The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-25
ISSUES MADE up
Republican Primary Is to BE
Held Saturday.
Few Bets Are Being Made on the
Results.
ODDS ON MIR. DANA.
Wager of $500 to $500 on
Him Goes Begging.
Polls Will Be Open at 1880 in
Afternoon.

The local campign for the Republican
nominations for county officers has
reached the final stage The primary
will be held Saturday and it may be
said that the issues have been made
up. Few votes will be made or lost
before the opening of the polls on Sat
urday afternoon.
While there is still a great deal of
talk about the contest for district judge
the betting odds have not changed from
the first and bets of 10 to on Dana
posted at Eagles have gone begging
The largest wager posted is one of $500
to $500 that Dana win be nominated
for district judge. 1t has been on the
board several days but there are no
takers. There is also one bet OF $100
to $50 that Dana will be nominated and
one of $50 to $40 that both Dana and
Hungate will be nominated. There are
several other bets on Hungate. at odds
of four to one but none of them have
been taken. The only bet of any mag
nitude made at Eagles was one of 500
to $40 on Dana, ] H. Maxwell taking
the long end Several small bets at
even money on the nomination of DR..
Keith as coroner were greedily snapped
ZIP. An even bet on the nomination OF
John H. Cartel for superintendent is
unmolested.
These wsgers are a pretty good indi-
cation of the general sentiment for the
man who backs his judgment with mon
ey has his ear pretty close to the
ground. The election is in many re-
spectS peculiar because it is the first
primary in many years in which the
prohibition question is not an issue
that is to the extent that it overshad-
oWS everything elese. A feeble attempt
has been made to organize a fight on o.
H AnnRafa a for at ar
ney, but it has been of very little effect.
The strength of Mr.. Dana for district
judge has come from many sources but
chief among them is the fact that
very large majority of the members of
the bar are for him, purely on the
ground that the interests of the county
demand that there should be strong
able, experienced lawyer on the bench
The selection OF a district judge means
more to the lawyers than to any one
else, though the people are interested in
having man on the bench who is able
to grapple with the questions which
arise and dispatch business-it means
much money saved to the taxpayers:
Mr.. McCabe has been working hard and
has gained some strength in several To-
calities, notably the west end of the
Third ward and in the Fifth
The contest for county superintendent
is a very exciting one, but the chances
still seem to favor Mr.. Garter, who is
principal of the Oakland schools
There is a. three cornered contest for
coroner and it has been quite as ex-
citing as any. The people who think
they know say the result will be close.
DR.. Keith's friends say that things are
his way but nearly all the doctors are
tying their faith to DR.. Wehe. DR.. Tay-
lor, the third candidate, is a colored
physician of good standing.
There is an exciting contest for SEN
ator but the people who bet money on
elections have let this contest alone.
This would indicate that it is a close
fight. Both Mr.. CLANCY and Mr.. Belts
have been doing hard work
In the two south representative dis
tricts there are exciting contests. In
the city district John Abrahams and
w. A. S. Bird are the candidates. Good
guessers say that Mr.. Abrahams has
the better of it. He is a young man
with many personal friends and has
never taken an active interest in poll
tics and some times this is a good point
in a candidates favor. In the south
district Robert Stone and w. W. Har-
vey are the candidate. 1t is admitted
everywhere that this fight is a close
one. Both men are bright, active
young lawyers and have many personal
friends. An effort was made to drag
the Odd Fellows case into the contest
by the opponents of Mr.. Stone but it is
having little or no effect.
The polls will open at 1:90 Saturday
afternoon and will close at p. m. in
Tie CILy- OllOW1n6 dIC LhC rOt1l45
places and those who will be in charge:
FIRST WARD.
First precinct-Store building S14 North
Kansas avenue-P. J. Mulligan, super
visor.
Second Precinct Marshalrs carpenter
shop-Mack Overton, supervisor.
Fourth precinct. store building 1884 N.
ANa''SsS aSeiSaSN SECOND ''8HAii WARD. f1pe' ''S0'
First precinct, hall sOs East First
Madison-A. D. Bauer, supervisor.
Third precinct, Pechener's store, 91S E.
Fourth street-Leroy Currier, supervisor.
e. Witchey, supervisor:
Fifth precinct, the Auditorium-E R.
Sixth precinct~All that part OF the Sec
ond ward known or described the Root
dition, Western Land company addition,
and the Bates addition, as described and
of Topeka approved December 3, 1903,
and published December IL, 1903; pro-
yided,, that no voter residing in the above
vote for candidates for representative in
the Thirty-eighth representative district,
nor in the Second commissioner district,
Benson's store, corner Sixth and Califor-
MIA avenue. a; 4, Rice, supervisor.
First precinct, George Seybolds store.
931 Kansas avenue-A. w. Hopkins, super
visor.
Second precinct shy uSl , bean y VS72
w Tenth street-Charles Roush, super
visor
Third precinct, Benefits flats, s08 West
Twelfth-L. 6. Beal supervisor
Fourth precinct, Jordan's hall, Lincoln
street, near Twelfth-W- 1. Jamison, Su-
pervisor.
FOURTH WARD.
First precinct, Watson's barn, 215 West
Sixth street-R. f. Hodgins, supervisor.
Second precinct, city prison, Fifth and
Jackson streets-M. E. Stoker, super
rrbird rraeinct store building at 334
TAYLOR street-C. N. Miller, supervisor.
Fourth precinct, carpenter shop at 525
Fillmore street-Frank Blanch, super
FIFTH WARD.
First precinct, Schlichter & Holler's