The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-16
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Chairman Martin Sounds a
Note of Warning.
Usual Warning About Stealing
the Election.
TELLS WHY HE DOES 1T
Democrats Have Been Robbed
of at Least One Governor.
New Charge Against Stubs is
Given Out.
TELLS WHY HEDGES 1T

Chairman Henderson Martin of the
Democratic state centarl committee
has sent to every precinct committee
man in Kansas-there are 1900 of
them-the usual warning against al
lowing the Republicans to steal the
election. This has been the custom of
the Democrats at every campaign dur
ing recent years. For years the
Democratic state committee has sent
telegram on the night before election
to every county chairman in the state
warning him of a plot to steal the
election. The Democrats have talked
about this Republican plot to steal the
election so much that some of them
really believe that such a plot IS form
ed every year and only baffled by the
shrewdness of the Democratic COM
mittee in anticipating 1t.
Henderson Martin said today: ''I
appreciate the fact that the Democrats
have been counted out of at least one
governor. besides thousands of votes in
past years, and for that reason 1 am
sending out this letter of warning and
instructions"
The letter is as follows:
I'VE have been counted out in Kan
sas more than once. 1 have heard
that statement a good many times. I
never believed it until l heard it from
the lips of Republicans who are in
position to know. We have been
counted out and the way it is usually
done is something like this:
1.-THE judge who reads the ballots
along late in the night, when every
body is sleepy. calls a straight Demo-
cratic ballot a straight Republican
ballot, folds it and hands 1t to a sleepy
Democratic judge, who, without ex-
n nd 70 hA frd 4trdo 90
who proceeds to string the ballot and
so far as that one is concerned the
business is done. If that is done five
or ten times in a precinct. it means a
difference of five or ten thousand votes
in the state.
Another scheme Is for clerk to
add one to his tally and then insist
that the Democratic clerk has made a
mistake. BY such means as the above
they count us out of a good many
thousands votes.
Under section Pip, general stat
utes Of 1901, you have the right to Sc
lect one judge and one clerk in each
voting precinct. If you are not famil-
lar with this law I wish you would
read 1t. 1t is mistake to appoint a
man as Judge because he needs it. Our
Judges and clerks ought to be the most
capable men in the party, men who
will examine every ballot and every
vote of every ballot. Please give this
matter your prompt and careful at
tention in every precinct in your
county"
The present plan for handling the
Bryan speaking trip in Kansas on Nov.
Is as follows:
Mr.. Bryan will leave Kansas CITY on
the morning of Nov. 2, over the Mis-
souri, Pacific, going north through
Leavenworth. Atchison and Hiawatha
At Hiawatha he will be transferred to
the st. Joe & Grand Island and taken
rer1, CoI.1
Marysville. He will then go north to
Lincoln on the Union Pacific. This
VIII cover section of the state which
Mr.. Bryan has not visited He will
make about six or eight speeches, which
Isn't very big days work for Bryan.
The Republican state committee Is
getting some special reports on the DO
ntlcal conditions in certain representa-
tive and senatorial districts of the state
where close fight is anticipated.
These reports are said to indicate 70
the Republican managers that there is
no cause for alarm. and that the leg
1slature is certain to be safely Repub-
mean. Nevertheless the Republicans
are planning to put in a lot of extra
work where the legislative conditions
seem to demand it.
Chairman Martin of the Democratic
committee says that the forecast of
which was given out a few DAYS ago
purporting to come from the nano-
cratic National committee was entire
ly unauthorized. This forecast con
ceded Kansas to Taft. Mr. Martin
Goes not make any such concession
and he wired to the national COMMITTEE
70 ma out what it meant by making
the concession. The Democratic na9
uonai committee replied that the re-
ported forecast was a fake. and had
not been given out from Democratic
headquarters. ''i00i atic
Another attack on the personal
Character OF w. r. Stubs has bean
gwen out by the Democratic state
Comnlttee In the form of a campaien
document. This attack is a rape,,.ai
OF tne charge that Stubs was mixed
up In certain land frauds in Indian
territory. " -iiu1si Il
Mr. Stubs has replied TO this
cnarge' which was first brought against
MIN during the primary Campaign,
Stupos says that he was one of the
STOCKHOLDERS In gas, oil and mineral
company which bought land from the
Indians. and that the charges of oh
tanning the land fraudulently were
brought against the company in which
he was interested. The Democratic
state committee dishes up the affair in
this way: AZ
walter Roscoe Stubs. RenubI,c.r
nominee for governor of the great sat-
of Kansas, is today under indictmen,
for an attempt to defraud the Indieps
of the Cherokee nation out of Their