The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-08
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Col. Bill Hackney Was Right
After All.
p. p. Campbell to Have Clear
Field For Congress.
NO PRIMARY FOR HI NJ
Old Fashioned Convention in
Third District.
W. J. Bailey Still Says He'll BE
a Passive Candidate.
NO PRIMARY FOR HIM

Passive Candidate.
A few days ago the State journal,
on authority of Col. w. P. Hackney,
of Winfield, announced that Corb Nc
Nein and w. L. Cunningham had
withdrawn from the race for the Re
publican nomination for congress in
the Third district and that P. P.
Campbell would have things clear for
q denomination.
Hardly had the papers containing
this item been printed until Mcneil
and Mr. Cunningham visited the State
Journal Office and denied with great
Vehemence and Indignation that they
had withdrawn. or that they had any
intention of withdrawing. They in
sisted that they would fight to the last
ditch, wade to their necks in blood,
ETC., etc.
Today the following dispatch comes
from Columbus. the home of Judge
McNeill:
columbus. Kan. JAN &c. A.
MCNEIL, judge Of the Eleventh dis
trict, will announce his withdrawal
from the congressional race in the
Third district tomorrow. He says that
he has become convinced that he can
not get the delegations from Labette
ana Neosho counties. without which
he cannot be nominated. He comedies
the nomination to Campbell, who, he
says, will have very little opposition"
So MoNeill Is really out of the race,
and practically pulls Cunningham with
him by declaring that Campbell will
have little opposition. The statement
made by W. P. Hackney to the State
Journal was evidently true.
AS matter of fact, the arrange
ments for Withdrawing Mcneil and
Cunningham from the race were made
at Topeka on the day the announce
ment was made in the State Journal,
but for political reasons, it was de-
for a time. They forgot to tell Col.
Hackney about that part of the ar
rangement, and he mentioned their
withdrawal to a number of his friends
before he learned that it was a secret
deal.
A Washington dispatch announces
that Congressman Campbell has decid-
ed not to have a primary in the Third
district. The dispatch says:
Congressman Campbell of Kansas
has decided not to hold a primary in
his district His committee will call
an fashioned convention, probably
at Parsons, the latter part of Febru-
airy, to select a congressman, presiden-
tiaI elector and two delegates and two
convention
Congressman Scott will take no
chances Of any question being raised
over the legality of the manner in
which the delegates from his district
to the national convention are selected.
His call will provide that the delegates
shall be elected at the congressional
primary, but that the delegates to the
state convention from the Second dis
trict shall meet at Topeka on the morn
In Of ba fa ~
the result Of the primary. Congress
men Miller and Reeder are busy COM
plotting plans for their primaries. Reed
er Will attend the meeting Of his COM
mittee at Beloit, next Monday"
Willis J. Bailey, ex-governor of Kan
sas, still insists that he will make no
active fight for the nomination for gov
ernor. Even Bailey's best friends think
1t very doubtful whether he can beat
w. r. Stubs without an active fight.
The Atchison Globe says:
wv T. Bailey still insists that he will
engage in no fight for the nomination
for governor The people are thor
oughly familiar with the situation he
said today, and I am willing to abide
by their decision, whatever it may be- "
Ex-senator w. A. Harris says he will
not again run for governor on the Dem
ocratic ticket, and he says it SO hard
that 1t will be difficult for anybody to
get away from it.
at am out of it entirely he declar-
ed. az served when pressed into service
last time. I have earned my honorable
discharge, and mean to have it. 1
will not be candidate for governor, 1
do not want it, I will not take it.
am out Of politics and refuse to have
my name used further in. connection
with political matters
Marion, Kan, Jan. s.-Friends of D.
F. Hancock editor of the Florence Bull
letin, announced his candidacy today
for the office of state senator from the
Marion Morris-Chase district Mr.
Hancock's friends are preparing for the
contest as there probably will be other
aspirants for the office. Marion county
gets the office this year by the custom
Of alternating it among the three coun-
ties.
(This is the district now represented
in the senate by Dr.. ]. NJ. Hamme of
Cottonwood Fails1
Henry Allen in Wichita Beacon: There
is nothing SO tickle as the actions of
politician. Four years ago Mr.. Stubs,
aided by Curtis and the railroads. Or
Hanized the Boss Buster movement
against Bailey, and nominated Hoch
for governor. The battle cry was. "too
Much Leland" Before two years
Stubs had left the Hoch camp, and
was working with Leland. Then Lee
land Joined, Curtis, and renominated