The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-29
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Two years ago the total recorded vote
was over $4,000 less than in 1900. OF
course 1902 was an "off years." The
| vote on governor was as follows:
1lepuDucdn 109,Z1Z
Oemocratlc ---........ III, l4S
Prohibition .......... .... 6,065
SOCIALIST ..-...-... .............. 4,OfS
Middle Road Populist. ..... 635
! Total ... .. 2S7, 1853
As a matter of fact there were not
as many stay-at-home voters in 1902 as
/ these figures would indicate. At least
$4,000 ballots We're thrown out because
\ they were spoiled in marking. 1t is
estimated that 10000 of these We're fu-
| sion ballots, and the other 5000 were
Republican. This would bring the to-
tai Republican vote up to 100000 and
the total Democratic vote up to 1877 900,
and the total vote would be about b.
| 600. 1t is probable that about that
many voters went to the polls two
years ago.
! A travelling man who has been tour
J ing northern Kansas during the past
4 three weeks and who meets voters of
all classes. says that he has not found
a man who would say that he will vote
for T. T. Kelly for state treasurer.
While the registration in Topeka is
com paratively light less than four
years ago in fact, reports from some
I other Kansas towns show that it has
increased For instance, hutchinson
registers 500 more voters than ever
before. There is said to be a hot local
fight there. In Kansas City, Kan, tn
total number of registration slips is
14,265, but this number will be slight
ly decreased because of duplicates.
Two years ago the registration was
14,1S2- 1t is thought that the state as
a whole will show about as great a
registration as two years ago.
Frank Nelson. former state superin-
tendent will be the principal speaker
at a Republican rally in Kansas City,
Kan, next Monday night. Superin-
tendent Nelson has been speaking I'M
der the direction of the national COM
mittee.
Secretary of State Burrow left Fri
day for his home at Smith Center to
put in the remainder of the campaign
fixing up his fences in the Sixth dis
trict Before leaving he gave out
prediction that the Republican state
ticket will not run more than 1000
votes behind Roosevelt in the Sixth
district.
roosevelt will have a majority of
at least 5000 votes,' he said, land the
state and congressional district VIII
not run more than 1000 votes behind
the president. OF the twenty-five rep
resentatives in the legislature to be
elected in the district the Republicans
will elect twenty. We will also elect
all four of the state senators. The
sixth district is in fine shape and the
Republican candidates are having the
easiest time of their lives there.
IT will be of interest to see how GOOD
a DoIiticaI euesser Mr.. Burrow is Re-
norts from that locality say that Mr.
Burrow himself will have nara une
carving his home county, ana thal
the sixth district as a whole Will go
against him.
Hutchinson, Kas., Oct. BE. w.
Hoch, Republican candidate Tor gov
ernor. made two speeches in this coun-
~ Yesterday. The first was at Syl-
via. in the western part of the county,
In the afternoon. and the other was in
tended both meetings. Just before
closing Mr. Hoch referred indirectly
To fhe charges against the state treas
urer, It. T. Kelly, and other state Of
ION the one hand he said, ''are
the interests of the state, which must
be protected, and on the other per-
sonal character, mans most precious
possession I can only promise that
if elected there shall be a thorough
Investigation of every department of
the state government conducted with
out malice and without favor
Mr. Hoch did not commit himself,
however on the proposition of endorS-
ing an embeZzler by re-electing him
to an Office in which he had already
betrayed his trust.
Father Beck. of the Iolton Record
err, prophesies that the present state
treasurer will go down in history as
Escrow Kelly"
A very small percent of the weekly
Republican papers of Kansas are at
tempting any sort of defense of T.
T. Kelly.
The Reno county schools seem to
be in better condition than they were
up to the time of the State Journals
publication about Superintendent Day !
hoff's travelling vouchers a few weeks
ago. Anyway Dayhoff has not been
called to make so many trips to Hutch
inson at the expense of the state as
he did.
Judge A c. T. Geiger of Oberlin. |
who has been Judge of the Seven |
teenth judicial district ever since the
beginning of the Populist party, ex-
cept for a short time when there was |
an interim which Governor Stanley |
filled by the appointment of a Repub- |
lican. has announced his determina- |
ton to vote for Roosevelt.
The standing of Judge Geiger will