The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-21

staff has doubtless made gains in the
Sixth. He has many friends in every
county seat town in the district and
has made fine campaign OF the west,
but there is no indication of slump
in his favor.
Reeder Opposition Divided.
Reeder, the stand pat congressman.
has plenty of opposition, but 1T is d.
vided about equally between White and
Young, and neither of these insurgents
has the strength to dominate the stu
alton. Reeder will likely win and will
then have a still harder fight at the
polls in November.
In the Seventh district. which
Stubs carried over Leland by over
5000 votes, losing only two of the 81
counties, there is little change except
in three counties of Reno Pratt and
Stafford, which are claimed by Wag-
staff Granting this claim, it is hard to
see where Stubbs will suffer much in
the Seventh.
Madison, the insurgent congressman,
has no opposition, and this fact alone
warrants a safe majority for StubbS IN
that district.
In the Eighth district, where Stubs
won by over 1000 over Leland, there
is reported to be a big change in all
of the five populous counties of the dis
trict. Leland carried Sedgwick county
the county by 500 or better. His claims
may be true, there is no way to get
line on Sedgwick in the midst of con-
fiicting stories. Wagstaff is also claim
ing Mcpherson and Butler counties,
but the Stubbs people are not worry,
ing over these two communities. one
would be inclined to speculate on
possible Waterloo for the fighting gov
ernor in this Belgium of Kansas were
it not for the fact that Victor Muir
\ frra holds
forth in the Eighth, where he is mon
arch of all he surveys Stubbs and
Murdock are in the same wagon this
year and the odds should be on Stubps
in the Eighth. Stubs has 1000 ma
jority of last primary to spare in this
district.
Wagstaf's Effective Campaign.
Taken all and all, Kansas looks to
be still insurgent this year, and with
a heavy primary vote the Stubbs ma
jority will be close to that of last year.
maybe larger. But a light vote Will
give Wagstaff a fighting chance, for 1t
is a fact that he has made a surprls-
ingly strong campaign and has devel-
oped much strength in many quarters
of the state. He has had the able as
sistance of the pick Of the old machine
leaders and the eloquent Bailey and
Lamb and Stanley have fought hard
for him. Then six of the Kansas con-
gressmen have thrown their organiza-
ton into his side of the scales and
Senator Curtis with his great personal
following has taken the stump In MS
behalf All the resources of the old
regime have been actively employed
against the denomination of the gov
ernor and there are almost as many
stand pat as insurgent newspapers IN
Kansas The Stubbs majority may be
as high as $4,000 or as low as 10000,
depending on the volume of the pri-
mary vote. A big vote means Stubbs
sure; there can be no mistake about
that.
As for the congressman Miller and
Jackson and Scott have hard nights
ahead and it is folly to predict the
outcome in their districts. Anthony
appears to be in better shape than the
first three named, but he has an able
and popular opponent and heavy
country vote will make him squirm
when the returns come in. Campbell
and Reeder appear to be SAFE, but
Reeder will have a hard time in steal
ing second base.
But, after all, this is guess work, and
one guess is as good as another.
Senator Cummins, the noted Iowa in
surgent. will speak in Kansas as fol-
lows this month:
Council Grove, July %: Peabody, July
%: Cottonwood Falls, "a; Holton, %;
Olathe, 26. These dates are Chautau-
qua dates and the senator will talk
POLITICS according to the custom in the
various Chautauquas.
Senator Bristow's dates are Manhat-
tan, the 21st; Topeka. the 25th; Fort
Scott, the 9th; lola, the 2Sth; Paola,
the 29th, afternoon; Olathe night meet
ing.
Victor Murdock's dates are Salina,
ed; Fort Scott. 23d; Mcpherson, 25th;
Garnett, afternoon, 26th; Ottawa, 26th,
ottawa night; Pleasanton, che 9th, af
ternoon; Osawatomie. night; the 2Sth.
afternoon, Leavenworth, Atchison,
night: Sabetha, the 29th, afternoon, Sen
eca, night; Holton, 30th. afternoon,
either Horton or Hiawatha, night, Aug
ust 1. three meetings in Wyandotte
county.
In his Anthony Republican, W. E.
Blackburn has the following about Will
Davis, assistant auditor, who is row
a candidate for the Republican nomi-
nation for state auditor:
I'm the affairs of the Kansas State
Agricultural college we have had much
to do with the auditors department
and we have found MIR. Davis one of
the most competent officials we have
ever met, which shows that his years
of training under the best auditor in
the history of Kansas, James M. Ma
ton, have been profitable. Mr.. Davis
should have the job
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