The Topeka state journal., 1903-03-20
MAYREACH $1,000
Registration Moving Along
With Encouraging Strides.
Expected u 900 Mark will Be
Passed This Week.
WILL BE A BIG VOTE.
Seem to Be Heavy in First and
Second Wards.
Mr.. Lewis Can't Attend Ber-
gundthal Meeting Tonight.


good, the total registration of the city
for the spring election will reach $4,000 |
which is only GIL less than it was for
the spring election in 1901.
BY the end of this week, when the
books ara brought in from the various
wards. Mr.. Williams thinks that his
deputies will have issued 1900 certifi-
Gates of registration. This will leave
FIVE days in next week to register the
other 5000 which Mr.. Williams expects.
When Parker beat Hughes. the total
registration was 15611 of this total
registration, only 1865 votes were cast,
and they were divided practically equal
ly between the two candidates.
This year the vote is likely to be fully
a heavy as it was in 1901. There We're
II, 400 votes cast at the Republican prl-
maries this year. The Democratic vote
in Topeka is about 20OO so theoretically
the total vote should be $500, or there
abouts.
If the law and order forces register
and vote, Bergundthal Will have from
1000 to 1000 majority. Heery's total
vote in the city is not likely to exceed
1000. Parker received 6337, but he was
running against man who was de-
cidedly unpopular
At the present time. the First, Second
and Fifth wards are getting pretty well
toward the end of their work of regis
tratiOn The normal registra ton IN
each of these wards has nearly been
reached, If reports from the ward books
are correct. Information from the
Third, Fourth and Sixth wards indicates
that the same systematic work of reg
istratlon has not been going on there a s
in the other three wards. All of these
are strong Bergundthal wards, and if
they tail to register their full vote, it is
easy TO see that BergundthaI might be
defeated Hence the Importance of i'm
mediate registration is apparent.
NAY SACRIFICE HEERY
There IS g. report today that the
Democrats and liberals have come to
the conclusion that it will be impossi-
bic to elect Heery and ttsat they viii
trade off his support for Republican
Support fOf police Judge If the liber-
ais can elect the police judge, they will
be able to continue the open saloon
policy IN Topeka. police judge in
sympathy with the liquor interests
could battle every attempt to prosecute
viOlators of the law
W. Z. Atchison. the Democratic can
didate foI. police judge, is a good. clean
man. calculated to win any shaky Re-
publican votes. He ran against Chas
F. Spencer for city attorney two years
ago. and was defeated by a majority of
1858.
It is natural to suppose that Atchison
will run about with Heery, the head of
the trading game. they may succeed in
making Atchison run ahead
AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY
1t was discovered this morning by
somebody who happened to read over
the Australian ballot law that it will
not be necessary to make separate bal
lots for the waterworks proposition and
the school proposition. Both propOsi-
tions viii be printed on one ballot.
Election Commissioner Williams
countermanded his order for an extra.
set of ballot boxes on the strength of
the discovery. It will also make a saw
ing Of a good deal oS money in print
ing the ballots.
MI Williams said this morning: Il
referred the question of printing these
propositions on one ballot both to the
attorney. general and to the city at
tOrney for an opinion. and my under
standing was that the propositions had
to be on separate ballots. IN reading
over the law. however. I can't see but
what it IS plainly the other way. and
think there must have been q misun-
derstanding- 7 viii get some legal ad-
vice on the proposition. but there
doesn't seem to be any doubt how the
Law req ds"
This discovery viii straighten out the
tangle of ballot boxes and poll books
which threatened to involve the election
boards Tt viii obViate the necessity of
having two of the six ballot boxes and
viii make it possible for the regular
work
The law reads as follows: IF there
be more than one constitutional amend
ment. proposition or question to be vo-
ted upon. the different amendments,
propositions or questions shall be sep
arately numbered and printed. and be
separated by a broad solid line one
eighth of an inch vide.
LEWIS CAN'T BE THERE.
Frank A. Lewis has been billed for a
speech at the Republican rally to be
held this evening at the Lownan Hill
school house, but he was called to Kan
sas City on business, and viii not be
able to keen his engagement He has
written a letter to the committee in
charge of the, meeting. however, and
the letter viii he read at the meeting
tonight It is the kind of q letter Frank
Lewis might be expected to write, and
shows that he viii support his late an
tagonist at the election on April Z.
Other spesk skers at the meeting have ave
will be there. also Arthur ] McCabe
and other Republican candidates The
meeting is for the purpose of stirring
up interest in the registration. The
sixth ward has been rather slow about
getting registered so far. but indications
are that it viii all be IN when the game
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
Matt Gamlowski. Democratic candi-
date for councilman from the First ward
said today: THE report that I would
withdraw was started by some of my
political enemies. It is not true I am
/ in the race to stay and to win
/ The Republican city central commit
I tee has issued 10000 little cards bearing
the inscription. Have you registered2 ?
/ If not. register today
+ The residents of Little Russia. in
North Tc-c1Sa. are registered in great
/ nrofusion. They can all be 6eDended
upon to rota for Heery-
J. ". Priddy reports that he has reg
istered 1850 people in the First ward