The Topeka state journal., 1899-11-23
REPUBLICAN FIGURES.
State Central Committee Shows What
Gains We're Made.

The Reppblican -. campaign managers
nave completed their estimates, based
cent election in Kansas. These figures
for that party in the state of 16,000 the
largest since 1888.
Chairman Albaugh and George Clark
secretary of state. prepared the following
statement for the newspapers:
The returns have been received com
plete from every county in the state eN-
cept Haskell which elected the entire Re
publican ticket, but from which the com
These returns show that the average Vote
n0lIsd FOR coI7nfv officers tsLine he vote
Sheriff. treasurer. clerk, register of deeds.
entire state. was Republican. i43 379: frs-
ionist, 127,511, making a Republican ma
IN 1897 the average Republican vote
polled in the state for county officers ar
rived at in the same manner, was 49,. .699,
and the fusion vote 128. .SS8 giving the Re
publicans a majority that year Of 0.7SI.
In 1888. when there were state and
congressional elections with the attend
ant excitement to induce the voters to go
for governor was 149 ,292 and the fusion
vote 134,15S, giving the state to the Re
s'On an average vote, the Republicans
carried sixty-seven counties by majori-
ties aggregating 1921. The fusionists on
an average vote on the six county officers
carried thirty-eight counties with an ag-
gregate majority of 1888.
'On the average vote cast for the six
county officers the Republicans carried
every congressional district in the state.
even the Third which was the only one
carried by the fusiOnists last year. Upon
this vote it is Republican by $50.
These returns show further that the
Republicans elected their entire ticket,
including all of the six officers in twenty
nine counties. These counties are:
ALLEN, AtchisOn. Barber, Brown. Chau-
tauqua, COwley, Doniphan, Douglas. Ed
wards, Elk, Ffnney, Harvey, Haskell,
Jefferson. Johnson. Lyon Mcpherson
Republic Riley. Russell, Sha vince, Stan
ton, Washington and Wichita
The fusiOnist elected straight tickets
in only six counties, Chase, Cherokee,
Decatur. Grant, Lincoln and TregO.
In 1897 the Republicans elected straight
tickets in only twenty-Six counties, while
in that year the fusionists elected straight
tickets in ten counties.
1.-THE Republicans carried thirty-eight
counties by over 100 majority, thirty-One
counties by over 200 majority, twenty
teen counties by over 500 majority. while
the opposition only carried fourteen cOun-
ties by over 100 majority, four counties
by over 200 majority and one county by
over 300 majority. and not a single cOun-
ty by much as 400 ma ajOrity.
There Were eight judges to be chosen.
of which the Republicans elected four and
the fuSiOniStS four In the Jackson and
jefferson district the Republicans lost by
reason of the convention making no nom
inatiOn, and two candidates being in the
field In WyandOtte and in the Rfley-Clay
Marshall districts, the Republican candi-
dates were defeated, which were Repub-
Hcan losses
LAS a whole, the returns are more than
They show that, while the state was car
ried in 1896 by the fusiOnists by 1000, in
1897 it was carried by the Republicans in
round numbers by 10000, in 1898 by $1,000
1898 by 10000. the largest Republican ma
jOrity in the state since 1SSS-''