The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-28
AN ARMY
OF $4,000.
Remarkably Thorough Organi-
zatiOn Of Kansas Republicans.
League Club Members Number
10000 Men.
TALK WITH MADISON,
President of the League Clubs
Of Kansas.
He Says Morrill, VIII Run Ahead
Of Mckinley.
TALK WITH MADISON,

President Ed H. Madison of the Re
publican state league was in the city
today. He said to a Journal reporter:
Il have been in the campaign ever
since the meeting of the league here in
Topeka last spring. Every day Of my
time since the first of July has been
spent in the work except a few days
that I was compelled to remain in my
Office to attend to personal business
I think that the work that the league
has done and is doing in this
campaign is grand one. We
have never been so thor
oughly organized before in this
state. There is not a township in the
state or ward in the cities that there
is not a Republican club organized and
in working order. All of these clubs
are not members of the league, but the
large majority are and the member
ship of the league clubs in Kansas is
at the present time over so. 900 men. The
league has been working with the Re
publican state central committee dur
ing this campaign. In fact, one of the
main objects of the organization is to
keep up the organization of the party
in the state and in every part of it all
the time SO that each campaign viii
not necessitate the reorganization Of
our forces. Where league clubs are
formed and officers elected and consti-
tuition and bylaws adopted it serves to
keep the organization together 50 that
next year there will be an organization
ready to go to work in the campaign
/ have held over IS meetings in various
parts Of the state since the campaign
began"
what is your opinion Of the stu
ation?"
well. I think from what have seen
that at the present time Mckinley viii
carry this state. Morrill, and the state
ticket viii run ahead of the electoral
ticket and there is no use of Ed Little
and those fellows claiming that Leedy
and the opposition state ticket will run
even with their electoral ticket. They
know well enough that there are many
silver Republicans, and when say sill
yer Republicans I mean a man that
will vote for Bryan, but viii vote
for Morrill, and the state ticket
have come in contact with them in my
travels over the state. I have talked
with lots of Democrats who are bust
ness men and who viii vote for Bryan,
but when it comes to the state ticket
will vote for Morrill, They say that
administration and that they don't
want Leedy for they consider him an
unsafe man to have at the head of the
state administration.
''Wiu there be Republican losses or
gains in the legislature 2'
well, that is a matter that takes
quite an intimate acquaintance with
affairs in each locality to determine
I think that there ought to be a CON
the legislature from the fact that ev-
erywnere that have been the Repub-
lican candidates are men that stand
much stronger in their communities
than the opposition candidates This
being the case throughout the state and
the work that is being done being ta-
ken into consideration the Republican
candidates ought to be stronger than
the rest of the ticket and there ought
to be a very considerable gain in the
legislature
In Ford county, my own county
Fitzgerald, the Republican candidate,
will be elected without any doubt. In
the southwestern part of the state, the
short grass country, the Republicans
viii get eight out of every ten of the
candidates for the legislature"
Il think that Mckinley will win in
this state because We know that there /
has been a decided change of opinion
in the last two weeks. There never
was such an organization in the state
as we have at the present time. Our
poll has been careful and accurate and
in many of the townships the political
views of every man is known, what he
was at breakfast. what he was at din
ner and what he was in the evening, /
and we are confident Of winning this
state"