The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-07
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Rumor That Square Dealers
Would Sidetrack Jackson.
Give Him the Nomination for
Lieutenant Governor.
DOLLEY FOR CONGRESS
Bank Commissioner May Go Al
ter Miller's Scalp.
Politics in the G.. A. r.. Is
Warming Up.

Inc latest move IN the square deal
camp is to have Attorney General Fred
5. jackson run for the Republican NOM
ination for lieutenant governor next
summer instead of for congress in the
Fourth district as originally planned,
but it is doubtful if Mr. Jackson would
accept this position. Mr.. Jackson does
not seem to want any of Congressman
Miller'S game after noting the decisive
defeat OF Senator Tucker by the Coun-
Gil Grove statesman at the primary last
summer. Mr.. Jackson's second term in
the attorney generals office will expire
at the end of this year and If he would
keep In the public eye he must plant
seed in the official garden. Jackson has
been talked of for governor after W. r.
Stubs has served his second term but
he Will have a most formidable op-
ponent to deal with in the person of
Tom McNeal before he can reach that
goal. He will also have to consider
Dick Hopkins of Garden City before he
can take Fitzgerald's place. According
to the Garden City Telegram Hopkins
is solid in the mighty Seventh district
and his record and talents place him in
position to make a great race. William
Allen White was the only man for
whom Hopkins was willing to take a
back seat Between the three stools
OF governor, congressman and lieutenant
governor, Jackson may yet fall to the
ground.
AS to whether or not John Dawson
will run for the nomination for attor-
ney general no one knows but John
and he is not in good voice when that
subject is mentioned. However, Stubs
genial private secretary is keeping in
close touch with all things pertaining
to legal lore and it is certain that he
only entered the governors office as a
doorway to advancement in his chosen
profession of the law.
All the deputies to the state officers
are talked of possible successors to
their chiefs, but the primary law has
upset this law of succession to a con-
siderable extent.
Charlie Sessions is by far the strong
est candidate yet mentioned for the
Office of secretary of state and with his
wide acquaintance over the state, his
experience in politics and his talents
he should make runaway race for the
place in both the primary and the gem
eral election.
There is talk now of getting Bank
Commissioner ]. n. Dolley to make the
Fourth district. Dolley is a stalwart
in his party and has made good in
many places of trust during the past
year. He is a fighter for true and
stands a. better show than anybody to
make head against the breastworks of
Congressman Miller.
Besides Commander w. A Morgan,
| the highest office in the G. A. r., de-
| partInent of Kansas. there are three
other aspirants for the place, N. E.
| Harmon of Wichita, Joel H. Rickel of
l. Chanute, and Ira D. Brougher of Bar
| ton county. All have the highest rec
concentrations from their home posts
| and have made fine records in civil as
well as army life. There is some OPP
/ position to the reelection of Comman-
| der Morgan on account of the fight he
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| latter was a candidate for national
| commander Of the G. A. r. Comman-
! der Morgan and a half dozen of his
| friends issued a circular containing a
| scathing attack on Capt. Coney and
| were later arrested al the instance of
| the captain and tried on a charge of
] criminal libel This affair created
| more or less bitterness in the ranks of
| the state G. A. r. and now eliminates
| in the coming election at the Ottawa
state encampment this month. Capt.
| Coney and his friends oppose the re-
| election of Morgan and devoted the
| greater part of the last issue of the
Grand Army Reveille. the official organ
| of the state G. A r., to an attack on
| Commander Morgan and defense OF
| Capt. Coney.
| In the trial of Commander Morgan's
associates for criminal libel in the
| Shawnee district court last year the
| jury disagreeded. The cases will soon
come up for trial again. The indict-
| ments against Commander Morgan
| were quashed in order that he might be
used as a witness for the state.
| Capt .Coney, in his articles in the
I Reveille, calls attention to the fact that
| all the charges made against him in
| Col. Morgan's recent circular No. 6 are
old and discredited. He produces aft
| davits and statements to show that
\ they have been refuted. Then he at
| tacks the department commander for
| keeping alive the old feud and accuses
him of trying to wreck the Kansas G..
A. r.