The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-24
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
Hiawatha People Drop the Post
office Fight.
Nothing Will Be Done Till After
Primary.
HERBERT OUT OF 1T.
incumbent Satisfied to Give Job
to Another.
w. M. Glenn Tells Why He
Didn't File Petitions.
OUT OF 1T.

dlaWatha, Kan, June 24-The people
| OF H1awatha are SO well pleased over
the progress of the government build
ing Dill that there is no disposition on
tne part of anybody to start a post
Office fight. The several candidates for
postmaster are going to allow Con-
sressman Anthony to make the an
polntment in his own way when he gets
I ready. Every candidate is doing what
ne can for Anthony and when the time
| comes will take the postoffice or his
medicine, as the case may be. The
people want it that way, and the can
d1dates readily fell in with the popular
view.
The people will not tolerate row over
a building site The business men will
| do all in their power to assist the gov
ernment officials to secure the site best
adapted to the needs-a site which will
satisfy the largest number of patrons.
| 1t is believed that a fine site can be
purchased for the $500 appropriated
Herbert Not Candidate.
Ewing Herbert, editor of the Hia-
watha World. has been postmaster 12
/ years. He is not a candidate for re-
| appointment, and is ready to step aside
| whenever Anthony says the word.
bert to stay another term, Herbert
| likely would do so. The candidates for
Mr.. Herbert's job are: Captain Thorn
as Notistine, ]. p. Mcknight, r. I.
nay, Geo. 0OdHldIl anu JOIn oWdILZ
Postmaster Herbert gives the cand!-
dates this endorsement: every man
on the list is competent, and would be
satisfa ctory to the people"
The Congressional Fight.
The congressional contest in Brown
the state, and the county up to
month ago was regarded as doubtful.
Lately, it seems, there has been a
change of sentiment in Anthony's
favor. The State Journal correspond
ent did not get this view of the situa-
ton in the Anthony camp. The first
man heard to express himself along
this line was F. NJ. Pearl, chairman af
the Democratic committee for the
First congressional district. Mr. Pearl
is editor of the HiaWatha News-Demo-
crat, and has opportunity to keep post
ed on politics. "a month or six weeks
ago." Mr.. Pearl said, Brown county
would have gone for Tom McNeal, but
now I notice a drifting of votes from
him to Anthony There are various
| causes-three that might name: First.
the superb organization Of Anthony Or
regular Republicans all over the couD-
ty; eond, the fact that Theodore
Roos velt has not taken up the cudgel
for the insurgents; third. the new gov
ernnent building for Hiawatha. From
my viewpoint the indication Is that
Anthony will carry Brown county by
200 or more
Steve Hunter, Governor Stubs OF
inspector for Hiawatha, who is one o.
the leaders of the McNeal forces, ex-
presses himself as confident that the
Topeka man will win the hght- MT.
Hunter admits that the town politicians
are strong for Anthony. but the farm
ers he insists are for McNeal.
peter Peiffer, of Hamlin, one OF the
we'll known farmers of the county, says
that there is a good deal of error IN
the reports that the farmers are for
McNeal. Mr.. Peiffer, who always mas
heen a farmer, is for Anthony, and he
saws a majority of his neighbors are
for ANTHONY Mr.. Pe1ffer is president
of the Brown County Fair association.
SQUIRE NJ S. Watson, of Reserve,
nrosnerous farmer says his locality
Will he close, with the chances in ia
vor of Anthony. Robert Wyatt, also
farmer in that neighborhood, makes
similar report
Steve Derrick, an Irving township
farmer, says Anunony' 10 luiillihS "oil
in his vicinity.
Gregory Amann, a German who owns
three farms near here, is a stalwart
Anthony supporter. Mr.. Amann serv-
ed during the war in the late Colonel
D. r. Anthony's regiment.
some Anthony Men for Stubbs.
It is noticed that a number of An
thony men are going to vote for Gov
ernor Stubbs. Some are sat1sfled with
the Stubbs policies, others say he ought
to nave a S0COn0 lGIlI.
The increase in taxes has made trou-
HE for Stubbs. The increase IN Brown
county for state purposes rs $14,O0O. "A
Welsh settlement in the county some
time ago sent a committee to H1aWatha
10 ascertain the facts. When the Welsh
citizens heard about the increase, they
declared for Wagstaff. The Welsh also
ere for Anthony.
w. M. Glenn of Tribune. who drop
-
ernor at the last minute has written
the following explanatory letter to
Alfred Pratt concerning his action;
Tribune, Kan, June %, 1910.
Alfred Pratt, Syracuse, Kan.
I am in receipt of your letter of the
18th. suggesting that I ought to
withdraw from the race for lieutenant
governor because of the fact that I
am already a senator from this dis
| trict for two more years and that II L
should resign it might comphcate mat
| ters considerably in the nomination
| of my successor AS your letter is
right in line with the same suggestion
| that has been made by many other
good friends of mine, in all parts of
| the district, I have concluded to get
out of the race and this letter to you
will be an answer to the other letters
I have received on the subject.
know full well what L owe to this
big district which gave me such
splendid vote two years ago and 1
know, also, that you are correct in
saving that it would hardly be pos
sible to nominate a man as my success
sor who is so closely Identified or so
much interested in the extreme west
ern part of the district, as I am. Next
year is the regular year for legislative
apportionment. under the constitution,
and if there is any show for it,
have no doubt an effort will be made
to cut off some of the representatives
given to this district by the legislature
of 1909, Any such attempt, of course,
must be defeated and in addition. the