who Is from the
Fourth district. secured 3641k votes
Crane 2091k, Brewster 2471h, and Raines
2025k.
BY prearrangement that the low man
Of the two should withdraw, Crane
dropped out in favor of Brewster, but
he couldn't deliver his votes. Most Of
them went to Jackson on the second
ballot. When the second roll call was
about half completed, Raines. who had
received only about so votes, also with
drew. and tried to throw his strength
TO Brewster. but failed, for the stani-
pede to Jackson was on full swing end
he received 622 votes to 354 for BrsWs-
ter, Wyandotte county finishing up by
giving Jackson q votes.
There was no particular slate or
ant-slate fight for the Office of at
torney general.
J. A Carson and Frank R. Dyer Of
Lyon, =. T. Fairchild and John E.
Mathers Of Butler were placed in
nomination for superintendent of pub
lie instruction. At the end of the roll
call Fairchild had 491 votes. almost
enough TO nominate. Twenty or more
counties changed their votes to Fair
child, giving him the nomination
practically by unanimous vote.
Mathers. who was second man in
the race. was the first to run up the
white flag to FairchiId. s. S smith
OF El Dorado, one Of Mathers' strong
supporters. made the motion to make
Eairchild's election unanimous.
Frank L. Travis of Allen county.
Charles ". Barnes OF Usage and Webb
AlcNall of Smith were placed in noni-
nation for superintendent of insur-
ance.
Barnes was nominated in a walk on
the first ballot He received 698 votes.
BIr. Barnes is the present assistant SUI
perintendent of insurance. He Is edi-
eor Of the Osaee City Free Press. Webb