The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-20
uesday, August %, VIII Be
Big Day.
Party Councils win Be Held in
Topeka Then.
The REPUBLICAN FIGHT GROWS
1t VIII Reach Climax in Coun-
Gil Session.
Cones of PateIla Bill Fame Got
Four Votes for Office.

Tuesday, August 81. will be an i'm
portant day on the Kansas political
calendar and Topeka will be the scene
of more political activity than at any
time in the last two years. Three
party councils will be held here that
day and the building of party pledges
will be followed by a statewide boss
buster convention, the purpose of
which is to defeat every Progressive
Republican candidate on the state
ticket.
While the two factions of the Re
publicans are at war concerning an
endorsement of Taft and sherman and
the Republican national platform, or
an endorsement of Roosevelt and
johnson and the third party plat
form, the Democrats will discuss par
ty harmony and chances for victory
in November And while the Demo-
Gratis are laying plans for sweeping
the state in the coming election and
the Republicans are trying to restore
hope and confidence in the breasts OF
the voters, the Socialists will point
with pride to the 1921 votes they
polled in the recent primaries. And
while all these things are happening,
several hundred Regular Republicans
from about every county in the state
will pick their favorite sons and ar
range for the overthrow of the Pro-
gressive movement in the state
1t will be a big day politically.
Perhaps not since the DAYS of the
old convention system have as many
prominent politicians been gathered in
Topeka at one time as will come to
the four meetings next week. And
the results of these meetings Will
ties and factions in the coming cleo
ton campaign.
In the recent Washington county pri-
l11nea 4 eaV-fn
Washington banker, was nominated by
the Republicans of his district for the
state senate. He will be opposed in the
election by Samuel Clark editor of the
Washington Palladium, and a leader in
Democratic politics in the state.
Out in the Thirty-seventh senatorial
district, George S. Cones received four
votes for the Republican nomination
for the state senate. All of them were
cast in Meade county. Cones home.
Two years ago Cones was in the house.
He introduced the patella bill, which
eliminated the display of feminine
beauty above the shin bone. Cones was
really serious about that bill. too. Once
Cones saw a musical show. He was
affected by the immortality surrounding
the display of abbreviated skirts by the
chorus ladies. Hence his patella bill
The measure was killed without formal
ceremony and the Meade county Iegis-
lstor never really understoo why the
other members of the house laughed at
his hobby.
There is evidence of a warm sera-
tcriaI fight in the Th.rty-seeoi-d dis
trict, comprising Cloud and Republic
counties. A. b. Carney, of Concordia.
a member of the 1910 legislature is the
Democratic senatorial nominee, while
r. H. Galloway, of Courtland, is the
Republican standard bearer.
Efforts are being made by both the
Progressive and Regular Republican
leaders to secure some indication to
the complexion of the approaching
party council. AS yet only a meagre
report has been received by the Topeka
headquarters concerning the political
tendencies of the county chairmen and
legislative candidates who VIII help to
build the 1912 platform.
Although there were nearly 10000
more votes cast in the 1912 Demo-
cratic primaries than in the party
primaries of two years ago, George H.
Hodges, the Democratic nominee sor
governor. gained but S67 votes over
his showing in 1910. And in three
cornered fight this year and with a
vote 25 per cent. larger than two years
ago, the Hodges majority diminished
7,449 over Mayor ]. b. Billiard, as
compared with his majority over Rus
sell ]. Harrison in the 1910 primaries
Wnen Hodges 1ndQe his IISN kuDGE-
natorial fight two years ago, he polled
2S,T25 votes, while 1879 votes were
cast for Harrison. In that campaign
Harrison made a lamentably weak
showing and Hodges's majority was
1886. Hodges's defeat in the No
vember election was by almost the
same majority with which he defeated
Harrison in the primaries, losing the
election by 16,167 votes.
In the recent primaries the Democrats
were cheered by the hopes of a victory in
the coming election 1t was TINS conol-
ton that swelled the vote to 501sS over
1854 two years ago. Hodges won this
time by majority of 9.0Sl, or q 44s votes
less than his majority in 1870 Judge A.
M Jackson made a vigorous campaign
against Hodges, but was third man in the
race and polied only 1O.7O1 votes. Mayor
J. b. Billiard of Topeka, made his cam
paign on resubmission platform, visited
little in the state, made no poiucai
speeches and was bitterly opposed by the
heads of the Democratic state organiza-
ton Yet BILLIARDS. vote was more than
& 200 larger than that of Harrison In 1910
In the 1912 primaries Billiard polled 2Qs5O5
votes to 1882 for Hodges and 10,70l Tor
Jackson
1t is claimed by Hodges supporters that
Jackson drew the Olathe mans strength
and that the Hodges majority would have
been larger had the Winfield lawyer not
entered the contest On the other hand
friends insist that Jackson drew
ond, Third and Eighth districts and ma
terial1y blocked the Topekan's nom1na-
ton. Be these conditions as they may.
the official returns show that Hodges
landed less than 10 per cent OF the addi-
tional 10000 votes in the recent primary