The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-25
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Sen. Curtis to Close Taft Cam
paign in Topeka.
VIII Speak at Auditorium Sat-
urday Night, Nov. 2.
DEMOCRATIC RALLY NOV. q
Hodges the Topeka Attraction
Night Before Election.
Notes of Men Who Are in Thick
of the Campaign.

Iicans have beaten the Kansas Pro-
| gressives in the maneuvers for the
/ closing of the political campaign in
| Topeka and will hold big meetings in
the Auditorium both the Saturday
and Monday nights before election. 1t
was the Republican league which
/ adroitly secured control of the con-
vention hall for Saturday night No
vember >, and United States Senator
Charles Curtis will fay the Kansas
Bull Moosers in his concluding speech
of the campaign. Monday night, No
/ Vember 4, Senator George H. Hodges
/ and jeremiah D. Botkin will preach
/ Democratic gospel from the stage of
the Auditorium.
! For days the Taft Republicans have
against the Bull Moosers with a final
/ speech in Topeka by Senator Curtis.
They kept their plans under cover and
leased the Auditorium long before the
opposing forces thought of their clos
ing dates. Out over the state, Senator
Curtis has been tearing holes in the
Dolley-W ite-Stubbs-Capper OrganizI-
ton. He has at times been most bit
ter and sarcastic in his arraignment CT
/ the Bull Moose movement and he has
probably carried more trouble to the
Prcgressives than any one other
speaker in Kansas. Now he will close
the campaign in Topeka and arrange
ments for a big meeting are being
made by officers of the Republican
league under whose directions Senator
Curtis has been making his campaign
speeches.
1t is the Democrats who will have the
last voice in the campaign in Topeka.
Senator Hodges, Democratic nominee
for governor will be the big attrac-
ton. He will be aided by ]. D. Bot
kin, a Democratic speaker of much
force, and who has already made a
hard fight against the Capper candi-
dacy. Hodges himself has been filling
dates
his nomination was assured. Reports
of his meetings have been very favor
able and his experiences in the cam
paignS of 1910 and in the present fight
have made him an experienced stump
speaker. The Democrats plan to fill
the Auditorium for this meeting, the
last of the campaign in Topeka, the
home town of Arthur Capper, Hodges
opponent.
For once in this campaign the chair
men of the Democratic and Republi-
can state committees have agreed.
Henderson Martin, of the Democratic
committee, today agreed with Chair
man DOlley, of the Republican COM
mittee, that the voter should beware
of the campaign liar.
Chairman Dolley is amusing" ia
Martin. He sends over to the sec
retary of states office for printed
report of the last election and then
gravely announces that he has a poll
of the state. He follows that by say
ing that the Bull Moose state ticket
in Kansas is sure to be elected. then
without cracking q smile he warns
the people of Kansas to beware of cam
paign liars. l call that pure humor.
I have considerable respect for Dolley's
judgment about campaign liars. es-
pecially since the little controversy
about campaign assessments I sup
pose everybody remembers that Dol
ley denied that the state employees
had been assessed. Since his denial
and within the last few days, dele
cation of employees from the state
hospital for the insane at OSawatomi
went to Barney Sheridan for advice, as
to whether they should pay their as
sessments. Dolley's agent had con-
WINGED these employees that it was
pay or go and this hospital is one
of the institutions that Governor
Stubs has taken out of politics. In /
addition to the Osawatomie case, / |
know of one state house janitor who
was threatened because he was unable |
to pay his assessment until he went /
to friend and borrowed $40 with !
which to pay this political blackmaiI |
This man works in the basement and
uses his little salary to support a pig
family. He paid his $50 to J. c. CAT |
ford. one of Governor Stubbs' ar |
pointees. [ want to join Dolley In |
warning the people of Kansas to be !
on the lookout for campaign liars
Representative of ten Kansas col
Ieges met in Topeka yesterday and |
formed the Kansas Collegiate Demo- |
cratic league, the purpose of the league
being to promote the interests OF |
Woodrow Wilson's presidential candI- |
dacy among college students and grad /
yates and to work for the election of /
the Democratic ticket in Kansas. Thes,,
students represented branch organiza- |
tons with a membership of more than /
:, 900 students.
Among the Kansas students who at
tended the meeting here were: Hugh /
Adair and Charles Dolde. Kansas
Eugene Parker and w r
Neel. Highland Park college; PAM
Stierck and w. c. Timmons South
western college. Winfield; Roy /.
Davis and Dudley Atkins, Kans. g
State Agricultural college. Manhattan.
Morris B. Poston and ]. H Kercn-
,ner Friends college, Wichita; John
Scott Fairmont college. Wichita. 7
G. Logan, Washburn college, Topeka:
A E. Johnson, Ottawa university. T.
F. HalIy State Normal Emporia !
These organizers of the Democratic
Collegiate league elected the following
officers: Charles Dolde, Kansas uni
versity, president: Glenn Logan. Wash
burn college, vice president; A. F.
Johnson. Ottawa university. secretary |
and w c. Timmons, Southwestern un-
iversity, Winfield, treasurer
ssThe men who attended this meet
ing represented branch organiza tions
with membership of more than 20OO,' |
said Charles Dolde. president of the
new lea que. Our pIJrDOSe iS fa "a rr,- |