The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-01
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
Chairman Dolley Is Not Gener-
GUS to Democrats.
Says Hodges VIII Carry Fewer
Counties Than Wagstaff.
He COMEDIES ELLIS.
Throws i'm Cherokee, Norton and
AschiSOn lOr GeOd Measure.
Campaign Has Been Clean, He
Asserts.

With the election only week dis
tant Chairman Dolley, OF the Republi-
can state committee, is supremely con-
fident that the entire state ticket and
| all of the eight congressman will win
by comfortable majorities. THE situ-
alton today he said, could not be bet
ter. We have covered the state send
/ ing speakers to every county, and have
sent out tons of literature. There is no
general agitation among the voters, no
outburSt of Tublic sentiment against
the administration, nothing to indicate
that the people of this state are clamor-
ing for change. Rather, the admins
tration has been commended and en-
dorsed as one of the best that ever oc-
cupied the state house.
Il do not believe that Hodges will
carry as many counties as Wagstaff did
last August. He will carry Ellis, Cher
okee and Norton, and possibly Atchi-
son. 1t will be close in several coun-
ties, notably johnson, Hodges own
county, but 1 do not concede Johnson
to the Democrats.
I'VE have conducted a clean cam
paign and have made no false state
mentS or INSTRUMENTATION SO far as
I I know. We have catered to the best
element in the state for support, pay
ing no attention whatever to the ward
! heelerS, buns and 'hoaterS' in our ef-
forts to gain votes. We recognize that
the wet element and the corporations
are against US in this fight. l have
! claimed all along that they will make
, a big and final effort during the last
few days of the campaign to cut the
StubbS majority in order to discredit the
governor in the work he is doing for
prohibition and better government. If
enough money is spent they may cut
his majority some, but there is no state
in the Union where money will do less
than in Kansas at this time. If the
hos If 10 tot will fol
where near the interest in registering
and voting that the worst element in
the state are taking, then the COVER
nor's majority will reach $4,000 and the
state ticket will run with him. 1 am
not estimating any majority, under
stand, L want to wait to see what the
final effort of the brewery interests and
corporations will be. We are prepared
for it,
Henderson Martin. chairman of the
| Dem ocratic state central committee,
today went to Marion county. where
| he is campaigning in the interests of
| his congressional race Before he left
ceived polls of eleven country pre-
cincts, and that these polls showed a
! Democratic increase of more than 20
per cent over the vote of two years
ago.
Mr.. Martin predicted the election of
the entire Democratic state ticket and
four Democratic congressman. He
said that the Republican scares be-
ginning with what he called the trans
parent falsehood that Hodges had sur
rendered his progressive ideas and end
ing with the Brewer railroad story,
have fallen fiat.
THE pc 3ple of Kansas are not very
easily fooled" he declared "Their
however artful, will not change the re-
suit. Senator Hodges has made the
greatest campaign that has ever been
made in Kansas. He is gaining
strength every day and his majority
next Tusday will be decisive one"
A Decatur county Democrat writes
the State Journal that Senator Young
Payne tariff. Judge Rees, the insur-
gent candidate for congress in the
Sixth district. has been accused OF
luke warmness in the fight for the
true faith. These reports are doubt
less being circulated for campaign
purposes. Both Young and Rees were
nominated for congress by insurgent
votes and they could hardly afford tC
repudiate their own platforms before
election. Their speeches are evidently
being misconstrued. But still these re-
ports come in like smoke before fire
Both gentlemen should take pains to
make an emphatic statement of theil
position before the election.
Dan Anthony, congressman from the
First district, and candidate of the Re-
publican party for reelection, was
asked the other day by the voters OF
Jackson county for an expression OF
his attitude on public questions. He
made reply frankly and fearlessly in
his paper, the Leavenworth Times, as
follows:
ITO discuss in detail every measure
which may come up in that body
IL,
columns, but in general Mr.. Anthony
will stand in the future as he has in
the past for all safe, sound, sane pro-
gressive ideas of government.
Being one of the first public men
in Kansas to agitate and bring about
the movement for the elimination OF
corporate influence from the politics
of Kansas it is Mr.. Anthony's intention
| to continue to steadfastly favor the
| interests of the people of Kansas as
against any other interest whatsoever
"Mr. Anthony will favor immediate
| further revision of those schedules oi
| the tariff which need it most, based or
| the exact information furnished by
| the tariff commission.
| "Mr. Anthony also favors as drastic
| additional legislation as may be re
| quired for the absolute wiping out O.
| all unlawful trusts and monopolisti'
| trade combinations.
| "Mr. Anthony will also favor a Law
| for the immediate ascertainment b,
| the interstate commerce commission o
| the actual physical valuation of tn
| interstate transportation corporation
| to be used as a basis for rate maxim.
and limiting the profits of these pub
| lie service corporations to a fair re
| turn on the actual money invested il
| the property, equitable alike to TIL
| people and the railroads and he vii
| as heretofore align himself with tn
| Republican party and abide by it's ma
jority sentiment on party measures