The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-19
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Hugh Farrelly Talks of Demo-
cratic Land Slide.
Says He Sees One Coming in
Kansas.
WORKING ON A POLL.
Republican State Committee Al
ready Has 1 900 Books In.
Managers Satisfied With the
Showing Being Made.

Hugh p Farrelly, the Democratic
nominee for state senator. spent Sun
day in Topeka. He is in Great Bend
| today, and will spend the week in the
Seventh district.
81 have spoken in 100 different towns
| during the campaign" said Mr.. Far
reilly. At have visited half the coun-
ties in the state. 1 predict that there
| is a Democratic landslide coming in
| Kansas. I would not attempt to say
| how big our majority will be. Not only
will Bryan carry the state, but the whole
| Democratic state ticket will be elected
| ed, and We will have a good big Demo-
| cratic majority in the legislature. This
| Is my honest Judgment OF the political
situation made from actually visiting
| the various communities in the state,
and talking with the people. Mr..
Bryan will have a larger majority than
| he did in 1896 There is no reason why
the state ticket should not run right
| up with Bryan.
"The Democratic gains in the legis-
| lature will be general all over the state,
| but expect the western portion to send
nearly all the Democratic nominees to
| the legislature.
THE Republicans will bolt Taft very
generally, for a number of reasons,
chiefly his position on religious matters,
and his hostility to labor. Taft is not
strong in the farming districts.
II call attention in all my speeches
to the fact that 1 offered to agree with
Mr.. Bristow that we should each allow
our name to appear on the election bal
lot, and allow the people to vote direct
on the question of United States sena-
tor Mr.. Bristow has not consented
to this arrangement
Mr.. Farrelly does not think there is
any possibility of his election unless
there is a Democratic legislature. In
other words he does not anticipate that
the Long Republicans would bolt the
primary nomination, and vote against
| Bristow.
IF there is Republican legislature"
said Mr. Farrelly, Mr.. Bristow will be
islature, I will be elected. That is all
there is to It."
The Republican state central COM
mittee is still working on the tabula-
ton of its poll of the state, and has
| There are a total of 2,20O of these poll
books, and when they are all in and
| totaled, the state committee Will have
a very accurate idea of how the state
| is going The state committee has
not given out any official information
concerning the results of this poll.
The Democrats are not making any
precinct poll of the state They de-
pend upon the chairmen OF the county
central committees to furnish "esti-
mates" on the conditions. Such esti-
mates, while they furnish good ma
terial for campaign literature, are not
/ always to be depended upon. 1t is
| only by getting the actual figures on
| individual voters from each pre-
cinct that a political campaign COM
| facts.
The general understanding is
around Republican headquarters that
| the poll books, so far examined. are
making a satisfactory showing for the
Republicans. Some of the results of
| the county polls have been printed in
| the local county papers, and they
show that county conditions are gen.
orally about normal. The Leaven-
worth Times says that the Leaven-
worth county poll, which was made in
September, gave Taft majority of
1900 in Leavenworth county. and
that since that time. the Taft majority
has increased at least 800.
The Leavenworth Times says:
Frank J. Ryan, railroad commissioner
from Leavenworth returned last night
! from a speaking tour through the
| southern and western parts OF the
state and declares that there is abso-
| lutely no doubt of a sweeping Re
publican victory in Kansas on Novem-
Der 8. He places the majority be-
tween 10000 and $4,000.
why" declared Mr. Ryan last
| night, there is not even vestige of
Bryan sentiment in the agricultural
portions of the state. That the state
and national tickets will win is simply
| cinch.
ct have been down in Cowley coun-
| ty Jerry Botkin's own country and
| there 1 am certain the Republican
ticket will get the normal majority of
| 800 or a thousand. 1t is the same out
| in the Sixth district"
There are going to be some very
badly mistaken people in Kansas after
November 8, for the Democrats at state
| headquarters all feel the same degree
| of confidence as is expressed by Mr.
| Farrelly. Chairman Henderson Martin
| will not make any predictions on ma
| jorities. but he too predicts a land
| slide"
I'm almost every mail" said Mr. Mar
| tin, IT received letters requesting my
| opinion on the political conditions in
Kansas at the present time and telling
Of the Misrepresentation which are be-
| ing made by the Republicans. In tho
| west end of the state the Republican,
are circulating stories of the great
things which they allege are taking
place in the eastern end of the state.
"In the eastern end the same kind of
stories are being told of the wonderful
Changes winch are peihS Iiidoe III the
| western part. Judging from reports
which reach headquarters in Topeka,
| the Republicans are especially ener-
getic in circulating stories of imaginary
offers to bet.
| According to these stories some va
liant Republican invariably bluffs a
dozen or so Democrats and they fail to
| accept the bets offered. am anything
but an authority on betting matters,
but 1 am reliably informed that there
| has not been bet of any kind posted
| in Topeka on the result of the election
! In the past this has been one of the
| Republicans strong arguments a
month of such a matter before election
! The only bet which 1 have heard of in
Kansas was as to whether Bryan or
Botkin would receive the greatest ma
jority on November and that was be-
tween two Democrats.
THE air may be filed with bets or