The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-17
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
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Z
hibition: Wichita is now a dry town,
and likes 1t. When the state first put
on the lid down there was a terrible
howl about it, but now that it has been
on for year, the town is getting
stronger and stronger for prohibition
all the time. The business men are
for a dry town. Attorney General
Fred Jackson, who is responsible for
closing up the Wichita saloons, Will
get a majority in the city of Wichita
in the coming election"
Two men, one of them a Republican
and one a Democrat, made poll OF
the Kansas City plug which left Topeka
for Kansas City Thursday morning.
The result of the poll was So for Taft.
So for Bryan, 2 for Chain and IL non
committaL
Sam l. Hale of Lacrosse. Demo-
cratic candidate for congress in the
Seventh district. has made a remark
able proposition to his opponent, E.
r. Madison.
Mr.. Hale wants Mr.. Madison to en-
ter into an agreement with him to re-
sign in his favor provided Bryan is
elected president. He offers in ex-
change to resign in favor of Madi-
son in case he (Hale) is elected and
Bryan is defeated
Harmony" between the Eighth dis
trict congressman and the president
of the United States, and proposes to
have it at any price. 1t has not yet
been announced that Mr.. Madison
has accepted Mr.. Hale's offer-and it
Is a safe guess that no such announce
ment will be made.
Mr.. Hale is making his campaign
on the anti-Joe Cannon issue. He
pledges himself to vote against
"Uncle Joe" if elected, and wants Mr..
Madison to make the same pledge.
Mr.. Hale is making an active cam
paign, but he seems to have more
faith in Bryan carrying the country
than of his own success in the
Seventh district. and is willing to tie
his boom to the tail of the Bryan
kite.
He has issued the following state
ment:
Samuel I. Hale, the Democratic
nominee for congress. stands squarely
on the Denver platform on all the
planks, and gives especial emphasis to
these: Reduction of the tariff; removal
of tariff from goods coming in compe-
tition with trust controlled goods; the
income tax; bank guaranty law; physi-
cal valuation of railroads to fix a basis
for freight rates; publication of cam
paign contributions before election; cleo
ton Of United States senators by pop
tariff rate for western Kansas; appro-
priations for government buildings in
western Kansas"
D. w. Mulvane returned yesterday
from a ten days trip In New York and
other eastern states. He says of
political conditions in the east:
THE officials of the national COM
mittee in New York expressed con-
fidence that they would carry New
York, New Jersey and Connecticut,
three states that have appeared in the
doubtful column. 1 also visited the
state headquarters in New York.
There they are striving to re-elect
Governor Hughes. They are confident
that Taft will carry the state and they
are very hopeful for Governor
Hughes but of course they realize
that Hughes will have a much harder
fight for the state than will Taft. On
the way back I stopped in at the
western national headquarters in Chi
cago. There the officials were SAN
guine of the result in the whole coun-
try. They were confident that Taft
would be elected. 1 talked with many
people on the trip and 1 gathered that
through the east the country is in
first class shape for Taft. 1 told them
what we were going to do for Taft in
this state and they were pleased but
had expected it."