The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-07
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Congressman Reeder Not Yet
Ready to Quit.
Announces That He Will Again
Be a Candidate.
INTEREST is INTENSE.
Unusual Effort Will Be Made to
Defeat Him.
Senator Fred Robertson Will Be
in the Race.

Congressman Reeder has sent word
from Washington to friends in the
sixth district that he will again be a
candidate for the congressional nomi-
nation in his district. This message
and token of the congressman's inten-
tions will set at rest the many rumors
that Reeder was to get out of politics
after his present term of office had ex-
pired.
According to all reports from the
Sixth district Reeder has a stormy
time ahead. While the advent of a half
dozen candidates in the field against
Reeder may appear at first glance to
work out an unbeatable combination
In his favor, yet the fact that some of
his warmest friends and former sup
porterS are among the aSpirantS may
split up the vote of the district in such
rash1on that the prophecies of the wise
ones will turn out to be mere guesses.
Then even if Reeder is elected while
his opponents are scratching each
others eyes out he will have his trou-
bles at the polls in the general election.
The Democrats, on the strength of last
years close vote, will make a great ef-
fort to carry the district and propose
to run State Senator Fred Robertson
of Rawlins for congress, popular and
able man with a good record behind
him.
Reeder's luck in politics has become
proverbial in this state, but he will
need to have his mascot in good work.
ing order next year. The square deal
ers are after him, his old time friends
want his political place, and more sig
nificant than these signs are the ques-
tions asked by his former friendly pa
pers in the Sixth district. When pa
per begins to print rumorS that a man
is not going to run for office again
that paper may be classified as an
anti"
DR.. J. B. Dykes of Smith county,
Charlie Lands and Ed Sample of Os-
borne, Hays White, Of Jewell, w. B.
Ham of Rocks and Senator I. D. Young
Of Mitchell are among the candidates
for congress already announced in the
Sixth district. If these men would get
together and place their numbers in a
hat and let fate select one to buck the
machine they will have succeeded in
smoothing out their own tangles and at
the same time lay up a large sized
chunk of trouble for the man whose
place they seek.
Congressman Dan Anthony will
spend Tuesday and Wednesday of this
week in Topeka in connection with
governmental matters in which sew
eral Topeka men are interested. He
will be at the National hotel. Mr..
Anthony will remain in Kansas until
the senate votes on the tariff bill.
While this item is only a simple an
nouncement of the return home of a
congressman it is apt to be construed
as the first signal fire in a campaign
yet far distant.
A Garden City paper notes that
Mrs. r. J. Hopkins came home to-
day" Is there more than one r. J.
Hopkins in the sugar town ? The Hop
kins that Topeka girls have in mind
was the young man who acted as
speaker pro tenn in the last legisla-
ture and made good with the fair sex
as well as the statesmen. Dick was
one of the few bachelors in the 1egis-
lature and if he has Joined the bene-