The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-15
is NO CHANGE HE BARS TROBERT
Hodges Still Leads Capper by
2S Votes.
Have 50 Counties Reported Of
fie:aI-Many Mixups.

| The Kansas gubernatorial contest is
/ practically unchanged today, with Of
/ hcial figures in the secretary OF
J state s'ofice from IS of los counties
These figures show that Hodges has a
I lead OF IS votes over Capper, using Of
/ ncIal figures in the secretary OF state 5
/ office and reported majorities from the
/ missing counties
/ Late Thursday afternoon Capper
| gained one vote on the face of the
I official returns from Brown county
( This county had been carried at 553 for
/ Capper. but the tabuIated vote in the
county showed 554 majority for the
/ TOpekan-
A number of supplementary reports
will be filed next week with the secre-
tary OF state These cover obvious err
rors in the returns in a half dozen diff
ferent counties The errors were dis
covered by the county clerk or COM
missiOners after the vote had been
canyassed by the county board and re-
ported officially On these additional
reports, Hodges claims a gain of 1S
votes and Capper a gain of "A votes
The state canvassing board will pass
on all of these claims when they meet
in Topeka November 25- It will prob
ably be on the acceptance or reject
tiOn Of these claims that Will determine
the candidate to whom the board Will
issue a certificate of election
Capper makes claim to ~ additional
votes in Ness county by virtue of an
the secretary of state He claims 10
more votes in Jefferson county. dis
covered after the official returns were
sent to Topeka; and 20 votes in Bour-
bon county based on similar facts
The Hodges claims include an ad-
justment Of "a votes in Montgomery
county, failure to incorporate Is votes
in Barton county, the discovery of Is
more votes in Sedgwick county, a sim
liar situation affecting eight votes i
Dickinson county and Il claim TO Is
rejected votes in Shawnee
Official returns from several addi-
tionaI counties viii probably be re
ceived today and IL is believed that by
Saturday night returns will have been
received from all of the IL missing
counties
only Seven Counties Out.
With seven counties yet TO report
to the secretary of state and basinS
their returns on former returns, Sen
ator George H Hodges this afternoon
has Z lead of % votes over Arthur
Capper for governor In SS counties
reported, Capper has popular vote
of 142.925 TO 140,046 for Hodges But
six of the seven counties to report are
Hodges counties and the pluraliries IN
all of the los counties show 1916
for Capper and 12,1l4 for Hodges
Hodges gained eight votes today
when i've additional counties reported
His gains were eight in CowIey ana
one in Jewell. No changes IN former
figures were made in the other coun-
ties The counties yet to report are
Allen. Cherokee, Jackson, Logan Re
no. Sedgxick and Wyandotte- All Of
these counties except Logan gave ma
jorfties for the Olathe man
Each hour il seems more certain
thar the winner of the goveruOrshlp
election certificate will be named in
the returns contained in the supple
meutary reports being sent TO the sec
ra+arv OF state At least q dozen
counties have found errors in their
first official returns and are sending
amended reports to Topeka
This afternoon the Shawnee county
cauvassiny board met and decided 10
count 2S ballots in SouIh Williams
Dorr township OF these % are
Reu17rfcan. This gain of s votes for
Hodges however is not contained IT
rF7a state Journals table of returns; as
the matter will be checked up to the
stare canvassing board by Secretary of
stare Sessions The Shawnee county
board wifi also count IS absent" bal /
lots received by the county clerk
since the official canvass was made 1
The result of these 26 votes Will not /
be known until late this afternoon
In preparation for a contest. friends /
of both candidates are active Chair |
man Henderson 3 Martin Of the
ont an appeal for funds to fight the
Hodges case through the senate and |
is already meeting with responses /
This afternoon a message from Con- /
cor7fa stated that the Cloud county I
Democrats had raised 500 which viii
be contributed to the Hodges contest
fund