The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-07
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Ed Waterbury Issues an Appeal
to Voters.
Asks People to Help the INDIE
pendence Party.
LIST OF CANDIDATES.
John w. NOrthrOp of Wichita
Candidate for Governor.
E. C. Fowler of Topeka on List
for State Treasurer.

The movement for the Hearst indie
pendent ticket has been formally
launched in Kansas by E. s. Water
bury of Emporia, and Mr.. Waterbury
has given out not only the list of can
didates whom he wants On the ticket,
but an appeal to the independent
voters of Kansas to sign a petition to
place these names on the ticket.
Mr.. Waterbury has issued the blank
petitions, and is sending them out IL
win be necessary for him to get $500
signatures in order to get the names
on the ticket. The candidates selected
by Mr.. Waterbury are mainly old time
Populists. The Populists were knocked
off the ticket this year because they
failed to poll enough votes, and the in
dependent movement seems to be an
effort to rebuild that party.
Mr.. Waterbury's appeal is headed in
big black letters Men and says in
part:
However you may be intending to
vote at the election, you are now ap-
pealed to to help put an independent
ticket, state and national, on the Kan
sas ballot. Such a ticket must first be
nominated by these petitions. You do
not have to say that you intend to vote
the ticket. That law only applies TO
nominations made in the primaries
You can nominate candidates by petit
ton whether you intend to vote for
them or not. 1t is a step necessary to
preserve the right of anybody at all to
cast an effective independent vote in
case they shall finally decide that they
ought to do so.
More effective than individual split
tickets, better than the mugwump
way, the only way to get intelligent
results from independent voting is for
independent voters to unite on indie
pendent candidates. The law REQUIRES
900 names to nominate candidates by
Petltlon- VIII you. for one, be liberal
enough to yourself to give yourself a
larger liberty in case you shall feel the
need OF 1t. when the time comes to
make up your political verdict? If not
then Will you be generous enough to
your fellow citizens to help them to ger
the chance to vote independentIv If
they shall be conscientiously led to do
,SoE Should not every patriotic citizen
peal?
Write your name and address
plainly with ink or ink pencil When
the candidates are nominated thew
VIII meet and publish their principles
and the purposes for which thew
stand; and you will be supplied with
literature and information concerning
this independent movement.
The % men on this ticket will ba
recognized as equally intelligent. pa-
triotic and as fairly Representative Of
the best citizenship of the state. as
those on any other ticket, with the one
difference that they will stand for no.
ItlcaI Independence if you give the
voters of the state chance to express
themselves on that sentiment AT the
ballot box"
Here is the list of candidates:
For Presidential Elector-Horace
A. Keefer, farmer, Walula; Martin v.
Hork. lecturer, Topeka; Nels Ander-
son, farmer, Topeka; John W. ZONES
mechanic, Kansas City; Theophilus w
Floyd, painter, Parsons; James a
Campbell, carpenter, Emporia; 7 T.
Hoover. mechanic, Clay Center: Price
Sturgeon, farmer, Palco; H. B. Hew-.
~, merchant STAFFORD; Charles c.
Meyer, barber, Wichita.
Governor-John w. Nortbron
author, Wichita; lieutenant governor
John S. Beecher, farmer, Gradan: sec
rotary of state, James H. Stevenson.
farmer, Hill City; auditor. Edgar q
Fowler, mechanic, Topeka; treasurer,
Thaddius Knox, farmer, Bogue; attor-
ney general, I. F. Bradley, lawyer
Kansas City; superintendent of public
instruction, Samuel Talley, farmer
Happy; superintendent of Insurance,
Norman ]. Waterbury, stenographer.
Wichita; state printer, William r.
Eyster, printer, Topeka: railroad COM
, missioners. A. w. McVey, farmer
Wakeeney; c. A. Thompson. farmer
Hutchinson; Thomas F. Farrell. ma
chinist, Parsons.
Whether it is true or not that the
railway companies are backing a
movement to line up their employees
for the defeat of ]. L. Bristow for
United States senator, the fact that a
movement of this kind is on in railway
circles may inJure Democratic chances
in the coming election. The new