The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-13
FIRST DISTRICT AMENITIES.

congressional politics In the First
district is warming UP. There are
three avowed candidates for the nomi-
nation. D. r. Anthony of Leavenworth.
Ewing Herbert of Hiawatha, and
Senator George Hayden of Nemaha
county. In his paper, the Hiawatha
World, Mr.. Herbert makes a PROPOSE
ton to his fellow candidates. prefacing
it by a few remarks. as follows:
"It is Topeka gossip that a deal has
been made as to the successor of
Charlie Curtis and Dan Anthony is the
man. If the people will stand for the
DEAL Dan can win. In addition to his
ice all the corporation and railroad
money together with all the aid of the
political workers That is something
the other candidates fully understand
as almost stone wall and they may,
or may not, go against It. With Leav-
enworth, Atchison. and Shawnee
county pledged to him by the alleged
deal Dan feels that he has a cinch.
Jackson county is said to favor him,
but he doesn't even need 1.-THE vote
of Shawnee. Atchison and Leaven-
worth is more than sufficient to nomi-
nate him. Dan says that he is the
only candidate in favor of a primary
election. The Worlds candidate has
always favored a primary and the prt-
mary has been in use in Brown county
several years. But Dan makes the
primary talk to fool the people. With
the deal in his favor-with the cor
porations now in control of this state
behind him Dan feels safe enough.
Here's a proposition to Dan Anthony
and George Hayden: Let the three
candidates so far in the open-Hay-
den, Anthony and Herbert and any
others who want in the race-agree
not to spend cent of money or per-
NIT a cent to be spent for other than
legitimate advertising expenses
them leave the people free to vote
without solicitation by any fixer or po-
Htical worker-without a bargain, or
promise of any sort. Let them en-
ploy no other means than newspaper
announcements and advertising. VIII
Dan Anthony and George Hayden
agree to this?"
To which Mr.. Anthony, in the Leav-
enworth Times, replies by advising Mr..
Herbert to ''be cam" Incidentally he
approves the Hiawatha editors pro-
posaI for a clean campaign, but he
also suggests that Mr.. Herbert ere
frain from making against opponents
charges which are both false and
foolish Mr.. Anthony says:
1.-THE editor of the Times has made
up his mind to fight a clean, square
battle for nomination and election in
this congressional district The fact
that he has openly declared himself
and is vigorously urging a direct pri-
mary should be proof enough of his
sincerity of purpose, and that he re-
poses such full trust in his case as to
submit it without fear directly to the
people.
mo one in the First district has
more bitterly opposed railroad infu-
ence in politics than has the editor of
the Leavenworth Times. The fact that
the editor of this paper is in position
10 I'D Af
roads and other corporations is an
argument in itself that he will be fair
and just where the interests of the
people and those of the corporations
come in conflict.
mo, Ewing there is no deal We
have just fought a good fight We did
our best two years ago when circum-
stances were adverse. Moreover, that
some men who didn't do the square
thing at the Holton convention desire
to do it now, shows that even after all
there is in politics a tendency to the
square DEAL"
In the meantime Senator Hayden
has been too busy in the legislature to
run for congress very hard. He has
no newspaper of his own in which to
agree to Mr.. Herberts proposal, but he
has been making a pretty good record
for himself during these latter days in
the state senate. He has refused men,
bership in the senate lodge" al
though he could doubtless have Sc
cured all sorts of a certain kind of
political support If he had consented
to line up with the railroad combine.
There was considerable disappoint-
ment among the opponents of Senator
Curtis in the First district when Mr.
Hayden voted for him, but in this re-
spect he is on a par with the other
two candidates, except that they did
not happen to be members of the legis-