The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-30
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
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at $50 p. m. and Phillipsburs at night
Thursdays dates include: GoooIano'
afternoon; st. Francis, night.
Friday: Atwood and Herndon, after
noon: Oberlin. night.
Saturday: Hoxie, afternoon; Quinter,
night.
The governor will return to Topeka
Sunday afternoon, May II.
Reno County Candidates.
For wears there has been a general
Immersion in Kansas that Topeka and
Shawnee county corralled most OF the
good Jobs in the state house and that
the other sections of the state 1alled
10 receive Just recognition. Every leg
islatfye session, the claim has been
made that the capital city received
more than its just share Of appropr1a-
TONS And for years the politicians
and the legislative members have
sought Shawnee county's scalp with an
AK
Now Reno county comes to the
front with a list of candidates and APP
pointees nearly twice as large as any
other county in the state. And in the
future Reno county can probably
qualify as the prize candidate produc-
ing territory of the state. At present
Congressman George A Medley and
Fred Newburry-whOd desire the DEM
ocratic United States senatorial nomi-
nation. Frank Hettinger. a Hutchin-
gress w. Y. Morgan, the Hutchinson
editor. wants the Republican nomina-
ton as lieutenant governor. j. +.
Simmons. also of Hutchinson, is a
possible Republican congressional can
didate. S. p. Rowland. a Hutchinson
educator. has been frequently men,
toned as candidate for the Demo-
cratic nomination for state superin-
tendent of public instruction. F. M.
Chabin. a Hutchinson Democrat, Is a
candidate for state printer. Howard
Payne of Hutchinson has been men,
toned as a candidate for one of the
state offices on the Progressive ticket
and Carr Taylor. Hutchinson lawyer
may be a candidate for attorney gen.
cral on the Bull Moose ticket. E. T.
FOOte, former county attorney and q
Hutchinson lawyer, is an avowed can
didate for the Democratic nomination
al attorney general. In addition t.
which Hutchinson state appointees in.
clude John r. Kinkle, member OF thu
/ public utilities commission. and San
Graybill, state live stock sanitary com
missioner.
Banker Candidates,
In a letter which has been mailed to the
bankers of the state. John E. Wagner OF
Larned. Democratic candidate for ieuten
ant governor, urges his fellow workers
to support him for the nomination in tho
August primaries. Wagner's letter in
been elected to a state Office in Kansas il
time"
Perhaps the Pawnee county candidat.
did not look up the record of banke
state officials when he sent out his let
ter. there are already mutterings II
Kansas about the possible top heavy lis
of bankers on the Democratic stat
ticket for this year. Both Perry ClemAns
candidate for state auditor and p.
Laughlin, candidate for treasurer. ar
bankers Both will be nominated withou
opposition. 1t seems. Then there is a lis
of a half dozen or more bankers and nea
bankers who have held state Office In tn
last Few years.
Willis ]. Bailey, former governor. f. q
~ active banker in AtchlsOn- j. r.. Buxrow
~ former secretary of state. Is president O
the Central National in Topeka Eugen
. Denton. secretary of state before tn
Sessions administration, was banker
~. r. Stubs. former governor. II