The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-21
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Kansas Voter Faces COmplicat-
ed Situation.
If He Follows Stars Advice
Must Work Hard
LOOKING FOR PROGRESSIVES
They're to Be Found in Every
Column in Ballot.
Col. Bill Sapp Goes to Church
on Sunday.

Now that the Kansas City Star and
Times have openly bOlted Arthur Gao
per for governor. they have complicated
more than ever before the voting IN
Kansas To support the Star-TiT1es
candidates in the November election,
voter will find himself hunting all over
TIE big blanket sheet ballot to find the
candidates of whom the Kansas City
paper is proud and who bear the labels
of tried and true prOgreSsives.
To begin his voting in the right mi.7-
ue1 and to follow the Kansas CITY
Stars theory of just how to vote, the
--nter will look away over in the fourtF
or fifth or sixth column of his ballot LOT
tho independent column. Here he viii
find names of ten electors who are
avo1ed supporters of Theodore Rooss-
VET for president After making an y
mark after the names of these ten non
the voter will return home-but only or
a second. He will single out the name
oS Walter Roscoe Stubs and follow the
stars advice by making an X lft9c
StuhbS name as candidate for United !
Ste ties senator.
But the work of voting is only be-
gym. 1t is now time to get over into
tre Democratic column and hunt fo~
Georte H. Hodges name. Hodges is the
Democratic gubernatorial nominee ana
tRc Star has given him clear title as
a simon pure Progressive. So an Y
man, must go after Hodges lame. Per
hans by this time the voter is tired and
weary? But it makes no difference. The |
voting must be done right. Elections
cone but once every two years in Kan /
sas now and a slight headache because
vos have hunted all over the ballot to-
th.se names makes no difference. fod
oriy well started. But wait.
Che Star said nothing at all about |
Frank L Britton, Democratic nominee
TO lieutenant governor. Your vote mas
beer cast for Hodges, but is Britton, the /
Democratic nominee for lieutenant gov
erur. or Sheffield ingalls,, the Repub-
licn nominee, the real progressive? Of
course you must stop a minute and |
think it over. Don't make any mis-
tate.
Having decided this Britton- ingalls,
rTptter to your own liking, how about /
secretary of state? The Star didn't cay
anything about Charles Sessions ana
rs name wasn't on William Allen
Whites list of hand-picked candidates
II the primaries. So again you must
frCWse over the ballot and be the judge
f your own conscience. And then there
the state auditor and the attorney
general who are in the same class Win
Sessions. It is a rather trying job ISM
1t and perhaps you are wishing you
could delegate this responsibility to
your wife?
the ballot of course you don't want !
to stop. There is the list of candi- {
dates for state superintendent, for su-
perintendent of insurance, for state
for state printer. And, oh,
yes, there are the candidates for as
sociate justices of the supreme court
and someone must also be elected to
congress. OF course, after you have
started right you must be very, very
careful about picking only tried, true
and trusted Progressives. And how
are you getting along. You must hur-
~. too, because the polls close at 7
o'clock and the clerks and judges are
waiting outside the booth to count
your vote. And PERHAPS, also, there
are some other fellows who want to
vote in your precinct also.
But. wait. There is your county tick
ct There are the candidates for the
OF course. by this time.
your ballot probably looks like chart
Of a championship chess game but it
makes no difference. You are voting
for progressives and this is an age of
reform. So take your time and make
the most of it.
Col. Bill sapp spent Sunday in To-
neka. That wasn't all. Col. Sapp went
to church. He went to the Methodist
church, too. Once every two years
Col Sapp goes to church, not in sack
and glory. He wears his most at
tractive Prince Albert, a stiff white
shirt, a lily white tie and his two and
l half story silk hat And on this
sventful occasion, Col Sapp ever ana
always deposits himself in the amen
corner where he will miss none of the
singing and can hear every word the
preacher says. On this occasion Col.
Sapp heard DR.. Loveland No one
seems to know who preached the ser
non which the Democratic na tionaI
attended in 1910. but
Mr. Sapp is most emphatic in his
statement that he went to church
,nce during the campaign.
you see" Col. Sapp explained to