The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-10
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Muster Day in Sixth District on
Wednesday.
Fixers Will Meet at Colby to
Iron Out Wrinkles.
HALL MAY DROP OUT.
Believed Candidate for Sec
rotary of State Will Quit.
Carr Taylor Is Not Candidate
for Congress.
HALL MAY DROP OUT.

Colby. the capital and metropolis of
Thomas county, Kansas, will be the
scene next Wednesday of a political
muster day, at which the various can
didates for state and congressional
honors will exhibit their boOms The
occasion for the gathering is the meet
ing of the Sixth district congressional
committee, called for the purpose of
calling a congressional convention.
There are number of little
wrinkles in the Sixth which must be
pressed out before the time for the
state convention. Too many candi-
! dates are trying to land, and some of
! them will have to stand aside. Some
sort of an agreement or compromise
must be arrived at. The list of those
who are active aspirants for state
office is as follows:
Secretary of State@John Brown,
Norton county.
Auditor-W H. NIize, Osborne.
superintendent of Educaton-B. T.
Fairchild, Ellsworth.
superintendent of urance-Webb
/ McNaII, Smith
There is reason to believe that
Charles E. Hall, of Russell, is not go
! ing to press his candidacy for secre-
/ tary of state. He has the matter in
/ people that he wifi be candidate for
reelection to the. legislature. Never
4 the less, he does not come right out
and say that he is not a candidate, so
4 the suppOsition is that he still has his
lightning rod out.
But even with Brown, AIize. Fair
child and McNa1 in the race, there
are twice as many candidates than the
district can hope to land. Two of
them must be eliminated, and the
district must solidify its strength on
two of the others if it expects to get
the recognition which is its due.
It seems to be generally conceded
that Fairchild will be one of the two.
1t viii be hard fight between the
other three candidates.
Charles Hall, who was in Topeka
FRIDAY, said to State Journal re-
porter.
"A house divided against itself can
not stand, and consequently it is going
to be necessary for the Sixth district to
get together in its support of candidates
4 for state offices. I fancy that this meet
Sng at Colby viii be the time for iron
ing out such difficulties. We win be
able to talk things over together at
that time, and find out what the senti-
i ment is, if nothing else.''
Are you still candidate for secre-
tary Of state2'
I'm not saying anything about that
| Things stand just as they have all
| along 1 have not made any definite
statement about my Intentions
How about the congressional fght2''
sIt's hard to tell what will happen
Indications are that there will not be
much doing. I never heard of this man
David who has announced himself for
congress-
Carr Taylor is not a candidate for
/ congress. At least that is the state
ment which he makes concerning the
announcement in the Stafford County
( Republican that he is planning to &c
into the race.
.'Mr. Akers the tditor of that paper,
is a good friend of mine" said Mr. Tay-
Tor today, but there is no foundation
for the report that [ have even con-
templated being a candidate for con-
gress from the Seventh district. 1 feel
very strongly that my business is to
stay with this position of railroad at
torney until / fight it out on the line
which I have started. The issue has
been squarely drawn between the board
and myself and I shall devote my best
efforts to the business of having a new
board of railroad commissioners elected
which Will be fair and square, and Will
really represent the people of Kansas.
I don't want any other office but attOr-
ney for the board"
There is a fight brewing in the Sew
enth however, as announced in the
State Journal some time ago. The can
didacy of Fitzgerald against Clark for
lieutenant governor has stirred up d
fight against 2. H. Madison for con
gress. w. E. Hutchinson, who IS now
a candidate against Madison, can get
the vote of about 20 of the western
counties, but the eastern counties, which
have the big vote in the convention, are
likely to go for Madison unless the boss
busters can fix up some candidate to
take them away fron- Madison. That IS
the movement which is at the bottom
of the Taylor for congress" talk.
W. s. Roark of junction City, was in
"a
supreme court. Asked to state wheth-
er or not he had decided to become a
candidate for the Republican nomina-
ton for attorney general, he said:
within two or three days VIII be
/ able to make definite announcement
of my plans. At the present time
can only say that am considering the
matter very seriously, and am inclined
to look favorably upon the proposition
A good many of my friends have been
urging me to get into the race, ana
it seems to me that there IS good
/ opportunity. I might talk about the
matter for half an hour, but I could
not say anything more definite than
this concerning my plans
Mr. Roark is spoken of by his asso-
ciates as man OF great aDlntys ana
one of the brightest lawyers in the
| state. He is attorney for the Union
Pacific road at Junction city. Asked
concerning the congressional situation
in the Fifth district, he said:
'fThere semes to be good deal OF
disposition to stir up a fight on Calder
head. 1 don't know what it viii
{ amount to-.
. At the present time Mr.. Roark is
suffering from an attack Of blood
poisoning. He scratched his hand on
a rusty nail. and has been doctOring
the injured member for 2. number of
weeks in an effort to stop the infiam-
nation
There have been some runors to the
erect that Clyde Miller. secretary Of
the Republican state central commit