The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-05
GOSSIP.
Second District Congressional
Republican Committee to Meet.
Decide on August z How NOmi-
nations Are to Be Made.
THE PRIMARY
This Is Plan That Will Probably
Be Followed.
Robert Stone May Get Into
Race in First.
THE PRIMARY

The second district Republican con
gressional committee has been called
to meet in Kansas City, Kan, next
Monday night to decide upon the man
ner of nominating a candidate for the
| Mitchell seat in congress. E. H.
Shore. chairman of the committee,
has sent the following letter to each
of the committeeman in regard to the
meeting:
Dear Sir: AS call has been issued by
/ the governor for special election to III
! the vacancy in this congressional dlSU1ct,
| caused by the death of the late Hon. A
! c. Mitchell. it Is the duty of the congress
sfonaI committees of this district to pro-
vide a way for the party nomination OF
/ candidates. You are therefore, requested
| to be present at meeting of the Repuo-
/ lican congressional committee of the Sec
ond district to be held in Kansas City,
1 Kan. rooms IA, $50 Minnesota avenue,
Monday evening, August z, for the pur-
/ pose of providing a way Tor the nonlna-
1 ton of the Republican candidate to be
voted for at the election to be held NOV.
Very truly. f. H. SHORE. Chairman
| There are three ways of making a
| nomination and the committee ap-
pears to have the power to decide
which way shall be done. 1t can
name the candidate for the party, or
/ it can call a convention or call a pri-
mary election. The right of the COM
mittee to name the candidate Is ques-
/ toned by many lawyers, who hold
| that this is only possible in case the
| regular nominee died before election
All the candidates for the place
who have announced, progressive ana
regulars, are outWardly in favor OF q
primary election. The majority in the
congressional committee is held by the
progressives. and should the commit
| tee name a candidate it would De
sure to be a progressive and sure not
1 to be Charles Scott. Among the pro-
| gressive leaders, the sentiment IS IN
favor of a primary election. That was
the foundation stone for the progress
sive builders and all their victories
over the machine rest upon It, TO
resort to a convention or commlttee
nomination at this time because bney
! happened to be in the majority would
be to revoke their own standards and
place them before the people without
fixed principles. The committee Is
almost sure to call primary cleo
ton. The governor has already called
the general election for the contest De
| tween the parties for congressman in
the Second district for November T.
Senator Brady of Law ence, o s.
Cettv of Kansas City and Representa-
tive A. M. Keene Of Fort Scott are
1.-THE only candidates who have an
lnounced for the place, but 1t is eX-
pected that Charles F. Scott, ex-con-
gresham. will make the race, and pos
sibly ex-State Senator Getty of Kan
sas City. DonCarlos, representative
from Douglas county in the last legis-
lature, is being urged to get In the
race and he may yet do So
The fight for the Republican nomi-
nation for congress in TIE First dis
trict may be a three-cornered AFFAIR
after all Dan Anthony the present
congressman is sure to try for the re-
nomination. Judge w. I. Stuart OF
Troy has already announced that he
will contest the place with Anthony.
And now Topeka friends Of Robert
stone the we'll known layer and leg
islator. are urging him to make the
race. Stone would be sure to get big
vote in Shawnee likely as large as
that given McNeal last year, and as
he is we'll known over the district as
a man of strength in affairs, he would
be a formidable candidate.
It is said that Atchiscn supporters
of Anthony are also behind the move
ment to get Stone in the race. The
Atchison postofice fight left bad
taste in many mouths
Judge Stuart is sure to poll a strong
vote in the country counties Of Doni-
, phan Jackson and Nemaha- Anthony
would then have his own county of
Leavenworth and fight for Atchison
while Stone and Stuart fought for the
other counties. In this three-cornered
fight the result would be in doubt I'M
: til the last vote had been counted.
Harry Bowman. of the state board
of control, announces that the state mas
received a check for $4.0e5 for the care
Of one patient in the Osawatomie asy-
hum. This is the largest amount ever
recovered by the state for care of an
insane patient. The patient in qres-
ton is woman who has been confin-
ed ut Csawat omie for % years. She
inherited an estate not long ago. and
the PROBATE &C urt of her home county
: has just made a settlement with tll5
state for her care and keeping FOL
the past 20 years.
The water question. more than any
other. will decide the location of tbs
, proposed new state asylum, according
l board of control today. At Parsons
Winfield. Dlathe and Atchison TIT
board has had more trouble and OK
pense from the Y ter question than al
perse from the water question than al
fers the largest and surest and bes
Il water supply is pretty sue to get tht
4 new asylum. Great Bend, Larned
Ellsworth. Norton. Scott CITY, WaKee
ney and Lacrosse are strong competl
tors for the place. The board has nm
til September 10 to make a choice. 1
a site is not offered by that time at {
i price thought reas. nable by the board
then the board viii go uut ana star
condemnation proceedings { land upoI
1 which to build the new 100000 asylum
| = he beard want, thr-e or four hundred
acres of land in connection with thu
institution