The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-10
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Republicans Will Give Attention
to Legislature.
Bad Reports Have Been Received
at Headquarters.
TAFT ANDS STUBBS SAFE
That Is the Opinion of the Re-
publican Leaders.
Hutchinson Leaders Consider
ably Excited Over jackson.

From now on the Republican state
central committee will center it's work
on the election of Republican mem
bers of the state legislature. The Re-
publican committee has been making
the big end of it's fight thus far in the
interests of Taft and the state ticket,
headed by w. R. Stubs. The Re
publican committee now feels con-
hdent that with an average amount of
attention, Taft and Stubbs are certain
to win by big majorities, but they are
hearing bad reports from some of the
representative districts.
The districts where the vote in the
primary on Bristow and Long was
close will be given any assistance that
may be necessary to overcome the
soreness" of the Long defeat and
especial attention will be given to
promulgating the attitude of the Re-
publican party on state issues and
proposed legislation. The bank de-
posit guaranty law will come in for
lot of attention, and as a starter for
this campaign, the statement of Bank
Commissioner John @. Royce has
been prepared as printed in Fridays
State Journal setting forth the Re
publican attitude on the bank deposit
law, and comparing that attitude with
the Democratic position.
One of the prominent Republican
politicians of the state said today:
I'm my judgment. the Democratic
ing Botkin, or of carrying the state
for Bryan. But they will continue to
make big fuss about those two can
didates for the purpose of getting the
Republican committee off on a bum
steer while they are concentrating
Rraf-
Democratic legislature BY electing
a Democratic legislature they
effectively blockade the wheels of the
Republican administration, and will
satisfy the desire of some of Senator
Longs friends for revenge. By put
will render Stubbs powerless as gov
ernor. and by beating Bristow they
will please some dfsgruntled Re-
publicans. Then If they can elect
Bryan in the nation, they can block
the actions of a Republican congress
in the same manner"
The Democrats will concentrate their
attention in those districts where the
Republicans had small majorities two
years ago. There are 29 districts in the
state which the Republicans carried by
majoritieS of less than 100 each. AS
many more districts were carried by
majorities of from 100 to 200. The Dem
ocratS have marked for their meat
about 75 members of the house and
from II to 20 state senator's. If they
can get what they are after they will
have, they figure, about 95 members
of the legislature out of 165.
To get 95 members means that they
must gain so members. That is going
some and it seems unlikely that they
can make it, unless there proves to be
Kansas.
The following are some of the dis
tricts which the Democrats are hgur-
ing on carrying:
One each in Atchison. Leavenworth,
Franklin, Miami, Linn, Anderson, Bour-
bon. Crawford, Cherokee. Montgomery,
Wilson, Usage, Shawnee. Marshall, Pot
tawatomie, Brown, Lyon, Geary, Cow
ley, Butler. Dickinson. Sumner. King
man. Barber, Pratt. Reno, Stafford,
Mitchell Jewell. Smith, Greenwood,
Morris, Phillips, Rocks. Ellis, Pawnee,
Edwards, Kiowa, Comanche, Clark,
Hodgeman, Ness, Trego, Graham. Nor
ton. Sheridan. Clay. Harper. Cove,
Thomas, Rawlins, Cheyenne, Sherman,
Logan, Wallace. Scott, Lane. Kearny,
Hamilton, Grant and Stanton, Gray
and Haskell, Meade. Stevens and Nor
ton, Barton and Decatur, and two each
in Wyanotte and Labette. They are
districts: The Fourth. Sixth, Eighth,
Eleventh, Fifteenth. Sixteenth, Twen-
tv-second, Twenty-fourth. Twenty
fifth, Twenty-sixth. Thirty-second,
Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth, Thirty
fifth. Thirty-six-h, Thirty-seventh,
Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth.
Men identified with lot of the cor
porations doing business in Kansas
have received recently from Frank
Grimes. representative of the Republi-
can financial committee in Kansas,
a indiUidIIa RI
contribute to the Republican cam
naien and as some of these men are
democrats, they are telling it on
Grimes that he is trying to evade the
national law which prohibits corpora
tions from contributing to political
campaigns.
Mr. crimes says: "I sent out my
invitation to contribute to business
men. irrespective of party. OF course
some of those business men are Demo-
crats got their names out of Dun
and Brads. rect, and expected some of
them would be Democrats. 1 told
them that the Republican party So
Iicited their contributions as indi-
vfduals because they were not allow
ed to contribute through corporations.
# was all open and above board.
feel that the business men of the state
generally want Mr.. Taft to be elected,
and my letters are bringing in good
response l sent. out exactly the same
letter which the national committee
directed me to send. Some of the
Democrats who received the letter
write and joke me about it. but some
of them 1 am happy to say. send in
cash contributions"
The following is the letter which
Mr.. Grimes sent out to the business
men and corporations of the state:
Gentlemen: The election of Mr..
Taft and Mr.. Sherman is essential to
the welfare of this country and per-
fact orPa0izatiOu is necessary To Sc
cure perfect organiZ..-ion the Repub-
lican national comn14ee must be lib
orally supplied with funds Congress
recently enacted a statute making it
unlawful to solicit money for political
purposes from corporations. All the