The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-01
POLITICAL GOSSIP
on Effect of Wealth.
er on Election.
Fair Skies VIII Help
PrOgresSiveS.
MONDAYS DEMOCRAT RALLY
Senator Hodges VIII Speak at
Topeka Auditorium.
The Election Figures of 1910
What Do They Tell!

day Kansas politicians ire today max
ias two SITS IF election figures Both
ar> based on weather conditions next
Tuesday. If it Is such a day as Thurs
day. the campo 'gn letders say 1t Is
farewell to the Progressive cause IL
Kansas. But if the sun shines and the
weather is pleasant the Bull Moose fol-
levers hope for victory.
Weather conditions have won and lost
good many political fights in Kansas
and may determine the battle next
Tuesday 1t has been an unusually hard
fight At the best there are half dozen
contests in the state which are so un-
certain as to puzzle the men best ac-
quainted with the conditions based on
political observations of a quarter of
century. And now the weather man has
taken hand in the Kansas campaign.
If the sun shines next Tuesday and
conditions are favorable for the voters
in the rural districts to go to the polls,
the Progressives claim they will win.
Their strength is largely in the coun-
try. In the towns the Republican
League has made trouble for the Bull
Moose and the town voters usually go
to the polls whether the sun is shining
or whether there is a blizzard. That
vote this year is unquestionably against
the Progressive movement in Kansas.
Only a heavy vote in the country pre-
cincts can offset it.
Out in the country lies the magic
tricts the Capper publications are most
largely distributed. 1t is on this vote
that these men rely for success in tie
coming election. William Allen White,
national committeeman for the Pro-
gressive party in Kansas, is also hope
full for a big country vote. He knows
that the Roosevelt strength is more
united among the rural voters and that
a heavy farmer vote must be cast to
make the Roosevelt showing in Kansas
what it should be at the close of a most
stubborn campaign.
On the other hand, the leaders in
the Republican league declare they
will win whether the farmers vote or
not. George Clark, secretary of the
league, is confident that the Taft fol-
lowing in the rural districts is stronger
at this time than at amy time since the
fight started last spring. When asked
concerning the effect of weather con-
ditions, he declared that the Bull
Moose candidate would be beaten re-
gardIess of the weather.
But there is no denying the fact
that a warm and pleasant November
day with clear skies and bright sun
shine will promote the cause of the
Republican state ticket. Great stress
has been placed on the sentiment
among the farmers 1t is among this
class of voters, the politicians say, that
the greatest enthusiasm has been
raised for the new uplift cause.
And now the first snow has fallen in
Kansas. Ihe roads are muddy and
the skies are clouded. To be sure the
weather man is promising some sun
shine. But you probably noticed your
neighbor wisely wore his oVercoat to !
the office this morning. Will this
brand of weather continue until after |
the election? If so, what effect will it !
have on the general result in Kansas?
If weather conditions are favorable next |
Tuesday Kansas may poll n vote of S75, 900 |
election.
election of 1908, the four parties Repuh- |
licans, Democrats, Socialists and Prohi- !
polled ~ 645 votes for secretary |
of state That was considered a very /
heavy vote. but it may be exceeded a few /
predict that the two major parties, the /
Republicans and Democrats, will poll /
about 500, 600 votes.
The heavy vote in the coming election |
will be polled in the First, Second and !
Third and Seventh districts. The lightest (
vote-probably less than 35,O0O--will be in
the Eighth district. Here are some Of |
ficial figures that may give light on the |
vote to be cast in Kansas next Tuesday:
was as follows: First district, 47,2S4; Sec
ond district, 81, ,426; Third district 5S,6SS;
Fourth district 1850: Fifth district. 40
912: Sixth district. As. 701; Seventh district
g. .0S7; Eighth district, 3S,7e1. In the First |
district Anthony, Rep, received 2T,792. and /
Pearl, Dem, 1882 votes. Second district,
votes. Third district Campbell Rep, % 2G7 |
votes; Hudson, Dem, 2S,377 votes. Fourth |
pe 1904 e FIFTH Re4 dstret tS caderhead
Rep, 21.093; Lovitt Dem. 1859. Sixth dis
trict, Reeder, Rep, .. 20; Connolly, Dem.
p, ,923. Seventh district, Madison, Rep.
26 315; Hale, Dem, u 400. Eighth district
Rep, 1sO29; Lawrence, Dern..
L, AZ votes.
Plans are being completed by the Demo-
cratic state committee for the closing of
the campaign in Topeka Monday night
when George H Hodges and Jeremia r
4 will at he Audi ffaTittr 1
An effort will be made by the Shawnee
county Democrats to make this meeting
lne of the big political events of the cam
Daign.
Speaking in the home town of Arthur
Capper. his opponent for the gubernatorial
honor, Hodges is expected to recite his
reasons why CappeT should be defeated
Hodges has been making d spectacular
His speeches have been far
more effective than those of two years
go wien he opposed Governor Stubbs for |
two state campaigns has given Hodges an
a3Se and finish for stump speaking and
q dded to his strength on the platform
When he comes to Topeka next Monday
night TO close his campaign, lie will prob
ably pay his respects to Chairman DoIley
of the Republican state committee and is
expected to emphatically answer the
charges that ne is a member of the Ium-
Ger trust.
with Hodges comes J. D. Botkin. who
has carried more trouble to Capper N
this campaign than any one ether speak
ar. Botkin, with his arms loaded and his
pockets filled with the Capper adVertis-
ng pamphlets, has held 'tInen only meet
ngs in every section of the state. He has
r1eaded his cause with the clergy with
,rohibitionists. with the village doctor. with
the corner grocer and with the day labor
sr. 1t was Botkin more than any other
nan who started the slump in Capper
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