The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-18
John W. BreIdenthal Gives His
Views on Kansas Politics.
Says That 10000 HOch Votes
viii 60 to Harris.
LONG is DROWNED OUT
Senatorial Automobile Party
Forced to Abandon Trip.
Sixth District Congressional
Campaign Opened at Downs.

It is the opinion of John w Breiden-
thai, former state bank commissioner,
and who was prominent as a PopuIists
that in the campaign of 1904 not fewer
than 10000 Populises and Democrats in
this state voted for Hoch for governor.
About everyone who discusses politics
these days seems to think that an un-
precedented political situation Is pre-
sented in the state In all my expert
ence," said Mr.. Breidenthal Il have
never known anything like it,
When Mr.. Breidenthal, who keeps in
close touch with what is going on in
Kansas. says he has never known politi-
cal conditions to exist like those which
now prevail it is high time folks here
about sat up and began to take no.
tice.
OF course, Mr.. BreidenthaI is for W.
A. Harris for governor.
He IS one OF the big men IN the
state who has made more than good at
all times and under all circumstance.
said Mr. Breidenthal today, and lost
no time in writing TO him and promising
my support. 1 call myself an tnde-
pendent. How else are you going to
classify a man who voted at the last
general election for men on i've differ
ent tickets. That is what I did in 1904.
AS a Kansan who wants to see decency
and good government prevail am for
look over SO many tickets this yeSr to
find the men I want to vote for
Mr. Breidenthal has carefully can
vassed the figures Of the last Kansas
Each Republican in the state" re-
marked Mr. Brefdenthal, was enthusi~
astc- He had candidate for president
who inspired him to do his utmost for
the ticket. The enthusiasm for Roose-
welt carried everything before It in this
state and it carried to the Republican
ticket $4,000 voters who had been with
the Populist party in all its campaigns
since 1880. Most of these votes were
cast for Hoch''
win he get them this fan?" Mr..
Breidenthal was asked
They will vote for Harris for the
same reason that they voted for Rose
welt. Harris has been tried and no man
who ever voted for him has had reason
to regret IL. He stands for the things
the voters are chiefly concerned in
Not more than per cent of the total
Populist vote Of the state, In Mr. Breid-
enthals opinion, will be cast fon Keefer
the Middle-of- the-Road nominee for
governor. The Socialist party. he thinks,
will poll several times as many votes as
the Keefer ticket.
My business keeps me in pretty close
touch with what Is going on in the
state,' continued Mr.. BreidenthaI. ssEv-
cry two or three months am compelled
to go into q number of counties and
wherever go hear the same reports.
ways supported the Republican ticket
and q man of standing in his party, told
me he believed that Brown county would
give q majority for Harris. There Is
Republican disahectfon in Miami and
in Anderson and in DouHlaS. In co17r-
ties which once were great Republican
strongholds Hoch win lose thousands Of
votes. There is no way by which these
voters can be reconciled- Campaign
methods of several years ago are no
1ro1sc off n1ff Won Trrf11
political meetings like those held in 1880
and 1892 or in 1896. The day Of rural
routes has killed the big demonstrations
for the speaker OF ordinary reputation.
If Bryan or Folk should come to Kansas
they would draw large crowds but It
would be impossible to induce ten or
fifteen thousand people to come out TO a
political barbecue or picnic. The farmers
know more about what public men stand
for than the orators who come to in
struct them. The rural carriers bring
the newspapers to their doors and they
read and think and the more they read
the less inclined they are to sacrifice
time for ordinary political meetings
There is no excitement in Kansas this
year but there is a deep-seated deter
mination to change the administration"
Downs, Kan, Sept. 1S.=Congress-
man w. A Reeder and Governor e.
W. Hoch spoke to a large audience IN
the Downs Opera house Monday after
noon. These were the first speeches
Of the campaign for the Sixth congress
sional district.
Governor Hoch's address was prin-
cipally on state politics together with
a statement of what the administration
had accomplished in the way Of enact
ment Of beneficial laws and the fulfill
ment Of party promises In asking Eor
the support OF the people In the co N
ing election he said he wished only to
stand on the record that the party
had made. The governor talked for
two hours. Congressman Reeder's sd- .
dress was on national politics.
Captain W. H. Mitchell, chairman
of the Sixth congressional district
committee, and Senator D. B. Harrison
we're present
Isabel, kan, Sept. 1s.=Not automo-
biles, nor wagons, nor bugg1es nor
even passage, on foot and on horse,
are the order OF things this week, in
the short-grass country, semi-arid re-
gion, but boats might serve a purpose.
Senator Long, and his party have been
compelled by the unprecedented rains
to abandon the automobile tour which
state, the past few weeks. They sought
to proceed by train. glad to have the
chance of even q freight train. but
We're unable to do even that.
Coldwater was to have been. the
meeting place OF the autornobiIists
yesterday noon. P. G. WeIton, en-
route to Kansas, from Colorado. has
tening to join the party. picked up W.
J. Fitzgerald. nominee for lieutenant
governor. in Dodge City, Sunday after
noon, and drove to some point mid
way that night
G. Q. Chandler. C. z. Denton OF At
tica. the nominee for secretary Of
state, and Waldron Chase, Of Medicine
Lodge, accompanied by an expert au-
tomobilist from Wichita, were to have
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