The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-27
TO REACH $4,000
City Registration Is on the Boom
Today.
Believed That 1t Will Break the
Record.
THIS is THE LAST CALL
Books Will Close at 10 O'clock
Tonight.
Believed That Law and Order
Forces Are Registered.
HIS is THE LAST CALL

1t is almost certain that by the time
the registration books close at 10 O'Clock
this evening. the total number of names
enrolled viii be over 10000
At noon today the total was 1852. and
the registration was coming in very
rapidly in spite of rain and mud. The
registration of men was s,692 and of
women $50. Since noon Thursday, III
people registered.
Two years ago, in the Parker Hughes
campaign, the total registration was
1851.
Chairman H. Ward Page. of the Re
publican city central committee. ex-
presses himself as well pleased with the
result of the registration campaign He
says: 7 feel confident that the law and
order people are well registered. There
is no question of the result provided
people will get out and vote on April
T. 1t has seemed for some DAYS, I
know. that the whisky people We're reg
istering more people than we were, but
1 account for this by the fact that we
registered most of our people early.
while the Democrats realized at the last
that they must hurry in order to catch
up. I believe that both sides are well
registered. and the only way to insure
a law and order victory at the election
is for every man and woman who wants
that kind of a victory to get out and
vote"
The Democrats have not made nearly
so persistent a fight for registration this
year as they did two years ago, for the
reason, it is alleged, that they are short
on funds. The iOintists viii not con
tribute. They say that they were bled
to the limit in the primary. and that
there IS no show of electing Heery any
how. They might as well stick the
money in their pockets. The cost of
getting out the registration in the Sec
ond and Fourth wards has been borne
largely by Democratic candidates for
council in those two wards.
POLLS WILL CLOSE AT P. NJ
Contrary to what has been announced
heretofore, the polls will close on cleo
ton day at p. m instead of p m.
There seems to have been some sort
of misunderstanding about this new
law. It was supposed that the bill had
/ been passed giving the hour for clos
ing the polls as p. m, and that is
what it reads in the copies prepared for
/ the use of the members. At the request
of the State Journal, an investigation
was made in the secretary of states
office this morning, and the original en-
crossed copy of the bill was examined
1t read from a- m. to D. N. and
/ that settled it.
NOT MUCH BETTING.
There has been very little betting on
/ the result of the election, but the
I chances are that some will be done on
ward, as that is considered about an
''even break
A prominent Bergundthal supporter
said today: Il was down at the Rock
Island depot yesterday, and a fellow
was telling how Heery would wisr. He
offered to bet so tnat Heery would be
/ elected.
:. Well said. I never bet on an
election in my life, but l viii just take
that I happened to have hundred
dollars in my pocket, and 1 dug up $25
of it. Then the fellow said that he
meant that Bergundthal would not get
2 2O0G majority. I told him that I was
willing to the right thing, and that I
would bet him S100 to his $25 that Ber-
gundthal would get 1900 majority. He
said he would take that offer, but ex-
planned that he had only SO with him.
/ and would go and borrow the SIS in
ten minutes. So he went to a mutual
/ friend, and I put up my hundred
against his ten to bind the bargain. He
went to get the other fifteen In a few
1 minutes he came back. The fellow
that I was going to borrow that Of
/ he said told me that I was a - fool,
and that I'd better pull down my
money, and 7 guess he is right about
it, So we each got our money, and I
4 stopped one Heery bluff
DIDN'T WANT HOWARD.
An effort was made yesterday to force
Election Commissioner Williams to ap-
point L. Reeves in place of J. T How
ard as supervisor in the first precinct
of the Second ward. Reeves is the Re
publican committeeman from that pre-
cinct, while Howard is a strong law
and order man.
In order to lend emphasis to this
demand. a meeting was held last night
at 3O3 East First street Anderson
] Scales acted as chairman and L. Reeves