The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-12
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
Things as They Are in the Sixth
District.
White and Young Now Fighting
Each Other.
ALL ARE BUSY MEN.
Reeder Conducting Hand Shak-
ing Tour of State.
The Democrats Are Also Be.
coming Rather Active.

Beloit, July 12.-As was to be ex-
pected. mud throwing has got into the
Republican congressional campaign in
the Sixth district. That is, the organs
OF both Young and White are throw
ing mud at one another. Some of the
Whlte papers are accusing the Young
papers OF selling out in the interest of
Reeder and the Young organs openly
accuse some of those supporting
White to also be in the interest of
Reeder- The Reeder organs are watch
ing the fight with interest while
Reeder himself started out on an auto
Wh1rlwind campaign as soon as he re-
turned from Washington. ten days ago,
and will tour the whole % counties be-
fore the August primaries. White and
Young are also on the hop. skip and
jump every day. To convince the peo-
in the district one must pick up the
Mankato Monitor, supporter of
White, and read the editors two col
umns and more stuff of how things
are coming and going in that sec
ton.
Then. again, several papers in the
district have quite mysteriously
rfopped" from the active support of
Young to White and vice versa. This
is, perhaps, legitimate, because the
newspaper fellows like to be on the
winning side if they can see the way
clear.
1t is rumored that ex-postmaster w.
H Nelson of Smith Center has pur-
chased an active interest in the Smith
Center Messenger and that hereafter
that paper will support the candidacy
of I. D. Young for congress. Mr.. Nell
son was postmaster for about 1 3 years.
The hot fight going on in the Second
ward of Beloit between an inSurgent
and standpatter for committeeman
goes on with relentless vigor. In fact,
If is lr11nSf Interesting a the
gubernatorial question
Hays B. White has made several
| political talks already in some of the
counties in the district. He spoke ~
Lincoln Saturday afternoon. One of
| his audience after the meeting said to
him: you must not forget to figure
on Reeder's proverbial good luck in
| beating the other fellows the day of
I the election: you fellows have him
beaten now. ~
One of the leading Popuiist-Demo-
| Gratis of Mitchell county says that the
| appointment of w. c. Perdue post
master of Beloit will lose Reeder a
number Of votes. The question arises,
how does this man know?
| There are rumors here that in the
event of change in the postoffice
at Cawker City the position will be
given to Mrs. Grace Snyder.
| S. H. Dodge has made so much good
| money out of his real estate transac-
tiorls that he refuses to accept any
| political pie. Therefore he only wants
| to be committeeman from his ward
/ in Beloit. In this connection, some of
the insurgents are slated for political
pie offices if the primary election re-
suits favorably.
| An insurgent in Lincoln county who
| has belonged to several parties before
| this last one was organized, says:
| Lincoln Center is a sort of hot bed
| of square dealers, progressives and in
surgents; Rooseveltism, Stubbsism
| and anti-Cannon and Aldrichism is
rampant" Strange to say, this insur-
gent would have accepted most any
| office if either of the above parties
\ had offered him a place.
| There will be more politics and mud
| throwing in the next three weeks in
| the Sixth district than ever before,