The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-06
POLITICAL GOSSIP.

Petitions are being circulated to
the Eame of Russell ]. Harrison OF
Selden, as an Independent candidate
for governor. Harrison, VINO was DE-
feated for the Democratic nomination
in 1910, will make the race on a re-
| submission platform L. u. hum
| phreys, a Topeka lawyer, is In charge
of the Harrison petitions.
! In the primaries two years ago, dar-
rison received I2,1S9 of the 10000
| Democratic votes for governor, ana
was beaten by George H. Hodges by
more than $4,000 votes. With the De
feat this year of Mayor Billiard of To-
pea, Harrison takes up the resuo-
mission issues and decides to make
| his race on that platform. His petit
ten days and if sufficient signers are
| secured, Harrison's name will be GER
| titled to the county clerks as the IN
| dependent candidate for governor.
| Harrison in his platform has the fol-
lowing to say concerning the enforce
ment of the prohibitory law in KAN
| sas:
Flags State Administration.
During the present administration
and for the matter of that, under for
mer administrations we have been con-
fronted with the spectacle of hire
lings being sent out from the attorney
generals office and from the governor
office, persuading people to violate the
law Oy SSlllQS nQuOE " l10Iu III OAOS1
that they might have evidence on
which to base prosecutions, that these
two great departments of state have
kept hirelings on their official force for
this purpose, paying them for theI
questionable work the sum of So
day and expenses, in addition these
hirelings draw witness fees and mile
age when attending court, and for some
unaccountable reason they are usually
subpoenaed when many miles ava:
from the county where the trials are
to be had, for the purpose OF allowing
the witnesses to collect big mileage.
See the records of the district courts
of Shawnee, Sedgwick and other coun
ties for verification of this statement.
During the present administration
the governor of the state has taken a
hand in this kind of disreputable bus
mess to a greater extent than any gov
ernor had ever done before him. A
preacher, one Rev. Robert Norris, has
been earning an unenviable notoriety
bv drinking beer and buying whisky in
houses of ill repute in the city of
Wichita and other places, and tipping
the girls in such resorts, and the tax
payers have been paying for his en-
tertainment as evidenced by the vouch-
ers sworn to by said Norris, on file
IN the Office of the auditor of state"
United States Senator Charles Cur
It's will speak this afternoon at the
OlQ SOlu16r reunion IN Arkansas
City. 1t is freely intimated in Topeka
today that the senior senator from
Kansas will attack the record of
Governor Stubs, who won the SEN
atorial nomination over Curtis in the
recent primaries. Senator Curtis in
timated recently that he was not the
least bit friendly toward the Progress
sives and his speech in Arkansas City
today will probably outline the pur-
pose of Curtis and his friends in the
coming campaign.
George H. Hodges spoke yesterday
in Enterprise. Since the primaries,
both Hodges and Thompson have fill
ed numerous speaking dates. They
will be busy until September Is, when
their dates wi1lst be arranged by the
Democratic state committee. Hodges
crowds are said to have been large
regardless of the hot weather and for
two weeks he has delivered two or
three speeches each day, with the ex-
ception of the short time he was in
Topeka to attend the party confer
ence.
Capt. P. H. Coney, en- route to CAL
ifornia to attend the National G. A. r.
encampment, took a poll of the vot-
ers on Santa Fe train No. 1 yesterday
afternoon. AS the train neared New
ton, Capt Coney began work on a
straw vote. A card from Coney says
the vote showed the following result.
Taft, 40; Roosevelt, %; Wilson, 10.
Governor Stubs returned to Tope |
ka today from Arkansas City, where |
he spoke Thursday at an old soldiers |
reunion.