The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-17
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
w. Z. Austin, Nominee for State
Printer,
Had Given Up the Contest as
Lost.
CHEROKEE A SURPRISE
Supposed Brown Would Lead i'm
That County.
CHEROKEE SURPRISE
VIM. Allen White Has Good
Word for Calderhead.

w Vi u AOI OdkUGIu0dU.
w. e. Austin, nominee of the Repub-
mean party for state printer, after a
week OF suspense while the returns
came drifting slowly in from the coun-
tles' came up to Topeka last night
from his home in Cottonwood Falls to
uraW MS breath and meet his friends
at the state capital. Austin himself
mad given up the fight as lost when all
the counties had reported except
cherokee, and Tom Brown, his nearest
,, competitor, being a union man, Austin
expected to lose that county. But his
name appeared first on the ballot there
and this fact pulled him through
Austin admitted that the past week
| mad been strain. The returns drib-
pied IN from day to day and the nearer
| the end approached the more his lead
| dW1ndled- He gave up the ghost Sat
| urday morning when he heard from
Pratt and Reno, but Cherokee brought
| help instead of disaster.
IhlS man Austin is a young fellow, a
newspaper man and hustler from the
country districts. 1t will be remem-
| bered that he made the race for state
| printer two years ago against Tom Nc
Neal and Albert Reid. Austin ran sec
| ond in that race, and he kept such
| close tab on the returns then that he
| was the first to notify McNeal of his
victory. This year Austin was very
| busy in his printing office, the Chase
County Leader. and was not in touch
| with Topeka or the other populatio
centers of the state He earned his
victory. for he had worked hard all
| through the early part of the cam
| paign. He had worthy competition in
the veteran newspaper man Tom
| Cordry of Parsons, and the present
foreman of the state printing plant,
| Tom Brown.
William Allen White takes off his hat
to Congressman Calderhead whom he
! had fought throughout the campaign
and calls him a thoroughbred in the
following tribute to the strongest MEM
| Der of the Kansas delegation at Wash
| ington:
1.-THE note of Congressman Calder
| head to mis- constituents after the prj
| maries was the note of a thoroughbred.
| There was no whine in it. Congress-
man Calderhead was the prince of the
| Kansas standpatters. He believed hon
| estly in every vote he cast. He never
| truckled to power. He was conserva-
! tive in temperament and from deep
! conviction. He did not represent the
district that sent him to congress as
| the primary votes show But every
vote cast was honestly and conscienti
ously cast.
scott knew better. Miller was ig-
norant Reeder was shifty, Campbell
and Anthony desired to stand in but
| Caldernead voted as he voted because
| he had reasoned it out that way, be-
lieyed that way and nothing could have
! changed him."
The following are the nominees of
all parties for district judges in the
various judicial districts:
Tenth DISTRICT. o. Rankin, r.; S.
| Z. Seaton, d.
Twelfth district=John c. Hogin, r.
Fifteenth district-R. M. Picker, R
| Seventeenth district-W. H. Pratt,
r.; W. 8. Longmade, D.
Nineteenth district-C. L. Swartz,
r.; ]. F. Snyder, S.
| Twentieth district-D. A. Banta, R.;
| c. F. Foley, d.
| Twenty-first district-Sam Kimbl
r.; j. c. Miller, D.
Twenty-second district-W. 1. Stew
art, r.
Twenty-third district-E. A. Rea,
r.; j. c. Ruppenthal, D.
Twenty-fourth district-P. B. Gil
lett. r.
Thirtieth district-Dallas Grover
r.; David Richie, D.
Thirty-first district-Gordon L. Fin
ley.
Thirty-second district-O. H. Foster,
! r.; w. H. Thompson, D.
Thirty-third district-C. E. Lobdell,
R.; A. w. Wilson, D.
Thirty-fourth district-C. w. Smith,
R.: A. L. Taylor. D.
Thirty-fifth district-R. c. Heller, R.
Wichita. Kan, Aug. 17.-victor
Murdoch has issued the following
statement regarding Speaker Cannon's
latest interview:
"Cannon's charge that Kansas is
suffering from 'insurgentitis' is fitting
testimony from a man who for thirty
years has acted upon progressive leg
islation like a hookworm. The domi-
nant note in Cannon's libel is the
treble whine of Bourbon--not under
standing his times, he ScOldS at them.
kansas, in her ideals, her plans,
her accomplishments, stands nearer
a condition of perfected democracy
today than any community in the
world. The Kansan possesses and eX-
ercises daily a greater degree of free
dom than mankind has seen before.
A real Kansan never treats an in
ferior meanly and never 'toadies to
| a superior and no kansan ever failed
to help drag the cloak from a pre-
tender or ever hesitated to heave a
sham into the sunlight of shame.
1.-The spirit of Kansas is vibrant
with the eternal human desire for JUS
tice to the age-old demand for equal
ity of opportunity and the age-old pro-
test against special privilege. From
the beginning Kansas has carried war
against those who are insolent in Of
flee, arrogant in high estate and gross
and cruel in the brutalities of per-
Sonal power.
Between Kansas and Cannon. the
man who has tried to poison the
springs of representative government,
there can be no peace and between
Cannon and all his stand-pat Bour-
bon kind there will be no peace"
Women Are Barred
| Chicago, Aug. 17.-Because the
average man can not manage" the
average woman. the men of the Ro-