The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-09
soon TO Be OVER
Just "a Days and the Contest
Will Be Ended.
Four Republicans, Two Demo-
Gratis For Sheriff.
ALL ARE CONFIDENT.
Each Man in Race Thinks He
Will Be Lucky One.
None Will Withdraw But VIII
Fight to the End.
ALL ARE CONFIDENT

The four gentlemen of Topeka ana
Oakland who are asking for the Re
publican nomination for sheriff OF
Shawnee county form the most active
quartet in the county.
At the present time the candidates
for sheriff are the children's joy. Each
candidate for the nomination is can
wasting the county with pockets full Of
goods to gladden. the heart of the
youngster, while the anxious aspirant
cautiously suggests to the parent
something of his ambitions.
Everything, from white CARDS Win
pictures Of stout men. pencils ana
peaches to automobile rides are
passed to the voter and his flock every
time an opportunity presents itself;
The campaign for the nomination
for sheriff is on in dead earnest
Shawnee county has one of the sever
est ballot battles of its history to de-
eide August 2.
When the conflict is over and the
ballots counted on the night of August
2 the bone of contention will be buried
for. in Justice to the candidates, they
are men enough to abide by the decl-
sion of the majority without rancor-
Gus recollections or personal AMI
mosities.
This is the plain fact as to the Re
publican candidates. Jonathan D. NOR
ton, j. B. Belts, Rome Colvin and Ira,
Orner. They want the office for the
honor and the salary. Personal olffer-
ences and open controversies nave
been INDUCED in. charges and coun-
ter charges have been made, but when
the whole story has been simmered to
solid facts the differences are more OF
a personal nature than of fundamental
principles.
The voters are content to let the
best man win and that individual VIII
be selected August 2.
Jonathan D. Norton has talked and
advertised himself as a law ana oroeI
man. He has promised to enforce al
laws where his office is concerned. j.
b. Belts has declared for the same
principles and said he can and will,
if elected sheriff, keep the county Of
tenders under subject1on- AND, by the
way. Rome Colvin says the same thing.
Over in Oakland, Ira Orner keeps a
horse hitched day and night and starts
out with the sun and the lark in the
morning to tell the glad tidings to the
Shawnee county voters that he is the
man to enforce the laws. to unite the
different factions of the Repubhcan
party and he keeps right on driving
and talking as long as anybody is
awake and willing to listen.
Orner is no joke if he is jolly, and
must be considered in the reckoning
August 2. He has been IN the shaw,
nee county meadow making hay"
while the other three men have been
playing in the mud.
LAWYERS say. possession is nine
points in law and since Sheriff Norton
is the incumbent he bases his rights OH
the principle that he should be allowed
to remain for another term. And the
opponents OF Sheriff Norton would feet
much the same as he does if they were
in his position. 4
r r. Belts claims he has worked and
used his money and time Tor pubic m
+arests in Topeka and Shawnee county,
has served the public as an othcer
where the compensation has not been
commensurate with the work done. He
is making the race for sheriff feenng
that he is capable to handle the o1nce'
and would be appreciative or the rec
IGNITION given him by his friends
IRA Orner has been in the race before
raade friends two years ago and IS
making more of them this time He IS
the only Republican who IS gong
through the campaign without serious
friction.
zach of the four Republicans has
been campaigning, thoroughly for the
mast two months, barring Sheriff NOR
TON who has been tied down TO oIncial
duties a considerable portion OF tne
time. While he has peen collie ndI9
work among the citizens of Topeka and
attending many of the out OF town
ratherings. this much must be said Tor
fbe sheriff, he has not neglected mis-
duties. ..
4t,oro,ehlv and consistently but he has
treeT, engaged with his big contracts In
-yarious cities and has been out OF town
a norton of the time.
ITLa Democrats will be represented in
the primaries. One of the active can
dtdates for sheriff is w, p. Scnllchter.
sschIichter says he is out Tor democrat
s5otes for a Democrat candidate