The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-20
ROSE COLORED
Are Reports That Members of
Democratic Committee
Bring Up to Topeka From Their
Districts.
IF ONE is TO BELIEVE
What These Enthusiastic Gen
tlemen Say Today,
The Fusion Ticket Is to Win In
Kansas.
IF ONE Is TO BELIEVE

The Democratic state central COM
mittee was in session today at the
state headquarters of the party. Near
" a full attendance of the committee
was present. It is said that the meet
ing was called for the purpose of max
ing a thorough canvass of the poll of
the state that has been made by the
state committee from the headquarters
and that the poll was taken up IN de-
tail and each congressional, Judicial,
senatorial and legislative district was
gone over by the local member from
that section and the situation in each
county discussed.
Prior to the meeting few of the
members from different parts of the
state talked to q Journal reporter and
gave their opinions as to the outcome
Of the present campaign.
NJ. A. Sullivan of Archison, member
from the Second judicial district which
IS IN the First congressional district,
We are in a very strong Republican
congressional district, but we are not
conceding the election of Broderick by
any means The silver gains have been
quite large and we have a good show of
winning AtcnisOn county Will give
Bryan a majority OF from 200 to 300. We
VIII be able to elect one member of the
legislature, and may get two Seaton,
the republican candidate, is very
strong in 5AtchisOn and is a very pOpu-
lar man, but his vote Will be materially
decreased. Leedy and the state ticket
Z
ticket, and viii carry Atchison county
without doubt"
W. w. Lesion from Horton, the same
congressional district said.
Il think that the result will be very
close Morrill, viii naturally run ahead
of the ticket in Brown county. which is
his own county but as far as the rest
OF the ticket is concerned it Will be
very close The Republicans will lose
some members of the legislature in the
congressional district. Falcon, who is
a candidate for senator in Brown and
Donlphan counties, viii no doubt be
elected The present representative
from Brown county, Price. was Re
publican, but he has Topped and we
stand a good chance of electing a mem
Der Of the legislature from Brown cOun-
ty Brown and DOniphan counties
have come out strong for silver and
this will tell on the result in the con
gressiOnaI district"
James W. Orr of Atchison, who is q
mem Der of the executive committee
from the First congressional district
said.
Il really can't make any estimate at
the present time. There has been
large gain for the fusion ticket in the
district. MOrriH may run ahead of his
ticket in Atchison county, owing to his
management of the prohibitory law.
We have some saloons as fine as any
in New York city and those may make
some difference i'll the vote as to the
Republican ticket in our county
don't think that there will be much diff
ference in the way the ticket viii run
when the whole district is taken into
account
.Atchison county gave Weaver a ma
JoI1ty of 81 and we can safely be count
ed on giving Bryan ajOrity of 200 "
f. F. Strickland of Kansas City. Kan,
from the Second district said. Mason
r. Peters will be elected to congress BY
an overwhelming majority The vote
of Wyandotte county alone viii elect
him. The very least ma jOrity that Pc
ters viii get in Wyandotte county will
be 100 He has a paper, signed by
enough voters to give him that. which
he has hanging on the wall of his office
His vote in the counties outside viii be
large, in fact we have come to the con-
clusiOn that there are only two counties
which Harris has the least show of car
rying and they are Douglas and Miami.
If he can carry either of these it viii be
by a small majority only. / would not
be surprised to see Peters carry the dis
trict by from eight to fourteen thou
sand. Bryan viii carry WyandOtte
county by at least twenty-five hundred.
The Republicans at the instance of
Simpson and Barnes are using every
effort to carry Morrill, through. but the
county viii go for Leedy by a good
vote, although the Republicans do
trade the national electors for the state
ticket. Outside OF Wyandotte county
the state ticket viii run right along
with the electoral ticket. In fact the
electoral ticket the state ticket and the
congressional ticket will all run about
the same in the Second congressional
district
Col Frank Bacon of the Third con
gressiOnal district, who was the former
chairman of the Democratic state cen
trail committee said ''Ridgeley will be
elected to congress over Kirkpatrick by
at least four thousand votes. He will
carry every county in the district with
the possible exception of Wilson and
Chautauqua. Wilson is Kirkpatrick
own county and it may go for Kirkpat-
rick by q small majority and there may
be small majority for kirkpatri in
Chautauqua cOunty.lt will not be very
large though for there are not great
many votes in that county"
Judge A NJ. Jackson also of the Third
district who a short time ago made
predictions to the same effect said:
Things are going along in the same
way down in the Third district
Charles StackhOuse of Usage City,
said. Il have not made any canvass Of
the Fourth district and do not know
very much about the situation except
that I can say from what I have seen
in my own county that Curtis vote
there VIII not be 50 Target as it was two
years ago. If the claims Of the silver
men of this county Shawnee are
correct that they viii cut Curtis vote
down from twelve to fourteen hundred
votes we viii beat him sure"
DR.. c. w. Brandenburg of Frankfort
member OF the executive committee
from the Fifth congressional district
said:
Bryan will carry the district by
three thousand votes. The fusion state
ticket viii carry the district by twenty
five hundred votes, and Vincent will de-
feat Calderhead by at least two thous-
and votes These are very cOnserva-
tive estimates. The state ticket and
the congressional ticket may run
--Ir.- Es,1- y,