The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-09
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Mr.. Bristow Thinks Socialist
Vote Will Be Large.
Aggregate Ten or Fifteen Thou
sand in Kansas.
CASE OF MIR. BROWER.
Had Votes Recounted and Won
and Lost.
Mr.. Stubs Suffers Slight Acct
dent on His Farm.
CASE OF MIR. BROWER.

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Joseph L. Bristow of Salina. Re
publican nominee for the United |
states senate, predicts that the Social |
list vote in Kansas will be considerably |
larger in the coming election than
ever before. The Socialist vote at the
last election was $500.
1T would not surprise me- said
Mr.. Bristow, ''if the Socialist party
cast from 10 TO 10 thousand votes in
Kansas. 1 have been down in south
eastern Kansas recently, and in some
of those mining counties they predict
that Bryan will be the third man in
the presidential race
81 believe that this Socialist upris-
ing will draw from the Democrats
more than from Republicans. There
is an element which has always voted
with the Democrats, and always would
vote with the Democrats. which is now
turning to Socialism. But I do not
anticipate that Socialism will ever be
a serious menace to the country. 1t
may continue to grow until it becomes
a faction in politics, but if it ever does
become a serious menace, l believe
that there will be enough loyal and
patriotic Republicans and Democrats
to combine and control the situation
absolutely
A peculiar result has been arrived
at in the determination of the contest
for the Democratic nomination for the
legislature in Edwards county. In
that county F. y. Cole, the present
member of the legislature, was re-
nominated, on the face of the returns,
by 2 votes. His opponent, d. NJ.
Brewer claimed that certain ballots
had been thrown out which should
have been counted for him, and in
stituted contest proceedings. The bal
lots were recounted, and it was found.
sure enough, that exactly II Brewer
ballots had been wrongfully rejected.
The election judges however, in an
| other voting precinct had made a
| mistake in footing up the returns, and
| the mistakes was exactly IL votes in
favor of Brewer. The twelve which
| Brewer gained on rejected ballots and
the II which he lost because of faulty
addition, exactly offset each other, and
Cole was declared the nominee by a
majority of IL.
Brewer expressed himself as salts
fed, and says he will support the
| ticket.
The Kinsley Mercury explains the
| case as follows: THE count showed
that Mr.. Brewer was entirely justified
| in demanding a recount, basing his
demand on the rejected ballots in his
home precinct, for on q recount he
gained twelve votes in that one pre-
cinct that had been rejected by the
judges. Under the agreement to fol-
low the same rules as were used in
Kinsley precinct, these were counted,
and he would have been nominated
had it not been for the fact that the
commissioners had made a mistake in
adding up Mr.. Coles vote in Kinsley
precinct. They gave him but 68, while
the poll sheet, as we'll as the ballots.
showed that he had so. The gain of
twelve here just offset Mr.. Brewer
gain in Lewis. leaving the final result
the same as in the beginning.
Mr.. Brewer expressed himself as
being entirely satisfied with the re
suit, and said that both himself and
his friends would do everything in
their power to secure Mr.. Coles cleo
tion."
| While chasing cows on his home
place at Lawrence, Farmer Walter
| Roscoe Stubs stubbed on a stone and
| fell. doubling one of the fingers on his
| left hand back in such a way that it
was dislocated, and will have to be
carried in splints for some time.
| This sacrifice to the cause of agri-
| culture and stock raising ought to be
worth at least a thousand votes to
| Farmer Stubs in the approaching
| gubernatorial election. The farmers of
| the state should stand together in po-
| litical. as we'll as religious and scien-
| tific matters.
When Mr.. Stubs came to Topeka to
| attend the executive committee meet
| ing of the Republican state committee,
| he carried his hand tied up in band
| ages and the explanation which he
| gave was as above set forth.
The boys came in one evening about
| dark" said Mr. Stubs, land said they
| couldn't find the cows So / went out
to help hunt the COWS. It was dark,
and 1 was stumbling along when I sud
denly stepped into a hole and fell AS
I fell threw up my hand to shield my
| face. and as a result doubled one of
my fingers backwards when 1 hit the
| ground
| H P. Farrelly, Democratic nominee
for United States senator. will spend
most of next week with Sam I, Hale
| of Lacrosse, Democratic candidate for
| congress in the Seventh, touring the
''railroadless'' counties of Kansas in an
automobile. The counties to be visited
by automobile are Stanton, Grant,
Haskell, Morton and Stevens. These
! are the extreme southwestern counties
| of the state. which are shy in popula-
ton, but which vote just as hard as
| anybody in the legislature. The follow
| ing list of campaign speaking dates IS
| given out today by the Democratic
| state central committee:
/ Senator Hugh P Farrelly: Hutchin-