The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-12
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Billiard Is Working Along Lines
of His Own.
Topeka Mayor Doesn't Believe
in Brass Band Methods.
CAMPBELL is COMING HOME
Third District Congressman
Faces a Hard Fight.
A. NJ. Jackson Has Arranged a
Speaking Tour.

Kansas is being flooded with Bill
lard platforms, mailed from the To-
peka mayors headquarters at the
Throop hotel. Henry Albaugh of
Lawrence is in charge of the Bill
lard quarters and is conducting the
resubmission campaign from the fir
ing line. 1t might be a surprise to
many people to view the activity at
the Topekan's campaign offices. Bill
lard has not made a spectacular cam
paign, but the force and effect of
his work is a matter of speculation
among the politicians. There are let
ters of encoura cement and offers of
assistance from localities where Bill
lard has never been reckoned in the
running. But Billiard himself only
smiles and continues to run the cam
paign after his own notion.
mo, this isn't much of brass
band affair" said the Topeka mayor,
when a visitor mentioned the absence
of noise in the Topeka end of the gu
bernatorial fight. 81 haven't bought
any newspapers yet and am spend
ing nv own money in this fight and
trusting nv friends and the faith in
the principles I represent for the re-
suits 1t is rather quiet, 1 guess, but
Oh we'll we seem to be getting along
pretty WE'LL And the mayor smiled
as strange and mysterious as the cam
paign that is being waged for the gov
ernorship.
Congressman Phil P. Campbell of
the Third district is coming home
to fight And there is something in
the tone and manner of the Campbell
statement that indicates real war.
Campbell has pposition-William M.
Gray of Chanute-for the nomination
and he has a battle royal Tor eiec-
ton in the primaries So Campbell
declares against peace and quiet and
will unlimber his oratorical abilities
on the Third district voters. Camp
bells feud with Roosevelt makes MN
for T.. r. followers in the
his first speech Monday night in
Pittsburg-his home town. And the
Pittsburg Republicans least the
Campbell contingent thereof-eXpect
to make the event of some moment IN
the campaign.
And the suffrage cause is not suffer-
ing for lack of attention. Some score
or more young, attractive and accom-
plished society maids have devoted
their time to the cause and promise 10
wrap suffrage literature in the mems
packa ges-if the laundries will
permit. Where some women made cash
offerings to the cause, these young
women offered their services and VIII |
work to win. 1t is reported that out IN
western Kansas, the suffrage opposi- |
ton has met the fight by distributing
anti-suffrage literature through soap |
wrappers. And this rivalry has pro- |
NOTED neither harmony nor good will
frcm the women who will carry their |
cause to the polls.
This will be a busy month for Judge
A. NJ. Jackson, of Winfield, who in the
closing month of the primary cam /
paign, is making a stubborn fight for
the Democratic nomination for COVER |
nor. In an itinerary announced from the |
Jackson headquarters today, Jackson (
is booked for more than 20. speeches be-
fore the opening of the primaries, Au-
gust s.
The Winfield man is closing the week |
III the Third district, speaking Satur-
day at Moline. Monday he will talk in !
his home town-the same day that w. !
J. Bryan addresses the chautauqua as
sembly. Then Jackson breaks for the |
Fifth and Sixth districts. From there !
he will enter the First district, go TO |
the Second-the home of Hodges-for 4 |
W eek; and will return to the Third for |
the closing week of the campaign. The |
closing day of the campaign-Monday, |
August sis open. This day will prob |
ably be assigned to Wichita, although |
that matter has not been determined.
Jackson's friends claim that he will |
make forty or fifty speeches before the |
close of the campaign. He is making |
a hard, persistent fight and is covering |
the ground carefully. In each county |
he has visited. he has made from three !
to five speeches, visiting a number of !
neighboring towns in an automobile |
and returning for the principal meet |
ing at night. In Reno county this |
week, Jackson spoke in four towns |
before talking to the Hutchinson |
Democrats. Three days were spent in |
the Seventh district this week and last /
night Jackson jumped to Salina, the