The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-20
SHORT GRASS POLITICS.
Notes About OficehoIders and Those
Who Want to BE.

A X Trimmer, editor and publisher
of the Cove City Republican Gazette
will not decline the nomination for the
| legislature from Cove county he mas
lived in the county for p years and
in all these years he has been boom
ing Cove City and Cove county.
Frank Boyd, Dem ocrat, editor ana
publisher of the Phillipsburg Post. IS
competent to fill the office of state
printer There is no knowing what
the primary election in the state will
bring forth this year, hence Boyd may
catch on.
Frank s Rockefeller of Russell
county is carrying his announcement
in the Democratic papers in the Sixth
district for congress as follows; AS
an opponent of Cannon1Sm and OF the
Ballinger idea of management OF pup
lie resources, a believer in a fair reV1-
sion of the tariff downward and not
upward and with a pledge to do all in
my power to curb the growing truS-
evils, submit my name for the consid-
Grafton of the Democratic voters at the
August primary for the nomination for
congress- I wish to call attention to
my legislative record as evidence that
1 keep my promises"
Early in 1903. when several states
men made up their minds to get into
the congressional race in 1910. Con-
gresham Reeder told them he would
be glad to have them in the race that
wear. for the following year, 1910, he
his promise, and today he is an active
candidate. His announcement will
eliminate the candidacy of DR.. John B.
Dykes of Smith county and Rev. ]. Ed
Stevens of Sherman cOutny. They are
enthusiastic supporters of Congress
man Reeder. The Insurgents dared
him to stand for the primary nomina-
ton this time and he accepted the
challenge, as did Tom Wagstaff' the
Republican, candidate for governor.
While I. D. Young and Hays B. White
are having their innings in the dis
trict, the Staunch friends of Reeder
believe their man will beat them in the
fall primary.
Frank Lockard has baen appointed
one of the census enumerators of Sher-
man county. When he lived in Nor
ton county it was claimed he helped
more politicians to office and got less
out of it than any other man in the
Sixth district. A few years ago he
moved to Sherman county and lives on
farm. His friends will be glad to
learn of his securing this small politi-
in near future.
Among those who won out in the ap-
pointment of census enumeratorS in
Mitchell county was Mrs Grace Sny-
lady. She has taught school and has
been connected with several news
papers in the capacity of correspond
emit She Is not afraid to work in her
garden. Her final census report will
be p model for neatness.
Ellis is a Democratic county. 1t goes
Democratic always. B. M Dreiling lives
there. He is serving his second term as
county treasurer and if the Democrats
of his county and his friends throughout
the state have it in their power they
will nominate him for state treasurer in
the fall primaries. Dreiling is all right
politically. his friends say. and is quail
fled to fill the duties of the office.
NJ. w. Mulroy. of Hays City, is a can
didate for the Democratic nomination for
the legislature from Ellis county. The
county is Democratic and nomination
means election He is one of the bright
young men of his county, and he and his
brother are the proprietors of the Wind
on the Union Pacific road
1t looks if the men in politics in Graham
county do not care for the office of regis
ter of deeds. At least it would seem the
women have a cinch on this particular
office. Three women. Ellen F. Rowland,
Olive NJ. Kackley and Edna Sperry have