The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-03

bitionist. He says let the friends of
prohibition and not its enemies, have
the enforcement of the law in charge.
The question in Kansas is not pro-
hibltion or anti-prohibition. Honest
men might differ in their views of
prohibition, but honest men cannot
differ when it comes to the enforce
ment Of any law.
THE issue in Kansas today is shall
the people rule. or shall the jointist
rule2 Politicians get black in the face
denouncing Missouri invasion, when
Governor Folk answered our Mace
But what about Missouri invasion
for twenty-five years in bottle, jug, key
and barrel?
Anything can do to assist you in
this campaign, will be gladly done.
viii preach next Sunday night at
Beagle, Kansas, on Civic Righteous
ness.
Your for Kansas.
JOHN P. MARTIN"
Elaborate preparations are being
made by the Republican and Demo-
cratic state committees to get the re-
turns. from the election next Tuesday
night ard Wednesday morning.
The telegraph and telephone COM
panies viii put in special wires and in
struments at the respective headquar-
ters, and the telephone companies are
offering free service on their lines III
telephonlng in election returns.
The Democrats are planning to re-
celve returns at their headquarters from
their county chairman throughout tha
state and the Republicans have gone
even further, and have instructed their
precinct workers to send in the result
Of the precinct votes as rapidly as pos.
sible.
Under such preparations for report
ing returns, the result of the Kansas
election ought to be known by We'd
/ nesday morning, unless the outcome is
very close.
! At Republican headquarters, the re
turns will be received in the private
offices of the secretary and chairman,
and the results win be bulletined in the
hotel annex. which has been used as the
! workshop for the committee clerks. and
as headquarters for the speakers
bureau.
The local returns for Shawnee county
/ will be received at the county head
! quarters and the result in Shawnee
/ county should be known by midnight
/ The Shawnee county Republican work
! ers are today claiming the election of
| the county ticket and state tickets in
/ this county by from 1900 to 200 plur-
4 ality. The Democratic managers are
making none of their figures public
CrumIncr's Final Appeal.
| Today Chairman e'run tAer gave out
/ the following statement from headquar-
4 to stand by the straight Republican
1 ticket:
ITO any Republican voter, if any such
| there be. who may contemplate voting
/ for Mr.. Harris, we appeal to first give
serious and sober thought to the follow
ing self evident prOpositiOns
I ''First-You are thereby inficting up
| on yourself the fanciful delusion that
you can seat and unseat Mr.. Harris at
! your pleasure. This you cannot under
/ existing circumstances do. Even though
this past master Of cunningly devised
( political schemes should. alone, of all
Of these foxy conspirators, be seated,
/ he will have the patronage and power,
with the help Of the Democratic nation
| al organization, to organize his party
to not only hold that seat for the first
incumbency. but, pursuant to deep laid
/ plans Of national initiative, deliver
Kansas, bound and gagged, to Bryan in
1909
tSecond-The race Mr.. Harris is MAX
/ ing for governor is a mere means to 4
/ more pregnant end, and not so much of
state as national import. 1t is only a
minor but yet indispensable means of
the most cunningly devised scheme ever
invented by Democratic ingenuity. To
sink an anchor in Kansas in 1906 for
/ the Bryan propaganda of 1908 is a part
with q masterful national plan, of which
the seating of Hearst in New York is a
feature, TO seat governors, and COVER
ROrs specially, if the whole state ticket
can not be seated, in all Republican
states possible. who can and will dis
organize Republicans and organize
Democrats. in the states for the ensuing
national campaign. The enhancement
of Harris in the admittedly Republi-
can stronghold of Kansas is of no less
consequence to this conspiracy than the
installation Of his c0-cons pirator
Hearst. in New York, for Kansas is as
much the keynote of the trans issis-
sippi west. as New York is of the east
Give to Bryan only these two states in
1906 and you have raised up a deadly
menace to the national Republican par
ty in 1908.
.Third-The race which Harris
came back 10 Kansas to make is not
for the mere Office and habiliments OF
governor, but is for a seat at the big
table at the right hand of Bryan. a
Erecompense to Thou good and faithful
servant Manifestly, Harris, who is
well known to be a most ambitious
man, would not have quit his home
and we'll paying business in Chicago
FOR two BRIEF years of turmoil and
grief incident to that office. and if any
self deluded Republican who listens to
his seductive lullabys and his soft
nesmeric Establishments on the one
| hand or the laundering threats OF
Overmyer upon the other. believes
that he or his party can, at such time
and in such circumstances as these
risk such experiments for the very
head and life of his ticket and which
Viii unnecessarily IGilSA q AdLdtt0 upon
the whole ticket from governor down
he is recklessly. If not Willingly, de-
luding himself. and to that extent con-
tributing to both state and national
disaster
s.FNourth-You have read in the
press reports what President Roose-
Welt has TO say, speaking through Sec
rotary Root, of the importance, not
only to the party at large, but to him
and his policies. of restraining tbs
Ambitions Of such men as Hearst. and
also his comment on the evil spirit in
carnate in the politician who only
.sowS the seeds Of dissesion and strife
and hatred throughout our land, and
who would destroy among the great
masses OF our people that kindly and
friendly spirit and consideration OF
liz irater-est.. a-a-i ..lalals Of nt - H.