The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-28


| Republican national convention. The
| delegates elected to the state conven-
| tion were as follows: Grant Hornaday,
c. I. Martin, F. A. Lyons. w. I. Men
denhall, r. Aikman, w A. Connor, T.
J. Allen, r. F. Benedict. Arthur Ban.
]. S. Turley, John NJ. Cole, ]. M. SUIT
terby. ]. L. Ritter. H Brown.
Out of the $50 delegates to the Repub-
lican state convention, about 515 have
| been elected, and of this number, 25O
| have been chosen direct by the county
| central committees.
1t is not likely that the Republican
| convention will adopt platform, but II
may adopt certain resolutions setting
forth the principles of the party upon
which all factions can agree.
The principal business of the conven-
! ton will be the election of four dele
| gates at large to the national conven-
ton. Grant Hornaday of Fort Scott
| and J. S. Simmons of Reno are likely
| to be elected as two of these delegates.
| Each congressional district chooses
| two delegates to the national conven-
ton. The 16 delegates chosen by con-
I gressional conventions, and the four
| chosen at large by the state conven-
| ton will select the national commit
\ teeman from Kansas
The candidates suggested for this
| place are D. w. Mulvane, Cyrus Leland
and Clyde Miller. Mulvane seems to
have the inside track. He is the ma
| chine candidate
| JJp to the present time the following
| candidates have been announced for
delegates to the national convention:
! At large-Grant Hornaday, Fort
| Scott, and ]. s. Simmons of Hutchin-
| son.
First district-Arthur Capper, Tope-
ka Cyrus Leland. Troy.
Second district-Art Blgelow, Gard
ner; George L. Davis, Lawrence; T. L.
Kelly, Paola; o. ]. Peterson, Kansas
| City.
| Third district-State Senator Samuel
Fitzpatrick, Sedan; E. B. Stevens, Par
sons; ]. L. Logdson, Howard.
| Fourth District-D. c. Lake. Usage
City; Harry Hagaman, Onaga; A H.
Wheeler, Marion.
Fifth District. d. Colt, Manhat-
| tan; F. w. Sturgis, Concordia; Earl
Brown, Concordia,
Sixth District-Chas Lands, Os-
| borne; c. J. Kagey, Beloit; Otis L.
Benton, Oberhn; Robert McGonigal'
Colby.
Seventh District-W. NJ. Kinnison,
Garden City; Judge Preston B. Gill
lette. Kingman.
Eighth District-John Mack. New
ton; J. B. Adams, Ell Dorado; George
Hunter, Wellington; Benjamin NC
Claim, Wichita.
The first congressional convention
will be that of the Third district to be
held today All the others are in
March The dates and the places or
holding the congressional Gonven-
tions Of the different districts are as
follows:
First-March 4. Topeka
Second-March II. Lawrence.
Third-February %, Parsons
Fourth-March 8. Usage City.
Fffth-March 1S. Abilene.
sixth-March 26. Osborne.
Seventh-March 3. Hutchinson
Etghth-March g. Wellington.
In the Atchison-Jackson state SEN
atorial district the politicians are busy
figuring on who will be the successor
TO Bale p Waggener in the state sem
ate This Is Jackson county's turn to
have the candidate. The Democrats
are talking of nominating J. f. JarreH
Of the Holton Signal; the Republicans
may put Major Beck into the race.
Beck runs the Holton Recorder at
Holton. Major Beck says in his paper
of this contest:
in many years any one has mentioned
US for office and here We are slated
to run against the best looking and
most popular man in the district.
Before we consent to the nomination
on the above terms. Frank has got to
train down to our class, Ill pounds,
and agree to have one hand tied. We
also insist on another condition: He
must dress up in a S7.09 hand me
down suit and wear pair of home
knit wool socks If the court under
stands herself. and she thinks she do
we are not going to allow FARRELL to
steal our votes by making the impress
sion that he is Republican"
FARRELL prints in his paper the fol-
lowing comments on his candidacy:
Atchison Globe: The most serious
charge against FARRELL since he began
running for senator is that he sings.
The charge is false. FARRELL can't sing
lick in the road.
Colonel Major Jeltz: If FARRELL gets
into the senate, the thieves and graft
ers will not piunder the state treasury
without his knowledge and consent.
Anonymous communication: 81 see
you are a candidate for senator. 1
am for you, not because you have any
ability for senator, but because your
election would get you out of town.
and your wife would run the Signal
"a contamination devoutly to be
wished"
candidate against Senator Fred
Dumont Smith in the. Thirty eighth
senatorial district has been sprung in
the person OF A. S. Foulks of Ness
City. Mr.. Foulks is lawyer and has
practiced law at Ness City for ten
years. He served four terms
county attorney, and has lived in the
short grass country of Kansas for
80 years.
The Thirty-eighth district Is the
biggest senatorial district in the state.
1t includes eighteen counties, as fol-
lows: Edwards, Ness, Hodgeman,
Rush, Pawnee, Lane, Scott Wichita,
Greeley, Hamilton, Kearney, Finney.
Haskell Grant, Stanton, Morton,
Stevens, Seward.
Senator F. Dumont Smith will
probably be candidate for the
nomination, and Smith has been doing
some wonderful acrobatic stunts in
his political principles. He used to
be the mainstay OF the railroad and
machine factions, but has twice an
nounced that he has broken away
from that element and is now lined
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