The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-08
Governor Has Advantage on
Face of Returns.
Appears He Has 81 Legislative
VOtes-CurtiS 72.
Curtis Headquarters Still Claim
S3-COncede Nothing.
RESULT WILL BE VERY CLOSE
Curtis May Yet Win on Revised
Returns.
Both Men Have Carried COun-
ties by Close Vote.
Almost Certain That Curtis
Has Popular Majority.
RESULT WILL Be VERY CLOSE

With returns from three counties yet
TO be compiled, with tie in a fourth
county and two senatorial districts in
the doubtful column, reports today
verify the nomination of Governor w.
r. stubbs for United States senate, who
has carried 81 of the 165 legislative
districts in which the result has been
determined This gives Governor Stubbs
81 and Charles Curtis ia clear ma
jority of three on all returns reported.
Should Stubbs continue to hold the ma
jority now given him and yet lose all
contested territory not yet determined
he is still the Republican nominee.
Stubs nomination was assured at
noon today when he landed all of the
three legislative districts in Butler
county and made good his claim to
one of three districts in COwley- Cur
tbs claimed Butler, but returns give
Stubbs the two representatives and the
state senator. In Cowley county, Cur
tbs wins the state senator, but breaks
even with Stubbs on the representative
. districts, each drawing one. With 81
votes counted for Stubbs when these
reports were received and verified, the
Kansas governor was insured the nomi-
nation.
At the Curtis headquarters in the
Crawford building, managers of the
Kansas senior senator refused to admit
the senator's defeat and insisted that
they would yet control majority OF
the legislative districts of the state.
For more than Sc hours the senatorial
fight was the one big attraction in the
returns from Tuesdays state wide pr1-
n1aries. Curtis had persistently claim
ed 95 to 100 of the 165 legislative dis
tricts. Late yesterday afternoon he re-
duced his claim to 92. Shortly before
leaving for Washington, Senator Curtis
made a statement in which he claimed
SO districts-a bare majority-and de-
clared that this number would be in
creased with returns from II doubtful
districts. This afternoon the Curtis
headquarters claimed 70 sure legislative
votes.
At the Stubbs headquarters. the gov
ernor's nomination was claimed last
night, but returns from a dozen coun-
ties were meagre and the best that !
could be established from the figures !
was the control of 50 districts. This |
morning returns were verified by the /
State Journal in a number of doubtful |
counties. Curtis won Miami, Clay and |
Ford in the seriously close districts, |
but the returns from Butler county |
were the figures that restored hope in |
the breasts of the Stubbs adherents |
Elk cept for the possibility of a break IN |
some of the other counties the Butler |
county returns insured Stubbs' nomi-
nation.
Two senatorial dis-r ricts are in the
doubtful column-both Stubbs and |
Curtis conceding one possible defeat.
1t is believed that Stubbs has carried !
the Douglas-Jefferson district, which i
is his home, but this fact is disputed |
by the Curtis managers. Curtis car
ried Jefferson and Stubbs won Douglas |
his home, by a narrow margin The
question of control of the district how
ever is in dispute. In the Fourth dis
trict, Lyon county, the home of Will |
lam Allen White, gave Stubbs ma
Jority. In Greenwood, the home of |
Congressman Fred S. Jackson, Curtis |
won. The majoritieS are almost par
allel and there is a dispute as to the
state senatorship from the Greenwood
Lyon district.
In the western Kansas senatorial |
districts, the settlement of senatorial |
district claims has been settled largely
from pluralities reported to the Stubbs
and Curtis headquarters. On the face
of these returns, StubbS appears TO /
have Thirty-seVenth, Thirty-eighth |
and Thirty-ninth districts. These three |
state senatorial districts include 80 |
sparSely settled western Kansas coun-
ties and on all of them there is the |
possibility of a change when the Off
cial count is compiled. Should Stubbs
fail in all of them a--d draw an even
break in the Greenwood-Lyon and |
DouGlas-J efferson contests-which is |
more than probabIe-he would still |
have "a districts. On the other hand |
the loss by Stubs of the western dis
lIlCIS Is IdIO1S pOSS4Dle on the lace OF |
returns reported.
The senatorial light has been a sur
prise Curtis marvellous strength in |
the state following a most bitter prf- |
mary campaign. has been almost the
one topic of conversation concerning
primary returns. Even though Stubbs |
is nominated, it is quite probable that |
he will fall several thousand votes
short of a popular majority in the !
state and his nomination is gained only
through his marvellous influence and |
staunch following in the short grass |
country.
Official counts in the various counties
will be made Friday. From these re- |
turns, the contest will be definitely de-
cided. Yet on the returns sent to To- !
peka. it appears that the nomination of |
Stubbs is assured.
The following tables show the result
by counties and legislative districts
CS3 is a majority of the legislative
vote1:
FOR STUBRS. FOR CURTIS
County Rep. dlsts- County. Rep. dists |
Anderson -.-..-.... 1lAllen ...............i
BarDer -...-.-.-..-- IlAtch1son ............ |
Butler ......-....-.. 2jBourbon ...-......
BaTton -----.-.---.- li6foWn .-.--......... | |
Chase ...--......e... 1lCbautauqua ........ |
Corey ..-..-.--.--.. liCherokee .........
Comanche ........- 1lClay ...............l