The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-29
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Graham County independence
Nominees Still on Ticket.
No Official Notice Of Withdrawal
Is Received.
T HE TAFT PRIZE.
Offer Of S. for the Best DecOrat.
ed Building.
Mrs. Ella G. Burton Challenges
Supt. Fairchild.

The six Graham county men who
have been nominated on the Hearst IN
dependence ticket in Kansas, and who.
| through the Democratic state central
committee. gave notice that they
would withdraw, have not yet indicat-
/ ed in any official manner that such is
| their intention, and it seems likely that
General Manager E. S. Waterbury Of
the Hearst campaign in Kansas, has
persuaded them to stay hitched.
| To withdraw from the ticket, the six
| candidates must file their formal
declination with the secretary of state
at least 80 days before the date of the
election. They have not yet filed any
withdrawal, and unless they do so be-
fore Saturday their names will go on
| the ballot. The Democrats are very
anxious to have the six men pull OFF,
for it will leave a big hole in the In
| dependence ticket. The Democrats
are a good deal worried by the appar-
ent strength of the Independence
movement in Kansas. They fear that
it will cut a serious hole in Bryan's
vote in this state, as in other states,
and the more trouble they can make
| for the new Hearst movement, the
better they will be satisfied.
A prize of IS for the best decorated
building on Kansas avenue and an
other prize of SIS for the best deco
rated building on East Fourth street,
large or small. have been offered by
the Republican county central COM
mittee as an incentive for people to
decorate their places of business for
| Taft day." October 3.
The committee is circulating a
bandbill urging people to decorate
| their homes and stores on Taft day.
- -of C11ar hQ
obtained without cost at state central
committee headquarters. and the COM
mittee requests that these pictures be
used in connection with flags and
bunting.
The committee also makes the queer
request that people light every front.
window. upstairs and down, from
dark until $3.50 p. M" This probably
town, for the committee certainly
doesn't expect everybody to stay
away from the Taft meeting at the
Auditorium for the purpose of keeping
their homes lighted. And what's the
use of keeping a residence lighted,
anyway?
L. L. Northrup. chairman of the
congressional committee of the Re-
publican party. has received a chal-
lenge from A. F. Hatten, chairman of
the Democratic congressional commit
tee, for a series of joint debates be-
tween Charles F. Scott, Republican.
and B. J. Sheridan, Democrat, the two
congressional candidates on the record
of Mr.. Scott in congress.
The challenge calls for nine debates.
one in each county. Mr.. Scott is not
in the city, but Mr.. Northrup does not
taken up between this and election in
this district and in Iowa and Illinois
where he has promised to speak.
T 1aVf al IN o.
publican lawyer and politician of EN-
poria. denies with great emphasis the
allegation that he addressed a. Demo-
cratic political meeting at Caney las.
Saturday night. This was the report
which was sent out from Caney. but it
turns out that l. E. Lambert was not
at Caney at all. The man who ad-
dressed the meeting was E. j. Lambert
an attorney who lives at Independence,
and who is the Democratic candidate
for representative from the west dis
trict of Montgomery county. E. j.
Labert and ]. P. Rossiter, the Demo-
cratic candidate for associate justice Of
the supreme court, were the speakers
at that meeting.
Mrs. Ella S. Burton. who is fighting
the school book trust" and the entire
Republican state ticket, has challenged
E. T Fairchild, state superintendent
of education to some joint debates or
school text books are of good literary
and pedagogical quality. Mrs. Burton
says:
''It has been my lifelong position that
all educational offices should be re-
moved from politics. In two different
communications to the public press re-
Gently my opponent, Mr.. E. T Fair
child. has agreed with me in this posi-
tion. 1 would be glad to meet Mr..
Fairchild in joint discussion of the
sv,fn cfc ~ i,,f f0T
of the largest cities of the state. I will
give him the advantage of opening and
closing the discuss. on and in spite of
this advantage and the great amount
of coaching he will have from the
brightest minds of the school book
trust will prove to our hearers that in
the recent school text book adoption i'll
Kansas both he and Governor Hoch
were knowingly and wilfully untrue to
the educational interests of our great
state When 1 do this it will be up to
the Republican party of Kansas to fol-
low the splendid example of political
courage in removing Foraker and take
from the state list of Republican
speakers the names of E. w. Hoch and
z. T. Fairchild-'
Secretary William Beck, of the Re-
publican state central committee.
whose home is Holton, a Rock Island
town, was at home the early part of
the week, anu WHue lneTe made
poll" of the six Rock Island men
employed in that town. He found
that out of the six, five were going to
vote for Taft, and the whole Re-
publican ticket.
The Holton employees had received
the literature being sent out by the
Railway Protective association. but
they were determined to vote as they
pleased. The Railway Protective
association. which seems to have for
its special object the defeat of Stubbs
and Fri c1r is getting ifs ciral fol-