Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1906 — KANSAS POPULISTS MEET [ARTICLE]

KANSAS POPULISTS MEET

They Name a Full State Ticket, and Congratulate Themselves on Old-Party Progress. Topeka. Kan., July s.—The Populist state convention nominated a full ticket, including the following: Governor, Horace-Keefer, of Leavenworth: lieutenant governor, Joseph A. Wright, of Smith county; secretary of state, Robert Heiserman, of Riley; treasurer. D. C. Kay.of Graham: attorney general, G. H. Bajjey, of Jewell; superintendent of public instruction. D. O. Kemphill, of Norton; auditor, E. C. Fowler, of Shawnee. The convention was not well attended. Most of the afternoon session was taken up by discussion of the wisdom of nominating a full state ticket. Of late years the Populists and Democrats have fused on state ticket. Those who spoke did not fail to congratulate Populism that both Republican and Democratic parties were coming the Populistic way.