The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-07
Coming Shawnee County Elec-
ton To Be Tame Affair.
Most of Present Officers to Ask
for Second Term.
FIGHT ON REGISTER OF DEEDS
Is only warmly Contested OF
flee in Whole Field.
Flora stratemeyer, NanOn Her
rem, o. B. Eddy, Candidates.

Even a typical Kansas Fourth Of
July holds far more promise OF excite
ment than the election of Shawnee
/ county officers to be held next fall.
So far as the dope points at present
there viii be-with two or three ex-
4 ceptions-only one candidate for each
office. ~--.
/ The fact that most of the county Of
! ficials are now serving theirs-first
! terms accounts for the extreme short
age in the county political field. Or
d.nariIy no one will oppose a county
officer running for his second term.
Altho it probably will develop before
! election time. there has not even been
any talk Of a Democratic ticket in the
field this year,
The only part of the race that
promises anything close to,reSI excite
lnent will be that FOR the office of
register of deeds This is Oran Lay
J tons second term and II is not; very
probable that he will seek a third.
| But there are three persons who have
/ apnQunced their intentions of going
after the office Layton will yacate,
| They are Miss Flora StFatemeyeFy ROW
first deputy in the office; Miss Nanon
Herren. publisherof thE Topeka Daily
Legal News, and o. B. Eddy, a retired
farmer.
Miss stratemeyer has the edge on
both her opponents because of the
fact that she has served nearly four
years in the office and Is at present
first deputy. She IS highly efficient
at this work. Miss Herren, as pub
Usher of the Legal News and as a pub
lie reader. is widely. kn9wn, in the
county and has n host Of friends who
will support her in the race. o. B.
Eddy aItho a retired farmers served
as trustee of Mission township and
has a large and strong political fol-
lowing in the rural districts. This
contest. therefore. may develop into
something interesting as the date for
the primary draws closexe--~s.t-
Altho he has not officially an
nOunced himself, it is common talk
that Jerry Longshore. former state oil
inspector and now, proprietor of the
SunfloWer filling station at Tenth ave
nue. and Quincy street. will oppose c.
H Searle for representative from the
Thirty-fifth district. Searle is out for
a second term.
Boyd PolIom Is expected to run for
a third term as mmissiOner from the
Third district and altho several men
have been talked of to run against him
there have been no official announce
ruentS nor is anyone else especially
Paul Mcfarland. a World war vet
eran, former adtutant Of the local
American Legion post and now a
deputy in the county treasurer's office,
will be a candidate for county treas
Urer to succeed T. B.-Boyd who is now
serving his second term. Mcfarland
is not expected to have any opposition.
J. D. NJ. Hamilton. probate judge;
Tinkham Veaie, county attorney:
Douglas Graham, county clerk: ". E.
Anderson. clerk of the district court;
Edwin Jones, clerk OF the court of
Topeka; Paul Heinze, judge, and Tom
Hurley. marshal of the court of To-
peka. are all slated for second terms
without any opposition on their own
ticket Jack Campbell. county sur
veyor. is expected to. land a fourth
term. and Judge George H. Whitcomb,
of the second division, and Judge
James A Mcclure. of the first division
Of the district court. probably will be
reelected also without opposition.
Altogether it will be a quiet county
election, but the calm always precedes
the storm. In 1924. when most of the
present officers will be retiring, there
is every indication that blood will run
in the cutters. figuratively speaking.
Not only are there two or more depu-
ties in various Offices who are ex-
peCted to oppose each other, but there
are several outsiders who are known
to be waiting for favorable moment
to get into the game.