The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-05

The Fifth district man tnereIOTt
figures that Calderhead will be
nominated by a small plurality
though it is evident that If the Smith
and Rees vote could be combined
there would be more trouble for
Calderhead.
The Fifth district man says in
speaking of his figures: eff Mr..
Smith gains as fast in the next few
weeks as he has in the last few weeks.
he may overtake and pass Mr.. Calder
head.
IF he loses this time Smith will be
in good shape to run in two years.
Saline county is going to support Judge
Rees this fall in partial good faith, in
two years it is going to take the
judgeship away from him justifying
on the ground that it gave him honest,
magnanimous solicited support for con-
gress In 1908 and owes him nothing
more In fact he and Ottawa county
are indebted to Saline.
THE judge is going to drop both jobs
before the game is finally played out.
Saline is the big county in the judicial
district, Salina Is the big town. the
judgeship belongs to Salina, she is &C.
ing to take 1t naturally and properly
playing a game, everything to wfn'
nothing to lose. Judge Rees is playing
innocently, everything to lose, nothing
to gain"
w. J. Fitzgerald of Dodge City has
filed his nomination petitions with the
secretary of state. This just about
completes the list of state official
nomination petitions on the Republican
ticket, except those for, governor and
United States senator, which will prob
ably not come in till about the last day
before the time limit on June 25.
Nevertheless, there are lot of petit
tions still to be received. Secretary of
State Denton said this morning:
II hope that all candidates who have
to file their petitions with this office
will do SO as soon as possible. 1 esti-
mate that about one fourth of the total
number of petitions have now been
filed. 1t will be tremendous rush at
the wind up, and candidates should not
hold back their petitions longer
than necessary. We are having these
petitions all checked over and tabulat-
ed, so that when the canvassing board
meets on the Monday following June
25. 1t will be able to go through the
petitions and verify them very rapidly.
Under the peculiar arrangement of the
primary law. there is only about three
days time given to the canvassing
W
does not require this office to do any,
thing except take care of the petitions
We might simply bring the whole lot
out in bushel baskets and dump them
down on the table when the canvassing
board meets. and let the board wrestle
with them. Instead of that we are hay-
ing the petitions all checked over
ahead of time"
w. Y. Morgan says that he can prove
an alibi both for himself and BristoW
in the matter Of the editorials which
says: "Bristow will have to furnish an
affidavit to prove that he wrote the ar
ticle In question. he had Fred Trigg
and Tom Cordry writing editorials for
him and l had man clipping for me,
so he didn't write the articles and /
didn't clip them. We've goth got ALI
bis" =
William Allen White, who has thus
far kept out OF the Leland-Stubbs
fight, dipped into that contest this
week with an editorial telling in his
own original way the kind of people
who accuse Stubs Of being a. hvno-
critic. Mr.. White says:
eff you had pass, bossed your
county convention. distributed the
county patronage, got the machine
oil from the state treasury to grease
the local candidates way to the Iegis-
lature so that he would elect a United
States senator to vote with wall
street; if you could pay your political
debts by putting the defeated candi-
dates for county offices on the pay
roll as employees of the legislature
and If you lived in the blessed hope of
making fortune out of the state
printers Office some day, and some
red-headed rooster should come along
and in four years, absolutely wipe off
the political map those things Won
had enjoyed all your life-wouldn't
you think that Stubs was a hypo-