The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-20
The Registration Takes a Brace
Today.
Central Committees Begin Their
Active Work.
REACH11,OOO
That Would Be Considered as
Satisfactory.
Democrats Expect Split in Re-
publican Vote.

in the various substations, which for the
day are to be located as follows:
First ward. 917 North kansas avenue.
BARS store.
Second ward, $40 East Fourth. Fitz-
gerald & Lannan's store
Third ward, S02 West. Twelfth, Lantz's
Fourth ward. 52s Topeka avenue.
Werts' store.
Fifth ward. 1901 Washington. chiles'
store
Sixth ward, Tenth and Morris, Alder
fer's store.
Both the Republicans and the Demo-
Gratis are planning to make things hum
tomorrow.
As was predicted in the State Journal
some days ago, the Democrats, who have
so far been laying very low in the bust
ness of registration, are now about to
open up full blast. On Tuesday the
town will be placarded from end to end
with big signs reading. Register and
vote for Blair for mayor" Tuesday .ev-
ening the Democratic city central COM
mittee will meet for the purpose of dis
cussing the progress of the campaign,
and getting the machinery in motion for
the final rush of registration, which the
Democrats viii make between now and
the time the books close Friday night at
10 o'clock.
Today the Republican city central
committee has two people at work in
every precinct of the city, getting
D.
tatives are not hauling people to the
polls; they are simply ma king
house to house canvass and checking
UP to see who is not registered of the
known Republican voters Tuesday
the Republican committee will put
several carriages in every precinct,
and try to get the biggest portion of
the unregistered voters to the sub
stations; especially the voters who live
in the outskirts of town, a long dis
lance from the election commission
er's Office.
1t is estimated that the total reg
istration is now about 5000. 1t will
probably be run up over 10000 on
Tuesday. If the weather is good it
may de that a total of 1900 will be
reached before the books are brought
in from the sub-stations There will
then be three days left for registration
at the main Office, and with favorable
weather it is expected that the regis
tration will reach a grand total Of
the maximum vote of the city.
The time is now at hand for cam
paign claims" The Democrats ex-|
press an unusual degree of confidence.
They have figured out that Blair and
the whole Democratic ticket will WIN
by about 1000 majority. And when
you talk to one of the active managers
of the campaign he viii put up a
very plausible explanation of how it is
going to come to pass.
The Democrats claim, in an unoffi-
cial way, that they will carry the fol-
lowing wards:
First by 300.
Second by 500.
Fifth by 200.
Sixth by 200.
They concede that Davis will carry
the Fourth by a small majority-say
200, but they claim that the Third will
be about a stand off 1t is almost I'M
canny to realize that the Democrats
claim to be able to carry the Sixth
ward. the Gibraltar of the 'drxs.'
But the Democrats are confidently
expecting a split as deep as the Grand
canyon in the Republican vote They
have sent out 10000 personally adj
dressed circulars to help cleaVe the
Republicans in twain and they fully
expect to be able to do the work. The
Democrats are counting on getting
pretty nearly all of the Bergundthal
voters who will consent to go to the
polls at all. They think that the
Bergundthal supporters are sore
about the result of the Republican
primaries, and will come to Blair in
large flocks. They count on Blair's
strength to render effective the fight
for the whole Democratic ticket.
Having proved to their own satisfac-
ton that Blair will be the next mayor,
the Democrats assert with great
emphasis that they win elect two coun-
cilmen: Simms in the First ward and
Griley in the Second. Simms has the
great advantage of running against
weak man; man in whom the people
of his ward have lost some of their con-
fdence, and who may not be able to do
as well as the Republicans expect. The
claim is strongly made that the fight in
the First ward is all over and SimmS is
as good as elected.
It is rather strange that the Demo-
Gratis do not express as much confidence
in the success of Joseph Griley in the
Second as they do in the success of
SimmS in the First. Griley was elected
by 500 majority in the last election, but
it is no doubt true that he has a much
harder man to beat than he had before.
Not only are the Democrats doing
their best to encourage the.Bergundthal
Republicans to get sore and stay out of
the fold, but they are playing a strong
hand of race prejudice They think that
the Republicans will lose a great many
of the negro votes this year on account
of the action of the legislature in pass
ing a bill for separate high school for
colored pupils in Kansas City, Kan.
The Democrats say that the colored
people viii interpret this action to mean
that the Republicans are trying to give
the negroes the worst Of it. and that the
negroes viii all come tumbling into the
Democratic camp.
The Republicans might return this
blow with reminder Of what Geo.
ALBANIAN, Democratic member from
Atchison did to get a law to prohibit
the marriage of negroes and white.
All OF these efforts to make a race
issue" out of the election, however.
would be pure and undehled political
buncOmb.
VIII Bergundthal be asked to make
campaign speeches for the Davis
ticket2 And if he is, will he refuse?
This is a pair of questions which the
Republican politicians are gossipfns
about It has been the rumor for sew
eral days, that Mayor Bergundthal is
inclined to sulk in his tent as a result
OF the primaries. He is said to feel
very keenly the defeat, and to believe
that the Republican party has shown