The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-22
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Roosevelt Has the Lead in
Kansas Delegates.
Leaders Now Claim They Will
Get IS for Colonel.
SAY THAT HIS TRIP HELPED
Tnsurgent Leaders Believe 1t
CIinched Three Districts.
Gov. Stubbs Goes to Marion to
Make Speeches.

With twenty-nine counties out OF
1O5 heard from, Roosevelt only needs
about 200 delegates to control the
Kansas state convention at 1ndepend-
ence next month. The colonel has car
ried twenty-five out of tWenty-n1ne
counties and has 239 delegates Whlle
Taft has III. County primaries ana
caucuses this week will settle 1t. The
Roosevelt men are claiming eighteen
out of the states delegation of twenty
to Chicago. The First district has al
ready selected two Taft delegates.
The following is the lineup of the
counties that have named delegates TO
independence:
For REORGANIZATION. IA: Bourbon,
y: Brown II: Butler, ID; Doniphan,
10: Douglas, IA: Finney, 5; Franklin,
-: GRAY. 3: Greenwood, II; Jackson,
10: jefferson, 10; Johnson, 10; Kearny,
1; Marshall, IA: Ncmaha, IS; Usage,
u: Pawnee. 5; Scott, 2; Wabaunsee,
s; Washington, II. Wyandotte, So
For Taft-Atchison. IA: Cowley, Is;
Crawford. p; Dickinson. Is; kearny,
2: Leavenworth. 20; Shawnee, 81
1t is claimed by tn Roosevelt mana
gers that the coloneIs trip through the
state put Taft out of the running in the
Fifth, Seventh and Eighth congress
sionaI districts. The regulars viii stlll
fight for the Sixth and Third districts
and hope to win in the Sixth and eX-
pect to win in the Third.
Governor Stubs left this morning
for Marion county where he will spend
the dav making speeches. He leaves
Tuesday for the west, opening with a
speech in Reno county at Roosevelt
rally.
Earl Akers. the governors execu-
tive clerk, had an interesting expert
ence in q Fifth district county the
other day while making a campaign
for Roosevelt. He got hold of a farm
h IN
doctrines and expected to use him as
the foundation stone upon which to
build up a township for L K. But
the man was too ambitious. He placed
too high valuation upon his services
and ability. He wanted Akers TO
promise him that he should be one of
the Big Four delegates at large from
Kansas to the Chicago convention
In town in that same county
Akers saw a beautiful scrap between
two old soldiers of the Civil war one
of these men came to tom wearing
Roosevelt button. He met comrade
who was a Taft man. The Taft sup
porter plucked the Roosevelt button
from its buttonhole- The Roosevelt
man smote the Taft man in the eye
with his clenched fist and the fight
was on The old warriors were sepa-
rated before they hurt each other very
much.
The Leavenworth Times is trying to
canard that Judge Stuart, who is An
thongs opponent for the Republican
nomination for congress in the First
district tried to throw Roosevelt at
the AtoSison convention. Ihere Is
nothing to it. The State Journal rep
resentative at the Atchison convention
attended the Stuart caucuses ana
heard the Stuart plans for conven-
ton fight. Stuart had hye counues
and he used them to fight the Anthony
endorsement and vote against the Taft
delegates. The state Journal was quot
ed by the Leavenworth Times to bear
out its assertions. 1t is only far TO
state that Judge Stuart acted on the
square as a Roosevelt progressive at
the Atchison convention. In fact,
Judge Stuart urged the caucus to vote
Cor t r. to a finish and never MIND
whether or not that action hurt his
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