The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-17
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Urday. ana will spend next week in
the Sixth district. However, the gov
ernor will visit the big Third again be-
fore the primary election. In the Sixth
district he will speak at Norton, Phil
lipsburS, Smith Center, BellevilIe and
Beloit next week. The governor will
likely return again to the Sixth later
iii the campaign.
John L. Caldwell county attorney of
Bourbon county, has announced him
self as a candidate for congress in the
Second district on the Democratic
ticket. Caldwell is serving his second
term as county attorney, having re-
ceived large majority for that place
He was elected to the state senate
from Bourbon in 1900, being the young
est man ever elected to that body
Caldwell is going to make an active
campaign, and he is sure to receive the
solid support of his party.
The Democrats of Greeley county
have awakened from their long sleep
of ten years and have placed a county
t eket in the field as follows: Repre- =
sentative, Col. Jack Moshier; treasurer,
c. E. Finch; sheriff. Elmer Pangburn:
county superintendent, L. l.. Farley;
assessor, Harold c. Smith; county
judge, Clyde T. Cooper; township
trustees, D. P. Jones, E. Whaley
Greeley cast eighty Democratic votes
LII SECRETARY VI SIdI6 Two years ago.
D. A. Tillotson circulated Stubbs
petitions in Greeley county this week
! Out of thirty-siX whom he asked to
! sign the petition thirty signed it. Of
the six refusing to sign, two were
| Democrats. one was a Wagstaff man
and the other three said they expected
| to vote for Stubs at the primary
| The letter writing contest between
| Messrs. StubbS, Leahy, Bowman, Am
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| Wagstaff, Kramer and Dumont Smith
| or the other, continues with undated
| zeal and unflagging energy. AS TO who
| has the advantage, each reader will
| judge according to his preference and
| preJud1G5S. The governor carVeS them
with a broadax, while Dave uses a
scalpel and has a light touch Dumont
| Smith is some pumpkins himself in a
| contest of this kind, and has made the
| English language bend and wave pref
thy or hiss like a whiplash according
to his fancy. 1t has been said that fig
| ures are cold and hard and do not lie,
| but the competitors in this political
| arena have taken figures by the hand
full and changed their shape and mean
| ing to suit every occasion. They have
| made these figures dance the hornpipe
| ard walk at a funeral. They have
| painted them all colorS and hung them
on the fence to dry. The public is be-
wildered. Formerly a figure had been
| ISScl1 dSu d llAluTS DIT IlGSI DdSG, Dull
now that figure plays the outfield one
day for Wagstaff and appears in the
| box the next day for Stubbs.
| Mister Candidate,
| He with you early, he with you late;
He tell you stories and save the state
So early in the morning"
The Democrats of Nemaha county
have nominated a full county ticke-
and have arranged for a complete or
ganization in every township. Ne,
maha is close county, and the Demo.
Gratis have hopes. The ticket to bt
voted for at the primary follows:
TreaSurer-James S. Fitzgerald
J Wetmore.
Clark-Ward E. Brown. Mitchell.
Coroner-Dr. c. r. Townsend
Home
Representative 28th dfstrict-Jame
NJ Meek, Neuchatel.
Assessor-John Stowell. Seneca.
County commissioner. First distric
w E. Ruse. Berwick.
County attorney-Charles H Herold
Seneca.
Probate judge-John H. Judy, Sa
betha.
Register of deeds-B. D. Graham
Seneca.
County superintendent-W. r. An
thony, Illinois.
Clerk of district court-Ruth Col
Inns, Seneca.
Sherif-Frank Hanks. Harrison.