The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-01
The Die is CAST.
Bitter Factional Political Con.
test Closes Tonight.
Never a Campaign of So Much
Uncertainty.
HOW THEY FIGURE.
Wide Diversity in Claims OF
Rival Managers.
General Belief Is That Gov.
Stubbs Will Win.

coiipdlCn which closes In Kan
sas To-Day is probably the most remark
ande IN the history of the state. Never
nas there been such a factional struggle
"itnln the ranks of the Republican
party In this state. Not alone was there
the old feud between the machine men
ana the square dealers, but national is
sues also served to still further widen
the breach. With the return of the
congressman from Washington the in
sui ecslon M was Tanned into a flame of
uavn ,., war There never was anything
nke the present bitterness between the
state ana national politicians.
1ne conSreSSmen came home a month
ago ana all of them except Ml,rdocie
Suas Sau Maolson lined up with the regulars.
senator Curtis went out on the stun,I,
with Wagstaf and Senator Rristo1y
spoke from the same platform wifi,
Stubbs- 1t was dog eat dog.
ADDED to the bitterness enRenderad b,,
n,ba r,t,n VINO want to hold Office and men
WIG want TO win Office is the strff,
Wilnln the party caused by a differercs
IN principles in the Sentiment of tba
rank and file. Kansas has been rae,r RI
eo tor Two or three years as an insl,r-
senl STATE, ana the indications point to
partial lnSurgent victory at least to-
morrow, but nowhere in New Yorl- ~.
Rnooe Island can be found fir-1ner more
enthusiastic standpatters than thos.. ~
tne sunnower state. And there are more
VI Inen tnan was dreamed af when 1910
was first ushered upon the STAGE
Last January no one but that conced
Gu otuoDs the governorship by 30 OOo
against any one that could be Induced
70 make the race against him. Now he
may WIN tomorrow by 10000 and he may
certainty WIN any
IL has been remarkable carnpairn
Two eA-goVernors and a United States
senator nave travelled over the state
touring not shot into a Republican state
duIninlstratlon. and at the same time
accusing Republican governor of NOT
pelng In sympathy with a Republicar n
state administration. -
Governor Stubs has dashed ,1nnarci-
iuiiy - tne men Who used to run things
IN kansas few years ago while he w9s
building railroads. "e~
Ola aiignments have been shattered
70 sin1thereens. Cy Leland is for Stubhs-
CONGRESSMAN Scott, whom Stubbs help
ed SO much in his fight with Henry.
Allen. is working for wagstaff. Senafo,.
Curtis is working for Dan Anthony as
against McNeal, and vet for IL wears
McNeal had worked for Curtis like 4
1Io1an IN season and out of season
Whlie Anthony had bitterly assaiIe5
curtis In his Leavenworth newspaner
governor Bailey was beaten for re-
nomination by Stubbs and now Taiiev
is trying to beat Stubbs for renomina-
ton.
Joe Dolley is about the oniv old timer
among the active Stubs leaders War-
staff has a hundred old timers directi1es
his campaign. .
Yes, 1t is a grand mixup and to com
Pncate II still more the chairman of
both SIDES claim the election bv exactly
the same figures--15,000
Turns on Shawnee.
Offers of three to one on Stubbs f7nd
no takers in Topeka but they are bet
tlng even money on Shawnee county
ana on Wyandotte and Sedgwick.
shawnee seems to be pivot. It's cleo
ton returns alone will Indicate the
result in the First district congression
al race and the governorship. IF Stubhs
carries Shawnee Wagstaff rooters had
nights sleep-if they can. IF Stubs
carries Shawnee the chief of the Shaw
nees Will cover his face with his
blanket and refuse to be comforted.
Will move the Plaindealer office to
Morton county. If Stubbs carries
Shawnee Joe Dolley will dance a sail
or's hornpipe and Dave Leahy will
write history of Ireland
While neither side has given ONT
figures on the result by counties and
congressional districts, it is a fact that
the chairmen have received a poll of
the state and have made estimates by
counties These estimates are as far
apart as noon and midnight. For in
stance, Dolley comedies Atchison 10
Wagstaff by $50, while Joe Kramer
claims the county by a thousand.
Some of the Claims.
Dolley claims Douglas county.
Stubbs' home, by 1,450 while Kramer
will allow only 45c there. Kramer
must be expecting a revolution in
Douglas And there is 2 thousand
votes between the chairmen in their
estimate of Montgomery. wagstaff's
h0noa 10;
thousand to twelve hundred while
Dolley will concede only two hundred
at the most and claims the county will
be close.
while Kramer claims a standoff there
Dolley claims Marion county by 500.
a loss of 800 since the last primary,
while Kramer claims standoff. Leav-
1900, but Kramer is looking for
1900 there. Jewell is claimed by Dol
| ley by $50 and johnson by 500 but
| Kramer Will admit only 200 in each
| county.
Sedgwick county is claimed by Kra-
mer by 1900 but Dolley calls it a
standoff there. Wyandotte is also
| claimed by Kramer by 1900 and Dol
| ley comedies it to him by 400. Dolley
| claims Pottawatomie county by 500
and Kramer claims it by 200; some
/ difference of opinion here.
Dolley comedies eleven counties to
/ Wagstaff and admits that four or five
Il others are in doubt. Kramer con
cedes fifteen counties only to Stubs
and admits some twenty are in doubt.
DolIey claims all eight of the con-
gressiona1 districts, adnittinfi that 1t
will be colse in the First and closer in
the Third. Kramer gives Stubbs the
Fourth district, which he carried two
years ago by over 5000, and claims
the First, Third Sixth and Eighth dis
tricts with the result in doubt in the
others.