The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-29
POLITICAL GOSSIP
sCap.1 Curtis and His Flop Ex-
change Are Missed.
Republican Committee Has a
List OF 279.
RYAN DOES BETTER.
Democratic Leader Claims to
Have $4,000 on Record.
Cottonwood Falls Reveille Takes
Down Republican Ticket.
lYAN DOES BETTER.


state have been heard from.
This is the statement given out to-
day by Chairman S. C. drummer and
Secretary Clyde Miller of the Repubh
can state committee, when it was re-
ported to them That Chairman Ryan of
the Democratic committee had made
the stsfemeltt that the Republicans had
a list of $1,000 dops.
Chairman Ryan has just received his
information about the condition OF the
Republican flop list, and he felt that
he had the thing straight. He said:
We have received letters from a large
number of Republicans who expect TO
vote for Harris, and through various
sources we get the information about
the $1,000 flops upon whom the Republi-
can committee IS working. One man
from Marion county wrote to us that
he had been reported as off the reserva-
ton, and the Republicans had sent him
several letters to line him up. He sent
back the last letter with the statement
endorsed on the back that. he was off
the reservation, all right, and intended
to stay off, and that everybody else il
Marion county was off with him.
All Of which statement the Republi-
can managers declare is the result of
Mr. Ryan's overheated Imagination.
Look here" said Secretary Miller,
pulling a book out of his desk, IN just
count the people who are off, and show
And bear in mind" said Chairman
drummer while Miller was counting,
that every letter we have sent out
to our workers throughout the state
has urged and instructed them to send
to US the name of every Republican
who for any reason was refusing to
support any portion Of the ticket. This
list includes people who are out against
any man in the whole list. Every name
that is sent IN to US is entered on this
T~.-r hot ora
of the people in the book who have
been persuaded to come hack into the
fold and quit their knocking"
There are 279s names in the book,
announced Miller. The trouble with
the Democrats is that they are counting
in a lot Of Democrats and POpulists as
former Republicans The Democrats
figure that If 4 man voted for ROose-
Welt in the last election that he is
Repu blican. whereas. the facts are that
thousands of Democrats and PopuHsts
voted for Roosevelt. We don't expect
them to vote for Hoch and the Repub-
lican ticket. They never do
There are a good many counties in
the state which have reported no
.'hops'' whatever to the ublican head
quarters. OF course it is possible for
good many people to be off on the war
path without saying much about it, but
as a general thing, man who gets
mad and decides to vote an opposition
ticket is rather loud about It. and does
going to do and why.
The death of State Senator Charles
N. Peck Of Concordia leaves vacancy
in the Office of senator from the Thirty
second district comprising Cloud and
Republic counties.
Under the law, this vacancy must be
filed by election, and it IS likely that
arrangements will be made at once to
hold the election in connection with the
regular fall election on November 6. The
senatorial committees representing each
party will probably hold meetings, and
either call senatorial convention. or else
select a candidate by action of the COM
mittee.
State Senator J. E. Brewer of Abb
| lene was in Topeka today on his way
home from Kansas City, where he was
on business.
NO, I haven't answered the letters
from James A. Troutman requesting
me to declare myself on the square
/ deal questions" he said II showed
the letters to the people up in my
county, and asked them what I should
do with them, and they said, Haven't
you got a waste basket2' That was
enough to show me what the people
of my county thought.
I believe that Hoch will carry the
county although there is a good deal
/ of trouble just now on account of
about 5 liquor prosecutions which
were started up there by Codding, the
i State TEN peFance union attorney. A
good many people in our county want
/ the saloons to run, and they blame
/ Hoch for Codding's action in starting
the prosecutions. Nevertheless. I think
that Hoch will carry the county,
AS the campaign progresses, so does
activity at Democratic headquarters in
/ getting a force of speakers out through
the state. Dates for Colonel w. A.
Harris. the gubernatorial nominee.
have been arranged as follows for the
next two weeks:
October i, Beloit; October 2. Belle
Vile; October g. Holton; October
/ Quenemo; October 6. Horton; October
/ s. and 10, Kansas City; October Il,
LinwoOd: October II. Abilene; October
10. Clay Center.
The three dates. October 8, and 10,
which Colonel Harris will spend at
] Kansas City. will be devoted by him to
David Overmyer, the candidate for
/ attorney general. has dates for next
/ week at Alma, October 2 y Independ-
ence, October (; Howard October 5.
reilly, the nominee for lieutenant gov
lernor, will speak at Shaw on OcIober
/ 2; Yates Center, october 3, and Hum
I laoldt. October 6.
Prof. A. 3. Carney. the candidate for
81 perinteTlueIlt Of EDUCATION, has been
/ taking an active part IN the cam paign
/ ami his dates for next week are at
Beloit on October / Believilte, Octo-
Der ?: Jamestown and Abilene. Octo-
Der 3; Glen Elder and Cawker city.
October 4; Stockton, October 3, and
33sOsborne and Downs, October S.
Patrick German, the candidate for
/ treasurer, has been campaigning
throughout the state, more than any
other man on the ticket, not even ex-
! cepting Colonel Harris. and he has
/ speaking dates the same as those Of
+ Afr. Harris.
In big headlines. garnished with
roosters, on IT'S first page. the Courant
and ReEeille sof Cottonwood Falls an
r.n,1aaca. It's As-1a Of san. u that