The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-07
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
Wagstaff People Analyze the
Situation.
Compare the Vote on Leland and
Stubs.
HAS A GOOD CHANCE.
Only Necessary to Change Few
Votes in Each Precinct.
Harry Bowman Gives Out State.
mnuf 0f GfaUIav Tucidauf
HAS A GOOD CHANCE.

The following report was made to-
! day at Wagstaf headquarters concern
J ing political conditions in the Fifth dis
| trict:
Cyrus Leland was two years age
defeated by w. r. Stubs for the Re
publican nomination for governor by
something like 1900 votes. There
are 1900 voting precincts in Kansas
! and it will require a change of but
! few votes in each precinct to accom-
| pIish the defeat of Stubs for renom-
| nation. 1t IS this fact that it is max
| ing supporters of Tom Wagstaff in this
section of the state confident that
| Wagstaf will win. They are banking
on the same ratio of change in other
quarters of the state that is easily 10
be found here.
Seriously there is no question but
that the tide is against Stubs in the
west end of the Fifth congressional
district a trip through several coun.
ties this week, with painStaking effort
to get the actual coalitions, has been
convincing that Wagstaff Will run up
wards of one thousand votes ahead OF
Lelands vote of two years ago in
Dickinson, Clay, Cloud and Saline
counties, four of the ten counties
which compose the Fifth district. If
the change in sentiment elsewhere is
at all proportionate, Governor Stubs
may as well begin now to get used to
the notion that he is a one termer-
At the 1908 primary. Stubs carried
each of the four counties above ma1-
toned over Leland. On the basis OF
things now it seems conservative 20
estimate that Wagstaff will have
majority in the four counties, although
he is hardly likely to carry each of the
four But the drift of sentiment IS
away from Stubs.
Two years ago little organized effort
was made for Leland in Cloud county
This year Wagstaff's friends are work
ing TO build a strong organization
Cloud. like Dickinson and Clay, had
for years been opposing the Republican
faction of which Leland was the leader,
and it was uphill work to develop
strong militant support for Leland.
With Wagstaff as candidate the sit
uation is different. the Montgomery
county man having no record of past
factionaI fighting to weaken him
Besides, there is much dissatisfac-
ton among Republicans with some of
the Stubs policies in state govern
ment. there is complaint of high taxes.
and idespread disposition to resent
the governors attitude toward the adj
ministration of President Taft and his
apparent disregard of party welfare.
Governor Stubs tariff position IS
bringing him no support that he did
not have two years ago. 1t is losing
him some Republicans who complain
against the Payne bill are all of the
type who were active in support IF
Stubs in 1908 But there seems to be
Republicans in practically every pre-
cinct. who two years ago supported
Stubs at the primary, but who are
now against him solely on the tariff
issue.
Some idea of the drift of things
here may be gained from the following
straw poll. In one block here are nine
teen Republican business men OF the
nineteen. nine were two years ago sup
porters of Stubs at the primary To-
day. thirteen of the nineteen are sup
porting Wagstaff. 1t is safe to predict
now that Wagstaff will get at least 80
votes more than did Leland in Con-
cordia. He will run ahead of the Le
land vote too in the country precincts.
and this county has been a Stubs hot
bed"
Harry Bowman. of the state board of
control, who disputed the figures given
out by Governor Stanley at the New
ton meeting. has prepared an interest
ing statement for the Newton papers
ir regard to the mum Der of the state
PATIENTS at the institutions and the cost
OF caring for them. According to the
Bowman statement the cost per capita
of caring for these patients is actually
less now than it was ten years ago in
This decrease Is accounted for in q
measure by the fact that the institu
tions are now raising a great deal of
the food products consumed by the in
mates, but nevertheless the statement
shows the results Of good management
and is worthy the consideration of ev-
cry reader and taxpayer. The statement
in part is as follows:
Replying to your request of yester-
cay as to the correctness of the figures
used by Ex-Governor Stanley and my
self at the Stanley meeting in Newton
evening relative to the Osa-
and Topeka state hospitals, |
Will say shat we have endeavored TO
place the Kansas institutions on high |
er plane than those in any other state. |
so that the inmates, who are our fellow
citizens and our wards, may receive the |
most humane, curative, scientific and
care and treatment known to
the scientific world. and we do not like