The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-29
DEMOCRATS DID 1T
Their Votes Reelected Governor
W. r.. Stubbs.
Total Vote Little Less Than
That of High Man.
WHAT CANVASS SHOWS
Hodges Ran Twenty-Five ThOus-
and Ahead of Ticket.
Estimated That These We're Re-
publican Votes.

The story told by the election returns
as certified by the state canvassing
board is not hard to read. Governor
StubRs' majority is given at 16,167,
about thousand more than he had
been credited with up to this time. His
total vote is given at 1872, 1S1, only four
or five thousand less than that received
by Mark Tulley for state treasurer,
who led his ticket and had over forty
thousand majority over his opponent.
1t was not that Governor Stubbs re-
ceived less votes than the rest Of the
candidates on the Republican state
ticket, but that Hodges, the Demo-
cratic candidate for governor, received
more votes than the rest of his ticket.
The governor was reelected by DEM
ocratic votes. 1t has been estimated
by Republican leader whose judg-
ment and experience are worth conSid-
ering that Hodges received at least
thirty thousand Republican votes at
last election. The election returns
bear out this statement Hodges ran
twenty-five thousand votes ahead of
his ticket, while Stubs ran up close to
his ticket in number of votes received.
Losing thirty thousand votes, from his
own party still Stubbs held his own on
votes received. He had to lose the
thirty thousand, else where did Hodges
get that lead on his own ticket? And
Stubbs could not have held his own or
been elected had he not received Dem
ocrattc votes by the thousand. The
fight was made on the governor for
railroad and prohibition reasons re-
gardless of party and the support he
received was given for these same rea-
sons regardless of party.
The tie vote in Cove county for rep
resentative was not settled by the state
canvassing board for the reason that
sI~A 1&A1 OF
the meeting. The matter will be set
tied by lot at the next meeting of the
board Friday. TT will be settled fair
Iy, too" said Republican member Of
the board today, "for that is the only
way 1t can be settled by lot Since
that is the plan decided upon by the
attorney general party affiliations will
not enter into the matter at all. The
Democrat will have an equal chance
with the Republican You can take
my word for it,
The state educational commission at
meeting today in the offices of the
superintendent of public instruction
decided to advocate the following
measures before the next legislatures:
A law making provision for a spec
ial high school teachers certificate.
At the present time the laws are so
inconsistent that a student may take
the county examination, secure certi-
f1acte and become eligible to teach In
any high school in the county exclu-
sive of those in cities of the first and
second class. Even though he may
never have studied the high school
branches his certificate gives him the
right to teach in high school where
the branches are taught. 1t is likely
that the commission will ask the legis-
lature to correct this
The commission will also recon-
mend that the legislature provide for
state and county aid for weak school
districts. There are many school dis
tricts in Kansas where the taxpayers
are so few and the taxable property
so scarce that the maximum levy per-
mitted under the law for school pur-
poses will not maintain the right kind
of a school. The State Teachers as
sociation favored the granting of state
aid to such schools and it is likely that
the commission will make such a rec
mmendation to the legislature.
Another matter to be taken up will
be the seven-month school term mat
ter. Most educators in the state be-
lieve there should be a minimum
school term of seven months; that no
district should be permitted to main
tain a school for shorter period than
that. State aid necessarily goes hand
in hand with the seven-month school