The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-07
Republican City Candidates Hold
Qualification Today.
The Assessments Levied by Com
mittee Not Needed.
TO BE NO PRIMARY.
All Nominations for Council and
School Board Go by Default.
Old Members to Be Declared
Nominees of the Party.

With no contest on for Republican
nominations for either council or
member of the school board in any
of the six wards of the city, the party
primary which was sch eduled to be
held on March "a will not be held
The time for intending candidates to
enter the race expired at Ia o'clock to-
day. The entries that had qualified
were with one exception the present
incumbents of both council and board
of education.
Next week the Republican city CEN
trail committee will meet and declare
the entries the regularly nominated
candidates of the party.
For council-First ward. c. p; Jor-
dan; Second ward, C. K Holiday;
Third ward, @. q. Biakely; Fourth
ward, E. Montgomery; Fifth ward. w.
G. Tandy; Sixth ward. j. w. F.
Hughes.
For board of education-First ward.
G. g. Nicholson; Second ward, E. d.
Mallory; Third ward. q. H. Anderson ;
Fourth ward. ]. D. Norton; Fifth
ward, C. F. Hardy: Sixth ward. A. B.
Poole.
Poole Is the only new face in the
group. E. E. Roudebush. who was the
m EN- Der from the Sixth ward, was not
a candidate for the denomination.
The above will be the municipal
| ticket Of the Republican party next
April. According to leaders in the
party this is the first time in the his
tory of local Republican politics that
a primary has not been held except in
the old days of conventions. Two
years ago there was a contest In two
wards and a primary was held in those
two wards, but that is as near as it has
ever come towards approaching the
| condition that obtains this year.
The assessments which the candi-
dates put up to pay the probable ex-
penses of holding primary will be
| men have $50 each returned while
members of the school board have re-
| turned to them So, the full amount OF
the assessment in each instance.
| When the candidates heard that the
money would be returned unshrunken g
glad, expansive smile played over theil
| features.
A probable contest was looked for IL
| both the First and Fourth wards but
| they failed to materialize. In the First
! tive in fighting Councilman Jordan an
nounced that they had picked on w. e
! Scotch, the Democratic nominee and
would support him, while in the Fourth
| ward DR.. H. B. Hogeboom, who was
| considering entering into the race
against Montgomery declined and sale
| that he would not enter.
The Democratic municipal ticket wal
made up last evening at caucuses held
| in each of the wards The Democrat:
| in the Sixth ward decided that they
would not put up any candidate either
| for councilman or school board this
year but aside from this every ward will
| be properly represented on the tickle
| on April II, the time for the municipa
| election.
| In the Fourth ward DR.. F. N. Lynch
| pastor of the First Methodist church
| was nominated for member Of thu
| school board but he has declined thu
| nomination.
| ct learned just a few minutes agt
| from an article in the morning pape
| that 1 had been nominated for membe
| of the school board from the Fourth
| ward While this position is general.
considered nonpartisan and should b.
| filed regardless Of politics, desire t.
| saw that under no circumstances woult
| / accept a nomination or election from
any party for any office, in city o
| state. My only aim and purpose II
| this life is to do the work of a minis
| ter of the gospel Of Jesus Christ
Frank n. Lynch, pastor First M.
| church.
H. P. Miller and J. P. Kramer con
tested for the Democratic nomination
of councilman from the Second ware
| Miller securing a heavy majority of tn
rs present. A good representation wa
present at each Of the ward caucuses i