The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-09
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Col. Harris Won't Run for
Governor Again.
Formal Notice to This Effect Is
Forthcoming.
HE HASN'T THE TINE.
Colorado Mining Venture Will
Take All Spare Time.
Grant HOrnaday Well Pleased
With Own Campaign.


| 1t is announced on good authority
I that Col William A Harris will not
again accept the Democratic nomina-
ton for the office of governor Of Kan
sas
Senator Harris has communicated
/ this Information to some Of the lead
I ing Democrats of the state, and will.
it is said. in a short time issue letter
TO the Democratic newspa pers in
which he will give formal notice that
/ his name is not TO be considered in
I that connection.
The principle reason for Mr.. Harris
refusing TO again get into the race for
office is that he has become largely
interested in some coal mining pro-
Jecrs in Colorado, which will take all
the time that he can spend away from
his desk at Chicago
Up to this time it has been general
ly believed that Col Harris would
again lead the Democratic party in
the campaign of 1908, and of course
it is possible that this may yet be the
outcome Harris did not want TO be
a candidate for governor in 1906, but
he was drafted for the position, and
accepted the draft on condition that
FarreIIy and Overmyer would stay
with him on the ticket.
In case Senator Harris stands pat
in his refusal to again be candidate
for governor. the indications are that
state Senator George H Hodges, of
Johnson county, will be one of the
men most favOrably considered for
the honor Hodges has a splendid
record in the state senate. and is an
orator OF considerable briI1iancy- He
is in the lumber business.
Grant Hornaday has been working
hard for the past six weeks in the in
terests Of his candidacy for governor
He has travelled from town to town
making speeches wherever there was
opportunity, and making acqUaintan
where no speeches were needed sun /
day Mr.. Hornaday was in Topeka
Il was out in the Big Seventh" he I
said and Fitzgerald and I talked to- (
gether for long time. don't believe +
that he will be a candidate for COVER
I didn't ind any prairie fire for I
Stubbs. Incidentally I ran across 4
Stubbs at the Baxter Springs reunion /
We waited at the depot together for /
two hours for train, and had a long /
chat together He told me that he is I
not a candidate for governor. but that
he wants TO go to the United States
senate
I'm not going to take any part in
the senatorial situation I'm not for
Long and I'm not against Kim I'll say 1
the same about Stubbs or any other
candidate for the senate I'm interest
ed in the gubernatoriaI race"
Mr. HornafiLy was asked about the 4
fourth man talked OF prominently for
governor, Charles Davidson, OF W Icf11- 3
Ia I have not been in Wichita was
the reply, -aIthoU gh I'm going there to-
day I have not heard DavidsCn's name
mentioned anywhere have been over
the state. and have been going pretty
steadily"
Concerning the primary election
which Mr.. Hornaday thinks the Repub-
tcan state committee should call, he
says;
I do not agree with the arguments
that il would not be properly safeguard
ed On the contrary. I believe that 80
per cent OF the people OF Kansas are
honest and that there need be no worry
ln that score. 1 shall not take the
initiative in asking the state central
committee to call a direct primary TO
nominate the Republican candidates
next year. It is up to Dan Anthony. 1
-oId Anthony, when he Querfed me. that
Z he asked the committee TO call
he would find the Bourbon
,oUnty candidate for governor would
support the proposition
The Independence Star thinks that
he Montgomery county delegation {
nav have internal trouble over the s
of A c. SCich for governor {
;tich's candidacy would collide with
hat of Mark Tully for state treasurer.
The Star says:
elf for state treasurer 1t has been
he custom for ages 10 give q good
nan a second term, and he feels that
lie is entitled to the compliment
1T is certain. however, that two i
nen from Montgomery county, and
specially Independence. can not get
n the state ticket and the boom of
Ir. TulIy or the boom Of Mr. Stich
must be withdrawn Neither gentle 7
nan seems inclined to withdraw, and {
Mess A compromise can be reached g
rithfn a few months q divided dele /
= tion is likely
Independence has supplied the i
tate with one governor and would I
ke to furnish another one, but would a
ather wait two years Mark TulIy is y
favorite with everyone and the gen
raj consensus Of opinion is opposed [
, anything that will fnjure his 2
hances for succeeding himself in the :
tate treasurer's office
Atchison Globe: What are the rail- r
Dads going to do about putting in q
7vo cent passenger rate2" a reporter
sked of B P WagEener. who return
q from St Louis this morning "A
1eeting of officials is to be held in
Thicago next Tuesday to discuss the a
natter" replied Mr. Waggener, '.and :
can answer you better after it is b
YER" o
Lawrence Gazette. Charley Barnes L
all right when it comes to throwing C
own insurance trusts. and jacking up <
hid cat companies. but he falls all e
yer himself when he tries to run an o
utOmobile- He came through Law g
ance the other day with one he had
lst bought in Kansas City. and when
x miles out in the country, he un-
ertook to do the squirrel act on tel
phone pole and his Cadillac went to {
1e bad with him Had it not been T
'r friends in town. and he has friends o