The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-27
WARMING UP.
City Election Situation is Be-
coming Exciting.
Both Sides Claim That They
Will Win.
REPUBLICAN FIGURES.
Workers Place Hughes Major
ity High Enough.
FusiOnists Silent But Hope to
Win.
FIGURES.

City politics is warming up, but st Is
getting warm ON the quiet. The boss
politicians on both sides are doing a
lot Of figuring and work The Repub-
ncan committee seems to be frightened
for some reason. which they will not ex-
plain. They claim the election Of Hughes
by at least $780, but they are net LETT
ting any chances slip. and the Repub-
lican city central committee. being COM
posed of experienced and astute poll
ticians. knows a chance to slip when
they see one.
The Democratic committee held a mu-
tual consolation meeting last night and
attempted to figure out how they could
land their candidate for mayor After
using up all their lead pencils, they
came to the conclusion that they could
win if they could get all the democrats
out and persuade the Republicans to
stay at home. Just how to accomplish
this could not be decided, but the COM
nittee scratched their heads and pulled
their whiskers over the question for
three hours trying to arrive at solu-
ton Of the problem, but the fact is that
party lines do not cut much figure in
the election
The Republican committee has sent
out notices to all the true believers ask
Ing that they use every effort to get the
women out. and they are telling. on the
quiet. that if they do not get the women
out the ticket may be defeated. fearful
appeals are being sent to. the women
who are connected with the different
women's societies which are working IN
connection with the city COMMITTEES, and
to others who have no connection other
than the good Of the community, urging
them to get out and work.
I,1T
men report that they md but few Re
publicans who viii not vote for Hughes.
and they also report that the woman
vote Will show at least three to one for
Hughes 1t is on these reports that the
committee bases its figures Of $500 ma
Jority for Hughes. II these figures are
correct, the majority for Hughes would
be nearer 1000 than 2.50O
Some Of the fusionists are actually
claiming that they expect TO elect their
candidate for councilman in the Second
ward and a few enthusiastic partisans
are making bets on that proposition. but
they are too conservative to make "a bet
on the majority for Hughes even when
it is placed as low as 800. (which indi-
Gates the air Of uncertainty which sur
rounds the election.
There is a great deal of talk Of a quiet
campaign, and all such talk is nonsense;
the campaign is no more quiet than IS
neighborhood gossip, and every one
knows how quiet that is-it would not be
q half-page ad- in g. daily paper. The
quiet talk is used by both sides to get
out the vote by frightening the mem-
bers Of the diff arent parties into going
to the polls. 1t will work, too. and there
will be an immense vote cast in the city
on account Of it,
Some Of the city officers on the Repub-
lican ticket other than mayor are shak-
ing the quiet campaign" rag in the
faces of the voters in order to get them
out. It seems to be contagious The
only man on the Republican ticket who
seems to feel that he has a sure thing
is Fred Stonestreet, all the rest have
been scared by the quiet campaign"
talk They viii take each other to a
corner and whisper something about
how a certain man is going to vote, and
how he has been influenced by this
"quiet" work, and then they win at once
begin to talk uncertain"
The majority Of the Republican work
ers are confident that they Will win, and
all Of the fusionists and some Republi-
cans hope they viii not; that is about
the situation.