The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-19
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Senator George Tucker Makes
Formal Announcement.
Candidate for Congress to Sue
coed j. mi. Miller.
TELLS WHERE STANDS.
FRvOrs Direct Primary and Re.
vision of Tariff.
I'D. w. Mulvane Issues Statement
in Opposition to Primary.

George E. Tucker of Eureka, Kan,
in the issue of his paper, the Eureka
Herald, received in Topeka yesterday,
announces that he will be a candidate
for the Republican nomination for
congress in the Fourth district as it
has been predicted for some days that
he would be.
Tucker thus puts an early quietus
on the statement industriously circu-
lated by Congressman ]. NJ. Miller
during the past summer that Tucker
is running now, but he won't be run
ming next year" The friends of Sem
ator Tucker know that having gone
into the fight he will stay with it to
finish, and they say the probability is
that he will defeat Miller for the
nomination, either by convention or
primary.
In column and a half statement
in his paper. Senator Tucker declares
himself in favor Of the direct primary
for the nomination of candidates, for
a revision Of the tariff, increased pow
ers for the interstate commerce COM
mission, and the regulation of corpor-
atoms All OF these things are likely
to constitute fighting grounds for the
Tucker-Mtller campaign, for Miller is
supposed to be opposed to the pri-
mary. opposed to tariff revision, and
opposed to increased government reg
ulation for corporations.
1t is generally admitted in the
Fourth district that Miller is unpopu-
lar with the people. and that he is
only held. in power by his organiZa-
ton of postmasters and the friendship
of the miller" wing or the Repub-
lican party In years past, however,
there has been talk of fight on
Miller, several candidates have jump
ed in and demanded the nomination,
each one more willing to return Miller
to congress than to see a new man
nominated. The result has been that
Miller's opposition has been his safety.
In the coming campaign. however, it
is likely that Tucker will be the only
candidate against Miller. Ex-senator
q. H. Lamb, of Yates Center, who, in
years past, has been a sort of standing
candidate for congress. will not be in
the race this time. it is announced and
thus far there has been no opposition |
to Miller except Senator Tucker.
Senator Tucker is one of the luck |
fest politicians in the state, and up to |
this time has won every political fight |
which he has entered. He has served |
as secretary and chairman of his |
county central committee, as secretary
representative in the legislature and
state senator He was also one of the |
state printing commission which built |
and equipped the state printing plant |
and was chairman of the railroad |
committee of the senate at the last
session, and a leader of the square |
deal crowd in the senate. He has in |
variably lined up on the side of decent |
legislation, and his personal popu- |
larity is attested by the overwhelming |
majorities by which he was elected to |
the legislature and the senate. If |
elected to congress. he will be the |
youngest member of the Kansas dele |
cation.
There are ten counties in the Fourth |
district. If primary Is held to settle |
the fight. as Tucker requests, 1t is hard |
to see that Miller has much show. Mr.. |
Miller will probably insist upon dele
gate convtntion, and as he is supposed |
to control the congressional committee, |
he will probably get what he wants. |
In case of a convention, it is believed |
that Tucker would control Greenwood, |
that Miller would have Morris, Wood |
son and Chase, with Pottawatomie and |
Marion counties in doubt.
Senator fuckers announcement is in |
part follows:
at wish to announce that I will be |
q candidate for the Republican nomi- |
nation for congress in the Fourth dis |
trict. I am willing to abide by the will |
of the party, whether expressed |
its representatives in conven-
but am firmly convinced that & large
majority of the voters favor the pri- |
mary method. and, personally, I be-
Iieve the primary system to be right in /
principle and the just and desirable
way to determine the choice OF the peo-
pie.
THE Difference to big business inter- |
ests so frequently expressed by the de-
cIaration that the tariff must not be |
the attempt to obscure the |
real issue with statistics of bank clear
lnes, exports and general prosperity ar
will not divert the mind of the |
average citizen from his deep-seated |
conviction that the tarin needs revis-
lon. Manifestly when protected manu-
Re- cturers are selling their products in |
foreign markets, thousands of miles
rom the place of manufacture, at
nrfces materially below the prices con-
finuously extorted from their home pat
-ons: when such products as iron, steel
.nd lumber have increased so rapidly
that prices are almost prohibitive to