The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-07
Stubbs' Nomination Now Fear
of the PrOgressives.
Roosevelt Electors Swept Kan
sas Primaries.
Progressives Claim the State
by About $4,000.
CAPPER HAS A BIG MAJORITY
Anthony, Brady, Campbell,
Hopkins, Have Won.
MurdOck Has a Good Majority
in the Eighth.
Dawson Has Beaten Griffen for
Attorney General.
BILLIARD MAY Be winner
Topeka Mayor Shows Strength
for Governor.
Judge Thompson Wins Demo-
cratic Senatorial Fight.
The Count Is Slow and Returns
Come Late.
BILLIARD MAY Be WINNER
Topeka Mayor Shows Strength
for Governor.
Judge Thompson Wins Demo-
cratic Senatorial Fight.
The Count Is Slow and Returns
Come Late.

With conflicting claims in a dozen
close counties. the Stubbs-Cu sem
atoriaI fight becomes the more mys-
terious and puzzling as the count pro-
crosses. At the progressive headquar-
ters, tabulated returns have been re-
, ceived indicating the results in 80 leg
Islative districts. OF this number, 81
districts are claimed for Stubbs and
SO are conceded for Curtis. At the
Curtis headquarters, nearly 20 votes
are now claimed for Curtis and on the
ultimate results, Curtis claims 80 of
the 165 legislative districts and con-
cedes 7s TO Stubbs. Not until the tab
ulated returns are received from all
the counties in the state will the re
suit of the senatorial fight be known
Returns came slowly to the head
Quarters today and in numerous couh-
ties both the Stubbs and Curtis forces
',Is;,9sS . victory. The progressives
claim Usage for Stubbs, while GURUS
40 advised that he has majority ol
$50 Dickinson county, Whlch ~ ~
Gated a Stubbs victory this morning,
IS now in the doubtful colunlh II dIIu
..o+,,rps from 16 of the SO precincts
give Curtis 522 and Stubbs 4S7. Chase
is claimed by both sides, as Is alSo
Elk Greeley, Kiowa and Barton. 1hiS
afternoon the Stubbs forces sun hel9 I
10 Bourbon county and its two ana
one-half votes, although Curtis IS
leading in the county by 2OO, with
several precincts to report.
While Curtis concedes the loss OF
Wvandotte and Sedgwick, he IS conn
dent he has saved one legislative dis
trict in each of the counties. F1nney
county is expected to go to the StuDpS
column. although Curtis LETT Garden .Il
Citv 30 votes in the lead. Reports
from Cowley county sent to the Bull
Moose headquarters state that Stubbs
is leading 2 to 1, while Curtis has
been advised that he has carried the
Jackson county was the first ter
ritory to bring gloom to the progress
ives Last night Holton reported a
big lead for Curtis and two hours later
came the assurance that Stubbs had
lost the county.
In Douglas county, the home OF
Governor stubbs reports oTt indicate d,iGStis
made close fight III Lawrence, carry
ing three wards, but losing the coun-
ty according to Cprtis returns.
From Independence today came a
telephone message from Tom Wagstaff
in which he asserted that Curtis had
carried every legislative district in the
Third congressional district. This re-
port is not accepted generally and Cur
tbs himself comedies defeat in Wilson
county and the Stubs forces claim
Elk.
u district.
small counties rolled W big ma ajorities
for Stubbs. Scott reported to 1 for
the governor. Meade about the same
proportion, with Barton and Stevens a
short distance behind.
In the First and Third districts and
even in the Second and Fourth. the
news was different. Curtis claims
everything in the First except NemaFa.
ali of the Thrill except Wilson and Elk
and files all the territory in Allen.
Second. In the Eighth. Butler is said to
have jumped into the Curtis column
alongside a big vote for Bun Adams for
congress. In the Fourth Curtis claims
Usage, Woodson, Chase, Marion and
Greenwood, the home of Congressman
Jackson.
The big counties in the Stubbs col.
umn are Wyandotte and Sedgwick-
each with four legislative votes On
the other hand Curtis is conceded
Shawnee. with four votes; Ileaven-
worth with three; Atchison with two
and half votes and the other one
half gained by carrying jackson.
Montgomery gives Curtis three votes
Labette, two and a half and Bourbon.
claimed by Curtis, has two and half
votes. Douglas, the home of Governor
Stubbs. is good for two and a half
votes, unless the fraction is lost in the
ultimate count with jefferson, which
is in the senatorial district with Doug
las.
Saline. the home of Bristow, gives
Stubbs two full votes; and Reno
coupled with Pratt in the Stubbs coll
umn, is equal to a combined strength
I. of four votes.
The big surprise of the primaries
was the distance between the votes of
the Roosevelt electoral candidates and
the vote polIed by Governor Stubbs in
his senatorial race. Arthur Capper
also far outdistanced the Kansas ex-
ecutive and the Stubbs nomination is
clearly in doubt; in fact, there is a
strong probability that he may be de-