The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-05
Registration in Cities Heavy
and Farmers Interested.
FAIR and COOL TOMORROW
fractional and Local Fights
Many and Bitter.
Democrats Expected to Stick to
Own Rival Candidates.


final instructions for Tuesdays pri
nlaries. That one instruction is to worl
to get the vote to the polls. Already
| there IS assurance that the vote TINS
year will far exceed that of a--y pri
mary in the history of the state. Will
| bitter contests in both parties, part!
lines Will be drawn closer than ever be
fore and an effort will be made to DRAG
every voter in the state to the polls.
In Topeka the primary registration il
li.619-more than 1000 more male voter!
being registered than in the city cleo
| ton OF 1911. Topeka is a fair sample o!
| the state. From. Kansas City, Kan.
from Fort Scott, Pittsburg, Wichita
| hutchinson, Coffeyville and Independ-
| ence, comes forecasts for the bigg5 81
primary vote ever pol1ed in the larger
| towns of Kansas. Interest in the pri-
| mary tight is equally keen in the
smaller towns and in the rural dis
| trlcts. 1t is the contest for the cleo
tolal candidates, the gubernatorial con-
test ana the senatorial row that has
aroused an intense feeling in every cor
ner OF the state and insures a busy day
for the election judges and clerks.
me weather man has promised tc
AID the politicians in the primary
fight. He has declared that the same
brand of weather which Kansas has
enjoyed for the last week, will prevail
In the state tomorrow, that the day
VIII be comparatively cool and that
all parties to attend the primaries.
Returns VIII Be Late
returns will be late tom night,
according to the politicians who are
watching the fight in Kansas. Like
wise, the voting will be slow. This
situation is due to the tightening OF
fractional lines in both parties, the
stubborn contest for electoral candi-
dates in the Republican ranks and the
necessity of the voter hunting through
the long list of electoral candidates to
find the names of the men for whom
he wishes to vote. Both the progress
sives and regulars have flooded the
state with their states and these will be
troubles to be encountered in casting
a ballot will be heaped on the Shout
ders of the election officers who will
spend a long, tedious and tiresome
night counting the votes.
Democratic Contests.
For the first time since the Kansas
primary law became operative, the
Democrats have troubles of their
own. This year they have equally as
many contests for offices as have the
Republicans. This condition will draw
the lines. party leaders declare, and
the situation. adds. to the general IN
certainty of the result.
In former years luke warm Demo-
Gratis have aided in the Republican
fights in the Kansas primaries. Now
they feel encouraged because condI-
November. This situation is expected
to keep the voters we'll within their
own parties and the possibility or sur
prises in the primaries becomes the
more apparent.
dozen real fights in tomorrow's prima-
ries. The battle for the possession of
the electoral delegation, is perhaps at
tracing greater attention than any
other fight within the party. Second
iS
United States senatorial contest. All
political dope has been laid aside in the
guess on the result of the StubbS-CurtiS
fight and the possibility of surprises are
admitted by the followers of both cam
didates. In the primaries two years
ties in the state. Wagstaff carried At
Gibson, Crawford, DOniphan, Leaven-
worth, Montgomery, Neosho and Reno
counties: while Stubs carried all
others including Shawnee, Wyandotte,
Sedgwick and Bourbon. In November
Stubs lost 20 counties including both
Shawnee and Wyandotte, but carried
Montgomery, which he had lost in the
August primaries. Now new conditions
are faced. The mysterious state wide
acquaintance and personal popularity
of Charles Curtis are to be reckoned
with. The Stubs opposition that has
been developed in two years must be
considered. And last, but by no means
the least element in the fight, is the
Stubbs declaration for Roosevelt
In the gubernatoriaI fight, Capper's
alone has been reviewed in
the press. Little or Lothing has beer
said by Kansas papers concerning
Frank Ryan, who opposes the Topeka
publisher Yet there is AN organized
and well defined Capper opposition and
may open the eyes Of many KansanS.
Congressional Fights
But the Republican fight does not
stop here. There is the Dawson-Grif-
fin contest for attorney general, d three
rornered battle for state supecinteni-
First. Second, Third, Seventh and
Eighth districts. These congressional
6ehts alone have, become so intense
that they VIII figure extensively in
the polling of a large vote in the five
districts where the nominations of pro-
gressive or regular Republicans are at
stake.
Then, take the Democratic race. 1t is
IF sufficient interest and fractional feel
ing to keep even the half hearted, Lux
warm partisans in their own primar
les.
democrats Have Many Candidates.
-Four men are fighting for the Uni
ed States senatorial nomination and
the race is real, live, uncertain
situation with the result difficult to
predict. Equally important is the
Hodges Billard-Jackson gubernatorial
contest that defies the judgment of the
men who have watched Kansas loli-
lies for years. Never since the days
IF Populist- Democratic fusion in Kan
sas, have such serious and bitter con-
tests appeared within the Democratic
party and the wide interest in these
nights will mean that the vote in the
Democratic primaries will be much
arger than in the contest of 1910.
The Democrats are also called upon
to settle contests for a half dozen 9TH
er nominations. For state treasurer,
for attorney general. superintendent of
pu bile instruction, superintendent of
insurance and for congress in the
Third, Fourth and Fifth districts are