The Topeka state journal., 1908-04-08
Two Factions will Have Candi-
dates Nearly Everywhere.
CYRUS LELAND'S PLAN
Will Have Approved Orators
Make His Speeches.
L. F. Williams will Really En-
ter Race Against jackson.


primaries between the two factions Of
the Republican party will be the con-
troll of the state senate and house of
representatives.
The crowd which backed the senate
lodge at the last two sessions of the
legislature. is already carefully laying
It's plans to retain the control of that
body. In each senatorial district where
there is any prospect Of machine"
| the field and carefully groomed for the
race and the square dealers will do the
/ same.
| While there will be similar fight
| for the election of members Of the
| house of representatives, the big ef-
| forts of the machine will be put forth
| to control the senate, for the senate
holds for four years, and as has been
| block the efforts Of the house to pass
| legislation, even though that legisla-
tion may be demanded by the public.
| In the Fifteenth district, composed
Of Franklin and Coffey counties, the
| fight seems to be lined up between
Henry E. Ganse and John A. Kennedy.
Ganse Is the square deal candidate.
| The fight for H. B. Miller's place in
/ Usage county will probably be 1roned
| out about the same time that H. B.
| Miller announces his intentions con-
corning the governorship. 1t is said
! that a deal is on for a coalition be-
| tween the Pringle and Miller forces, by
which Pringle will support Miller for
governor and Miller will support Prin-
gle for the senate. Meantime, however,
| Bert Logan, who is square dealer is
1 the only avowed candidate.
| W. II. Underwood seems to have been
1 agreed upon to make the race against
1 j. e. Brewer in the Dickinson-Clay dis
/ trict. Underwood is from Clay Center,
/ and is a Methodist preacher. He was
| for some years presiding elder of that
district He is square dealer. sena-
4 tor Brewer is from Dickinson county,
and as this is Clay county's turn to
have the office, Brewers chances of re-
nomination are not the best.
w. C. Robinson and w: r. Hackney
are the only avowed candidates for the
| senate in Cowley county, to succeed
Ed Wilkerson. w. L. Cunningham was
talked for the place, but has decided
4 to run for second term in the house.
| In the Thirty-second district, COM
| posed OF Cloud and Republic, John
Doyle, editor of the Belleville freeman,
1 and a square deal supporter, is likely
| to fight it out with w. W. Caldwell.
! Caldwell is staunch machine man,
/ and the contest promises to be a hot
4 one. 50 Sts- t1-i9 - - 80 .elt3Nta
/ In the Jewell Mitchell district, the
! chances are that J. w. Berry and Fred
Beeler, both of Jewell county, will hight
it out for I. D. Young's job. Berry is
4 the Bristow candidate and Beeler is
the Long candidate.
In the Thirty-eighth district, repre-
sented by Senator Fred Dumont Smith,
the square dealers will probably sup
port H. w. Grass Of Rush county:
Smith will try for denomination, and
w. NJ. Glenn, editor Of the Tribune at
Greeley, and Rodgers of Larned are
also in the race.
These comprise the recent 'hneups
effected in the senatorial fights. There
are more to follow.
r
i not being an orator, will engage a
corps of orators to represent him in
his candidacy for the Republican
81 nomination for governor. He will
pick out an orator to suit the COM
Il mt1nity which he visits. In this way
he will have the advantage of Mr..
Stubbs, who makes his own speech
and has to stand up and face un-
Il friendly crowds. Mr.. Leland is going
to Atchison in a few days, and the
Atchison Globe says of the visit:
ICY. Leland, in making the race for
governor, will not do his own speak
7 ing: he will carry real orator with
him Mr.. Leland, at every meeting
will make a short talk, but ex-Attor-
ney General Dawes, known as BUCK,
i Dawes, will do the real talking. In
districts where Buck Dawes is not
popular, Mr.. Leland will secure an
other orator. Buck Dawes, blythe
way, is as great a spe1l-binder as Bur-
ton in his palmiest days..
i L. F. Williams of Columbus, seems
!. to be really going to make fight for
i nomination as attorney general
against F. S. Jackson. OF course
i there is not much possibility of Will
/ liams being nominated, especially as
he is opposed to Jackson's prohibi-
tory fight Williams himself is said
q to have no hopes of nomination, but
he is making the race TOR the sake of
retting himself before the public. He
Il wants to be nominated when Jack
son has served another term.
Williams petitions are being cir
culated in Leavenworth and it is an
! in Crawford Wyandotte, Shawnee,
Sedgwick and other counties where
there are cities of considerable size.
They may also be circulated in other