The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-01
ONE MORE CHANCE
Tomorrow Final Opportunity to
Vote for Several Months.
More Interest in City Election
Than Anticipated.
COUNCILMEN CONTEST.
Democrats Say They Expect to
Win Three Aldermen.
Fraser Develops Considerable
Strength in the Fourth.
COUNCILMEN CONTEST.
is election day.

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| A new city administration will go
! into office as the result of Tuesday S
| election, no matter which way the re-
| turns will go, whether towards the DEM
| ocratic party or the Republican.
n. Ward Page. who is managing the
Republican campaign, was at the Re-
publican headquarters all of the day
and it assumed for the first time re-
semblance to the conditions which sur
round party headquarters.
Il think that we will win in every
ward,'' said he. I'VE will carry the
First ward without a question, and
though there is a hard fight on in the
Second we will carry that too. The
fight lies in the Second, Third and
Fourth wards. We will elect all of our
councilmen and I don't think that there
is the slightest bit of danger as to the
rest of the ticket. We will get our
carriages out tomorrow and have ward
workers in every ward. The people are
beginning to wake up and 1 don't think
that the Democrats will be able to steal
a march on us. If the day is good
great many people will walk to the
polls
I'VE are going to elect three coun-
cilmen and possibly four" said L. NJ.
Penwell, a leading Democrat
I'VE are going to win in the First,
Second and Third wards and possibly in
ward by about $50, the Second ward by
$50 and the Third ward will be about
even. 1t is probable that we send
councilman from the Fourth ward. Our
candidate there is making a hot fight
and may win.
THE campaign has been the kind
that I like. There has been no mud
singing and it has been decent. We
have not indulged in any mud singing
and 1 don't think that the other side
hoc oSf T n NOT hn0 0r6 Of 7T1X
1t has been conducted decently on both
sides. If the people vote as they talk
I believe that Mr.. Kemper will be elect
ed mayor. He is a decent man and an
able one, too. His opponent, Mr.. Green,
is also a decent man Both candidates
are men that are fit for the office"
The Democrats win not engage any
rigs for Tuesday. They expect that
most of their voters will walk to the
polls. They are not paying much atten-
tion to the whole ticket but are making
their fight and concentrating their
strength on three councilmen from the
First, Second and Third wards.
A peculiar mix up exists in the Second
ward Some of the Democrats are sore
because H. P. Miller did not secure the
nomination in place of James Lannan
and may knife the ticket. AS against
this the Republicans have practically
the same conditions existing with GER
tain followers of Joe Griley who are in
clined to bolt because Griley was turn
ed down in his attempt to secure the
nomination. In all the remaining wards
it is straight fight.
In the First ward George Young,
Democrat, is opposing w. NJ. VanNess.
Republican for council, in the Second
ward it is James Lannan, Democrat,
against r. I. Jones, in the Third ward,
H. B. Howard. Republican. has as his
opponent, ]. M. French, Democrat, in 4
the Fourth ward Lewis Fraser, Dem
ocrat, is fighting c. w. Horn, in the
Fifth ward Wesley Hale, colored and
Democrat, is running for council
against G. H. Kutz, while in the Sixth
ward the Democrats have nominated
W. j. Whittekind and the Republicans
E. F. Stanley. The surprise of the
above is the strength that Fraser is
showing in the Fourth ward. He has
lived in the city for 25 years and has
been engaged in the grocery business
in the same ward for ten years and
this in a measure accounts for his pop
ularity c. w. Horn has begun to re-
alize the fight that is being waged in
the Fourth ward and became active to-
day engaging workers and carriages.
H G. Larimer, chairman OF the Re
nublican city central committee. feels |
that the only contest will be in the |
election of councilmen and views the |
weak precincts as being the first, sec
ond and fifth in the Second ward and |
the third and fourth precincts in the /
Fourth ward and possibly the first pre- |
cinct in the First ward. OF the regis |
ira ton of over 1o,Uou tne estimates are
that the total vote cast will not ex-
ceed so per cent and probably not so
per cent.
William Green, the Republican NOM
inee for mayor, is still in st. Augustine,
Florida, but is expected to return by
about Wednesday of this week. In his
absence his campaign has been looked
after exclusively by the city central
of his party
w H. Kemper on the other hand has
been probably more active personally
than any other one person of the Demo-
cratic party. He has made house to
house canvass in the First and Second
wards and has personally seen a great
many shopmen. Circulars are being
distributed by Democrats attacking the
city council of previous administrations
for giving away franchises and especial
y the franchise under which the gas
company is now operating.
The polls will open at o'clock tomor-
row morning and remain open until
D. clock in the evening