The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-13
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Populfst State Convention
Scheduled to Meet in. Topeka.
Likely That It VIII Now Be
Given Up.
NO TICKET THIS YEAR.
Detection Of Chairman Hanna
Probably Means End.
wichita to Have a Daily DEM
Ocratic Paper.
} TICKET THIS YEAR.

Inc Populist state convention, which
was called to meet In Topeka on March
IL to elect delegates to the national
Populfst convention on April 2. will
probably not be held.
Nor is it at all likely that the Popu-
lists will have any separate ticket to
present at the primary election to be
held in August
Everything indicates that the Popu-
list party Is dead. so far as Kansas, its
former principality, is concerned.
George w. Hanna. the chairman of
the Populist state central committee,
has decided that the Republican party
is good enough for him, and it is ex-
pected that at the August primary he
Will step up to the polls and call for a
Republican ticket. Hanna may resign
as chairman of the Populist committee.
or he may not. It really is matter Of
no great consequence, as there will
probably be no one here to attend the
March II Convention" Certain it is
that Mr.. Hanna won't be here, and
some of the Topeka Populists, Of whom
there are still about half a dozen loyal
members. say that the jig is up, and
that no convention will be held.
Some Of the few remaining Populists
will probably go to st. Louis on April
q TO attend the natlOudl conference
called convention--for the purpose OF
nominating a Populist candidate for
president.
It looks as though the state would
make no effort to elect a state commit
tee and continue its one powerful or
gauization.
The primary election law made it
practically impossible for the PopulisIs
to have a state ticket in the field.
The law provides that eeth. party
which has ticket on the election bal
lot at the preceding election shall have
a separate primary ballot Tor the prl-
mary election in August, IL any of its
candidates for state office polled one
per cent of the total vote cast for sec
rotary Of state at the last election. In
November, 1906 a total Of more than
800, 600 votes were cast for secretary OF
state The Populist candidates received
less than 1900 votes. The law also pro-
vides that where a party has polled less
than the required one per cent at the
preceding election, its officers may, by
filing petitions with the secretary OF
state bearing the signatures OF two per
cent of the voters at the preceding cleo
ton. have a separate ballot provided
at the August primary. 1t is certain
that without filing petitions with the
secretary OF state, Kansas .Populists
cannot make their nominations fol
state offices at the August primary. II
is equally OOuDCIuI WuctHCl tACy WIZ
be able to obtain 5000 signatures OF
Populists to petitions requiring the Sec
rotary of state to give them a primary
ballot.
The Prohibition and Socialist parties
will be required to make their nomlna-
tons at the August primary, as each OF
these parties polled more than one per
cent of the total vote Tor secretary OF
state at the election in November, 1906.
The Wichita Eagle says:
1t is announced that such progress
has been made in the organization OF
a company to begin the publication OF
an evening Democratic newspaper that
the making Of contracts for press es,
machinery, Geographic service and all
necessary equipment has commenced.
The report is that an ultimate CAPT.
talization of 100000 is intended aud
that 1t will be pretty we'll paid up from
the start Mr.. John Hoensche1dt. 1t is
settled, will be the editor and manager
of the paper, and negotiations are
of writer's, two of whom are ranked
among the best high-priced writer's OF
the west, both well known specialists.
Mr.. Hoenscheidt is now the owner of
some sixteen German papers in Kan
sas and Oklahoma, and owns practical
w all the German weeklieS between
the Missouri river and the Rocky
mountains. He published an English
daily here twenty years ago-the
Wichita Daily Journal-whfch attain
ed to a really wonderful circulation in
a few years He. intimates that he. is
young enough yet to fight for the field.
He has made quite fortune out of
his German papers, or at least a reve-
nue. that encourages him to think ne
can succeed In the English field.
It is the intention to make the pros
posed evening paper the Democratic
organ of Kansas. as there is now no
Democratic daily paper In the state or