The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-21
Never Before So Much Danger
of Blunders.
If Voter Marks Next to Blank
InvaIidates Ballot.
TROUBLESOME CIRCLE.
It Will Be Cause of Many "Mut-
Hated" RallOts.
Father of Mr.. Bailey Is Very
Low.

The voter who wants to get his vote
counted is confronted with new dam
ger-that is, attention has just been
called to it The danger is this: If he
should happen to make cross after the
words mo nomination. which Will be
printed in some of the blanks, it will in
validate the entire ballot.
1t Is quite probable that some voters
will pick out one man for whom they
do not wish to vote on a certain ticket,
and then proceed to mark every square
on that ticket except the one picked out
II there should happen to be a No nom
NATION" space anywhere IN the column
which would be marked among the rest,
1t would invalidate the entire ballot
Some voters, too, will probably make
q mark in the circle at the top of the
ticket they wish to vote and then pro
coed to mark all the squares under that
circle. This, they have been told, viii
not invalidate the ballot. If, however.
they should happen to vote for mo
nomination" tie entire ballot would be
thrown out. The question was present.
cd to Assistant Attorney General Clay
ton, and he so held
There is absolutely no excuse for put
ting a square after the words mo nom
ination." If there is no candidate to be
voted for there should be no sGual
after the words. Mr.. Clayton has held
that under the provisions of the law 1t
must be placed there.
I don't see any use in it, said Nh
Clayton, but on the sample ballot which
was made a part of the law a square
is placed after No nomination in every
instance. From this and the wording
of the law itself / am compelled to hold
that the square must go on. 1 would
rule otherwise if I could. because 1 see
no use in putting the square on except
to mix the voter"
become so Disguised with the present
complicated system of voting that the
legislature will wipe the whole system
out and provide for voting by machine.
1t will be cheaper in the long run.
The father of W. J. Bailey suffered
a relapse a few days ago so that Mr..
Bailey was obliged to hurry home and
spend Sunday. Some time ago the elder
Bailey slipped on a bootjack and fell,
striking his head against a box. He
has been in feeble health since the death
of his wife two years ago. and the fall
severely injured him. It is now feared
that he cannot live long, and for that
reason his son, the Republican candidate
for governor, may abandon his cam
paign. He will fill his date at Fort
Scott tonight, however, and will then
hold himself ready to leave for Bailey
vile at a moments notice. J. L. Bris-
tow, fourth assistant postmaster gen
eral, may complete Mr.. Bailey's dates if
the latter is compelled to go home. Mr.
Bristow reached Kansas City last night
and went on to Ottawa. his home, to-
day.
bingham New Leaf Tom Kelly, the
Republican candidate for state treas
urer, VINO was accused ana convicted OF
robbing Miami county of $1,324.9 SO, and
acknowledged his guilt by paying back
into the county treasury that amount
has made the boast that for every Re-
publican vote he will lose he will get one
among the Catholic Democrats. Tom
Kelly slandered his own church when he
made that statement. Down in his own
county, where the facts are known, the
Catholics are not supporting him. 1t is
not a matter of church with them 1t
is a matter of helping defeat man who
has been convicted of dishonesty.
W. D. Greason. editor of the Miami
County Republican, throws down the
gauntlet to Charles S. Finch, of the
Lawrence Journal for the latter TO
prove his faith in t. 7. Kelly. Under
the heading "A Thief and His Support
ers'' Mr.. Greason publishes the follow
ing from the Lawrence Journal:
when the votes are counted and it is
found that Tom Kelly has come up with
or possibly ahead of his ticket, Billy
Greason will still have the consolation
of thinking that he is right, and that all
the other Republicans of the state are
wrong"
Mr.. Greason then publishes the fol-
lowing comments on this statement and
makes the following offer:
And Charley Finch, in that impos
eible event. would have the knowledge.
as he has it now. that he supported and
voted for a thief for state treasurer
Finch does it with so much apparent
ease and grace, too, that it seems to be
natural for him
eve ask you. Mr.. Finch, if you were
proclaimed to be a thief, as Kelly is
and has been for months, would you
content yourself, Kelly has done.
with a denial that is so devious and so
utterly improbable that it amounts to &
confession? Would you not, rather re-
sort to extreme measures to establish
your innocence and to protect your fair
name and reputation, and would you
not force your accusers to face the most
drastic measures of the law of libel
Certainly you would, and so would every
innocent man. Kelly does not and will
not. He knows too well his own guilt.
IF you have the faith in Kelly's innO-
cence that you profess Mr.. Finch you
will not hesitate to back your judgment,
especially when long odds are offered
you. We Will wager you, at odds of s.
to 81, in any amount from 81 to 81 00C
or more, if you choose, that Kelly is
guilty as found in the verdict rendered
against him by the county commission
ers of Miami county, and that there is
more of the same kind yet to be dis
closed in his records as county clerk OF
Miami county. This proposition is oper
to you, Mr.. Finch or to any or all Kelly
apologists who care or dare to apply
For each dollar that you or any or al
of you put up, we will see that a s.
bill covers it. Kelly's records his owl
handwriting, to be the test.
There's not a man of you though
VINO daIes accept q proposition involving
the examination of KelIy's records. You
know his guilt and knowing it you We
support him, and thus place yourself OF
his level It is an outrage on publ,
decency that there should even be .
possibility of entrusting the monoy o
the taxpayers of the state Of Kansas t.
the keeping Of a corrupt seoundrel Xix
T. T. Kelly"
John E. Wagner, the fusion candidate
for congress in the First district, is go
ing through the motions of a campaign
with as much seriousness as though h
had CHI Of 1pff i41e (1rsT4e a
Curtis. He is taking advantage of tn
fight the Anthonys are making on Cur
els in Leavenworth county Rnd of tn
disaffection which has been stirred u
by the senatorial fight, and is urgini
anti-Curtis Republicans to vote agains
him for congress. with what effect