The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-23
ORDER CLAN EASY
Have Confidence in Candidates
for County Attorney.
do Not Fear Independent or a
Democrat Getting In.
NALL CLAIM A VICTORY.
Each Man Out for Office Thinks
He Has Won.
Most OF Them Agree Question
Already Is Settled.


nomination for county attorney the
law and order people are going to be
Well satisfied and there will be no
chance to slip in with an Independent
or Democratic candidate" said Re
publican who has been sizing up the
prospects in the present county politi-
cal situation.
Each of the three candidates. E. r.
Simon, Frank G. Dreaming and I. ID.
Humphreys is equally confident that
the nomination will be his and there
is every reason to believe that each
VIII poll a good vote, as the situation
has been we'll canvassed by them all.
The campaign for this nomination at
the hands of the Republicans has been
accompanied by little acrimony; 1t has
been active rather than bitter and
there seems to be little inclination
among any portion of the voters of the
county to believe, as is usually the
case, that the county will "go to the
dogs" if the wrong man is nominated
for attorney.
Judge Simon. who now presides
over the city court has made one or
the longest campaigns on record as ne
started work nearly two years ago ana
has canvassed the county with the ut
most thoroughness. In the last two
weeks he has been confined by illness,
but his henchmen believe that he al
ready is nominated and that the re-
cent loss of time has done no harm
Radcliffe Lee. who is confident or a
Simon victory, said:
Every precinct in Shawnee county
will give him a plurality if not a ma
jority and Judge Simon is going to poll
the heaviest vote of any candidate run
ming for contested nomination in this
= election. He has worked hard for the
nomination, visiting every nook ana
corner of the county and meeting the
voters on their own ground months
ago and as frequently as possible.
never saw a more thorough organlZa-
ton of voting strength and it VIII stay
with him until the war is over"
Dreaming Is Busy.
Frank G. Dreaming has been the
man with the busy bicycle and the
brass band, particularly in the last few
weeks and he has just placed his pic
ture-the one with the moustache-
before the people upon one of the
neatest campaign posters that has yet
appeared.
"I think am going to be called on
to do some more campaigning after
the election he said when asked how
the prospect looked. "And, it isn't just
from the city that 1 expect my sup
port"
Mr.. Dreaming served two terms as
city attorney, a fact which has given
him an extensive acquaintance in pre-
vious municipal campaigns and in sub
sequent official life.
"This has been the campaign of my
IRE, ne continued. Two years dRO
when ran for the nomination 1 polled
heavily although it was a foregone
conclusion that no Republican nomi-
nee would be elected. 1 did not work
for votes then; they came to me, and
they came in a way that assured me
that could depend upon them again.
In the present campaign 1 have let the
voters of the county know just what
the issues are, those of professional
qualification, and 1 have made them
\ III -i1~I,& ,I1
The county is going to give me as
much support as the city will. and to-,
gether they will be sufficient to make
the nomination mine with no partic-
ular trouble"
Humphreys Not Talkative.
'See me on August g." said Mr. Hum
phreys. ST am not counting votes yet,
I am just making them, and there will
be time enough to tell how it happen
ed after the primary. But do be-
Iieve that I will poll a majority-not
a plurality-of the votes for the Re-
publican nomination for county attor-
ney. Two years ago the Republicans
gave me their nomination, although
there was no chance of electing any
body against John J. Schenck,
Democrat, who then was running for
his second term. 1 simply was carry
ing the banner in a forlorn hope and
knew it. With no idea of election I
worked continuously for the balance
% or the TICKET ana spoke night after
night for Taft and the balance of the
Republican nominees. 1t is my turn
and now believe there are few of the
voters who do not feel that way about
it."
The Clerlxship Fight.
c. B. Burge, city clerk, Samuel G.
Zimmerman, who is running for re-
election, and Oscar Swayze, who has
served as an assistant in the county
clerks and treasurer's Offices hold the
three corners in the fight for the Re-
publican nomination for county clerk
Its sewed up in a sack" observed
Zimmerman when some one INQUIRED
where was the nomination, land the
sack is mine. / have kept before the
people of the county with good ad-
vertising campaign calling their atten-
ton to my record as county clerk, and
/ have enough assurances of their
good will to know that the people are
going to give me back the Office to take
care of again. For weeks 1 have been
too busy to get away from the office to
see the voters at their homes, but I
believe that fact is in my favor. The
newspapers have done much of cam
paigning for me and my record is do
ing the rest. You'll see next week"
"Al Over" Says Burge.
1.-THE things settled one way or the
other" said City Clerk Burge, land
there's nothing much to do now but
hold the primaries. I thoroughly be-
lieve that the nomination will be given
me. Just now the work in my office
keeps me indoors most of the time,
but 1 already have canvassed the coun-
ty and city back and forward and in
both directions. 1t has been my ambi-
ton to meet every voter and 1 have
worked consistently with that purpose.
The assurances of support that have
been given me are convincing enough.
II am not worrying about the results. -
my Turn,'' Thinks Swayze.
IT haven't been holding any elections
in the newspapers said Oscar Swayze.
but have been out where the voters
are getting ready for the primaries and
think that, like the weather, my
prospects are getting 'fairer and
warmer It's about my turn and I
have made up my mind to throw all
nv efforts into a win or lose campaign