The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-23
Democrats and Socialists Forgot
a New Law.
Didn't Know Numbers of Dis
tricts Had Been Changed.
MAY THROW THEM OUT
Petitions Not Legal as They
Stand.
Question Whether Corrections
Can Be Made.
LAY THROW THEM OUT


candidates for the legislature from
Shawnee county have forgotten that
the last legislature remembered their
respective districts was made mani
fest yesterday afternoon when they
filed their petitions of nomination.
Every one of them has filed notice
of his candidacy for a district other
than that in which he lives. The three
Republican candidates are the only
ones who have filed their papers cor
rectly. Unless the board which finally
makes out the ballots sees fit to admit
the Democrats and Socialists to the
classification to which the candidates
presumably thought they belonged the
nominations will necessarily be de-
clared void.
AS 1t stands now ]. w. Cochran,
Democrat, who lives north of the Kan
sas river in Shawnee county, is run
ming for election to the legislature
from Brown county, which under the
present superintendent constitutes the
Thirty-seventh legislative district. The
Socialist candidate for the north dis
clared himself candidate to repre-
sent Brown county. He is H. c. Hall.
Ike Gilberg, Socialist, and ]. Will
Kelley, Democrat, who live in the city
district: properly the Thirtyfourth
legislative district have declared
themselves candidates to represent
Nemaha county in the legislature, as
they have filed nomination papers for
the Thirty eighth district Similarly.
G. A. Kline, Democrat, and T. A. Cur
ry, Socialist. have filed for the Thirty
ninth district, which is composed, ac-
cording to the last session laws, of the
townships of Blue Rapids, Blue Rapids
city, Clear Fork, Vermillion, Noble,
Rock, Murray, Guittard, Richland and
st. Bridget in the county of Marshall.
AS it now stands the only candidates
who are in the race for the districts
in shawnee county are E. e. Olinger
of the Thirty-third district, A. A. era
ham for the Thirty-fourth and Robert
Stone for the Thirty-fifth.
Inasmuch as the law provides that
the candidate for election in any leg
islative district must be a resident of
that district and that the people sign
ing his petition of nomination must be
bona fide residents of the district in
which they vote. it is probable that the
Democratic and Socialist candidates
will have trouble in getting on the
ticket 1t is improbable that the peo-
pie of Brown and Nemaha counties
will 4bezwilling zto-be sepresentedaby-a
resident of Shawnee while it is equally
as certain that some present resident
of st. Bridget's township or one of the
others in Marshall county, already
IleHllOHeQ, Will pTOleSl vigorously
against having to make the race
against men who have never paid any
taxes in that county.
1t might be expected that the Shaw
nee county men will have more trou-
BILE in getting on the Nemaha, Brown
would have in getting on the ones in
their own county.
1t is very probabl that the matter
of altering the petitions so as to make
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ty-fourth and Thirty-fifth. instead of
Thirty-seventh, Thirty-eighth and
Thirty-ninth districts will be taken up
soon by the respective candidates of
the Democratic and Socialist parties
with County Clerk Zimmerman. 1t
may be that the matter Will get into
court and may finally have to be pass
ed up to the supreme court. AS this is
the first year in which the reappor-
tionment has been made operative it
is not improbabl that similar mis-
takes have been made in other coun-
ties of the state so that the test case
of one will be made to cover all.
The nomination petitions of Oscar
Swayze as candidate before the Re
publican primaries for county clerk
and of DR.. H. H. Keith for county
coroner as we'll as the three Repub-
lican candidates for the Legislature
were filed with the county clerk yes
terday afternoon. A A. Graham files
his petition as candidate for the leg
islature from the Thirty-fourth dis
trict. E. E. Olinger for the Thirty
third and Robert Stone from the
Thirty-flfth district. Jack Campbell
Republican. was the only candidate to
postpone filing till today.
The complete list of candidates OF
the Democratic party who have filed
nomination petitions is as follows:
For county clerk-William Dickson.
For Probate judge-George S. Allen
For county assessor-W. H. Dutton
For county attorney-W. E. Atchi-
SON.
For coroner-Dr. Eva Harding.
For reasurer-Charles M. Zirkle.
For county uperintendent-J. D
Brown.
For sheriff-W. E. Schlichter and R
| B. Kepley.