The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-22
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William Allen White Claims
Kansas for T. r.
Bases Calculations on Poll of
80 Counties.
Stubs is GAINING GROUND
j. s. Dean of Taft Committee
Makes Statement.
He Brands Capper as a Bull
MOOSer.

According to a poll taken in thirty
Kansas counties by William AHeh
White and other Progressive Leaders,
Roosevelt is leading in the pres1dentlal
race in this state. This poll SHOWS
Il counties for Roosevelt with sub
Stantial majOrities, while in the nine
remaining counties covered IN TINS TINS
poll, the report is that the vote will
be close with chances in favor OF l. H.
The work of polling the state was
begun by White several weeks ago. II
was the plan of the national commit
teeman of the Progressive party to
secure a reliable poll of the entire
state before election day and to base
an accurate prediction of the result in
this state. With 80 counties account
ed for in his poll, White believes that
Roosevelt will win in Kansas.
Only the spelling of many ballots
by PrOgreSsiV voters who seek to ram
BILE over the blanket ballot In search
for Progressive candidates can prevent
Roosevelt carrying Kansas, White
claims For this reason White will
flood the state with $4,000 sample
ballots and will safeguard the de-
struction of ballots by voters who have
difficulty in legally scratching a
ticket.
While White has secured his poll in
80 counties, the names OF these coun-
ties and the portions of the state in
which a canvass has been taken is
withheld from the public. To make
public the counties in which the
Roosevelt forces are comment Oh VIC
tory. would only draw the fight of the
next two weeks to these counties and
White has been in politics too long to
show his cards before the close of the
game.
Reports received by White from all
of the counties polIed, shows that
Stubs is gaining strength in at least
II of the 80 counties. Stubs is max
ing a hard, determined fight for the
United States senatorial election and
for two weeks it has been claimed that
he was gaining ground against his OPP
ponent, Judge William H. Thompson.
The poll by White is the first real in
dication of the strength of the two
candidates: and White believes that
Stubs. will continue to make gains
until the close of the campaign.
Barney Sheridan, editor of me
Miami County Spirit, and one of the
fighting Democrats of Kansas, de-
clares that the assessment of state
house employees by J. n. Dolley, as
chairman Of the Republican commit
tee, is just as grave an offense as the
assessment Of federal employees for
national campaign expenses. And
considering that there is a strict law
against the assessment of federal en-
ployees, Sheridan proceeds to express
his opinion of the Progressive leaders
who are a party ito an act in Kansas
which Sheridan defines as a crime.
do the Progressives, William Allen
White and Senator BristOw and their
followers approve and defend the as
sessm ent of state employees by the
Progressive party state committee -
asks Sheridan in a letter to the State
Journal. Il say upon my own reSpon-
sibility that I have the proof at hand
that every employee in the state insti-
tutions has been assessed 2 per cent.
of his or her yearly salary and that
over half of the employees have al
ready paid this assessment over to tile
persons representing Joseph n. Dol
ley w. r. Stubs and Arthur Cap
per. The federal laws make it a. mis-
demeanor or crime to even solicit
assessm ents from government en-
ployees, but our Kansas Progress;ves
continue the corrupt system in she
state simply because there is no law
against it,
The congressional fight in the Third
district is real warm. with the indi-
cations that Phil P. Campbell will ;,e
reelected over both F. NJ. Brady, his
Democratic opponent. and George D.