The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-24
Returning, the crowd will arrive in
Topeka at 1910 Tuesday night.

JU0R6 S0Cv60 OnQoC20oQs
Judge A. B. Reeves Of Dodge City
congress in the Seventh district next
year, provided Congressman George A.
Nicely gets in the senatorial race.
Reeves name has been frequently men,
toned, but the Dodge City man says
he is not planning to make the race.
pect to be-" Judge Reeves is quoted as
saying. However. am not saying l
won't run II matters should turn out
right. But I never thought Neeley
would give up his present job"
Rowland Seems Strong.
superintendent s. p. Rowland Of
Reno county looks probable in the
Democratic lineup for state superin-
tendent Of public instruction next wear.
Rowland is now serving his third or
fourth term as county superintendent
and is widely known among the teach
ers Of the state and the voters Of the
Seventh district. The Hutchinson man
has made no definite statement regard
ing his plans. but it is generally be-
reckon with in the next campaign.
Miss Arnold's Candidacy.
Many Democrats have mentioned
Miss Anna NJ. Arnold of Cottonwood
Falls for the job now held by w. D.
Ross. Miss Arnold has made a great
record az superintendent of tho Chase
county schools and has a personal ac-
quaintance over the entire state.
1t is the desire of many Of the Demo-
cratic leaders to nominate woman for
state superintendent Of public instruction
and 1t Is not improbable that the Demo-
didacy. The Chase county wonAn was IN
Topeka last week. But not to discuss
making the race. Yet she did not say
that she would not be q candidate II con-
d1tions were favorable.
Negro Wants State Job.
H. I. Monroe. a Topeka negro. is an
avowed candidate for the Republican
In Shawnee county Monroe has held many
offices OF trust and is at present chief
clerk in the county assessors office. He
four years as an assistant county treas.
urer ana was q deputy under Sheriffs
Wilkerson and Norton.
Monroe's candidacy for office is based
on the fact that once Kansas elected a
negro to state office. That was in 1883
when Ed p. McCabe Of Graham county
was elected to the office Of state auditor.
did the Kansas voters elect McCabe, but
In 1885 he was reelected and served four
years as a state official
That Harmony Resolution.
Many Kansas Progressives questioned
the faith and sincerity Of the Republicans
in their harmony movement when the
Bull Moose leaders were in Topeka last
week. They charged that since many of
the Taft Republicans voted for Demo
Gratis In preference to candidates on the
state ticket who were supporting Roose-
weld. that 1t was folly to try a harmony
program next year.
This assertion has caused the harmony
advocates to dig up q plank in the har-
mony resolutions adopted at the state
wide gathering in Topeka in June. In
that resolution the Progressive and Reg
Mar RQnnh1fCDnQ n1AdDod -
the 1914 party nominees as follows:
The success OF the Republican party
must depend upon united and harmonious
go into the August primary next year,
where the voters Of all factions Of the
party will vote for their personal choice
OF candidates for nominations on the
and after the nominations are made We
pledge to the nominees. whoever they
may be. our loyal and undivided support,