The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-10
Alex Mitchell Evidently i'm Con-
gressiOnal Race to Stay.
Fort Scott Monitor Comes Out
Boldly in His Support.
THAT Is NOT ALL.
CubbisOn and Getty Also Con-
sidered for ScOtt's Place.
Probably Means an Interesting
Fight i'm Second District.

! There seems to be trouble brewing
down in Bourbon county for Congress
man Charles Scott, and the boom for
Alex. Mitchell Of Lawrence for congress-
man Is still growing in the Second dis
trict. The Fort Scott Monitor comes
out boldly and bitterly against Scott
and declares that he is not the patriot
| he used to be; that he has fallen into
the ways of the classes and left the
masses to struggle along as best they
can. The Republican thinks that Mitch
ell is the strongest and ablest man in
the district to pit against the cid con-
gresham and believes that Mitchell will
be forced yet to make the race.
| Besides Mitchell there are ]. K Cub
bison and Senator Getty of Kansas
City; Charles Smart of Ottawa; J. w.
Parker Of Olathe; and w. c. Larsdon of
Lawrence, mentioned as candidates for
Scott's place in congress. These men
are well known in this section of the
state. The candidate who beats Char
| lie Scott will need to be very strong.
Mitchell is a square deal leader, an
able lawyer and one of the most popu-
lar men in his section of the state. He
was a member of the last legislature
and no one who attended the sessions
of that body in any capacity could help
from liking Alex Mitchell, no matter
how hard he tried not to do so. A
member who had opposed Mitchell's pol
iCies all through the session said at
the close: IF that man Mitchell should
come out for office against me 1 would
withdraw from the race and buck the
market for a living: I would have at
! least a chance at the latter game, but
never a ghost of show can see in
opposing such a man in a political
race"
|
politics but he will have a race to run
if Mitchell listens to the insidious voice
of some of the influential papers of the
| Second district.
| There was a decrease OF 171s per cent
| this year in the assessment of Sumner
township, Reno county, and the state
tax commission ordered the assessment
taken over again in the following let
ter to the county clerk of that county:
Dear Sir:-By instruction of the tax
commission 1 herewith hand you an or
der this day made for the reassessment
of Sumner township, your county The
commission is sufficiently advised in
ton and instructs me to say that
whenever it's attention is directed to an
assessment which is so grossly unjust
as this one nfanifestly is, it viii not
hesitate to order a reassessment."
Charlie Sessions. Topeka cerre-
spondent for the Kansas City Jour
nal, has saved the potato crop in the
Kaw valley for the year 1909 and esti-
mates the total output at $500 cars.
Charlie declares that if all these cars
were made up into one train the en-
gine would pass the Lawrence depot
/ before the caboose got out of the To-
peI1a yards Now the older set of To-
peka newspaper men want to see Mr.
Sessions credentials as a saviour of
the potato crop of the Kaw valley.
They remember how, few years ago.
Sessions and Frank FARRELL and Jesse
Leach rented a farm north of the
river and planted a carload of pota-
toes with the intention of retiring
from active life after the harvest time.