The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-03
MRS. CARvEY LOST
Defeated for School Board by
James Cuthbert.
Contest Only Feature of Repub-
lican Primary.
VOTE is VERY LIGHT.
Less Than Half the Registra-
tiOn Recorded.
Rad" Lee and j. I. WintrOde
Win in City Court.
VOTE is VERY LIGHT.

LII Sp1I6 OF the TACT Lndt. the Weath6
conditions have not undergone an!
radical change and the city is still OF
the map-the city primary election i.
over and all is quiet and peaceful to
day 1t was one of the easiest goine
elections in the history of the city anC
will only be equaled by the coming
election in April.
The Nominees.
AS whole the Republicans nomi-
mated the following candidates: Mayor
William Green; city clerk, C. B. Burge;
city attorney. w. c. Ralston, city treas
urer, ]. d. Pattison; clerk of the court
of Topeka, Rad NJ. Lee; police Judge
5 s Urmy; judge of the court of To-
peka, e. R. Simon; marshal of. the
court of Topeka. Capt. J. T Wintrode
councilman from the First ward. w NJ.
Van Ness; councilman Second ward,
George w. Adamson; councilman Third
ward, II. B. Howard; councilman
Fourth ward, Charles J. Drew; council
man Fifth ward D. B. Simpson: coun-
Gilman Sixth ward, E. F. Stanley;
member school board Second ward.
George Smith; member school board
Third ward, Mrs. c. J. Evans; mem
ber school board, Fourth ward James
Cuthbert; member school board Fifth
ward. Josiah Jordan; member school
board Sixth ward, S. A. Swendson.
The Democrats nominated: Mayor.
w. f. Logan; city attorney, William
Atchison; city treasurer, ]. c. Brown;
marshal of the court of Topeka, Tim
Donovan; councilman First ward d.
b. Fink; councilman Second ward J. J.
Lannan.
w. c. Ralston was nominated for city
attorney, Rad NJ. Lee for clerk of the
court of Topeka, ]. D. Pattison for city
treasure James Cuthbert for member
of the school board from the Fourth
ward Charles J. Drew for councilman
from the Fourth ward, D. B. Simpson
for councilman from the Fifth ward,
and Captain J. T. Wintrode for mar
shall of the city court. This is where
the only opposition came up and in
some cases the contest was predicted
rightly long before the election.
Vote Exceedingly Light.
The total vote was $500. This is very
light considering the registration of al
why the vote was so light The day
was one of the finest in the year and
there were plenty of conveyances but
there was no fight for mayor. This is
what draws the crowd. The Republi-
cans chose their old candidate and
standby, William Green. Mayor Green
has been a Republican all his life and
he has served the party in this city
during most of the time he has been a
member of the party. His administra-
ton this year in Topeka has been one
of the most successful and satisfactory
of any of the long line of chief execu-
own and he is not afraid to enforce his
principles-which are good in every de-
tail. Topeka will undoubtedly enjoy an
other two years of the full dinner pail
and the empty beer mug under Mayor
Green. The Democrats followed out
their threats and wrote the name of
their erstwhile candidate who was
thrown from the ballot on account of
an illegal set of nomination papers. w.
F. Logan received the total vote of the
Democrats, but this only amounted to
about 300- 1t is not known whether
there will be third candidate come up
been some talk of running an Independ-
ent, but it will be useless to try and
defeat Mayor Green for denomination
His majority in the election yesterday
must have been considerable over 1000.
This is 500 more than the most conf
dent predicted.
c. B. Burge was easily renominated
for city clerk. His opponent was also
cut out of the race by poorly prepared
nomination papers and he had no op-
position in the primaries.
City Attorney Contest.
For city attorney the fight was the
closest ana the most interesting of the
whole election. w. c. RaIston. who
the last eight years won out by a ma
1or1ty of S91. The total vote for Raj
ston was 2,372 and Hugh Mcfarland.
his opponent received 1881 votes The
ming and considering the fact that Nc
Farland is a young lawyer and has
been out of college but a few years.
ne put up game battle. During the
last few days of the campaign he
threw a good many bombs into the
Ralston camp but the forces were too
closely connected. Ralston will be a
valuable man to the city, if elected
because he has become acquainted
with the cases against the city and
the many ordinances drawn up by the
city council. At the present time To
peka is on the verge of meeting a
number of very important cases in the
courts involving thousands of dollars
and property of great importance to
the city. 1t is absolutely necessary
that the city attorney be a man of
ability and man well acquainted
with every point in the case Nc
F'arland is a we'll educated young man
and would make well with the city af-
fairs and his winning opponent. w c.
Ralston, is man who will follow up
the cases as they have been dropped
by City Attorney Dreaming and make
a strong fight for the city
Pattison for Treasurer.
For city treasurer, J. D. Pattison
won with majority of 439 votes He
received a total of 1898. His nearest
opponent c. H. Kutz can claim 1859
votes and Fred s. Brown of
the younger crowd has 1925
votes. This three cornered fight was
one OF the most exciting (if such a
word can be used in connection with
these primaries) of the election. Pat
tison is at the present time sanitary
sergeant for the city and has held
many city offices. He is a civil war
veteran but is young in his official
ability. He is man of unusual ener-
gy for his age and if elected in April
he will make the city a most efficient
treasurer. All three candidates were
Republicans. Kutz was once a Popu-
list and this had something to do with
his defeat
s'Rad" NJ. Lee won out for clerk of
the court of Topeka. This has been
expected all the time although he