The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-28
is NEARING THE END.
Campaign Managers Are Busy
Making Figures.
Congressman Miller Answers
White Charges.

White Charges.
1t is time for the candidates to begin
giving out their last statements" and
! final forecasts on the result of the pri-
mary election one week from today.
Candidate Leland gave out sort of
farewell proclamation today through
his headquarters in this city. The Le-
land people have not made any fore
casts on the vote.
w. R. Stubs. 1t Is understood. con-
cedes the First and Third districts to
Leland by good sized majorities. But
| Stubs claims that his majority IN the
second and Fourth districts will offset
Leland's in the First and Third. Stubs
claims that he Will carry the Fifth.
Sixth, Seventh and Eighth districts.
and that all the majority he obtains IN
those districts Is velvet
The Stubbs people are very confident,
and predict the nomination OF their
candidate by big majority.
Mr.. Leland's statement. given out to-
day, follows:
Cyrus Leland. Jr., Republican can
dldate for governor, enters upon the
| last week of the campaign confidently
believing that he will be nominated at
the primaries August 4. Reports from
all sections of the state are most en-
couraging. All these refer to Mr.. Le-
lands able and efficient work in the
legislature in support Of the primary
election law. and all other measures
demanded by the people. The one act
which Mr.. Leland introduced and put
through-the anti-jug law-which eff
fectually stopped the shipping Of IL
quors into Kansas in jugs. has done
more to strengthen the prohibitory law
than any other statute. The RepubH-
cans of Kansas who, with Mr.. Leland.
believe in temperance and the enforce
ment of law, are grateful to him for
this service. and they will show their
appreciation at the polls on August 4.
The hundreds of letters coming to Mr..
Leland from all parts of the state from
farmers, business men, wage earners,
old soldiers and sons Of veterans, all
assure him of their support, and they
pledge him to be at the polls August
and give him their vote for the NOM
ination for governor.
81 am grateful to the Republicans
of Kansas for their loyal support, Mr..
Leland said. Nothing but a failure of
my friends to go to the polls will pre-
vent my nomination. I want to say to
the Republicans of Kansas that the
cordial welcome I have received every
where IN this campaign is deeply ap-
preciated. and II nominated and elected
I promise to give the people a clean,
business, law-enforcing administration.
1t will be an administration that VIII
give to every citizen. no matter how
humble his station in life. exact justice
and square deal. This is the promise
1 make; 1t Is the pledge ] intend to
keep"
The Senatorial Situation.
Senator Long has made a great
campaign during the past two months,
and his friends feel confident that he
will beat j. l.. Bristow. I'VE know
where we are att said one of Longs
managers. land nothinb but one of
those political landslides you read
about can overturn our calculations.
The Long managers have made
fight in every county in the state ex-
cept ottawa and Saline. They concede
those counties to Bristow. The Long
people expect to carry without doubt
a big majority of the counties in east
ern and western Kansas. The Bristow
stronghold" is right down the center
of the state. There is a good sized
bunch of counties in central Kansas
which the Long people say are dis
affected" Longs managers have gone
of them says. "are fighting with their
backs against the wall" 1t is figured
by the Long people that whatever they
can get out of these central Kansas
counties is "pick up" They don't
really need them. but it is safe to
make as hard a fight as they can.
Bristow believes that things have
been coming his way at rapid rate
that Longs refusal to engage in a
series of joint debates with him has
convinced many people that Longs
position is weak and can't be defend
ed Bristow is counting on the ISL
lent vote" to give him the nomination.
He realizes that the political workers.
and the ones who max. the noise, are
all against him. There is no doubt
that Bristow will get a large amount
of support from this silent vote"
Of 7 p
ed for the seeming preponderance of
Bristow sentiment in certain commu-
mites as follows:
"a stranger who goes into one of
these socalled Bristow towns. and talks
to people on the street will be con-
WINGED that Bristow has got about
everybody. But the fact Is that two
fifths of total population are Demo-
can't vote: of the remaining three
tifths. all of which are Republicans.
possibly two-fifths are for Brisrow.
When you get the Democrats and the
Bristow Republicans all hollering for
Bristow 1t makes a lot of noise. but
the voting strength is with Long"
Arrangements are being made By
the leading candidates to receive re-
turns from the primary at their re-
spectivc headquarters IN Topeka.
Senator Long will have a representa-
tive in each county who Will send In
the senatorial returns of that county as
rapidly as possible. and 1t is under
stood that w. r. Stubs and Cyrus Lee
land VIII have a similar arrangement
for the returns on governor.
Unless the election Is very close Il
is likely that the result will be pretty
we'll known by the morning of Aug
| ust :.
The name West will come last on
the judicial ticket; Horace Greeley said
| Go West"
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