The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-27

! fina nciai institutions, if not the 1arg-
est. 1t shows on its sheet a balance
of more than twenty-eight million
dollars. The last examination made
by the state accou6tant il took forty
days TO examin t1- school fund alone.
Only years of experience and train
| ing, former Treasurer Earl Akers
said in his biennial report, fit men
for clerical positions in the state
| treasury. Mr. Thompson having been
| in the office many years, his friends
are boosting him for the successor of
| Walter L. ayne,< the present state
treasurer, now serving his second
term.
The Sixth district may have two
| or more candidates for the Republi-
can nomination for state auditor, n.
A. Turner. present assistant state au-
ditor, whose home is in Russell, and
b. p. Walker. of Osborne county
| Turner formerly published and edited
| the Record. and Walker is editor and
| owner of the Osborne Farmer These
| two names are the most talked of to
succeed Fred w. Knapp, the present
| incumbent. A few voters saw Dan
Dyer might get into the race to get
| even with some other candidate who
has been mentioned for the place
Fred W. Knapp, state auditor, will
leave the Sixth district and locate in
Salina, where he Is engaged in bank
ing. This takes him to the Fifth dis
trict. He is serving his second term
and his host of friends say he has
| made good. The. Sixth district will
lose an influential citizen and fine
campaigner who had friends in every
county. Had he remained in the Sixth
district he had friends plenty to have
sent him to congress. They cant to
see him succeed in his new location.
The next senator from the Jewell
Mitchell county senatorial district
doubtless will come from Mitchell
county. J. S. Hart, of Randall, Jewell
county, is the present senator His
friends are going to push him for na-
tional delegate. it is said. If he en-
ters the race for delegate. 1t has been
claimed. the present legislative MEM
ber. J. o. Evans. of Asherville. Mitch
ell county, will ask for the senatorship
In the next state election several
newspaper men will be trying to win
the respective offices they are expect
ed to go after. J. r. Young of the.
Oakley Graphic. wants to represent the
Thirty-ninth district in the state SEN
ate. others who are mentioned are
Elmer Samson. present member of the
legislature from Cove county: Alex.
Showalter. member of the lower house
from ThomaS county. and Chas. W.
Miller, Sr., from Ellis county Miller
made a race for the office four years
ago
J. E. Uplinger. now serving a fourth
tterm in the legislature from 'Chey-
enne county. likes to winter in To-
peka so we'll that he will ask for the
Democratic nomination for state SEN
ator in the Thirty-ninth district. his
friends claim. He has won by hand
some ma jorities in every election. The
senatorial district has thirteen coun-
ties At home he is one of the sue
cessful business men of St. Francis.
The Sixth district has been repre-
sented in congress by ten congressman.
1. d Young, of Mitchell county. J. r.
White, of Jewell. are now living in
the district f. ]. Turner, of Sheridan
county. and W. A. Reeder, of Phillips
county, are living on the Pacific coast
Louis Hanback,, of Osborne county; n.
B.. Mccormick, of Phillips, and VIM.
Baker, of Lincoln county, are dead.
Before the state was re-apportioned.
the present Sixth district was attached
in the First district. 1t embraced the
north and northwest counties from the
Missouri river to the Colorado line.
At times the district was represented
in congress by John A Anderson, of
Riley county. and Col. VIM. A. Phil
lips of Saline county. These men died
several years ago. In the re-apportion-
ment, Hanback, changed his residence
from Salina to Osborne for political
reasons, there being, no other district
for him to aiight in except the Sixth.
which was created on account of the
new apportionment, and this gave the
state four additional congressman.