The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-10

political interests have been before the
people of this county. / will introduce
gentleman who has been nominated
for governor to the Republicans of
Doniphan county. desire to state
that he is now our candidate. Allow
Walter Roscoe Stubs. of Douglas
county"
J. L. Bristow has given out this
statement of his campaign expenses.
all of which but $40 he paid out of his
own pocket:
Office help and office expenses. 1920
Travelling expenses, etc. ..... 5000
Printing go. .......... 1,677.50
Sam Amidon, the well known Demo-
cratic politician and lawyer of Wich-
ita. has been nominated by the Demo-
Gratis for justice of the peace in
Wichita
Amidon wasn't a candidate. and
neither was anybody else. Neverthe-
less, Amidon got one vote, and one
was cast for Judge. D. NJ. Dale, late
candidate for governor on the Demo-
cratic ticket. The canvassing board
decided the tie by drawing cuts, and
Amidon won.
Sedgwick county. it has finally been
determined by the official canvass of
votes, went for Leland for governor
by the narrow margin of 81. Bristow
however, had $50 votes the pest of
Long
Through an oversight in the primary
election law, there Is no possible way
for an effective contest to be made on
the nomination of candidate for rep
resentative to the state legislature.
The primary simply makes the general
election law on contests applicable.
and the general election law gives to
the house of representatives itself the
right to settle the eligibility of it's
members. Hence by the time pro-
vided for making contest, the other
man would have the job.
for representative at the primary
claims that his opponent was nomi-
mated b. fraud. and he wants to con-
test. The attorney general was forced
to advise him that there is no way for
him to do anything the way the law
stands now.
Senator F. Dumont Smith. of Kinsley,
has given it up, and says that he was
defeated for the state senate in the
Thirty eighth district. He has gone to
Yellowstone Park for vacation trip.
"a. .. T OulhS is the SUCCESSFUL
The surprise of the official count of
the ballots cast in the Salina-Ottawa
district is the nomination of J. F. Cor
der Of Salina by the Democrats for the
position of state senator against Sena-
tor Fred Quincy, the present incum-
bent and the Republican nominee
1t was not known that Corder was
candidate, he having made no nomina-
ton further than intimate to a few
friends in Ottawa county that he would
accept the place II the Democrats de :
sired to give it to him. He received
fifty-seven votes and is the nominee.
H. P. Farrelly Democratic nominee
for United States senator. is using the
"Bristow system" in attacking Mr..
Bristow. He has prepared a long list
of questions which he wants Bristow
to answer, in order to prove himself
to be the right sort of a man for the
senate. The list of questions follows:
Are you in favor of a bank guaran-
ty law?
Are you in favor of an income tax?
Are you in favor of the ship subsidy
proposition?
Are you in favor of the trial Of con-
troversies arising under the state laws
in state courts first?
In the regulation of interstate COM
merce and private monopolies. do you
propose to substitute federal laws for,
or add them to state laws?
Do you believe a private monopoly
is ever justifiable?
Are you in favor of radical reduce
ton of the tariff duties on the neces-
stiles of life?
Are you in favor of removing the
tariff duties from all trust-controlled
goods and placing them on the free
list?
Are you in favor of publicity of
campaign funds before election?
Did you not evade the Kansas law
relating to the publicity of campaign
funds when secretary of the Republi-
can state committee?
Are you in favor of the election of
United States senators by direct vote
of the people?
Are you in favor of the election of
federal judges by direct vote of the
people?
Are you in favor of the election of
postmasters by direct vote of the peo-
pie. whom they serve?
Are you in favor of electing tax Of
ficers and other public officials, when
ever practicable, by direct vote of the
people?
How do you propose to protect
American labor against the importa-
ton of cheap Oriental labor?
During the year 1907 did you not ad-
vocate editorially in your newspaper
| the Importation of japanese and Chi.