The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-10
Reeder Wants to See a Free-fOr.
All This Year.
sen. CURTIS A FACTOR
PostOffice Feuds May Cut Figure
in Election Results.
Benton Enjoying Big House and
Leaving Politics Alone.

Reeder has given 1t out that ne ooesn
care a straw how many fellows run TOT
congress in the Sixth district this year.
but it is the year 1910 that counts, Wnen
| he expects to be candidate. Two eA-
state senators, Hays B. White or jew
ell county and 1. D. Young or MICH
ell county. have already been over a
greater part of the district and they
adopted Reeder Misunderstanding tac'1cs'
but they refused to kiss the babies
and this is one of Readers long SUITS
Then, again, in some towns ALREADY
visited there are !nuttef1ngs OF post
office fights in case Of change IN con-
gresham. One of these fights Is SIM
mering in Smith Center already. where
| Col ID. B. Dyer, late sergeant-a alarms
of the lower house of the state legisla-
ture, is an active candidate. One or tine
stalwart Republicans of that town says:
ID B. Dyer is making his regular
ouadrennial race for the Smith Center
rostoffice AS the time of POSTMASTER
w H. Nelson does not expire uniit next
| summer it looks like Dyer is get-ing IN
rather early The woods VIII be fui! Oh
candidates. however, and it may be that
Mr.. Nelson himself. who is the best OIL
fetal the town ever had. may be ms
own successor If he wants the place.
HAYS B. White Busy Man.
HAYS B. White is feeding 400 head
of cattle this winter. winch VIII Aeop
his time we'll occupied until his cattle are
| fat enough for the market He has peen IN
| at least 20 of the q counties In the
district. and he has has the situation
| we'll mapped out. He promises ms
| friends that he will stay In the race 10 Z
| finish. and says his chances are gooo
| for winning the primary NOMINATION;
Soon as his cattle go to market, anu
| the price is satisfactory ms irieuus
| claim that he will treat nlnlseii TO 81
| automobile and keep on the track py
tha anTo route until the day Of the pr1-
mary election e.,-.
member Of the legislature from RooAs
county. is not saying much, thouSn tno
tTvo Renrbiican papers in his town are
keeping his candidacy warm. IN rae
| he seems to have caught onto the tac-
| tics Of Reeder, that is' letting every
| tody VINO wants to be candloate tn.s
| year do so, and IN Iva" Ho W." w
! the race to win. -.
Is Young has made several trips
irto thc interior of the district. and ne
| renorts progress wherever ne mas been,
He was a candidate a year 80. 80. for FOR
! claims that he got out or the race ~.
| marty harmony. In his W1tndraWai csio
| he intimated that he would pc III 1le
| race again in 1910.
| The candidates for congress ale
| watching ], c. Newell of Norton. VINO
succeeded in landing the plum Tor
| census supervisor of the sixth as
trict. There will be in the aggregate
| a regiment of enumerators TO appcint
| in the % counties, and NeWeli oeIns
| under obligations to Senator Curtis
and CONGRESSMAN Reeder for the Job'
If is only fair to presume that the
4 enumerators, politically, Will De ali
right.
Political Lineup Arranged for 1910.
The almost certain probability or
inc
race in 1910 the candidacy of Or. !.
B. Dykes, of Smith county, mas gone
glimmering and Dykes promises TO
stand by Reeder. The same is true
of w. C. Perdue of Mitchell county.
He could have had the office of CEN
s1Is supervisor of the Sixth district If
he had said so. Perdue has hosts OF
friends who want to see MIN get
something better.
| Several Sixth district Republican
journals refuse to lend aid to Reeder
before the primary election. This
has given rise to rumors that some OF
them have been slated to fill the post
offices in several towns providing
Reeder is beaten in the primary eiec-
ton.
Otis L. Benton of Decatur county,
has dropped completely out Of sight
so far as regards congressman. He is
enjoying his new modern residence In
Oberlin, which is said to have cost
|
the Sixth district. The same is true
of A. G. Mead of Mitchell county;
and by the way, Mead was approach
ed by one of the candidates for his
support for congress. He looked the
candidate in the eye, and said: IF
you will promise me that you will be
a friend Of Senator Curtis I will vote
for you and lend my influence in your
behalf in the next primary election
One Sixth district Republican post
| nc
has said: ST long to get back in the
newspaper profession; I always did
like the business, a fellow is more at
home, besides he is independent If
have my eye on good newspaper
property"
Judge Smith May Get in Race.
Rumors are that Judge Chas. w.
Smith of Rocks county, may get into
the congressional race. He has repre-
scented the judicial district comprising
the counties of Rocks, Granan. Sheri-
dan, Thomas and Sherman for up
wards of a quarter of a century. He
may be getting tired of it. and if so
he has a good right to be candidate
for congress. He has resided in the
district so long that he knows every
man, woman and child. Judge Rees,
of Ottawa county, has set the pre-
cedent in the Fifth Congressional dis
trict. and Judge Smith has a good
right to follow suit. So has Judge
Dick Picker, in his district compris-
ing the counties of Smith, Jewell.
Mitchell and Osborne. If Picker and
Smith both get into the race there
will be fun and plenty of it. They
have been mentioned for years as the
only men who can beat Reeder.
| There will come a time when F. w.
Simmonds of Jewell county, will be
! a candidate for state superintendent
! of schools, It may be in 1910. He
will keep out of the races if the pres
ent incumbent will ask for another
, term. Mr.. Simmonds is at the head
, of the Mankato schools and is giving
splendid satisfaction. He is enthu-
, siastic in his support of the present
state suuerintendent