The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-04
HOW THEY STAND
Status of the Candidacy For
Governor
OF Morrill, and TrOutman Up to
Date.
FIGURES
Show That He Heads the List
With 50 Delegates.
Morrill, Follows With 97-Bris-
tOw's Figures Larger.

The relative standing of the booms
for gubernatoria1 honors in the Repub-
lican party have changed in some de-
- in the last week
During the past week three counties,
Kearney, Pottawatomie and Cherokee,
have chosen delegates to the state Re
publican convention.
Up to this date thirty-three counties
have held conventions, nine Of which
have instructed their delegates for
some particular candidate for governor.
The counties that have elected dele
gates have two hundred and seventy
eight votes in the convention, leaving
five hundred and seventy-five delegates
yet to be elected.
It is the general opinion of those who
are watching the conventions and keep
ing track of the results that neither
Potter nor Peters has gained and del
egates during the week. Secretary
Bristow who does the figuring for Gov.
Morriu's candidacy, gives Potter 81
and Peters Is, which are the same fig
ures that he gave out last Saturday;
While the Troutman men give Potter
SO, the same number they gave him
last week, and Peters II, which number
they probably transfer from their
doubtful column to Peters.
The administration people, as will be
s. en- from their figures below claim the
delegates elected this week, both in
Pottawatomie and Cherokee counties.
Pottawatomie county is one of the
nine counties that instructed, and her
instructions We're for Morrill,, but
Cherokee county did not instruct for
governor at all and the most reliable
Information says that the delegates are
divided on their choice. The Morrill,
leaders talk strongly that everything is
r
time and they speak of the Landslide"
that has only just begun and are tell
ing each other how the leaders for
some other candidate could now very
gracefully abandon their man and
climb into the band wagon before it
was too late.
But the other candidates and their
men do not seem to be at all worried
nor inclined to accept the kind invita-
ton so graciously thrown out in the
side talk of the administration people.
To the unprejudiced observer the
claims of the Morrill, men seem exces-
sive, and the estimate given out by the
TrOutman men, which is also published
below, seems to be more conservative
and within the bounds of probability.
While it is true that Immediately
after each county convention the ad-
ministratiOn gets telegram saying
that the convention indOrSed the ad-
min1Strat1On ana instructed LOT MOT
rill, still when some local man from the
county in which the convention is held
and who is not holding a state JOB
comes along he brings the information
to town that the administration tele-
gram is a fake; that the delegation is
not instructed and that the delegates
are divided.
1t is regarded as likely that the adj
ministration people will not be able to
get even favorable telegrans about the
| conventions of the next two weeks
Judge Peters had q long consultation
with Cy Leland at the Copeland on
| Thursday in which they formulated
plan for their campaign, and Judge
| Peters said before leaving for home on
| Thursday that he was going to make
an active fight from now on and that
| he expected, with the aid of his friends,
to bring the Seventh district up to the
| convention in good shape. Owing, how
| ever to the embarrassing situation
| of Peters, owing to his alleged dOL-
! BILE dealing with Morrill, and his delay
! in launching his boom, it seems ex-
| tremely doubtful If he will "cut much
| ice" in the convention. unless he is
| better campaigner than he has yet
| shown himself or unless his trusted
| captain, Cy Leland, can hatch up some
| scheme to capture and run cOnven-
| tions as he did at Kansas City.
TROUTMAN ESTIMATE.
| The secretary of the TrOutman club,
Arthur Capper, gives out the following
| statement:
! Since our last statement we have
| corresponded or personally talked with
| many of the delegates that were elect
ed at that date, and from the assur-
! ances- that we have received from them
! and the returns received from the con-
| ventions of this week We are able to
! estimate the delegates now chosen as
| follows:
/ TFOutnan ..-..------- OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ~
| Morrill, ~ Observation-Disclosures. 81
| Peters .;---------- '''-- % . .
/ Doubtful ---------.-- -.---..-.----.--- 50