The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-13
VOTE NOT HEAVY.
About Four Thousand Ballots In
at 2 p. NJ.
Women Are Taking Interest in
Election.
SPLIT in THE SECOND.
Negro DisaffectiOn Worries the
Holiday Organization.
SWendsOn Forces Circulate =
Malicious Circular.
Polls Will Not Close Until s
This Evening.
SPLIT IN THE SECOND.

At O'Clock this afternoon abou
four thousand votes had been cast a
the primary to nominate a Republican
city ticket Notwithstanding the driz
zling rain and the mud underneath
, The registration is $4,000.
This is considered a heavy vote witt
the prevailing weather condition:
which discourage attempts to get the
results which attend a bright sunhiny
day.
The outlook is favorable to the nom
ination of VIM. Green for mayor
though it is conceded that the fight is
a narrow and hard one and that c. X
Holiday will poll a heavy vote.
Swendson is out of the running and
will not carry to exceed one precinct.
His total vote will not reach 1900.
Out of twenty-three precincts in the
city Green's forces captured the or
ganization in II. Holiday 9. Swendson
l. with two compromise boards COM
posed equally of Holiday and Green
supporters.
However. things are not as favor
able towards Holiday in his strong
hold. the Big Second, as his managers
would like to have them. In the First
precinct a serious fight confronts him.
\ split in the colored vote has taken
place and a club which was organized
at the eleventh hour consisting of IS
HleHlDeIS Is QOlnS active WOTk towards
gathering strength for Green in that
precinct. The Holiday managers are
trying to disparage the bolt and sew
era1 of them are trying to make it ap-
pear that it is of so little consequence
that they have not heard of it. 1t is
there. however. The fight is over pa
trOnage. 1t is claimed Holiday has
promised most of the present city
street force their jobs if he gets in be-
cause they have been working for him.
This leaves other workers who want
jobs out in the cold The fight CEN
teTs over this condition. The situa-
tfon was made manifest when for the
first time in years an effort was made
to elect several law and order sym
pathizers on the election board when
II was organized this morning. The
men who supported the bolt were for
Green. They were outnumbered,
however. Rufus Frazier. Holiday
worker who was supervisor. refused
to put the nomination of w. E. Bacon,
a Green man for a member of the
board though Bacon was properly
nominated and seconded. This shows
that Frazier was afraid to let the nom
fnation be put to a test of Il vote
The present election board of the
first precinct is Holiday board and
1t is eloquent testimony that the only
white man on it is John Heitman. All
the remaining members are colored.
The First precinct covers what is the
northwest end of the Second ward and
is thickly populated. especially by col
ored voters.
In the second precinct which usually
votes against any dry candidate a Hol-
liday board was elected without any
trouble. Ir the fourth precinct Green
captured ell but one member on the
board. The remaining member is Rev.
F. f. Mallory, a Swendson supporter
The third precinct was organized for
Holiday.
The support and following which
Swendson expected in the fourth pre-
cinct and third has been much over
total of five votes had not been cast
up until noon for Swendson, in the
fourth it was not any better. Swend-
son will not come within calling dis
and this is acknowledged by his own
workers.
One of the most underhanded piece !
of politics that has been played in a
contained in the circulation of a dodger I
by Sweudson managers. The dodger /
was tiberally distributed from house /
to house. carriers of a morning paper !
were hired where they could buy them
to throw the dodgers around early this
Eleventh Hour Circular.
The dodger states that Green is being
supported by the Anheuser-B Busch |
3 gent. by Otis Hungate and still 9TH
Of liberal administration.
The dodger. states that Green is a
liberal candidate and claims that |
there is no difference between him and
Holiday. Mr.. Swendson has been
claiming all along that Mr.. Green was
4 law and order man and believed as
strictly in the enforcement of law as
himself At the last hour a circular is |
thrown around in the hopes that it can
strike when it is too late to strike back
and refute the statements. Mr. Hun
gate Is a supporter for Holiday. the
Anheuser- Busch story Is manufa ctured
1ut Of whole cloth. and the claim that
Green is a liberal" candidate is one
which should arouse every Green voter
issurance in Mr.. Green. The best re-
Duke that can be administered to poll
les a S played by the Swendson faction
$ a heavy overwhelming vote for Green.
Z is simply case of where deep chagrin
and the knowledge of certain defeat I,
las gotten the better of the Judgment
# the Swendson followers.
In the Second ward the vote was be-
ng cast rapidly-at an average rate of
me vote fer every minute. The only
Exception to this was in the sixth pre- (
inct where the vote was light This
'oard was by an arrangement made in
dvance with other candidates a HoIli-
lay board. the fifth precinct had one
Green man and three for Holiday. This
'recinct registered the heaviest vote.
aving 102 at IL o'clock. Sc of whom | ;
vere women. The distinction is the /
ther precincts of the ward, however.
vas the majority of the woman vote J
Yer the male
The Fourth ward this morning was
Doking we'll for Green's candidacy.