The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-03
Congressman Charles Curtis also made
a speech at both meetings.


gret to me that could not devote any
time to campaigning in Marion coun~
! ~. as has been my custom for so many
I years. But the demands upon me have
| been SO great in other parts of the
state that the state committee in its
wisdom has thought it wise for me to
devote my time elsewhere. I have
I been making a strenuous campaign.
! perhaps the most arduouS ever made
| by a candidate in this state-spe aking
twice and sometimes three and four
/ times a day, and travelling most every
position to shirk work that has kept
me out of Marion county. It has been
| because the committee and myself felt
that the people who have known me
for more than a third of a century
would overlook seeming neglect
more readily than strangers.
The campaign IS now nearing its
/ close. It has been a remarka bic cam
paign in many respects, chiefly re-
| narkable for the fake issues and fake
/ claims trumped up by the opposition.
I have been the chief target for poison
1 ed arrows Of a most unserupulous foe.
Every fair man knows that the fight
put up against me has not been fair.
I A Democratic newspaper over in Mis-
souri, with millions in its Golfers, and
with an immense circulation In this
state, has been particularly violent and
vicious in its attacks upon me- Against
such attacks one has no adequate de-
Tense. He can reach the ears of but
! few, while it reaches the eyes of many;
and when he does make answer his
words are Immediately misrepresented
and made to do service against him.
By innuendo. by petty slurs and by
gross fabrications, utterly unworthy of
a great newspaper only of a
slum organ-it has sought to belittIe
and defeat me.
TO the people of Marion county I
Z
earth and cOvet their good opinion
more than that of any other people IL
the world Among them I have spent
the z9st and the best years of my life.
and among them [ expect to live the
remainder of my days when I return TO
private citizenship, from which they,
more than any other people, in the first
place called me; and to them I now
finally and formally commit my candi-
dacy, confident of the verdict they will
render next Tuesday. I am confident of
reelection by q large majority, to which
am sure Old Marion county will gen
erously contribute. and I hope Marion
county sustains its splendid reputation
by giving to the whole ticEet-state and
county-an old time Republican MAORI
ty. E. W. HOCH.
Topeka. Kansas. Oct. 81. 1906
A Topeka man. taking the vote of 1900
as a basis. has figured it out that Harris
will be elected by 5000. Here is what
he sends to the State Journal Office on
the subject:
IN the election Of 1900 when the com
bined vote for Stanley and Breidenthal
was 346 600 in round numbers. Stanley
received about 1928 Of the total, Brefd-
enthal 1923 of the total. Stanley's vote
151 600, BreidenthaI 1855. O00
The vote Of the state cast in the
cities of first, second and third class,
and the country districts, is divided
about $4,000 in the cities. $4,000 in the
Should we take the present year reg
istration in 20 cities as an index to the
whole the city vote this year VIII not
exceed $4,000.
Should the country vote be cast in
like ratio that vote would be about
100000, making total vote Of about
299, 900.
If the ratio of absentees, stay at
home voters, be the same in the Re
that IS should the Republican vote as
compared with six years ago and the
opposition vote as compared with the
same year be out in like ratio with
the gubernatorial vote of 1900. the vote
would be, Republican about 1876 600, op-
299 COO
IF the Republican loss. be one in five
in the cities and one in eight in the
country precincts it would take 10000
votes from the Republican 1856 600, re-
ducing that vote to 1856 600, and added
to the opposition raise that vote to
1853 900.
Should the liquor traffic vote Of the
Democratic party to the number of g.,
GOO leave Harris and go to Hoch 1t
would make the Hoch vote 142, 600, leav-
ing the opposition 157, 600.
The extent to which this opposition
vote will 60 to the other three tickets.
the Prohibition, the Socialist and the
Peoples party, of course could be but
mere conjecture, and whether the Re
publican loss VIII average 121z per cent
is also conjecture. But estimating 1000
as the total between the other par
ties. the following is the summary:
I1atilS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ..,.5s-.--. 10000
Hoen ,.--...-....-..- ........... $4,000
Scattering --..--...- ........-... 1000
Colonel William F. Sapp, ex-chair-
man of the Democratic state central
committee, writes to the State Journal
from Galena as follows:
Some time ago I thought that in
the interest of good government and
the welfare of the state, it would be
good policy to write a private letter as
citizen to the Methodist ministers of
this state and ask them to preach
sermon on civic righteousness. The
letler was not intended to insult any
BODY and was not intended for publ
cation Since that time and without
consent of mine the Topeka Capital has
puDhshed my letter and the reply of
minister Of the gospel, who declined by
] inference to preach on civic righteous
ness before election. He sent my let
ter to Governor Hoch with his reply to
me. and the governor, 7 suppose, gave
It to the newspapers. 7 desire to say,
however. that Of the 500 letters I sent,
there were only four or five dissenting
replies: and I received n large number
Of letters from the ministers with
favorable answers and have taken
the pains. by wire, to get the consent to
publish one Of them which is herewith
given:
"Fontana, Kan. Oct. %. 1906.
VIM. F. sapp. Galenas Kan.
Dear Sir: In reply to your favor.
viii say that I am going to vote for
Vim. A Harris for governor and David
0vermyer for attorney general. I have