The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-07
Long, Curtis and Stanley Each
Has Two Rooms.
ALBAUGH'S MAN SAFE.
Republican Representative in
Kingman is Elected.
Long Lost the Legislative Can
didate in Barber.

HEADQUARTERS on the second floor OF the
Copeland. Congressman Long has rooms
! and 4, Congressman Curtis mas ehs9s
ed rooms and 6, and Governor Stahley
has rooms and S. These will probaDly
be maintained their headquarters un-
til after the senatorial election next
January. 1t is expected that Congress
men Bowersock and Calderhead VIII
also secure headquarters before long
Late returns from Kingman county
indicate that Chairman Albaugh pulled
through his candidate for representative
after all Yesterday it was supposed
that Mustoe. the Republican candidate
for the legislature in Kingman county,
was defeated, but il IS now reported
that he has ten majority, 1t seems 10
be conceded, however, that congress
man Long lost his representative in
Barber county by very narrow mar
gin.
The senatorial contest is already be-
coming strenuous. The antl-Long poll
ticians in the Seventh district are lay
ing stress on the fact that Mr.. Long
lost his own county. One OF these IS
Harry Woods, who writes the Dooley
articles in the Wellington News. Woods
doesn't like Long because the latter
keeps Andy Richards as one OF MS
managers Woods is for Governor Stan
ley for senator. and in speaking of the
situa tiOn he says;
..The saddest looking people around
Copeland county are the Long followers.
In Longs home county he received a
hundred majority for congress. but his
member of the legislature was defeated
bv 12 It also happened in several 9TH
er counties of this district, but they
could have stood it If 1t had not nap
pened in Barber
..Thus. having carried several counties
as A candidate for congress, and having
lost the same counties as a candidate for
the senate it looked as if the voters
had indorsed him as congressman and
repudiated him as a senatorial candi-
10 To adj tO he this
situation, Sumner county. the home OF
Andy Richards. elected both Republican
nominees. making three votes in that
county for Stanley. In SedgWick, where
no man dared to even hone for more
than txo Republican representatives,
three were elected. and the senator, Jim
Tapp. who was elected as a PoDulist.
has turned to be Republican voted the
Republican ticket, contributed to the
Republican campaign fund, and will go
into the Republican caucus. thus giving
Stanley four votes at his own home: OF
course, explanations were gottenup hur-
riedly to account for this condition OF
affairs. but to be put in a position where
explanations are necessary is not pleas
ant just at this stage of the game. While
the result in Barber was known early
Wednesday afternoon, the Long men
continued to report that the returns
were not complete and that while the
vote was close there were two or three
precincts unheard from that might
change the result. One of the Copeland
Gratis had nothing to gain by having an
other man two in the legislature. it
would be a very easy matter to secure
sufficient change in the returns in those
two counties to give Long his represen-
tatives, without much trouble. In other
words the returns in Barber might bc
'Noftsgerized.' But now that the mat
ter has been so thoroughly discussed it
would be worse for Long to get his man
in than it was to lose him. But what-
ever may happen to the returns in those
counties. the fact remains that the Lona
followers are very sad-faced lot"
Congressman Miller. who lost the Re
publican representative in his home
county, said in Kansas City last night
4 that it was because he was instructed
j for United State senator. 1t was large
ly Mr.. Millers fault, however that in
structiOn was given. Joseph Freshman,
brought out Robert T. Ray for repre-
sentative and nominated him, defeating
the candidate who had the support OF
both Congressman Miller and Senator
MorehOuse Ray was friendly to Stan
ley for senator, but Miller and More
house forced through a resolution in
structing him for Curtis. That is why
he was instructed.
7. o. McCray says he is the only live
member of the Silver Republican party
since Webb McNall went down to de-
feat
While Congressman Longs senatorial
, aspirations did not fare the best in tht
world in this election. he made a mag
nificent race for congress. His majority
in the Seventh district is about 900
only little behind that of Curtis in tn,
p First, where Shawnee county alone roll
up more than 5000. Two years agt
q Longs majority over Claude Duval wa
only 1907, and the highest prediction
made by Chairman Albaugh this yea
for him was majority of 3,500 TIL,
returns show that"he doubled that fig
ure.
The latest returns from the Seven
teenth judicial district indicate that tn
fusionists may have elected Geige
judge over Hamilton after all Th
State Journals disnatch from Nortoi
yesterday stated that Hamilton was onl
ten ahead. with several precincts to hea
from. The indications today are tha
, those precincts may give the electio
to Judge Geiger.
T. S. Slower. who was chairman of tn
Republican speakers bureau, is a candl
date for chief clerk of the lower house
with a good prospect of landing it 1t
the best job in the legislature Stev
Cave, the prairie dog statesman, VIII
represented the Haskell Gray district
the last house. is a candidate for SCI
geant-at-arms of the house.
Peter Laushlin. the fusion nornine
. for the legislature in the country dis
trict in Atchison county, claims that h
has been elected over Sharpless, the Re
! publican candidate. He says a mistak
in the returns of one precinct when cor
rected will give him five majority.
The county commissioners in ever
county in the state are sitting today a
a canvassing board to go over the poll
books and make tie Official count c
the ballots. This consists of 1ookin
ever the tally marks for each candidat