The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-03
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Guesses on Election Results Are
Made.
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Republican Committee Places
Hoch's Majority at 24,494.
RESULT OF A POLL.
Chairman drummer Says Can
vass was Complete.
Democrats Claim the Election
Of Harris.

The following is the result OF the Hs
publican state central COMMITTEES. s poi
az the state, given out Friday py Shail -
man S c. drummer:
Total vote for Hoch- .....-.....- 1o4' osI
Total vote for Harris -.--.-----.- LOO 'o2
Populist, Prohibition and Social
ist Observation-Disclosures. .-.........-. 4ttSSS
b Majority for Hoch..--..--.----- z4'4S4
This estimate of the total vote is based
on returns received from about l'9ug
precincts of the state, out of a total OF
300. Chairman drummer states tnat
this is a larger portion of precincts man
is usually included in making up the
estimates from the poll
IT feel that this poll can be relied on,
said Chairman drummer Yesterday
We have received our reports direct
from the precinct committeeman who
ought to know the true situation II
anyone does
There is this to say about this cam
paign. It may be that we have not
made an especially brilliant fight, but
no one can say that We have made any
bad breaks We have organized the
state thoroughly, and have made our
fight clean and above board all the way
through. That is something which can
be said for the opposition. They have
conducted a campaign of misrepresen-
tation and have not confined themselves
to the truth.
TT is on the strength of this poll
taken directly by the precinct commit
teemen. who are themselves on the
ground and who have done the work
of organizing their precincts, that my
confidence in the result is based. The
only question now is as to the magni-
tude of Governor HOch' s majority and
that depends alone on the ability of the
get the vote to the polls. This now is
the all important work and I urge that
no effort be spared to get every Re
publican voter to the polls The pre-
einct committeeman and their helpers
have done splendid work thus far in
the campaign and I appeal to them
now in these closing days to redOuble
IN cir efforts sa as to more than make
goods-H~ possible. the figures that have
been reported by them TO this commit
tee and upon which my predictions as
to the result are based.
Despite the fact that this has been
an off year. the precinct organizations
almost without exception have re-
sponded promptly and vigorously to
the requests that have been made of
them by this committee And it is
with absolute confidence that I entrust
the final work Of the campaign to their
hands, believing that they viii con
ttnue such work until the last vote is
in the ballot box and Governor Hoch
and the entire state ticket are tri-
umphanuy elected
This is the official statement from
the Republican state headquarters,
and naturally it is expected to be the
most optimistic of anything the party
is able to present.
AS a matter of fact it is generally
conceded among the Republican poll
ticians, that the estimate of 1900 as
HOch's plurality is a great exaggera-
ton of the real outlook for the vote
on next Tuesday.
In their heart-to-heart talks, the
Republicans admit that they will be
mighty lucky to beat Harris by 10000
votes.
There is not the slightest reason to
doubt that the polls received at Re
publican headquarters show that
HOch is going to pile up the $4,000
majority, as claimed The only ques-
ton is whether the polls are accurate
Republicans themselves do not believe
that they are accurate.
A well known state officer said yes
terday: Il have personal knowledge
of some of the things contained In
that poll and I want to say that If the
whole poll is as much of A misrepre-
sentation of the facts as the portions
relating to my county, the entire Doll
is valueIess. The poll which the com
mittee has of my county does not rep
resent the true conditions in my county.
Proper allowance has not been made
for Republicans who are off the reser-
walton ] am very much afraid that
the returns Will not bear out Chair
man Crummer's estimates
Another state officer. who retires in
ATauuary said. Il do not believe the
committee realizes the extent Of this
revolt against Hoch and the Renrb-
lican party. / think Senator Long
does realize what he is up against,
The people OF Kansas are mad at the
attitude of the Republican party on
railroads. Every time Long makes q
speech roasting La Toilette, he makes
enemies for himself. The people of
Kansas want new deal on the rail-
road proposition"
There has been much interest mani
tested in what Governor HOch Vvo,,1d
say in his LeavenwOrth speech Friday
night Governor Hoch was billed for an
address at Turner hall, and the meeting
proved to be one of the largest ever
held in the city.
Everybody wanted to see what Hoeh
would say about prohibition Col Har-
ris, IN his speech at Leavenworth and
at Atchison, had declared himself en-,
nhatically in favor Of the enforcement
of the prohibitory law The result was
that the liberal vote came to Hoch en-
masse. Hoeh was thus placed in a deli
cate position. If he declared for pro-
hIbition, he would undo the chance to
corral the liberal vote; If he lodged me
issue. he would be injured with fhe.
prohibition voters in other parts OF the
state.
Governor Hoeh met the dilemma bv
declaring himself in favor of the en-
forcement Of all laws He said that fh4
prohibitory law was being enforced bet
ter in Kansas than the liquor laws ar,
enforced IN Missouri.
Then the governor turned the speech
into discussion Of the work of his ad-
rninistration-
Besides making the evening speech at
Turner halIs Governor Hoeh spoke at
The Soldiers Home IN the afternoon.