The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-18
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Ten Members of Last Senate
Won Nominations.
Old Timers Who Have Reap
peared on the Surface.
MANY CLOSE CONTESTS
Mnu IoaA L. A;ona 20
MANY CLOSE CONTESTS
May Lead to Complications Be
fore or at the Election.
Several Prominent Democrats
Nominated for Upper House.

and In addition that M. A. House
| holder. an old time Populist senator,
is now on the Democratic ticket in
| Cherokee county.
There are nine former members OF
| the house of representatives who are
seeking to be promoted to the senate.
| Six of these are Republicans: J. L.
| Brady j. Remington. ]. A. Milligan.
c. A. Stannard, T. P. Murpr- and
William Wells: The three Democrats
| who want to get into the senate from
| the house are H. S. Thompson, M.
| Sweeney and George H. Tannehili.
Thompson and Tannehill were two OF
! the leading Democratic members at
| the last session.
There were some mighty close fights
between Republican candidates for the
develop before the thing is over.
In the Second district, Myers beat
Sarbach by a vote of 1874 TO 1.751.
In the Fourteenth district, Travis
beat Phillips by vote of 1,274 to
1909.
In the Twenty-fifth, Fremont Leidy
beat Bruce Leydig by vote OF 957 to
S99.
In the Thirty-second district. Cald-
we'll beat ]. NJ. Doyle by vote Of
1926 to 1868.
In the Thirty-fifth district. Chapman
beat Guyer by a vote Of 1858 to 1911.
W. NJ Glenn beat his nearest OPP
ponent, A. S. Foulks. in the big Thirty
eighth district by a majority of az.
AS nearly as can be ascertafned,
there are likely to be II machine men,
II square dealers. five doubtful Re
publicans and one Democrat in the
next senate.
The following list gives the number
of the district, county or counties IN
the district, name of Republican candi-
date and name of Democratic candi-
date in the order mentioned Former
members of the senate are marked
with a star:
/. Brown. Doniphan. S. NJ.
Brewster-Isaac Dilley.
2. Jackson. Atchison. ]. D. Myers
8. Leavenworth. vinton Stillings"
4. Wyandotte. James F. Getty
T. A. Milton.
5. Douglas, Jefferson. ]. L. Brady
Samuel A. Riggs.
6. Johnson. Miami. ]. B. Rem
| ington-George H. Hodges
Z. Linn. Anderson J. A. Milligan
/ j. A. Mantey.
s. Bourbon w. r. Gunn-E. e.
Anderson.
10. Cherokee. C. S. HUFFMAN
NJ. A. Householder
II. Labette. D. NJ. Bender-G. w.
Gabriel.
~. Montgomery. ]. F. Overhead
Harry Jiencke.
10. Neosho. Wilson. L. S. Cam
bern-A. S. Lapham.
IA. Woods. Allen. F. L. Travis
F. J. oyler.
Is. Franklin, Coffey. H. E. Ganse
M. A. Limbocker.
16. Usage. j.. H. Stavely-C. E.
| Giants.
II. Shawnee. Clad Hamilton-John
F.. Switzer -5..f s
Is. Pottawatomie.- Nemaha. Oscar
Fagerberg-W. C. Challis.
10. Marshall. w. P. BROWNE. l..
Wilson.
20. Washington. ]. B. Lower
Rodger Hawley.
81. Riley Geary. wabaunsee. p.
C. Hostrup-R. Meyer.
%. Dickinson, Clay. H. w. Avery
Edward Belts.
%. Marion, Chase, Morris. Thomas
Pottery:. H. Carpenter.
"a. Lyon, Greenwood. c. A. Stan
nard-R B. Shepherd.
rs. Butler. Fremont Leidy"-J.
II. Penley.
26. Elk, Chautauqua John T. Den
toni. A. Pore. l..--
81. Cowley. A. D. Smith
%. Sumner. George H. Hunter
E. T. Hackney.
20. Sedgwick. J. L. Stewart
80. Harvey, Mcpherson. T. p.
Murphy-E. c. Lewellen.
81. Saline. Ottawa. Fred H. Quincy"
j. F. Corder.
80. Cloud. Republic. w. w. Cald-
| well"-W. NJ. Moore.
33. Jewell, Mitchell Fred Beeler-
A. s. Cooke.
"a. Osborne, Lincoln, Russell, Ellis
worth r. T. Fowler-Gail Wilson.
35. Barton. Rice. Stafford. G. L.
SO. Reno, Kingman. Pratt. Emerson
Carey-H. S. Thompson.
81. Harper. Barber, Kiowa, Co
| manche, Clark, Meade. Ford. Gray.
Francis c. Price-Harry Brice.
3s. Edwards, Hodgeman. Pawnee,
ton. Stevens. Ness, Rush. Lane, Wich-
tia. Hamilton. Finney, Grant, Morton.
Seward William M. Glenn-Michael
| Sweeney.
80. Cove. Ellis. Graham. Decatur.
Thomas, Wallace, Cheyenne, Trego,
| Sherman. William Weils-Fred Rob-
| ertson.
40. Norton. Smith, Phillips. J. T.
Reed-George H. Tannehill.
F.. d. West. who has been nominated
| by the Republicans for representative
| from Edwards county, is a colonel in
the regular army-of auctioneers. He
| served in the house at the 1905 session
| but failed to return in 1907, his place
! being taken by F. N. Cole, a Demo
crat 1t used to plague Col. West con-
| siderably to call him Fred Dumont
West" in honor of the distinguished
Ewards county senator, whose initials
! he bears.
| W. W. Harvey. who was nominated
! by the Republicans for the house OF
| representatives in Clark county. is g
] brother of A. NJ. Harvey. who is run
! ming for the same Office in Shawnee
county. Both of the Harveys were in
| the Populist party at one time. but
| they returned to the fold about the
same time, and seem to be making
| progress. w. w. Harvey at one time