The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-23
Announces Candidacy of Nine
Men for Lower House.
THEN SAYS AVAUNT.
Campbell Can Win in Walk He
Asserts.
And He Says He Is Going to Try
It.

| SeCn G. WeIiS, OF the Erie Record,
and formerly state auditor of Kansas,
has the record SO far as is known in
the number of booms for a single Office
| launched in one issue of a newspaper.
He places nine candidates in the run
ming for the Republican nomination for
| congress in the Third district and has
| nice things to say about all Of them.
| An editor who can get away with that
fancy piece of work of making nine
statesmen grow where only one grew
| before is entitled to a medal. Here is
the list as tabulated in the columns
| of the Record:
| Labette county, John Madden, M K.
| & T. attorney.
Montgomery county. Thomas Flannel
| ley, district judge.
Cherokee county, S. c. Huffman, state
senator.
Cowley county, Ed Greer, editor, and
| w. P. Hackney, attorney.
Elk county, Tom E. Thompson, edi-
| tor.
Chautauqua county, w. H. Sproul, at
Wilson county. w. H. Edmundson.
attorney.
Neosho county, Bruce H. Grigsby, or
ator. (other occupation not given).
But this man Wells is a funny old
! joker, after all. After devoting a col
| umn and one-half of his valuable news
! paper space to a narration of the
claims and talents of these nine candi-
dates he declares that if Phil Camp
bell, the present congressman from
| the Third district, makes the race for
| denomination, he will win in a walk
by two or three country blocks. Then
| Wells caps the climax he has built by
declaring that Campbell will surely
make that race. .-..t,t
"These candidates." declared Wells in
the same article, will wonder who
struck Billy Patterson the morning af-
ter the primary and Campbell will be
| victorious again as he has been for the
past ten years"
| By one master stroke the editor of the
Erie Record shoves nine of the big men
of his district into the spotlight of his
own, making. He,-szaunteth them with
! pride and swelling words and maketh
| them his friends for life, yea and sub
| scribers to his paper paying in ad-
| vance. Then with the same pen at
! the same time and place he Winneth
| the undying gratitude of his congress-
man by placing him, like Abou Ben
Adhem, at the head of all the others
he has lined up for that congressman S
| job.
| The smartest man in the Third dis
| trict is Wells himself, and he ought to
| be sent to congress in preference to
| any of the legion of names he has pre-
sented to the world. Wells. displaying
| the same genius in Washington that
| get the national capital moved to the
Third congressional district of Kansas.
Many conflicting reports have been
current about the condition of Alex
Mitchell, congressman from the Sec
ond district who was compelled to
leave the present session of congress
and return to his home at Lawrence
on account of illness. Mr.. Mitchell
has been reported as suffering from
i'm HI roIx H0 ho
bul1etined as recovering from an op-
Grafton performed in a Kansas City
hospital. Shortly after his election it
was rumored that he was fatally i'll.
1 But he went to Washington in Feb
ruary of this year to take up his du-
ties. He returned home several weeks
ago. The Kansas City, KAN, Gazette
| Globe prints the following about Mr..
Mitchell:
| Word comes from Lawrence now,
and it is pretty we'll authenticated.
that Congressman Alex c. Mitchell
was not operated on for cancer week
before last at the Swedish hospital,
as was given out here.
| 'It is reported that the physician
made an incision of the abdomen,
saw that the congressman had cancer
of the stomach and was in such a
condition that they could do nothing
for him.
Then they sewed up the wound
and when it had healed sufficiently
to allow removal, Mr.. Mitchell was
taken back to Lawrence.
| THE congressman's neighbors ap
pear to regard his ultimate recovery
as very doubtful and cannot under
stand why the report has been
| current here that he was operated on
and is recovering. That was the re-
port given out by the physicians and
hospital attendants. but why it was
done is a matter of individual guess
ms