The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-03
Visited and Spoke in Ninety
Counties of State.
ANTHONY TELLS THE VOTERS
How Stuart-PuIliam Affair
Came to Light.
Candidates Making Final Pre-
Primary Appeal to Voters.

candidate for Democratic nomination
OF United States senator. thompson
has made a w-lirlwind campaign mas
visited more than 80 counties in the
state and has talked to more Ian zo'ooo
Democrats.
The Garden City man is confident he
will carry every legislative district IN
the Big Seventh and most OF the as
tricts in the Sixth. These alone are
believes he has much strength in otheT
portions of the state and VIII eaSHy
control not less than 10 OF the leSlsid-
five districts in the state. In a state
ment issued today, Thompson reviews
T.. his chances in this language;
believing that anything that is
worth having is worth working Tor L
canvassed over 80 counties OF the staCS
for the nomination for United states
senator. and have met personally more
than $4,000 Democratic voters Wltnln the
last three months. I have also written
thousands of letters. ant sent literature
into every county of the state, and ad-
ver+ised in most of the papers, and
think I have the best organization ever
perfected by any candidate Tor state
Office So if hard personal work ana
constant and systematic effort to ac-
ccmplish my purpose amounts to any
thing L shall certainly secure the NOM
nation. Inasmuch as 1 am the only
western candidate on either ticket for
this office, and there are three eastern
candidates against me, I have felt GER
tain from the start of carrying the
greatest number of legislative districts
as they are in the west, and western
people always stand together. There are
So legislative districts in the Sixth and
= Seventh congressional districts alone,
which will be sufficient to nominate, as
the popular vote is not required to Sc
cure the nomination. But after this
thorough canvass of the state, am not
only certain now of carrying from 80
tc IS of the 165 legislative districts, but
am assured by my friends and workers
ii all these counties that I will also re-
ceive the highest popular vote, which
will be more than satisfactory to me.
Having lived for the first q years of
my life in Kansas in the First district,
I am certain of great many districts
and large popular vote there, which
with the Sixth and Seventh, assures my
nomination by both districts and pOpu-
lar vote"
Congressman D. r. Anthony has
made public the source of his informal
ton concerning the affidavit of Editor
Pulliam. of the Atchison Champion.
wherein it was admitted that Judge
w. I. Stuart had paid the Atchison
paper $500 for papers to be mailed in
the district Anthony's reply to the
charges that himself and Postmaster
Casey were guilty of wrong doing in
the Atchison Globe in the form of a
display advertisement. Anthony said:
I'm reference to the statement being
made regarding how 1 secured the evil
dence and Pulliams affidavit concern
ing the violation of the Kansas statutes
bv the payment of $500 by Judge Stu
art to this newspaper organ, for po-
Iitical purposes, will state that Mr..
Hitchcock, upon investigation, will find
that the evidence in this case was cali
i
to me because it was evidence of vio-
lation of the Kansas laws, relating tc
corrupt political practices. The affida-
Wit was photographed at the depart
ment of justice at my official request
The government always protects honest
publishers, but not those who violate
the laws.
I'd. R. ANTHONY"
The final preprimary oratory will be
un1oaded tonight by the candidates for
state offices. In Wichita, the progress
sives will hold big meeting with their
two local leaders-Congressm Victor
Murdoch and Henry J. Allen-as fea-
ture attractions. In the Third district
Arthur Capper and Tom McNeaI are
closing the Capper gubernatorial cam
paign. In Third, also. CONGRESSMAN
Phil P. Campbell and William NJ
Gray, his opponent, are closing a bit
ter contest. Speeches will be made in
Il L
Brady, John H. Order and E. A. En-
right, the Republican candidates for
congress. Out in the Seventh Hutch
tnson. Garden City and Great Bend are
the scenes of concluding oratoricaI ba-
ties. Local candidates will furnish the
political fireworks in the Seventh and
o. W. Dawson, Richard L. Hopkins and
Judge Gordon L. Finley, all congress
sional candidates, will make speeches
In the First both Judge stuart and
n 7 p An
a busy day and conclude their snaalr-
ing dates tonight Governor Stubhs
cancelled his speaking dates early in
the week, owing to sickness in his fan
lily. Senator Curtis is working some
where in the state. but his itinerary is
not known.
In a letter to the State Journal. W. L.
Republican voters in his district axe
aroused over the effort of Stubbs Wbite
Allen and others to destroy the Repub
Ican party in Kansas.
Il represent one of great many voters
in this part of Kansas writes NTcC,niro
land we realize that Mr.. stubbs and his
machine leaders, such as Mr.. White seem
TO be working for no other purpose than
to gain political honors from the Repub-
stroy it We cannot help but observe that
they claim to be Republicans and al the
same time denounce the party.
THE ordinary man becomes entirely
lost trying to understand such arguments
as they advance We cannot see why or
how q man can be Republican and al
ways denounce his party. Or. on the otr-
er hand. point proudly to the measures
. offered in congress by Democrats such as
MIR. White directed our attention to in his
denunciation of Senator Curtis.
? I'VE do not expect help from the Demo-
crats-as a rule-in the nomination of our
candidates. neither do we expect them to
agree with us laws that we think
should be enacted by congress. 1t is hard
for us to believe that men like Stubs
and White are Republicans-men who cali