The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-21
Blind Senator Will Spend Time
i'm Ohio and East.
SHERMAN ALSO OUT.
Vice Presidential Candidate
Won't Visit Kansas.
Bryan Will Spend One Day in
Sunflower State.

L
The special train which the Demo-
crats were going to run through Kan
| sas for Senator T. p. Gore of Oklahoma
has been abandoned. The chances are
that Senator Gore will not speak in
Kansas at all.
| The Democratic national committee
has sent Senator Gore to New York.
Indiana and Ohio. and will use him
there during the remainder of the cam
| paign. Senator Gore will leave Kansas
City on November 2. He Is due TO
make a speech at Oklahoma City on
the night of November 2 and it is pos
sible that in going between Kansas
a few addresses in Kansas. But the
| state committee is not counting much
| on this, as IT will take about all the
available time to simply make the run.
The Republican state committee an
| nounces that ]. S. Sherman. the Re-
1 publican nominee for the vice presi-
| dency, has also cut Kansas off his call
| ing list. Sherman was due to tour the
| state for a couple of days, making
| speeches from the rear platform OF a
| special train. But the national COM
| mittee has decided that his services are
more necessary in the east. Besides.
| Mr.. Sherman's health is reported to be
| poor, and he can make only limited
| number of speeches.
These two moves indicate clearly that
from now on the fight is going to center
| in New York, Indiana and Ohio. These
| states are regarded by both parties as
| the pivotal states. In order to win,
| the Democrats must carry New York.
| according to the conservative forecasts
which have been made. The Repubn-
| cans can win without New York IL they
carry Indiana and Ohio.
Indications are that the Republicans
| are confident that Kansas is safe for
| "a nd w
| of the campaign in this state in the
| hands of local spellbinders. while they
| concentrate their big guns in the more
doubtful communities east of here.
The Republican state central COM
mittee is arranging to send out cir
cular concerning the new tax law. to
combat some of the campaign ma
terial which the Democrats have been
4 making out of the operation of the
new law. This circular will tell what
the law has done and what 1t proposes
to do aod will show that its provisions
are equitable.
The opposition to the tax law seems
to be centered chiefly in Marshall,
Washington. Norton, Republic. Smith,
and a few of the northern counties of
the state.
II Atchison Globe: B. P. Waggener
has decided to have an operation per-
formed for appendicitis 1t will prob
brothers, of Rochester. Mimi. who did
so much for DR.. Shulze. Mr.. Wag-
gener will go to Washington shortly,
and on his return expects to enter the
hospital.
An insurance man from Indiana
was in Topeka yesterday on business,
and in speaking of political conditions
Indiana being doubtful 1 regard as
greatly exaggerated. I think that the
Republicans will carry the state for
Taft by an overwhelming majority.
ed politicians of that state. The Re-
publicans here in Kansas are no moro
confident of carrying Kansas for Taft
than the Republicans of Indiana are
confident of the outcome in that
state.''
The arrangements which the Demo-
Gratis have made for the Bryan special
train through Kansas on the day be-
fore election have not been changed.
and according to present indications.
have an opportunity to hear the
Democratic nominee the day before
election.
Joseph Rosenthal of Grand Rapids,
Mich, a German orator working un-
der the Republican national commit
tee, has been sent out to Kansas to
make some campaign speeches, and
!.
October 23. 1t is likely that Mr..
Rosenthal will be assigned to fill a
/, number of campaign dates in commu-
mites where there is a large German
population.
Mrs Ella G. Burton is to speak at
Luken's opera house in North Topeka
. on Monday night and will talk princi-
, pally about the school book trust and
, state publication of text books.
II am going to present some new and
startling facts at this meeting said
Mrs Burton, land / will have the evil
dence there to back up my statements.
against the book trust which have never
before been made public"
Ludwig E. Katterfeld. the former
Washburn student, who has twice rep
resented his college in state oratorical
contests. is working for the Socialist
party in the present campaign On Fri
day night he is billed for a speech at
Las Vegas. N. M, on THE Socialist
? Movement; the Secret of Its Power"
The Republican state central COM
mittee received a letter from lola yes
terday announcing the result of a
. straw vote taken at lola few nights
ago at one of the hotels where there
were 36 travelling men assembled. The
vote showed 33 votes for Taft and only
8 for Bryan. This does not seem to
| sustain the contention that the travel
ing men are generally supporting
| Bryan.
} The Democrats say that the travelling
men received instructions" from the
t big wholesale houses and manufactur-
ers which employ them. that they must
: lineup for Taft in order to insure a re-
newal of favorable business conditions.