The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-10
VOTE IN CITY.
Over 1000 We're Cast at Tues
days Election.
Plurality for Roosevelt Was
" Nearly 1000.
KELLY9OVOTES BEHIND
Many Republicans Did Not Vote
on Treasurer.
Debs, Socialist Candidate, Poll
ed $50 I'm Topeka.
KELLY9OVOTES BENIN

The total vote Of the city of Topeka
on president was 1880; on governor the
total vote was 1894.
OF these totals Roosevelt and Parker
received exactly 1000 and Hoch and
Dale 1907. The vote of Hoch and Dale
was slightly in excess of that of
Roosevelt and Parker in every ward
Be the city.
This peculiar condition was due to
one of two things: either the heavy
vote cast for the Socialist candidate
for president, Eugene Debs, which
drew from the vote of Roosevelt and
Parker, or the failure of some Demo-
Gratis to vote for any candidate for
president.
In 1900, sos per cent of the total reg
istered vote was actually voted. In
this election only 1851 per cent of the
registration was voted. In 1900 the
total registration was 10.174 and the
total vote 1929. In 1904, the total regis
tration was $780, and the total vote
1880.
The vote received by the scattering"
candidates in the whole city, SO far as
it was reported by the clerks, was as
follows;
For president
Silas Swallow. Prohibitionist.. 80
L V. Debs, Socialist ......-...-.....26 4
Tom Watson. Peoples Party-....... q
For governor
James Kerr. Prohibitionist.. ......... 81
G. Lowther. Socialist. --..-...........16 9
- - Mcclure, Independent. 1
1t was about o'clock Wednesday
afternoon before all the returns were
received and tabulated by the commits
sioner of elections. and since then some
changes and corrections have been
made where the clerks failed to make
the correct return. The following
totals are correct, as nearly as they
can be made until after the official
count of the vote on Friday:
Roosevelt, 5,415; Parker, 1855. Roose-
velt's plurality, $3.50.
Hoeh, 1855: Dale. 2,512. Hoch's
plurality, 2.O4S.
DoIan. 1880; Kelly. $500; Dolan's
plurality, 80.
Curtis, 4,609; Harvey, 2,25S. Curtis
plurality, 1851.
There certainly must be something
wrong when n Republican stronghold
like Topeka gives a majority in favor
of Dolan, a Democrat, and in the same
election piles up for a Republican NOM
inee for president a plurality more than
twice as large as his opponents total !
vote. 1t is the most severe condemna-
ton the Republican party ever received |
in the city of Topeka.
There were a good many Republicans |
in Topeka who refused to vote for eth |
er Kelly or Dolan. Some of these simp- |
~ left the treasurer square blank; 9TH |
ers, as is indicated by the returns. voted |
for Fogle, the Prohibition candidate. |
Fogle received 195 votes in the city for |
the office Of treasurer, while about 100 |
was the average received by the other |
Prohibition candidates for state offices. |
Just before the election. circulars were !
sent out, supposedly by Tom Kelly HIM |
self. advising people to vote for Fogle |
and not for either Dolan or Kelly. This /
was done to split the dissatisfied Re |
publican vote and keep them from 60 !
ing to Dolan en- masse.
c. P. Bolmar, the independent candi- |
date for state senator, received in the |
city a total of Isl votes. His home pre-
cinct, the first of the Sixth, gave him |
81 votes. Bolmar had 500 names on the
petition asking that his name be placed |
on the independent ticket 1t rather |
looks as though some of the people who |
signed the petition must have done so |
as joke. Mr.. Bolmar claims that had |
the judges and clerks been more care |
full to inspect the Ballots, and look over |
into the Independent column, they |
would have found a great many more |
votes for him. Mr.. Bolmar carried one |
precinct-the fifth Of the Fourth, which /
gave him two of its three votes J. Z. /
Belts got the other. /
The total vote on the proposition 10
vote $4,000 in bonds to build fyyo new /
arches on the north end of the MeIan I
brid- received the following vote: For /
1888; against, TO; majority for the |
bonds. 1928.
on the proposition to vote $1040 to /
build five new bridges at various points :
in the city, there were 3,076 votes yes /
and 1,193 votes mo-" a majority for the !
bonds of 1928.
All that remains now to be done is to /
issue and sell the bonds. and let the l
contracts for building the bridges. The |