The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-13
M'NALL IS FUNNY.
Discusses Operation of Primary
in Sixth District.
Says Bill Reeder Will Be Only
Candidate.
PRICE WILL BE 81, 900
This Will Keep Out the Other
Candidates.
PRICE WILL BE $1,000
Comments Sarcastically on
Proposed Direct Primary.

We will have congressional pri-
mary in the Sixth district, and Bill
Reeder will be the only candidate
This is the prediction made today by
Webb McNall of Gaylord, Smith coun-
ty. Mr. McNall was formerly insur-
ance commissioner of Kansas, and
now, as general attorney for the A. o.
.. W., he is on his way to Fort Scott
on lodge business.
we are going to have primary in
the SIXTH continued Mr. McNall.
because Reeder wants it, and Reeder
controls the committee. We are also
going to have a primary with all the
embroidery on it that you people have
here in the First district. We are
going to make the admission fee $780,
or possibly $1,000. There are nine
counties in the First district, and they
made the admission $500. Up there in
our district we have % counties, and
the committee might we'll decide that
1000. would be a fair price.
Ham, Young, Mead and all the rest
viii not get into the fight. They will
think about what a lot of groceries
that $500 will buy, and then they will
stay out. They will come to the con-
clusion that there is strong and in
pie that they withdraw from the fight,
and let the other fellow have it But
we are going to have the primary cleo
ton 1t is a great thing. One of these
days we will have a statewide pri-
mary, and then the people of eastern
Kansas will run things to suit them
selves. Western Kansas never will get
any more places on the state tickets,
and this will keep UP until western
Kansas revolts and beats the Repub-
Hcan ticket. The city of Topeka will
be able to cast almost as many votes in
a primary as the whole of the Sixth
district
~ Mr.. McNall says that wheat condi-
tions in his section of the state are
deplorable. ''Take the four counties
of Smith. Jewell. Osborne and Mitch
ell,'' said Mr. McNall, land there will
not be more than enough wheat raised
there to supply the home needs for
bread and seed. And Smith county
usually raises a million bushels. I
took a 25 mile drive through the coun-
try a few days ago. and. know just
what am talking about. There won't
be rs per cent of a crop in our part of
the state None of the wheat up our
way can be cut with binders. 1t will
have to be headed. In the swales and
low places the wheat was frozen, and
while the stalk is rank and healthy,
there is no head to it. The head was
nipped off by the frost. We have not
been getting any of these late rains,
and need rain badly. Unless we get
some rains. wheat won't make a 25
per cent CROP
Ewing Herbert in the Hiawatha
World comments as follows on the
Grant Hornaday proclamation:
Grant Hornaday, of Fort Scott, is
a very active candidate for governor
and this paper has nothing to say
against. him, but this point must be
borne in mind. There are two fac
tions in the Republican party and it
will be we'll to get together and if Mr..
is the man who. can unite
the factions that is all well enough.
But the probabilities are that the men
who are for Mr. Hornaday will name
the next senator and by the way we
are for that man, Chester 1. Long, but
that makes it all the more necessary to
party harmony to name for governor
say w. R. Stubbs. If Stubbs were to
be made governor by unanimous vote
the great majority would stand for
1t. Stubbs has been given a good
drubbing but the ideas he
stands for have grown stronger and
no one has doubted his honesty or