The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-24
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Frank B. Dyer Loses His Fight
in SedgWick.
Puts One Disappointment Cam
didates Ont of Race.
SPECIAL SESSION TALK
Believed Senatorial Candidates
Are Back of 1t.
Henry Allen Closes His Campaign
for Congress.
SPECIAL SESSION TALK

/ Wick county, Frank B. Dyer, one of the
! candidates for the Republican nom
nation for state superintendent Of pub
lie instruction. has been defeated for
: the support Of his own county by Prof
+ Carson. The primary to select dele
gates to the county convention resulted
in the choice of an administration
! convention, which VIII be controlled by
Findley Ross. And Ross, It Is under
stood, is hostile to Dyer and favorable
to Carson.
The result viii probab.p be that car
son viii come to the state conception
with an instructed delegation from
/ Sedgwick county.
Frank B. Dyer is the present assist
ant state superintendent under L L.
Dayton. He has been looked upon as
one OF the leading candidates, and the
general impression has been that he
would have no trouble in getting the
control Of his home delegation. The
1 fight, 1t has been predicted, would be
between Dyer and Fairchild, Fairchild
being an Ellsworth county man. The
Wichita Beacon says Of the result Of
/ the clash between Dyer and Carson:
The delegation that will go from
+ Sedgwick county to the state Repuh-
! lican convention will be headed by the
Ffnlay Ross forces. What # any, Of
the enemy go along viii be clad In ad-
ministratiOn garb They win not be
+ allowed to unnask at any time during
the time the state convention Is read
ing the handwriting on the slate.
Carson will be the choice of the
4 Sedgwick county Republican delegation
for state superintendent Of public in
struction. At the great reckoning by
the city administration force it was
found that Dyer was not one Of them
and the recorder vas ordered to write
another name for the delegates to en-
dorse tomorrow.
with the city powers in battle array
behind him hr. Carson will 90 into
the state convention. 1t has been 50
ordered and fear of the political gull
lotine VIII insure the keeping Of the
decree OF the administration cars 81
''I am opposed to this special ses-
sion talk" said James A Froutman,
one of the Civic league leaders, today;
"A special session at this time Is I'M
necessary and unwise. I advised Gov
4 ernor Hoch not to give it a second
/ thought. There is nothing of pressing
Importance which demands special
/ session. it is only nine months until
the regular session The most impor-
tant actions which are urged upon the
Especial session we're uD at the last
session, and we're defeated. I do not
believe that the Civic league has any
The first petition was received by Gov.
Hoch Friday afternoon. It contained
Is names of people living in Republic
county. The petition IS headed by A.
NJ Kimbal of the Scandal Journal.
The petition is as follows:
Your excellency- Believing that a
public necessity exists for the protec-
ton of the people Of Kansas against
the entertainments Of the corporal ton,
believing that the corporations are now
engaged and have been for months en-
gagged in an organized conspiracy to
! prevent full and free expression of
the viii of the people Of Kansas at the
4 primaries, believing that this admins
tration and the legislature elected in
1904 desires and will protect the peo-
lple in all their rights, we, the citi-
zens. of Kansas, appeal to you to as
+ senble the legislature in extra ordinary
session within the next sixty days for
the purpose of passing laws which Will
/ prevent the domination of the corpora
lions, and which will secure to the
/ people the rights which have been
taken away from them.
I'VE suggest as the measures to be
considered at such special session.:
''First-An anti-pass law which viii
make it a crime for one man to give, or
for another to receive a free pass in
the state.
''second-A primary election law
which shall throw around the ballot all
4 the safeguards now around the ballot
III reg u4dI GIGCL4Qu. r OF AL primaries
throughout the state to be held on the
same day, and all officers in the state
to be nominated on the same day.
"Third-A ballot law which will
enable every citizen to cast his vote
/ and have 1t counted as cast without
the confusion which now attends the
casting and counting of votes.
FOURTH law requiring all pub
lice service corporations to keep with
in the state a record Of all transactions
irs~4r r-4r4v- Aa4
/ curing them to have these records
open to inspection by the state at any
and all times.
I'VE beg to suggest to you that two
great combinations of capital. the
! Standard OIL trust and the railroad
trust, today control not only every
avenue Of transportation and COM
merce. but through bribery and Sub
Sliding of the newspapers, absolutely
/ attempt to control the channels of in
/ formation and thought. This situation
is a menace of such serious proper
| tons as demands immediate and effec-
! tive action. If the rights and the lib
[ critics of the people are to be pre-
served. the state must see to it that
these two great com binatiOnS which
at last are one and the same and
which work in unison and harmony,
shall no longer pursue their immoral
practices and their attempts to cor
rupt the conscience Of the people Of
+ this state.
Mindful of the expense which will
/ be incurred through the assembly OF
an extraordinary session of the state
/ legislature, we still believe that the
rights Of the people are far beyond
the mere question of dollars. and we
/ trust that you VIII recognize the
emergency which now exists and
/ grant the prayer of this petition by
1 the prompt assem- bling Of the legisla-
ture.'