The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-28
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Legion of Candidates Patrol the
State.
They viii Work From Now TO
November 5.
THE STATE REPUBLICAN TICKET
1t Is Regarded as Safe by the
Wise Ones.
fractional Fight RACES About
Legislature.
The STATE REPUBLICAN TICKET

T Every nominee for state and con-
gressional office, both Republican and
Democrat, will be kept busy until the
close of the campaign, according to
the plans of tile managers of the par
( ty heaquarters IN Topeka. With five
weeks in which to make the cam
paign, both parties are planning
desperate fight in the state and the
Democrats, by a whirlwind fight to
conclude the campaign, confidently
/ hope to elect their state ticket, ma
| jority of the congressman, a United
States senator and to control the leg
islature on joint ballot.
| The congressional fight is one of
| the peculiar Situations in the Kansas
campaign that is this year character
| lied by many peculiarities. Six of the
/ eight congressman came to Topeka in
August and voted against the adop-
| ton of the stone resolution in the
Republican party council. This move
for the time being, at least-dis-
franchised Taft Republicans of an
| opportunity to vote for their choice
for president. AS soon as these six
heard from the Taft faction. Such
men as Rees, Young, Murdoch and
| Jackson, had been but little in their
| districts since early in the spring and
| they were not prepared to face the
avalanche of trouble that had been
started by their home people. Young
and Rees backed up, then backed up
again and have made their position
uncertain to either faction. Jackson
and Murdoch did not finch, but fought
back and stayed with the Roosevelt
colors regardless of consequences.
Gordon L. Finley in the Seventh, j.
L. Brady in the Second and D. R. An
thony in the First, knew more of To-
cal conditions They had just con-
and knew something of local condi-
lions. Finley and Brady voted with
the Roosevelt forces and Anthony
stood alone with the Taft crowd. Phil
Con hall Of TI1fv n fv;o
not attend the party council
So, it is largely the seven votes the
Kansas congressman cast in the party
council that is causing real trouble in
seven congressional districts. Anthony
again accumulated the genuine enmity
of the Progressives in his district,
while Brady, Jackson, Rees, Young,
Murdoch and Finley invited the COM
bined opposition of all Taft supporters
in their districts. It is this situation
that has been an opening wedge for
the Democratic congressional nomi-
nees in Kansas and only the returns
i'll the November election can tell the
fate of some of the men who partici-
pated in the council.
AS for the state legislature, the fight
hinges on the Progressive and Regular
issues in the Republican party. There
is that Stubs fight that is drawing
the lines in many of the districts The
legislative candidates who wear the
brand of Progressive, have been
Stubbs following and in the list of
men to be forgotten by the anti-BulI
Moosers are the legislative nominees
who have displayed a friendliness for
Stubs. The Regulars will take no
chances on Stubs election. They will
fight him directly in the November
election. Then they will endeavor to |
forever bar any chance of his election |
by voting to leave at home every Pro
gressive candidate for representative |
and state senator. And this plan has |
not been discouraged by the Demo |
Gratis.
State Ticket Believed to Be Safe.
AS TOR the state ticket, the Roose-
velt-Taft lines are not dividing points |
for the voters of either faction to such |
an extent as in the legislative or con-
gress1onal fight. While it is confidently |
believed by Kansas politicians that |
many Republicans will refuse to sup
port every Roosevelt sympathfzer on |
the state ticket, the opposition to the |
Republican Regulars on the state tick
ct by Progressives is in no wav gen |
eral nor open While the factionaI |
fight may to some extent reduce the
vote for all state candidates 1t is not |
believed that any of the state candi-
dates are in danger of defeat. And |
that is the situation as presented
the Kansas voters five weeks before
election.
In the next few weeks the best ora
tors at the disposal of the Democrat
ic national committee will visit KAN
sas in the hope OF saving the state
to Wilson. These men will also cam
paign for the Democratic state ticket |
and the Kansas Democrat is possessed |
OF more real hope and confidence than
he has been able to muster in any
campaign in Kansas in Is years
Wilson, Bryan, Clark and the best
men at the disposal of the national
committee are not coming to Kansas
for fun or to practice a few cam
patgn speeches." said Chairman Hem
derson Martin, who has Just returned |
from a visit with the heads of the
Democratic national committee in
Chicago. 1.-THE national committee |
believes Kansas is for Wilson and
Kansas will be one of the real battle
in the campaign"
Both the Democrats and Republic
cans are making a hard and desperate
fight. Every candidate IS busy. Chair
man Dolley of the Republican state
committee intends to keep the state
candidates in the field until the close
of the campaign. Martin, for the
Democrats, will do the same Every
nominee is working.
The strange and uncertain situation in
the state has aroused every nominee
Of both parties and is resulting in the
most active political fight since 1898, |
when Kansas lined up in the Bryan
column.
George D. Brewer, Socialist nominee for
congress in the Third district is making
q speaking campaign in his district. Re-
ports from the Third district indicate |
that the Socialist vote will be larger than
in former years and that Brewer NAV he |
an actual contender for the congressional
job now held by Phil P. Campbell. Many
people in the Third believe that Brewer !
viii poll larger vote than Francis NJ.
Brady, the Democratic nominee.
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