The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-17

| insurance and also of public 1nStruc-
| ton to elect next year and there is
| little competition for these places up
to this time but the game is young yet
Messrs. Ryker, Ryan and Kanavel
raflrad commissioners, will all three
| likely appear before the judges stand
| and get away to a running start in the
primary when the flag drops. There
| is pretty sure to be other patriots in
the line for the job of regulating the
railroads, but the old commissioners
will have the advantage of their pub
lie position and a good record while in
office.
All the Kansas congressman will have
competition excepting possibly Madison
in the Seventh and Murdock in the
Eighth district.
Senator ]. L. Brady of Lawrence is
being urged by the country papers to
make the race against Charlie Scott.
Brady is a good man but he will have
to work hard and play in good luck to
defeat the veteran from the Second dis
trict.
In the First district Anthony will have
a fight on his hands with every square
dealer from the Kaw valley to the Mis-
souri, line camping on his trail 1t looks
now though Tom McNeal will be
the man that Anthony will have to
beat to hold his job. McNeal is one of
the strongest men in the state.
In the Third district Phil Campbell
will have to try conclusions with w.
N|uAIIlIlS l1cIl VI al hS1IlSdS OAhy- ONAi-
n:ngham is a lawyer of parts and
made a good record in the last house
of representatives as a man of busl-
mess, debater and parliamentarian.
In the Fourth district Congressman
Miller reigned without a rival after
Jackson was allured by the offer of
FitzgerdlFs job, but now it is being
whispered about that Hoch der Hoch,
the Marion editor and ex-governor, Will
be induced to make the race for a
cob 1I1- lit f,, c q
ct Washington.
Judge R. r. Reece. of Minneapolis.
is talked of as an opponent for Con-
gresham Calderhead in the Fifth dis
trict. Judge Reece. If he runs. will
n axe a worthy foeman for the sage of
the Fifth district
But it is in the Sixth district that the
whirr of the grindstone can be heard
while knives are being sharpened for
the scalp of Congressman Reeder. Four
good men and true are already in the
race for the seat of the man who re-
pudiates Cannon in Kansas and nestles
tC the speakers bosom in Washington.
Ex-senator Hayes B. White of Jewell
county DR.. John B. Dykes of Lebanon,
w B. Ham of Rocks county and Otis
L. Benton of Decatur county are al
ready in the hunt, but 1t is early yet.
Other contestants will appear later. OF
this list of candidates DR.. Dykes APP
pears 10 be the most formidable. He
SpOhc hcIC last N4AtCl OCAOlO |liO nan
sas Day club and made fine impress
SION. If all these persons who want to
succeed Reeder can agree on who is
the strongest candidate and let that in
dividual make the fight While they sec
ond his efforts then there will be a live
ly time in the Sixth district next sum-
mer. Still. w. B. Ham was beaten last
year by this same Reeder when the dope
indicated a victory for the Rocks coun-
ty man.
All this however, is mere speculation.
and counts but little when 100000 dele
gates assemble at the different polling
nIaces to name a state ticket. The best
can1paigner, the most persistent ad-
vertiser, the man with the widest ac
ouaintance over the state, these will
have the advantage. but in the battle
Of ballots in a party primary the re-
suit is going to be as uncertain as the
market price of stock in an aero navi-
cation company.