The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-26
Campaign Managers Enter
Last Lap OF Struggle.
Both Sides Claim Victory for
Their Ticket.
SITUATION is BADLY MIXED
Some Close Contests Sure on
High Offices.
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With but ten days yet to go in the
Kansas prediction fight. party lines
are each ht 4 being more tightly
drawn and a final desperate effort is
/ being made to adjust the party differ
ences in all closely contested counties
Ten days have often made many
changes in Kansas politics. In ten
days political battles in Kansas have
been won and lost And now before
the last lap in the most bitter political
battle Kansas has seen in 20 years.
both the Democrats and the Republi-
cans are claiming victory.
In the next ten days there will IN
questionably be a closer drawing OF
party lines. An effort will be made TO
pacify the Republicans who have been
fighting the Bull Moose candidates and
the Democrats will devote their atten-
tions to an effort to hold their own
party strength and the votes they have
already won. Both Henderson 5. Mar
tin and J. N. DolIey chairmen of the
opposing state committees. Will next
week issue their final appeal to the
party voters. The party speakers Will
next week make their final speeches
and one week from next Tuesday
morning the polls will open for the
settlement of one of the most stubborn
political fights in the history Of the
state.
Ten days ago, Governor Stubbs ap-
parently was badly beaten in the
United States senatorial contest. Since
that time StubDs has been gradually
gaining strength. Whether this gain
has keen a mere settlement OF party
differences, or whether Stubbs has
actually made new converts is a ques-
ton which only the returns can deter
mine. On the other hand, however.
Judge William H Thompson. the
Democratic senatorial nominee, has
been less effective in his speeches than
the Kansas governor. That Thompson
will in nd ma nv Era = Of
Republican votes, there is little doubt.
But will Stubbs win the support of a
large Democratic following? That is
the question on which the senatorial
contest in Kansas will probably hinge.
The Capper-Hodges gubernatorial
contest is one of the real fights in the
campaign. Just as Stubs appeared
lamentably weak ten days ago, Cap
per appeared comparatively strong in
the early stages of the Kansas cam
paign. Senator George H. Hodges has
really made a remarkable race. For
several weeks he has been consistent
ly gaining. His gains have been no.
ticeable in every portion of the state.
Still. Capper looks several thousand
votes stronger than Stubbs and Chair
man Dolley declares he is confident Of
the Topeka publishers election.
In the presidential contest in Kan
sas. Woodrow Wilson at thi~ time looks
like a winner. Wilson has lost but
little of the Democratic strength. He
has an almost united party behind
him. on the other hand, the division
i'll the Republican party over Roose-
welt and Taft. will put Wilson in front
if the reckoning of the close observers
of politics is accurate. In 1908, Taft
polled 10000 votes in Kansas, while
100000 were cast for Bryan.
In the August primaries. the Roose-
welt electors polled 1900 votes 20 3s.-
900 for Taft. There were approxf-
mately $1,000 Republicans who failed
to vote. Counting a full party vote
an inc "a he n IN
the primaries is proportionate to that
which will be cast in the election,
Roosevelt would receive 121, 900 votes
in Kansas to $4,000 for Taft. With
the Bryan vote to rely on, Wilson
could lose a few thousand votes to
Roosevelt or Taft and still secure the
Kansas electoral vote by a large ma
jority.
rights in all of the congressional
districts are close and uncertain. OF
the Republican congressman, Anthony
is perhops the more strongly in
trenched at this time, with Campbell
in the Third second, Murdook in
the Eighth and Jackson in the Fourth.
on practically equal terms. All Of
them have ample trouble ahead in the
coming election. Hard fights are be-
ing made by the Democrats to defeat
Brady in the Second, Rees in the Fifth,
Young in the Sixth and Finley in the
Eighth.
While Chairman Dolley claims the
election of the entire Republican tick
ct in Kansas, Henderson Martin OF the
Democratic state committee, claims a
Democratic landslide. George A.
Clark, secretary of the Republican
League, is confident that every Bull
Moose candidate on the Republican
ticket will be overwhelmingly defeated
and declares that he backs his predic-
tions with signatures Of more than
10000 Kansas Republicans who will
support Taft and oppose the Progress
sive candidates.
The complexion of the next legis-
lature is also an important issue in
this campaign. Strange. isn't Il, that
there should be this wide breach in
the Republican party at just the par
ticular time that a national president
is to be elected, when an entirely new
legislature is to be named, wnen
United States senator is to be elected;
and when there is an almost entire
change of candidates for state onices2
To the ordinary Republican who wants
to see a Republican victory in every
election it is a real calamity.
Yet there has not been a break IN
the Republican ranks in the present
campaign when the Democrats have
not made the most of the situation.
There has not been a weak spot in the
Bull Moose armor, but that George
Clark and ]. s. Dean have hammered
that weakness most effectively. on
the other hand J. n. Dolley has TAX
en- advantage of the mistakes of the
Democratic nominees and there has
never been an hour in the campaign
when the fight has Jagged or been
wanting of spectacular features. And
now the finish is only ten days away.
The Republican ticket may be saved
in Kansas. but i will be by narrow