The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-24

have declined the other nominations
1t is further provided that if the can
didate fails to designate which nomi-
nation he accepts, the officer with whom
the nominations are filed shall make
and file an election of one nomination
for such candidate AS the law pro-
vides that unless the candidate himself
shall designate which nomination he ac-
cepts he shall be deemed to have ac-
cepted the nomination first made, when
the time expires in which the candidate
shall make a choice without such can
didate making any choice, then the law
itself makes him the candidate of the
party first nominating him: or, to speak
more accurately, the law deems him
the candidate of the party first nomi-
mating hin unless within a given time
he chooses the other Nomination. The
officer (secretary of state) could do
nothing more, therefore, than indicate
for the candidate the acceptance by the
candidate of the nominati ton first made,
for the law itself having deemed hin,
to have accepted the first nomination
subject to his choice, and that choice
not having been exercised, he remains
the candidate of the party first nomi-
mating him
Now, as both tickets will be filed
with the secretary of state and as none
of the candidates will decline either of
the nominations or designate either as
their choice, the result will be that both
tickets will remain on file just as they
are at the date of filing until some Of
fetal action shall be taken by the Sec
retary of state either in obedience to the
order of court or upon his own mo-
ton.
BENEFITS OF ONLY ONE TICKET.
THUS by both tickets being filed we
save our opportunity to get the benefit
of every chance that there is under this
law to unite the opposition vote of the
state.
''First-By going into court and get
ting an order to put both tickets on the
official ballot, which If done will leave
US just where we were before the law
was made with two full tickets COM
posed of the same men, just as in 1896.
1898 and 1900.
"Second-If the court refuses to order
the secretary of state to put both tick
cts on the official ballot, and the candi-
dates refuse as they will to repudiate
or decline either nomination or indicate
| any choice between the nominations
| then the matter will be up to the secre-
| tary of state to place the candidates
upon that ticket upon which they were
| first nominated, for by the direct COM
mand of the law they shall be deemed
| to have accepted the nomination first
| made If to the state each county tick
| ct for the two cooperating parties Is
added and placed under the same head
| then a straight opposition ticket will
| appear upon the official ballot and thus
at last in spite of this infamous statute
and the vtllafnouS Vaccinations of the
| Republican leaders and schemers, there
will be one full ticket upon the official
| ballot which is the free choice of the
Peoples party and also of the Demo
cratic party for which every Populis,
and every Democrat and every oppon-
I ent of trust-ridden leadership in the
state can vote just as the Republican
votes for his candidates by placing his
| mark in the circle at the top, without
being compelled to write his name op.
posite every candidate and without ex
posing himself to the chance of losing
| his vote by an attempt to vote in some
complicated and unusual way.
Many a man has fallen into the pf
| he digged for another.
sHaman was hanged upon his owl
gallows.'' ,-s---r- --e--.-,s