The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-06
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Copy for = New Primary Ballot
Is Made Up.
Makes a Strip of Manuscript
Ten Feet Long.
HORNADAY WATERING
Reported That He Will Sup
port Stubs.
H. B. Miller Will Decide This
Week.
HORNADAY WAVERING

Printers copy for the new primary
election ballot has been made up at
| the office of the secretary of state.
This copy is written on a typewriter,
| and pasted together in strip. Unrolled
to it's full legnth, this makes a strip
over ten feet long. When the clerks
were at work FASTING this huge ballot
together, there was hardly room for
anybody else to walk around in the
Office. It extended from one side of
| the office to the other, and was OF most
awe-inspiring aspect.
There are six tickets, all just alike,
provided for on this gigantic ballot
Everything is made up in exactly the
cept that the names of candidates are
| blank. The sample ballot, when print
| ed, will be sent to each county clerk
| in the state, and all the primary cleo
| ton ballots used in the state will be
printed from the same form.
| When the ballot is printed, it will, OF
| course, not be ten feet in length, for
it will be much condensed in the pro
| cess of putting it in type. The sample
ballot also, contains spaces for all OF
| the state senatorial, all the congress
sional, all the judicial and all the com
| bination representative districts which
will be filled at the November electlon.
| Each county clerk will simply pick out
1
| own county, and leave off all the rest.
| This will serve to condense the pallot
| very materially.
! But even with all this condensation,
| the primary ballot promises to De
very lengthy document. The copy FUR
| nished by the secretary of state pro-
| vides only two blank spaces Tor eacn
| office In many counties there will be
more than two candidates running 1or
| some offices, in which case more space
| will be provided by the county clerk.
| All this work is supposed to be done
| by the state canvassing board, but the
| law only gives the canvass1ng ooaro d
| few days to do a tremendous amount
of work and so the secretary of state
is preparing all the clerical material
| in advance SO far as possible.
The list of offices to be filled at the
primary election has already been Ger
titled to each county clerk in the state,
and the receipts of the clerks nave
been received and filed. The law re.
| quires that this be done at least LIZ
days before the primary. The county
clerks must publish the list IN the Of
fetal county paper FOR three weeks De-
| fore the primary.
| Grant Hornaday, of Fort Scott, who
was a candidate for governor until
| squeezed off the track by w. j. BAILEY,
is said to be preparing to support W.
r. Stubs for governor. While Mr.
Hornaday has made no declaration 10
this effect, he is,equoted as saying that
/ Bourbon county will give a good stliI
| majority for Stubs, and that there is
no likelihood that Leland Will defeat
| him. ar
| Hornaday would naturally be in the
Leland camp, but he probably reels tnat
ne was not treated right by the people
| who forced him off the track and put
| Bailey into the race. He holds Lee
| lands friends responsible for this pc
culiar turn of political affairs, and for
that reason is not inclined to be very
friendly to Leland.
CLYDE Miller of Usage City, who was
in Topeka Saturday, announced that
his father, Senator H. B. Miller,
would decide this week whether or
not he is candidate for the Repub-
lican nomination for governor. Clyde
Miller intimated that his father would
be a candidate, but many or the 10,
) peka politicians think that he Will
not.
Stubbs in the Fourth district, but in
!, the other districts he would prob
ably hurt Leland as much as he hurts
Stubbs. The Stubs people profess to
} want Miller to enter the race inev
saw it would assure Stubs election
though they don't concede any assur-
) ance is necessary.
At any rate it is certain that H. B
Miller will not again run for the state
| senate in Usage county. The chances
are that J. T. Pringle. former speaker
of the house, will not be in the race
| and that A. w. Logan of Quenemo
will have no opposition. None has sc
, far advanced.
w. r. Stubs was at Atchison and
Efingham in Atchison county Satur-
day. In the afternoon he had ar
audience of 200 at bingham and in
the evening spoke to 500 at Atchison
The meetings were arranged by
Sheffield Ingalls,, S. s. King ano
: others This week Mr.. Stubs i
spending in the Third and Eighth
districts. This evening he is at Well
, ington, Tuesday at Caldwell, Wednes-
day at Arkansas City, Thursday al
Winfield, Friday at Douglas and
, Saturday at Ell Dorado.
Il On Saturday Mr.. Stubs gave out
another anti Mulvane letter. This il
in reply to Mr.. Mulvane's charge
} that Stubbs bolted the Republican
ticket and is professional office
seeker. Mr.. Stubs says:
1.-THE recent manifesto issued by
Hon. D. w. Mulvane was in one re-
spect commendable- 1t manifested q
disposition to defend publicly the poll.
cies, aims and objects of the Republic
china IMITATION in Kansas